Info
- Artist:: Beck
- Album:: Mellow Gold
- Year:: 1994
- Label:: DGC
- Catalog:: DGCD-24634
Track Ratings
| # | Title | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Mutherfuker | ★ |
| 12 | Blackhole | ★★★ |
| Analog Odyssey |
Log
2014-03-05
augh his style is just so cool
2014-05-10
i love how everything gets described indirectly. it’s irritating cause unless you pay attention you don’t know what he’s talking about, but if you pay attention then you know exactly what he’s talking about.
at least it sounds like he loves the stuff he’s poking fun of.
enough wit to be a comedy album and enough talent to be a real album. i think he might be one of the few legitimately funny musicians. or people, and it just worked out that way with music.
it also has that Radiohead – OK Computer (1997) thing where every song is 40% of another song. but 40% is a good number.
probably coulda lost a couple songs maybe (but which ones?)
2015-07-13
this album is a treasure.
anyway let’s talk about the lesser-cared songs!
(even though to most people that’s everything but loser)
★★ whiskeyclone, hotel city 1997: the atmosphere on display does a wonderful job of emphasizing the dead-endedness of his position, both here and forever. not to mention that second verse, which in a certain light is terrifying.
★★ truckdrivin neighbors downstairs: the content is so thick that it’s difficult to notice, but the melody and chorus here is really pretty. feel the grease.
sweet sunshine: if i had to cut a song i’d choose this one (partly because it caps off a four-song depression hole). but it’s not bad if you’re into blue velvety pleasuredestruction.
★★ steal my body home: the composition of this song defies words. it’s perfect.
also, beck bonus noise by album
- Beck – Odelay (1996) (computer lock): BVUU. voop-boop-boop! BVUU. voop-boop-boop! it’s meaty and catchy.
- Beck - Midnite Vultures (1999) (untitled): whoa it’s like a full song!
- Beck – Stereopathetic Soulmanure (1994) (bonus noise): there’s like ten minutes of it and so it wins the effort award.
- Beck - Mutations (1998) (diamond bollocks): it’s another full song, which inspires incredibly mixed feelings within me. in my mind, this is good enough to make the album as a full-fledged song with a track number and everything! so the fact that it’s relegated to the “this is the part of the album where we let it all hang out” zone—traditionally reserved for laser tones and reverb jams—says a lot about where his standards now lie. it’s the adult being forced to sit at the kids’ table, implying that there is now an adults-only table.
- mellow gold (analog odyssey): blah.
2023-06-16:
also why are none of these ★★★s? at least some of these should be… so it’s now just a matter of deciding which ones should be.
and that’s bound to be a challenge, since many of these songs are friends now…
- i’ve started to see pay no mind as not only kind of an insidious song, but also the one that perfectly explains why and how beck was able to get absorbed into the machine in the way that he was. like, he was absolutely writing about the folk scene and its own coopting by the music industry.
so i can’t help but read “get out your lead pipe pipe dreams” as representing the call for radical action – the call to bash back. and then the ten-foot flags are the much more hippie way of calling for revolution. add the drugged-out leader to the scene and, in the light of hypocrisy and corporate greed, the only sensible thing to do is to pay no mind. - truckdrivin neighbors downstairs sure hits different after a year at the shelter
- still not sure how i feel about steal my body home’s ending
- do i know all of these lyrics by heart now?
★★★ blackhole