When Beck burst into the national consciousness two years ago, a coltish man-boy posing the puzzling, if amusing, challenge ''I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me,'' many self-styled citizens of the alternative nation wrote him off as a one-hit ...more
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Writers began chucking around the word "genius" in the face of this tirelessly exploratory record, on which the Dust Brothers production team matched their work on the Beastie Boys ' Paul's Boutique . It contains such zany yet radio-friendly tracks as ...more
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It's come to my attention that music critics like to make comparisons based on similarities. It's convenient shorthand for explaining what a particular piece of music sort of sounds like--except that in nearly all cases it doesn't. Take this Beck album, ...more
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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 ...more
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