- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -
Artist: Beck
Album: Odelay
Label: Geffen
Playtime: 135:01min
Genre: Alternative
URL: http://www.geffen.com/
Rip date: 2008-01-28
Street date: 2008-01-29
Size: 189.69 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 183 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -
Beck's debut, Mellow Gold, was a glorious sampler of different musical
styles, careening from lo-fi hip-hop to folk, moving back through garage rock
and arty noise. It was an impressive album, but the parts didn't necessarily
stick together. The two albums that followed within months of Mellow Gold --
Stereopathetic Soul Manure and One Foot in the Grave -- were specialist
releases that disproved the idea that Beck was simply a one-hit wonder. But
Odelay, the much-delayed proper follow-up to Mellow Gold, proves the depth
and scope of his talents. Odelay fuses the disparate strands of Beck's music
-- folk, country, hip-hop, rock & roll, blues, jazz, easy listening, rap, pop
-- into one dense sonic collage. Songs frequently morph from one genre to
another, seemingly unrelated genre -- bursts of noise give way to country
songs with hip-hop beats, easy listening melodies transform into a weird
fusion of pop, jazz, and cinematic strings; it's genre-defying music that
refuses to see boundaries. All of the songs on Odelay are rooted in simple
forms -- whether it's blues ("Devil's Haircut"), country ("Lord Only Knows,"
"Sissyneck"), soul ("Hotwax"), folk ("Ramshackle"), or rap ("High 5 [Rock the
Catskills]," "Where It's At") -- but they twist the conventions of the genre.
"Where It's At" is peppered with soul, jazz, funk, and rap references, while
"Novacane" slams from indie rock to funk and back to white noise. With the
aid of the Dust Brothers, Beck has created a dense, endlessly intriguing
album overflowing with ideas. Furthermore, it's an album that completely
ignores the static, nihilistic trends of the American alternative/independent
underground, creating a fluid, creative, and startlingly original work.
[Geffen reissued a Deluxe Edition in 2008.]
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Devil's Haircut ( 3:15)
02. Hotwax ( 3:49)
03. Lord Only Knows ( 4:15)
04. The New Pollution ( 3:40)
05. Derelict ( 4:13)
06. Novacane ( 4:38)
07. Jack-Ass ( 4:12)
08. Where It's At ( 5:30)
09. Minus ( 2:32)
10. Sissyneck ( 3:57)
11. Readymade ( 2:37)
12. High 5 (Rock the Catskills) ( 4:11)
13. Ramshackle ( 4:47)
14. Hidden Track ( 0:43)
15. Deadweight ( 6:12)
16. Infero ( 7:03)
17. Gold Chains ( 4:59)
01. Where It's At (UNKLE Remix) (12:26)
02. Richard's Hairpiece ( 3:19)
03. American Wasteland ( 2:42)
04. Clock ( 3:17)
05. Thunder Peel ( 2:40)
06. Electric Music and the Summer People ( 4:38)
07. Lemonade ( 2:21)
08. Sa-5 ( 1:53)
09. Feather in Your Cap ( 3:46)
10. Erase the Sun ( 2:56)
11. .000.000 ( 5:25)
12. Brother ( 4:47)
13. Devil Got My Woman ( 4:34)
14. Trouble All My Days ( 2:25)
15. Strange Invitation ( 4:06)
16. Burro ( 3:13)
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