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Mellow Gold | 
 enlarge | Artist: Beck
Label: Universal Music Group
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 11.99
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 9353
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 24634
UPC: 720642463420
EAN: 0720642463420
ASIN: B000003TB2
Release Date: March 2, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Loser | | • | Pay No Mind (Snoozer) | | • | Fuckin' With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock) | | • | Whiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997 | | • | Soul Suckin' Jerk | | • | Truckdrivin' Neighbors Downstairs (Yellow Sweat) | | • | Sweet Sunshine | | • | Beercan | | • | Steal My Body Home | | • | Nitemare Hippy Girl | | • | Mutherfuker | | • | Blackhole |
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From Amazon.co.uk
"Acid casualty with a repossessed car," croaks Beck Hansen. "Vietnam vet playin' air guitar..." Odelay would later herald Beck as pre-Millennial jester without compare, but 1993's Mellow Gold finds Beck slumming in The City of Angels, working in a video store for four dollars an hour. Quite rightly, he's got the blues, but there's plenty more besides. Mellow Gold is a grimy Polaroid of fried white-trash invention. Reconciling the painfully fashionable grunge aesthetic with the drunken verbiage of the Beat Generation, Mellow Gold founded the slacker generation, and "Loser"--the opening track--became its unofficial anthem. A concept album of sorts, Mellow Gold narrated the backdrop of Los Angeles as seen from the bottom of the dustbin, framed with the impoverished strains of fractured, missing-stringed folk and ramshackle white-boy hip-hop. Time would prove, though, that Beck was no slacker; Mellow Gold provided the scrawled blueprint for Beck's next major label album, Odelay which would prove one of the defining albums of the 1990s. --Louis Pattison
Amazon.com essential recording
Far more than a novelty jester, Beck is a musical anarchist and bummed-out street prophet whose audience will squirm and thrill to the slacker delta blues of "Whiskeyclone" and urban nightmares like "Truckdrivin Neighbors Downstairs." --Jeff Bateman
Un Essentiel amazon.fr
On connait surtout Mellow Gold pour "Loser", le premier tube de Beck, petite merveille desinvolte calee sur un sample de Dr John. Mais ce disque a bien d'autres reussites a reveler: les ragas maladifs "Steal My Body Home" et "Blackhole", le funk bancal de "Beercan", le country-blues lo-fi "Pay No Mind". (Snoozer)". Bref, le jeune Beck fait mumuse. Plus tard, il s'amusera tout autant avec un luxe de jouets inoui et plein de nouveaux camarades de jeu, mais il est permis de le preferer comme ca, presque seul avec une guitare pourrie et un sampler a trois francs six sous. Le systeme D a ses charmes. --Hubert Deshouse
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 Becks best all around album and one of the best of the 90s. June 14, 2004
I must have played this album at least 50 times in the last 3 years its that good.Back in 1994 Beck was one of the most unusual and original songwriters around.There hasnt been a record written mostly about pure nonsense since Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart.Yep songs like Truckdrivin Neighbors Downstairs(my favorite song right now),Whiskey Clone Hotel City 1997 and even the radio friendly Loser have some pretty unusual lyrics.The vocals and music itself is also great to back it up.I wont write anymore because my fingers are getting sore so go out and buy this for yourself.
I'm a loser baby! So why don't you kill me? June 1, 2004
Mellow Gold is a very odd album. It contains very odd music as well as very odd lyrical material. In the hit song, 'Loser' Beck sings, "In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey." This pretty much gives the gist of the entire album. No song sounds the same yet they are all oddly similar.Though Beck's signature sound comes along with the album, it is vastly different from any of his other material. It contains some very dark songs (Mother....., Truckdrivin' Neighbors Downstairs), some light, happy songs (Pay No Mind, Nitemare Hippy Girl, Sweet Sunshine), and some just plain weird songs (Soul Suckin' Jerk). It's because of the musical diversity on the album that I like it so much. So if you are a fan of Beck's latter material, namely Odelay, be wary in buying this album because though in my opinion it has some of his best material, the general public might think differently.
 Beck in the day. March 9, 2004
There's a fine line between stupidity and genius. That's what I think when I listen to this album. It's almost indescribable. Lyrically, half of it's absolutely crazy, which is intentional and part of the fun. Musically it's all over the place, somewhere between the "Beastie Boys" and "Neil Young". But all of these things are what make this so incredible. So many things in a blender still make a tasty treat. This is kind of THE essential "Beck" album really. It's kind of the middle ground between "Midnight Vultures" and the excellent "Sea Change", both of which came years later. I guess it's one of those things you just have to hear to believe.
must have.. February 6, 2004
v. v. dark, almost like a modernized chant in some songs with his low voice and scratchy guitar riffs. i love loser, i know so cliche but i have memorized almost every word its probably my fav. song, not only on the album....
buy this cd i am so serious.
beck's major label debut is the perfect starting point September 28, 2003
this is beck right here. everything he was, is, and will be is on here. when i first heard loser i went out and got this album and my jaw hit the floor. i put this album on and by the time it was over i knew i had found something special. it shows beck doing all kinds of styles of music. and with amazing results. this album when it came out really (IMO) made everything else that was getting mtv airplay at the time look so damn plain. i just couldn't help thinking about why can't others artists do something like this. as the years have passed. i now know why cause most artists can't do something like this and get away with it (heck, most wouldn't even try. lol). an amazing album that while it might not be beck's best album it does show off all of his talents the best. and this alone makes it a classic. you can see right here what the future would hold for beck.
this is the best starting point for anybody interested in this guy.
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