Mellow Gold - Beck

This is my favourite Beck album. It sounds like it's been put together randomly from samples and song-segments. The lyrics are equally messy, really bringing out the old Beck, before the professionalism that Odelay! made obvious. Although a lot of the 'tunes' would have most people on the floor clutching at their ears, the subversive lyrics and samples make this album totally listenable to by anyone who finds them amusing enough. Buy it! unless: You are in any way normal. You don't like the idea of all the Squirrels living in one place. Loser, Beercan and Nitemare Hippy Girl are for normal people as well, so if you like ...  Read the complete review

1. Loser 2. Pay no mind (snoozer) 3. Fuckin' with my head (mountain dew rock) 4. Whiskeyclone Hotel City 1997 5. Soul suckin jerk 6. Truckdrivin neighbours downstairs (yellow sweat) 7. Sweet sunshine 8. Beercan 9. Steal my body home 10. Nitemare hippy girl 11. Mutherfuker 12. Blackhole Look at those tracks, you may only have heard Loser, which is a superb track (im a loser baby, so why dont you kill me) yeah remember that one, but this is a early album for old Beck and is one of his best, if not the best, make sure that you listen to Sweetsunshine, and beercan, cos they are great tracks, this album is superb, what ya ...  Read the complete review

Beck Hansen may well come to regret the day he wrote the "I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me" line. He has the standard card-carrying hippy background: son of a bluegrass player; lived with preacher grandfather in Kansas; hitched around Europe and lived with his sculptor uncle before embarking upon music in New York — all, allegedly, before he was 16. That bit of history said, what Beck's past doesn't suggest is Mellow Gold. Loser, probably the first Top 20 single to feature the line "Dog food skulls with the beefcake pantyhose", is a fair starting point. Beck samples all possible musical themes — folk, ...  Read the complete review

This is the first Beck album I ever bought, and after seeing what he released in to the charts subesquent to this album, it was the last. He seemed to change his style radically after this to one which was my less to my taste. The style on this album is very hard to describe, there is nothing like it out there. 1. Loser 2. Pay No Mind (Snoozer) 3. Fuckin' With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock) 4. Whiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997 5. Soul Suckin' Jerk 6. Truckdrivin' Neighbors Downstairs (Yellow Sweat) 7. Sweet Sunshine 8. Beercan 9. Steal My Body Home 10. Nitemare Hippy Girl 11. ...  Read the complete review

This early Beck effort is funny, original, subversive, and quite possibly not your cup of tea if you've become a fan through Midnite Vultures. It's got some absolute belters on it - Loser and Beercan springing instantly to mind - but the majority of the tracks are slow-paced, weird-noise-filled acoustic guitar oddities, notable more for their lyrical content than for their musical appeal. If you like Beck because he makes you want to dance, you probably won't find a great deal on here to interest you - but if you like Beck primarily because he makes you laugh (as I do) then this is as essential a purchase as Odelay (which I prefer because it makes me ...  Read the complete review