Mellow Gold EXPLICIT LYRICS Beck

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  • Release Date: 03/01/1994
  • Sales Rank: 39,444
  • Label: GEFFEN RECORDS
  • UPC: 720642463420

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Mellow Gold

1LISTENLoser 3:54
2LISTENPay No Mind (Snoozer) 3:03
3LISTENFuckin' With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock) 3:41
4LISTENWhiskeyclone, Hotel City 1997 3:28
5LISTENSoul Suckin' Jerk 3:55
6LISTENTruckdrivin' Neighbors Downstairs (Yellow Sweat) 2:55
7LISTENSweet Sunshine 4:17
8LISTENBeercan 4:00
9LISTENSteal My Body Home 5:32
10LISTENNitemare Hippy Girl 2:54
11LISTENMutherfuker 2:05
12LISTENBlackhole 5:17

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From its kaleidoscopic array of junk-culture musical styles to its assured, surrealistic wordplay, Beck's debut album, Mellow Gold, is a stunner. Throughout the record, Beck plays as if there are no divisions between musical genres, freely blending rock, rap, folk, psychedelia, and country. Although his inspired sense of humor occasionally plays like he's a smirking, irony-addled hipster, his music is never kitschy, and his wordplay is constantly inspired. Since Mellow Gold was pieced together from home-recorded tapes, it lacks a coherent production, functioning more as a stylistic sampler: there are the stoner raps of "Loser" and "Beercan," the urban folk of "Pay No Mind (Snoozer)," the mock-industrial onslaught of "Mutherfuker," the garagey "Fuckin' With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)," the trancy acoustic "Blackhole," and the gently sardonic folk-rock of "Nitemare Hippy Girl." It's a dizzying demonstration of musical skills, yet it's all tied together by a simple yet clever sense of songcraft and a truly original lyrical viewpoint, one that's basic yet as colorful as free verse. By blending boundaries so thoroughly and intoxicatingly, Mellow Gold established a new vein of alternative rock, one that was fueled by ideas instead of attitude. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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Mellow Goldby Anonymous

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December 09, 2007: Beck's 1994 debut, Mellow Gold, is a stunner not just because of the songs themselves, but the ideas and aesthetic he employs throughout. Beck freely blends rock, rap, folk, country, industrial, garage, and numerous others into a delicious lo-fi whole. His lyrics are free associative but have sustained wit and humore in his imagery that keep them not just listenable but bursting with ideas. Just a cursory listen to Mellow Gold justifies its place as one of the pioneers of the 90's alternative revolution.

Mellow Goldby Anonymous

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February 28, 2004: Mellow Gold is proof that anyone with a four track and a sense of humor can record a ground-breaking album. There is no question that Beck is an extremely talented song writer, but the real lure of this album is it's lo-fi homegrown sound, and Beck's abiltity to blend folk, rock, rap and country together seamlessly. Although the second half does slow down a little bit, the listener will never tire of listening to the sardonic, cryptic lyrics.


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