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Mutations

by Beck

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of 455,611

3,171
1990's

of 166,477

1,815
1998

of 24,812

157

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Overall Rating: 3.0825 Mutations is ranked overall as 3.0825 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.1857 Mutations has an avg. critic score of 3.1857 out of 4 stars

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Blame it on whomever you want -- Michael Jackson, Madonna, MTV, or the entire billion-dollar record industry, which throws tens of thousands of new records against the barnyard wall every year. ...more

All Music Guide

According to party line, neither Beck nor Geffen ever intendedMutationsto be considered as the official follow-up toOdelay, his Grammy-winning breakthrough. ...more

Yahoo! Music

The latest effort by the multitalented Señor Hansen was initially set to be released by the indie Bong Load label, so the spin on the album is that this isn't the "official" follow-up to the Beck ster's critically acclaimed, 1996 Grammy-winning Odelay --that Mutations is a "space-age folk" album closer in spirit to Beck's indi ...more

Yahoo! Music

According to party line, neither Beck nor Geffen ever intended Mutations to be considered as the official follow-up to Odelay, his Grammy-winning breakthrough. It was more like One Foot in the Grave, designed to be an off-kilter, subdued collection of acoustic-based songs pitched halfway between psychedelic country blues and lo-fi folk. ...more

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Success can be a bitch. And there's no better way to ward off those pesky bandwagon jumping fans than than to release something that can send those fans back to clamoring for the latest Bush or N'Sync release. Nirvana did it ...read the complete review at The Daily Vault Album Reviews

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DancingAboutArc

Pity the poor record companies, struggling to move product for ingrate artists who selfishly insist on behaving, well, artistic. Beck Hansen should hang his head in shame. I mean, what are we to make ofMutations? Void of his signature hip-hop...read the complete review at DancingAboutArc

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The A.V. Club

Here's a puzzler: If Geffen releases a Beck album but does little to promote it, is it still a Beck album? Afraid that this departure from the Dust Brothers-produced collage sound of the best-selling Odelay might confuse and disappoint fans of Beck's...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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