 | Beck Mellow Gold
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| Ranking: #75 for 1994 | |
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| 3.0 good | The Jungler | June 24th 06 |
Mellow Gold is Beck's debut album, a masterpiece in it's own right. The album blends lo-fi with heavy electronica and hip-hop. Fans of Sea Change and Odelay! may be turned off at first, but beneath layers of strange fuzz and screams there is a creative and brooding songsmith. Though he does not expose himself totally many songs (including hit single "Loser") are seen by many as some of Beck's best work.
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| 3.5 great | platttt | January 18th 24 |
I love this album to pieces. For a while, this was my musical breath of fresh air, and this quirky, idiosyncratic mess was constantly in my rotation. Now, I see that it's really inconsistent. Gems are there to be found, but does it bear any emotional weight at all? No. Now it's simply nostalgic.
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| 3.5 great | lz41 | June 26th 23 |
After a first half lampooning traditional American music styles, "Mellow Gold" drifts into weirder, more original and more modern sounds in the second half.
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| 3.5 great | Introu1 | September 9th 21 |
Its good, its just feel like Odelay was not finish or something, Loser tho is such a masterpiece of a song, 3,4/5
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| 3.5 great | George Browne | April 15th 19 |
One of the closest albums there is to Ween, so I'm naturally going to consider this my favorite Beck album.
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| 4.0 excellent | Jared Floryan | November 9th 14 |
Even though he's mostly labelled as an alternative rock artist, Beck's made a career out of utilizing as many genres as possible, either to silence or make his critics become raspy with puzzling infuriation; should this fine, boundary-pushing loser - who's got two turntables and a microphone - cease to exist, then I guess the idiotic common man will stop pushing daisies and turn us into blowback derelicts. Anyway, while this album isn't as successful as Odelay, Mellow Gold had more than one way of showing the folks everything Beck could set his mind to.
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| 5.0 classic | Treska | April 1st 13 |
One of my favorites. I will always love this album. Probably. Most likely.
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| 4.0 excellent | lukeduggan | May 5th 12 |
A huge array of genres tied together by Becks sardonic lyrics and the unsettling, ominous sound that underlines the whole album. Admirable rather than Adorable.
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| 3.5 great | J.R. | March 16th 10 |
3 terrific tracks here (Loser, Beercan, Mutherfuker) with a sea of same.
Good, listenable, trippy sounds but it doesn't feel like much is different on this album.
Good thing Beck silenced the critics by doing something different with Odelay! and not becoming a one-hit wonder, as would've Radiohead if they had kept releasing Pablo Honey-styles and not trying to differ from the pack as Mellow Gold shows.
Y'know what I'm sayin'?
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| 3.5 great | SpeakerCity | October 23rd 06 |
An album with 1 or 2 good songs that are dragged down by, well, the rest. I say 1 or 2, I mean 1. Even though it's on its own, loser is still an ace song and this album is important in that it showed Beck that his now trademark style, as he used on loser, worked.
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