Mellow Gold – BeckMarch 1st, 1994 or iTunes Price: $9.99 Genre: Alternative Released: Mar 1994 Customer Ratings (207 Ratings)
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Mellow Gold – BeckView More By Beck Our ReviewWith its fusion of indie rock, funk, rap and blues, Mellow Gold established Beck as one of the most creative singer-songwriters around Released in 1994, the album, once you get past the overplayed radio anthem "Loser", still sounds fresh today. Beck turns in a fine Dylan-esque performance on "Pay No Mind (Snoozer);" he raps on "Beercan;" and on "Blackhole" he tries to be an alt-rock version of late guitar great John Fahey. Underneath all the lo-fi touches is a great blues album trying to get out, but overall the whole shebang is too weird and diverse to classify except to say that it's a groundbreaking work, and truly essential album.. Customer Reviewsbeck is the man (5 stars)I really go into beck as the reaction to the mainstream music that is being boadcasted daily and is ruining kids, like my little sister's, minds. mainstream music is full of talentless people, cookie cutter generic nonsense, and unfortunately is very imaged based. Beck is a true visionary and he creates songs like "loser" which defy the laws of traditional music and remain extremely listenable and catchy. But people should also kno his anthem=loser!!!!! (4 stars) this is what beck is all about... and a lot of kids really need more songs like this Golden Boy (5 stars) Sometimes when a really great piece of work comes along, it can take time to really appreciate it. I knew Loser was a great track the first time I heard it, but it took me time to understand Mellow Gold. Now I can't believe this album. It is brillliant. Well written, funny, and catchy. There really isn't any album quite like it, and I still prefer it to everything else he has done. BiographyBorn: July 08, 1970 in Los Angeles, CAGenre: Alternative Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s Initially pegged as something as a voice of a generation when “Loser” turned into a smash crossover success, Beck did wind up crystallizing much of the post-modern ruckus of the ‘90s alternative explosion, but in unexpected ways. Based in the underground anti-folk and noise-rock worlds, Beck encompassed all manners of modern music, drawing in hip-hop, blues, trash-rock, pop, soul, lounge music…pretty much any found sound or vinyl dug up from a dusty crate, blurring boundaries and encapsulating how...
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