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"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
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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
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On connaît surtout Mellow Gold pour "Loser", le premier tube de Beck, petite merveille désinvolte calée sur un sample de Dr John. Mais ce disque a bien d'autres réussites à révéler : 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 inouï et plein de nouveaux camarades de jeu, mais il est permis de le préférer comme ça, presque seul avec une guitare pourrie et un sampler à trois francs six sous. Le système D a ses charmes. --Hubert Deshouse
Album Description
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing includes one 'hidden 'bonus track. Universal. 2008.
