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Odelay by: Beck List Price: £9.99 CD-Charts Price: £4.98 You Save: £5.01 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0720642490822 Label: Polydor Group Manufacturer: Polydor Group Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Polydor Group Release Date: December 23, 2002 Running Time: 55 minutes Studio: Polydor Group Sales Rank: 983 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: : That's the great thing about being a written off as a one-hit wonder--it really focuses your mind on making a stunning, no-holds-barred eat-that-you-smug-critics album the year after. It happened with Radiohead, from "Creep" to The Bends; Supergrass, from "Alright" to In It For The Money, and, most notably, with Beck, from "Loser" to Odelay. As thrilling today as on its release, Odelay is the sound of new musical frontiers being opened up: no-one before had thought to arrange a shot-gun marriage between hip-hop and Bob Dylan before and, as the subsequent slew of poor imitators proved, that was because only Beck could pull it off (with the help of the Dust Brothers, who also produced the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique). "Devil's Haircut" and "New Pollution" warped pop's boundaries on entering the Top Twenty; and "Where It's At" still kicks like a mule in a can-can line. They were calling him "The White Prince" by the end of the year, you know. --Caitlan Moran Amazon.co.uk Review: As it turns out, Beck isn't just a funny guy with a good blues-rap hybrid novelty up his sleeve--he's a funny guy with a deep understanding of the history of pop music, an unstoppable universalist impulse, and a whole lot of excellent songs up his sleeve. Produced with hyperactive kitchen-sink technique by the Dust Brothers (of the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique fame), Odelay sounds like 60 years' worth of radio at once, but the foundation beneath the flash owes more to pre-war blues than anything else. Beck can turn a surreal pomo phrase like nobody's business, and he knows a good drum break when he hears one; his greatest strength, though, is having enough respect for tradition to make it sound modern. --Douglas Wolk Description: Like its creator's freewheeling songwriting process, ODELAYis a monument to wondrously precise pastiche. It's a glowing junkyard of musical styles, absurdist images, distorted samples, postmodern anti-emotions, you name it. Over the course of his three previous albums, Beck tinkered with more traditions and aesthetic approaches than an average cultural-studies professor sees in a career: hip-hop beats, acoustic folk-blues, indie-punk guitar squalls, DIY production, commercial smash! ODELAY accounts for all those things, too, but it also furthers the seamless, rump-shaking sheen of its collage nature, turning process into possible meaning. On one hand, the thematic darkness that hangs over most of these songs exposes Beck for the creative doomsayer he is--just another sullen young man with a gift of the native tongues. On the other, the life-affirming irreverence with which he drops harebrained couplets, monologues and call-and-response chants based on designer-jeans brands betrays the glowing confidence of someone in love with all the places the creative process can take you. Grooving all the while, Beck seems like the loving creator of a '90s version of the electric Dylan frenzy. And ODELAY seems sorta like his BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - ok but not that goodmassiveley overated, all the beats have been done better in hip hop, doesn't hold up to repeated listening Rating:  - THE BEST ALBUM EVERthis album ios truely the nuts. all of the songs are really catchy and addictive. the album seems to be pieced together like a jigsaw it fits perfectly. 1- devil's haicut 9/10: Nice little tune. catchy and a good start 2- hotwax 9/10: Little bit country, little bit slower but once again a tasty little beat 3- lord only knows 10/10: really country. the sort of song you can hang out with...while you downshiftin' the 18 wheeler! 4- New pollution 10/10: becks most likeable song. an instant hit. i could groove around for hours with this pup! 5- Derelict 10/10: Much slower. but a song that helps make the album so beautiful 6- Novacane 8/10: A bit mental. but very enjoyable 7- Jack-ass 9/10: the most ... Read More: Rating: - HIGH 5 < THIS IS WHERE ITS AT !!!! LETS ALL WATCH X FACTOR AND BE PLEASED THAT WE ARE CLEVER AGGGHHHHH FOR ANYONE THAT IS BORED OF HEARING ANOTHER RIPPED OFF SONG HERE COMES BECK SOMEONE WHO NOT ONLY WRITES,SINGS AND PLAYS HIS OWN MUSIC BUT ADDS DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS TO SOUNDS,LYRICS AND EVEN A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE WORLD. THIS ALBUM LIKE ALL HIS OTHER WORK PAINTS PICTURES IN YOUR MIND EACH AND EVERY TIME YOU HEAR THEM BUT AMAZINGLY SEEEMS TO PAINT DIFFERENT PICTURES EVERY TIME. ORIGINAL ,ACCOMPLISHED AND EXTREMELY POLISHED IN A FOLKY HIP HOP JAZZ FUNK COUNTRY ELECTRO BLUES MISMASH OF STYLES. PEERLESS AN EXCEPTIONAL ALBUM THAT FUSES EVERYTHING INTO A GIANT ECLECTIC SOUND CLASH OF TOTAL PERFECTION BEG BORROW OR STEAL THIS ALBUM < OR ... Read More: Rating: - SeminalAh Beck, now here is a talent. This, his second album, produced by The Dust brothers, was even better than his debut, and established him as a major player. He almost recklessly mixes lots of influences, from Grunge to Hip Hop, to Blues, he mangles everything up. Sonically he throws everything in including the kitchen sink, Tablas, chains, Harps, carboard boxes, harmoniums, feedback.... This just shouldn't work, but the genius of it is that it does...it makes perfect sense in the way more conventional stuff never could...and there are some great tunes here that will stay with you long after the CD goes back in the box. At the time of Odelay, nobody was mashing stuff up like Beck. His image of intelligent, wasted life ... Read More: Rating:  - Bizarre, over-ratedI saw Beck on Jools Holland's TV show playing some very cool stuff, and so bought this album. Very disappointed and sold it after playing it twice (second time just to make sure I wasn't imagining the first time). Several tracks start out really well, great energy, rhythm and sound, then get ruined by samples, painfully distorted guitar and other randomness just chucked in for no apparent reason. Completeley unlistenable. I'm clearly in a minority here, but other reviewers on other sites seem to agree with me. |
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