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Beck's 30 Greatest Songs - Ranked by Guardian. hudson. 30 videos 150 views Last updated on Dec 4, 2020....
- “Debra”
- “Soul Suckin’ Jerk”
- “Hollywood Freaks”
- “Forcefield”
- “Rowboat”
- “Blue Moon”
- “Girl”
- “Defriended”
- “Tropicalia”
- “Nicotine & Gravy”
Midnite Vultures exists largely as satire, but it also serves as an opportunity for the usually cryptic Beck to let his freak flag fly. On the epic, cheesy “Debra,” he hoists it way, way up, further establishing the absurdity of the album’s seedy narcissism by attempting to pick up sisters. The greatest moment here, however, is the supreme elastici...
Beck’s sense of humor has always been prevalent in his music, but what’s less well-established is how his absurd, juvenile setups often dissolve into black-hearted non sequiturs. “Soul Suckin’ Jerk” is one such reversal, a slacker tale that traces Beck’s working stiff from the food court into the edges of civilization just as its verse descends fro...
Beck lays claim to legitimate skills on the mic, and they’ve never been stronger or more precise than on “Hollywood Freaks.” Of course, this being Beck, the rhymes come with a twist, delivered in a lisping, nasal drone that’s part Truman Capote and part Sylvester the Cat. All the better for it, considering the slick, springy track boasts the weirde...
Given Beck’s recent lavish productions, it’s easy to forget that in the early- to mid-’90s he was a lo-fi master. This is nowhere more evident than on 1994’s One Foot in the Grave, a barebones album steeped in folk and blues. Its centerpiece is “Forcefield,” a song built on three simple yet haunting acoustic guitar notes and intertwining vocals by ...
“Rowboat,” from 1994’s Stereopathetic Soulmanure, is a gently strummed, classically constructed ballad of rejection and loneliness that features Beck’s early penchant for lyrics that alternate between deadpan melancholy (“Rowboat, row me to the shore/She don’t wanna be my friend no more”) and humorous non sequitur (“Dog food on the floor/And I’ve b...
“Blue Moon” enters Beck’s canon as one of his most emotionally humbling tracks. Much like the naked proclamations of Sea Change, the song is a search for penance, only now Beck is a decade older, holed up in a sparse, dark confessional and looking for a way out. “Don’t leave me on my own,” he cries in a tone that suggests the asylum is of his own m...
Beck has subverted pop aplenty, but Guero’s “Girl” is one of his few attempts at a wide-eyed tribute. Of course, this jaunty track isn’t without its own morbid farce, tracing the usual tale of obsessive romance to its natural, if utterly psychotic, end. The track breaks away from its 8-bit prelude into a shaggy acoustic guitar as Beck’s stalking na...
“Defriended” was the first thing anyone heard from Beck in the five years since Modern Guilt, and quite appropriately, the track is built around what sounds like a box of records dropping out of two-story window. The impact ripples out in electronic pulses, almost drowning Beck’s fatalistic lyrics, but his final call to arms, “Turn it all around!,”...
Cribbing from the eponymous Brazilian art form, “Tropicalia” is bossa nova as filtered through Beck’s dreamlike aesthetic, a clicking, buzzing earworm teeming with cocksure samba beats and enough equatorial style to make even those bored tourists dance in a reptile blaze. Liedel
Crooning like he’s at a karaoke club in the Gaza Strip, Beck is equally worried about getting shot and ruining his outfit in “Nicotine & Gravy.” Meanwhile, the track sizzles beneath him, twisting with strange laughter, pulsing R&B samples, and the creeping feeling that something really bad and bloody is going on in the streets. Liedel
The discography of Beck, an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist, consists of 14 studio albums, one compilation album, one remix album, four extended plays (EPs), and 52 singles.
- “Lost Cause” (from Sea Change, 2002) “Lost Cause” is the embodiment of self-expression manifested as great art. Like “All In Your Mind,” this song of heartbreak and resignation is one of Sea Change’s finest moments, and a highlight of Beck’s discography.
- “Pay No Mind (Snoozer)” (from Mellow Gold, 1994) As a teenager, I witnessed Beck perform this song on MTV’s 120 Minutes, and it blew my mind. Introduced by a visibly amused Thurston Moore, the still-obscure future king of the slackers sat on a stool looking for all the world like the personification of a pair of oversized novelty sunglasses.
- “Loser” (from Mellow Gold, 1994) Unless you hung out at Seattle’s OK Hotel on open mic nights in the early ’90s, or were on the mailing list for Bong Load Records (don’t lie — you weren’t), chances are, “Loser” was your introduction to Beck.
- “Devil’s Haircut” (from Odelay, 1996) “Devil’s Haircut” is the best of the three singles from Odelay, the album that propelled Beck from an undercover indie-rock arriviste to bonafide pop megastar.
- “The New Pollution” Another great example of Beck’s masterful use of effects and seemingly stream-of-consciousness lyricism on Odelay. She’s got cigarette on each arm.
- “Pay No Mind (Snoozer)” Like “Loser,” Mellow Gold’s “Pay No Mind (Snoozer)” captures the spirit of Gen-X-ers looking for a reason to care. Tonight the city is full of morgues.
- “Beercan” The most light-hearted song on an otherwise dark album, “Beercan” also boasts one of Beck’s most underrated videos. I quit my job blowing leaves,
- “The Golden Age” This blasé ballad sets the tone for 2002’s Sea Change with slide guitar and a tender, chiming keyboard line. Let the desert wind. Cool your aching head,
Feb 24, 2014 · In anticipation of Beck's first studio album for six years, we looked back through his stacked back catalog at the 20 Best Beck songs.
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Beck took the lo-fi sound of DIY indie rock to the Billboard charts in 1994 with his slacker anthem “Loser,” but his avant-pop palette extends well beyond the folk-rap beats and samples of that...
