The Greatest Non Hits

Beck: Mellow Gold

• Chris & Tim • Season 3 • Episode 10

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There's something hypnotic about the blend of genres and experimentation found in Beck's "Mellow Gold," and my co-host Tim and I couldn't resist the pull. Imagine finding an old mixtape in the back of your closet, popping it into a dusty player, and being swept away by a wave of nostalgia—that's the essence we captured exploring this iconic album. From the unforgettable drawl of "Loser" to the apocalyptic robot cover art designed by Eddie Lopez, we dissect each track with a fine-tooth comb. We even highlight those lesser-celebrated gems ripe for rediscovery—all while sharing laughs and personal anecdotes that color our conversation with unexpected hues.

Strap in for a detour through the unpredictable as we debate favorite colors, recount quirky tales, and muse over the life of a musician straddling the line between creative integrity and commercial success. We open the floor to a blend of light-hearted banter and serious dialogue, touching on everything from sports cars and free soda to the cathartic release found at the bottom of a whiskey glass. It's a chapter that celebrates the randomness of life, the shared human experience, and the connection we find through music's universal language.

As we pivot to the layered depth of Beck's follow-up album "Odelay," we invite you to explore the darker, grittier corners of his discography with us. We draw parallels to the likes of Radiohead and Pink Floyd, reveling in the album's rich tapestry of moods and themes. We don't just rank tracks; we delve into their intricacies, live performance variations, and the very soul of musical creativity. So, whether you're a die-hard fan or a curious new listener, there's something here for you, wrapped in a discussion that celebrates the artistry behind the music we love.

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Speaker 1:

Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello yeah.

Speaker 3:

You better know me, yeah, bello.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, you feel alright. Huh, yeah, no, what? Alright, thank you for listening to the Greatest, not Hits. I'm Chris, and playing the loser from Beck's third studio album, mellow Gold is my colleague and my co-host, tim. It sounds kind of like a mashup between, I want to say, midnight Rider from Almond Brothers and Spirit Radio from Rush that we just heard that little but also Loser. So I'm actually kind of digging it. I think it's a good version. So, but you know, thank you for joining us. We're gonna do what we always do. This is we're excited because Beck is such an idiosyncratic artist and he personifies like the early to mid-80s, with a lot of genre blending. You know there's, you know, various influences in this album.

Speaker 4:

And it's one emigrant and he's. You know it's the album that made him mainstream. You know the singles like Loser that he's playing was really a breakthrough song he had where it's at I want to Grammy for that in 97, that's not on this album, but Loser is, and there's a bunch of other songs that we're going to listen to. We're gonna go through the album that we always do. They're gonna rank our three greatest non-hits from this album. So I'm excited.

Speaker 4:

There's some weird stuff on this album. Don't let that scare you away. If you're familiar with this, you know from back in the day, or even not from back in the day it's a good listen and it's fun to look back and listen to it, maybe catch some of the things that you may have overlooked. That's the whole point of this. You know, just kind of getting to our roots. This is a music club and this is an opportunity for us to listen to an album from beginning to end. Tim and I are firm believers of listening to music in that way, but we're not going to get like completely serious into it. Of course we're gonna. We've got tons of clips that we like to work in and just, you know, having fun. You know Saul Rosenberg is going to be a bunch of Saul Rosenberg clips that we always do. I think there's going to be a. There's probably going to be a Judge Reinhardt in there, all the usual suspects. But and that was Chong from Cheech and Chong, you know, during that famous scene from Up in Smoke where he's like, oh, mellow. Anyway, I think you know this album in particular, like the title of it even is named after a potent stream of California marijuana. So I think that intro was sort of a nod to that, you know, to the whole that whole thing.

Speaker 4:

But with that being the case, interesting if from Wikipedia, the album cover, you know there's a robot on the cover of this of this album, and it was created by artist Eddie Lopez, who made a cameo in the music video for Losing. So I have to you know, I have to look at that one again check him out. Didn't realize that he did the art for that. So that's cool. The sculpture was named Survivor from the New Year Bomb. I didn't know that either. So it was originally taken in Lopez's garage, spaced by Beck's friend, as well as early collaborates, ross Harris. The last image was shot in studio, where Harris was able to control the environment and add visual effects to make the cover look more apocalyptic. So pretty, pretty good stuff there. The track listing, I think, like Loser is really the main hit here. Everything else I think we can probably, you know, put in the the not hit column.

Speaker 3:

So after the very first song all the rest of them are up for voting.

Speaker 4:

You know between Tim and I. Of course you can play along as well. So there's songs like Pay no Mind, fucking With my Head, my Island of Dew Rock, and Parentheses. Whatever that is, pay no Mind has Snoozer who are below it. In parentheses there's Whiskey, clone Hotel, city Soul Sucking Jerk Truck Driving Neighbors Downstairs. Sweet Sunshine Beer Can Steal my Body. Home Nightmare Hibby Girl, motherfucker, fuker.

Speaker 1:

Without the C at the end. I don't know what that is.

Speaker 4:

There's Black Hole. It was an internal track, analog Policy. So there you have it. What else can we? We can go through the person now. Everybody goes through his back. He does a lot on the sound. He does vocals, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, electric guitar, bass, harmonica.

Speaker 4:

He synthesizes percussion producers, so he produced Orgin on track eight is Mike Moido, stephen Markison is the master, tom Rothrock is the producer. He does mixing. Rob Schnapp is also a producer, so it's those two in the back. Of course there's also Carl Stevenson is the producer, petra Hayden plays violin, there's Tim doing spirit and radio, rob Zabrecki in the bass, david Hart drums, ross Harris photography On the charts. I think this may be.

Speaker 1:

No, I didn't do super, it was 94 in the US Billboard in 1994.

Speaker 4:

Great year for music. I think it's interesting. There was a song called Black Hole. There's also Black Hole Sun on Super Undone from Sound guard, of course. So there's a commonality there. Alright, Tim's gonna ramp up soon.

Speaker 5:

There it is.

Speaker 4:

Alright, the guitar hero himself finishing up there, and what else have we got here? Well, I think towards the end of this, some of the songs get super weird. I'll probably throw one in as a nod in my top three. But as it goes on, it starts to get really, really out there, mostly in a good way. Some of it's just like unbearable. Anyway, here's, tim, how you doing bud.

Speaker 6:

I'm a driver. Things are gonna change. I can feel it.

Speaker 4:

Here's Tim Long. This is a Tim album. There will be no money Because Tim is a collager and that's his big art outlet. So this is a Tim album, I think. What are your thoughts, man?

Speaker 6:

It is. He loves to make these clips, he loves to record his downstairs neighbors and make that part of the song. He loves to sort of, you know, snip it of all these things and then remix them into his own song, combining elements of folk and punk rock together in this weird harmony of just I mean yeah.

Speaker 4:

He's just speechless because he's so creative and he can blend those genres in such a unique way. So I think that's.

Speaker 6:

And you know, what do we know about him? I guess, when others asked, this is what happened. I think he threw his shoe. I don't know who threw his shoe on.

Speaker 4:

Well, let me ask about his name. Yeah, play it.

Speaker 7:

I wanted to ask you some questions about where you're from and who exactly you are. I can't seem to get any straight answers out of anybody who seems to know you. But what exactly is your real name? Is it Beck? Were you christened Beck?

Speaker 6:

Yeah, all right, he just throws his shoe. He's kind of like a little hipster brat in his early goings on, because he's, you know, this is an interview after this album came out, like right after this comes out.

Speaker 4:

this is the guy from Sonomy and we're using him on a show called 120 Minutes, which was sort of like an indie program late on MTV, because this was like really out there stuff at the time and you know, this is why this is so groundbreaking is because that was very, very alternative and, you know, outside of the scope of popular music.

Speaker 7:

Long loser man. It's a smash hit. How do you feel about that? It's like surfing in some oil spillage. Yeah, it is like that Smash, smashing.

Speaker 6:

So weird, yeah, exactly, but Beck.

Speaker 4:

David Campbell. His dad was David Campbell.

Speaker 6:

That's right.

Speaker 4:

He was an arranger. I think he did like a lot of work in mixing and producing a lot of different albums, which makes sense.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, yeah, and he was on Tapestry. We did, I think on season one I can't remember the number of the episode, but the 70 season from two years ago. We name checked him. He, he, that was one of the first albums he ever played on. He was a talented violinist and composer even so, and he's done arrangements for a lot of different groups where they have like orchestral like, even like G and R or whatever. I know Rush had a tour where they had like five or six violinists behind Neil Peart as he's playing the drums and that was all. Beck's dad getting that all arranged, yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 6:

And then that was his birthday, and then his mom was. Uh Bibi was went on tour with Warhol. She was a regular at the Warhol factory.

Speaker 4:

Right, right that was. She was a part of that scene in the 60s, and so you can imagine. I mean he was born in 1970. He's a product of that yeah, I understand. That was the Sonic Youth. Uh guy, I can't, we should. Why we don't have that guy's name? But anyway, he was interested.

Speaker 6:

He what? How old was he? How old are you 23.

Speaker 7:

Really.

Speaker 6:

Yeah.

Speaker 7:

Because you look a lot older.

Speaker 2:

Oh, yeah, it was like well, how old I think you're really happening.

Speaker 7:

Hey, you look like about 45.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, I kind of feel like 60.

Speaker 7:

Oh yeah.

Speaker 4:

I mean, he is maybe an old soul, Um he seems kind of mature in a way, Even though that's those answers are so out there he. He seems to have like this cool and composure to him. When you know, like interviewers or somebody tries to rattle him, he's so unpredictable that he becomes intimidating.

Speaker 6:

Yes, he turns it back to them with his uh 27th and 12th chakras.

Speaker 7:

Yes, something like that.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, I mean he really does. Uh, yeah, there was like a backyard gig, I think the uh the sonic youth guys uh saw and uh he was glad that he saw him there or something. Was that the?

Speaker 7:

first time I saw you was at this backyard gig with the possum dixon. And now I right, yeah, I'm out and hailed like a whole bag of goose feathers yeah, he's right, he's random, you know there is all right, let's, let's kick it in, and that was nice, that was nice interesting

Speaker 6:

and we're clowning around here. Some monkeys on the on the soundboard here that's right, the whole, the whole episode. He's got some sitar going on. I tried to play that. Sitar riff is like your rush right the intro is spirit and he did apparently sleep on a lot of couches in in New York when he moved there. He this is hard to get an apartment yeah, he was he was rough in it.

Speaker 5:

Oh yeah, for this million song the other in the bag with the rerun shows and the cold king knows the daytime crap of the folk singers. Love the young himself with the guitar.

Speaker 6:

Senior slot good thing is in drop D, it won't you know?

Speaker 4:

I'm just thinking about how he was in the folk in LA and he turns on it when he moves to New York choking on the splinter and soy on Friday.

Speaker 6:

There means I'm a loser in Spanish. Yeah okay. I did not know that.

Speaker 4:

So her, her door is the loser part of that funny like it's like surfing in some oil spillage.

Speaker 6:

I understand cement world shot was. I'm a driver, I'm a winner. I'm a driver that shit is fucking bullshit.

Speaker 1:

Deeper and deeper.

Speaker 6:

You got Gustaf here. Isn't this good? I mean, the more I listen to this album, it is better. This song never gets old. I don't know it's such a 90s icon. Yeah, it is a smash hit and it deserves to be. No, I don't spreckin' with the Deutsche, okay Beck.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, this is sort of a handoff from the grunge and alternative from 91 to 93. Then there was this and creep from Radiohead, and this is where it starts to kind of turn.

Speaker 6:

Didn't we have a Beck interview? We interviewed him.

Speaker 4:

Oh, yeah, oh, you want to go, yeah, so what we want to ask some questions.

Speaker 6:

We have him here. Let's see here what's your favorite color, Beck I don't like color. Okay, what kind of car do you like to drive? I don't like color.

Speaker 7:

I just take the bus. No, I like pink.

Speaker 6:

You take the bus, he's getting crazy. I know, yeah, so it is favorite color.

Speaker 7:

I don't like color.

Speaker 6:

I'm kind of car you like to use, like the bus.

Speaker 7:

I just take the bus. Yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 6:

I mean, I guess this is a weird one. Have you ever had sex in the backseat of a car?

Speaker 7:

I like pentose. What about the backseat car? Probably One of those astro van sexy his car.

Speaker 6:

Okay, sexy car you got and are you old school or new school? Back.

Speaker 7:

I'm sort of like middle school, like fifth grade nice. I ate my rake a shake and bake Time to quake. This was a big mistake, oh no back.

Speaker 6:

Oh, come on. Come back to our interview, come on.

Speaker 1:

Come on, 90s back.

Speaker 6:

All right get back to us yeah.

Speaker 4:

All right, okay, so this is actually it's second time. Hey, no mind.

Speaker 6:

God.

Speaker 8:

It looked like you know, when you finish with the toilet paper, the empty tube. It looked like that about that size.

Speaker 4:

Oh, thank you, sir, no or.

Speaker 6:

Hey, no mind.

Speaker 4:

Okay, thank you, richard Lewis recipes.

Speaker 5:

We got some chimpanzees over here give the Rock and Roll singer dancing upon your paycheck. The sails climb high through the garbage. Pale sky like a giant dildo crushing the sun.

Speaker 8:

When you finish with the toilet paper. That's why.

Speaker 4:

I know Sleep and it felt like Saul, was giving us his opinions on the giant dildo.

Speaker 3:

The tube.

Speaker 8:

Yeah, it looked like that about that size.

Speaker 6:

Okay, he's in slime, he's. That's your lead pipe friends just kicked him out. They're like you can't stay here anymore. I don't care if you have a hit song. Are you better have a hit song sooner?

Speaker 4:

Is that really what this is about? Because of the first two albums, he's still like on the couch.

Speaker 6:

I think this is this is about Him roughing it when he came to New York.

Speaker 4:

Probably I speculate, but we could probably yeah, okay, I'll go with that. What else do you have going on in his life before then? I mean he's 23. He's 23.

Speaker 6:

He's just no shit. He's exactly. He's 60, 45, I know.

Speaker 4:

I like that was kind of full key with that harmonica. Yeah, isn't it I? Song is about the frustration with record industry.

Speaker 6:

Actually, I pay no money. Money and sales rather than creative and talent.

Speaker 4:

Oh, I paid no mind. He's talking literally Not paying any mind at all, because I'm not using my mind for what they want me to do.

Speaker 6:

Oh this is wrote as a teenager and as part of the deal or allowed to release songs on indie label. Any improv's. The last one when he plays a live paint in mind. That's good. This is good stuff.

Speaker 5:

This really good.

Speaker 4:

Nice harmony.

Speaker 6:

See, he's copying, he's got the guitar and his voice and then he builds off that with these little like Aspects of tambourine harmonica. The plain's guitars Shout out to coffee drinkers out there.

Speaker 4:

Shout out to the high biscus heads out there.

Speaker 6:

Shout out to the coffee drinkers drinking your coffee out of a hubcap. That would be cool, that's like a 60 ounce coffee.

Speaker 2:

Ah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 4:

I'll go with that.

Speaker 6:

Shout out to the sports cars owners Hope you get a jolly out of people ogling your vehicle.

Speaker 5:

Shout out to the Corbett fans out there.

Speaker 2:

Look at all over when.

Speaker 5:

I feel, your touch Love.

Speaker 8:

And now feel, feel in the honey, oh.

Speaker 6:

Credit card glued to my hand. You hear about the guy who's facing charges for taping fish to ATMs.

Speaker 4:

That's hilarious. Why is he doing it? What kind of fish is he taping? Like, like, like sardines or something.

Speaker 6:

No, like huge, like, like I forget, like.

Speaker 1:

Yeah but like snapper, you know whatever, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4:

Oh, how do you tape a hole like snapper to an ATM machine? Why?

Speaker 6:

is they found him because he posted it on Instagram.

Speaker 4:

He wanted to.

Speaker 3:

Well, the goal where no man has ever come before has got to be.

Speaker 4:

Right, we need to chill out here, hello. Who are you? So this is called Whiskey Clone Hotel City 1997. So this is like in the future.

Speaker 5:

Pass for us.

Speaker 6:

Oh, this is.

Speaker 5:

This is shining shit, right here.

Speaker 6:

Magazines and free soda.

Speaker 5:

Try and hard not to think. And what do you think? Do you think what's his name?

Speaker 4:

George the stands would think about that. I don't Everything Wait, I'll be lost.

Speaker 5:

What happened?

Speaker 4:

to soda.

Speaker 5:

Love it I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure Love soda.

Speaker 3:

Oh no, we don't like soda at all.

Speaker 6:

Just hanging out your magazines and free soda.

Speaker 4:

Lay it on to the dawn.

Speaker 5:

She can talk to squirrels.

Speaker 6:

Coming back from the convalescent hall. What is the convalescent hall?

Speaker 4:

There must be a great, big, fat person Stare at sports cars.

Speaker 6:

Shout out to sports cars.

Speaker 4:

Shout out to the science of the land. So choice.

Speaker 1:

With the ocean of bees the whole ocean of oil.

Speaker 5:

Everything we don is wrong. I'll blow it so when I'm gone, lay it on to the dawn.

Speaker 4:

Lay it on to the dawn. Lay it on to the dawn. I think it's just how you drink your whiskey all night long. It's a simple thing.

Speaker 7:

What's that? Are you crying?

Speaker 3:

I was looking for it Anyhow, listen around and wait for you.

Speaker 4:

I think Don, I know, is Delta Don.

Speaker 1:

Delta Don.

Speaker 2:

Delta Don.

Speaker 6:

Lay it on to Delta Don.

Speaker 3:

I think, that I'm going to sit around and wait for you Forget it. No, we don't like soda at all, honey, you're not like soda. It's bubbly, it's refreshing.

Speaker 4:

We need a little bit of a palachro. Let's listen to the sweet musings of Tonya Tunga. Thank you.

Speaker 1:

Tonya.

Speaker 4:

Now let's get back to your soul-sucking jerk.

Speaker 6:

Also shout out to those who cook with soda. With soda you can what happened to?

Speaker 3:

soda.

Speaker 6:

They cook soda with chicken. You can do that. You can cook anything with anything.

Speaker 4:

I don't know.

Speaker 6:

You can cook anything with anything I don't know. That's a Beck statement.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, the guy's rubbing off on me.

Speaker 6:

Try to explain. It's only getting warm.

Speaker 2:

Wait, just a minute.

Speaker 4:

He's rubbing off on me. Look, his ways are influencing me, not that.

Speaker 2:

Hey, man got a big box of porn for you. Get busy.

Speaker 6:

You can't just jerk. Why didn't we have that one Soul-sucking jerk, soul-sucking jerk. It's a pretty strong way to show you that I need to do it.

Speaker 4:

I need to do it. I need to do it, I need to do it.

Speaker 3:

I need to do it. I kind of look a little silly and my feelings are hurt.

Speaker 4:

We're not playing any songs. This is all the songs.

Speaker 6:

Besides Saul. Okay, a little payment Tattoo, not this place. I got bent like a wet cigarette. She's coming after me with a butterfly net Cat wrapped in a roadmap to hell. Oh, I don't like my bacon. Eggs with worms, thank you.

Speaker 4:

I don't like all three anymore here. I'm gonna give you what I got to get, so I can go because I ain't watching this in the ditch.

Speaker 6:

no more, he's not gonna be in the ditch, he's gonna make it okay. I think this is more deep than we give it credit.

Speaker 4:

I think he's got some meaning behind it that we didn't even pick up on.

Speaker 6:

I think he is committed to making it kind of thing. He doesn't want to work for no soul-sucking jerk, he wants to work for himself. Okay, yeah that is the angle.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 3:

Why a boy says jerks.

Speaker 2:

You got good stuff here, classic shit.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, he's just like. This is all anger, Anger at the business it is.

Speaker 3:

Yes, yes, all the the whole, oh no.

Speaker 6:

It's all good, yes, yes.

Speaker 3:

I kind of look a little silly. I need an adult. Okay, thank you. Oh, yes, the whole railway.

Speaker 4:

Oh, these are neighbors. Did he actually record this?

Speaker 1:

Yes, he recorded this.

Speaker 4:

These are his neighbors downstairs.

Speaker 6:

We can pause it after this intro and explain. Okay that's Okay. So he was talking about how his neighbors he was trying to record and they were just, they were truckers. So you have a song.

Speaker 7:

A couple of truckers.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, so this is the next song after the one we just heard. It's called Truck.

Speaker 6:

Driving Neighbors.

Speaker 4:

There's a long name and they're like he just like recorded his downstairs neighbors fighting with each other right.

Speaker 6:

Truck driving neighbors downstairs, yellow sweat and they apparently they got a lot of. One got locked out and he took an axe and was axing down the door and then they were smashing cars.

Speaker 7:

They were like having a fighting with axes you know, like some crazed Modern Vikings or something you know yeah okay so he recorded it.

Speaker 6:

Nice, typical, just always looking for an opportunity to Create in a weird offbeat kind of way, kind of like Warhol, you know, okay this is sort of yeah, he's like a Warhol music.

Speaker 4:

Maybe he borrowed he borrows from everybody like or maybe he even, just like it, was able to observe the process, you know, and was encouraged to get by his mom, I mean he's like Warhol, who, if Warhol was a musician I Would go that far, except slightly different. Yeah, I mean, I think Beck is under rain and Warhol's over, I think.

Speaker 6:

I think Warhol a lot of his career. He was not appreciated so.

Speaker 2:

Just like.

Speaker 6:

Beck, so it depends where they are in their career. Oh, that's true. I thought, and Beck is still alive and Warhol is not.

Speaker 4:

So now, I mean the Warhol that was in the 60s. Yeah, three decades later all this is going down. But I Don't know. I mean they're all. They're both great in their own right and they do. There's overlapping Processes. It seems that, yeah, happening Between his music. His music is a little bit too excited Codding breakdown.

Speaker 6:

Double-edged axe.

Speaker 1:

I.

Speaker 6:

Was great actually yeah, I was listening to your buds and Sam's today.

Speaker 4:

I was like I like this one was popping out.

Speaker 6:

You ever heard of? Shut up, little man. But in San Francisco there were, they said, listening parties of their neighbors and they used to yell at each other and, just you know, cussed each other and you. It was a thing and they started recording it and it became like a Underground since yeah, shut up little man. It's kind of like that.

Speaker 4:

I gotta see that, I gotta hear it.

Speaker 6:

It's not worth it, but ours are listeners. Are we paying attention?

Speaker 4:

Ron are you paying attention?

Speaker 8:

Nope, well, this concerns all of us, okay.

Speaker 6:

All right, we got sweet sunshine here.

Speaker 4:

Okay, yeah, it's good start, Sort of like when the levy breaks intro.

Speaker 6:

I'm interesting oh.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, it's funny that sounds called sweet sunshine.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 4:

Oh, it kind of sounds like afternoon delight, a little bit like I'm asking something.

Speaker 3:

Railway. Oh, we're going up and end the whole.

Speaker 4:

This is, this is challenging.

Speaker 6:

I don't care for this song, but I mean it can't be all good. You know, I do like this part, though I don't know this part should have been like the whole song. You know what I mean.

Speaker 4:

Okay, yeah, I'm imagining that you can always just put that on latch, just let's play that over and over, oh I mean, and then just sing something over. You should do that.

Speaker 1:

Well.

Speaker 4:

We'll make a song. Oh, I seriously I'm gonna do that, we're gonna take that, we're gonna put on a latch, we'll play some drums over that. Do a bass and you can play the guitar and sing.

Speaker 6:

Bucket of blood. What the fuck?

Speaker 4:

Yeah, I needed it all.

Speaker 2:

Classy chip.

Speaker 6:

Oh, run to the devil. What.

Speaker 1:

You want it no.

Speaker 4:

So I guess they're probably not gonna play this song.

Speaker 6:

I like this part though.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it's happening.

Speaker 6:

Uh, now see it's, now, it's done. It's like I kind of like it now. I don't like the intro.

Speaker 4:

I'm kind of happy that it's wrapping up soon, like I got through it, you know.

Speaker 6:

I'm proud of ourselves.

Speaker 4:

I'm proud that I got through this one. All that shit is fucking bullshit.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, then we need to sort of uh uh, we just sort of Delta, don't it Well, I only came here to do two things, man kick some ass and drink some beer.

Speaker 4:

It's like we're almost out of beer. Well, that's, this is the next song coming up. So yeah, we're going. We're going from sweet sunshine to beer, can't.

Speaker 6:

I'm liking this song.

Speaker 4:

Well, either song is probably not going to be played during a Alabama Sunday campaign.

Speaker 2:

A drug and I got the book and I got something better than love, how you like me. Now, pretty good. Going on feeling strong, I quit my job blowing leaves.

Speaker 6:

I love these lyrics, choking like a one-man dust bowl.

Speaker 2:

Freedom rocks my balls talking and cold we went down definitely talking in code I the juicers yep you know little celery turmeric. And they were thinking like this oh.

Speaker 6:

He worked with the flaming lips actually Really for a tour. There was the tour band was flaming lips and then him and Wayne got into it. Had to go Into it with anybody Waynes and alpha.

Speaker 8:

Oh yeah, my goodness and I feel feeling a lot if it affects a troublemaker yes, you got good stuff here.

Speaker 2:

You got good stuff here. Let's say shit.

Speaker 6:

Soft and snugly place. He's got like a commercial of some shit now.

Speaker 4:

Yes, oh.

Speaker 1:

Deeper and deeper.

Speaker 5:

I only came here to do two things, man kick some ass and drink some beer. It's like we're almost out of beer.

Speaker 2:

Oh whoa.

Speaker 6:

Whoa. Oh that's a site flaming pig.

Speaker 3:

Oh.

Speaker 4:

What's wrong with being sexy?

Speaker 6:

What's going on about the flamethrower? He's a. He's a pyro man.

Speaker 4:

I'm the, I'm the son, beer can. I'm just wondering, why is he going there? It's probably, yeah, all the song sounds he heard when he was living in New York City. Yeah, all the background chatter and like the background noise he probably is probably, you know, recreating that in some better way.

Speaker 6:

Just somebody, burn me a plate of sassafras. Okay, burn you play.

Speaker 3:

I kind of look a little silly Okay nice little laugh.

Speaker 6:

Oh gosh, change of.

Speaker 4:

Okay, this is called steel, my body, you know. Are you crumbly. What's that?

Speaker 5:

Are you?

Speaker 4:

crumbly Am I.

Speaker 6:

This one is completely different.

Speaker 4:

It's kind of something to do with the vinyl-ish it does. I think you need a row. All that shit is fucking bullshit.

Speaker 5:

Okay, okay, sorry.

Speaker 6:

Oh, good timing. Look, watch my troubles. All on wine. Well, I don't think you're gasoline drinking. Get your shoe off the stove, I guess. Okay, is this his dad, his violinist dad?

Speaker 4:

Pretty deliberate there.

Speaker 5:

Like a bird.

Speaker 4:

Shout out to coming to America In mighty sharp Boys in wet brush or Barbara Cherry. He keeps doing that voice. It's sort of like a silence of the lambs.

Speaker 6:

Like the guy the abductor Cowboy Bill oh, is that one of his? He puts the lotion on the frying pan.

Speaker 4:

The fiery is all over this avenue.

Speaker 8:

Call the fire department.

Speaker 5:

Land to the fireman. Now she kisses her hand.

Speaker 6:

With a fiddle in the fire. This is kind of like that he's nobody's fault but my own, or something On mutations. I think If you listen to that song it's very similar to this song. It's just very stripped down.

Speaker 4:

Not coughing with no mouth.

Speaker 6:

Yikes, that's a dystopian movie.

Speaker 4:

I'm shocked.

Speaker 5:

I never heard this on the radio when the devil's your only friend.

Speaker 8:

Don't tell me my business, devil woman.

Speaker 4:

Oh, a little kazoo here, there we go.

Speaker 6:

Shout out to the multi-instrumentalists, because you know why would you want to just get good at just one instrument? You know why not be semi-good at all of them?

Speaker 4:

Well, I mean, if you're semi-good at all, or at least serviceable, you can just put it all together.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, and remix it a million times.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, so you get just the right combination of weird and intriguing. You want it. No, a lot of sitars. It's happening.

Speaker 3:

It's happening.

Speaker 4:

You know it's shot to Rob's and Breckie on the bass. I think the bass is pretty good. Of course, I think there are other bass players on there too. Beck plays bass too. I mean, he's playing everything really Well as a Breckie. He plays bass on track 12. The last one too. That's what. I guess that was back. Yeah, okay, that was stealing my body.

Speaker 6:

Hippie's son Nightmare, hippie girl.

Speaker 5:

Nightmare hippie girls.

Speaker 6:

I love these lyrics.

Speaker 1:

She's got dried up flowers, a freaky skin. I'm a heated neck listenin', party up chillin'.

Speaker 8:

I'm afraid you may have hippie. She's a nightmare hippie.

Speaker 5:

We gave all these hippies permission to be here.

Speaker 1:

Nightmare hippie girl. She's a wet-n-roll.

Speaker 6:

Tragical beauty, self-conscious and a little bit booty-y.

Speaker 8:

Hippie tatter-rammy.

Speaker 6:

This is more classable.

Speaker 4:

I like the drums Kind of goes off beat. I think, Time signature's not on.

Speaker 6:

It's yeah.

Speaker 5:

Nightmare hippie girl.

Speaker 1:

Nightmare hippie girl.

Speaker 8:

With her skinny fingers falling in my world she's a whimsical, tragical beauty Probably means if you see one hippie you're gonna tell the whole last one you're not Tired of a little bit smirky, she's a rainbow-chirping breeze.

Speaker 5:

Oh, I kinda love that.

Speaker 4:

A magical, sparkly tease.

Speaker 6:

Rainbow-choking breeze.

Speaker 5:

Yeah, that's a gray line.

Speaker 6:

Beck-like poetry. Gray line.

Speaker 5:

Science of herself, Deep rendezvous.

Speaker 4:

I like it.

Speaker 5:

Solid. For breakfast she's got a tofu the size of Texas. She's a witness to her own glory. She's a never-ending story.

Speaker 2:

She's a fraudic, hateful vicious. She's a self-inflicted obsession.

Speaker 5:

What?

Speaker 6:

are these talking about. She's got a thousand lonely husbands.

Speaker 4:

Oh, bravo.

Speaker 6:

It was good God dang hippies.

Speaker 5:

Gave all these hippies permission to be here.

Speaker 4:

Where was I from? I gotta get that back. This is called Motherfucker with nose. It sort of sounds like that right now. The fuck do you think you're talking about? Oh?

Speaker 7:

sorry.

Speaker 4:

This is not a sweet sunshine in Canada for the other guy.

Speaker 6:

What the?

Speaker 4:

I think I was only speaking this long.

Speaker 6:

Well, okay, so this has opposing messages to Black Hole, because We'll get there. Everyone's out to get you, motherfucker. It's a little paranoid trying to annoy you.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, whoa.

Speaker 7:

The fuck is he talking?

Speaker 1:

about.

Speaker 7:

The fuck do you think you're talking about?

Speaker 4:

Alright, this is starting to win me over a little bit.

Speaker 3:

I need to tell it's happening.

Speaker 7:

I think you're really happening.

Speaker 1:

They're all gonna love you.

Speaker 7:

Alright, I'll give a head nod to that. It's from Mike Boyd.

Speaker 1:

Wow, wow.

Speaker 8:

It looked like you know, when you finish with the toilet paper, the empty tube. It looked like that about that size.

Speaker 4:

Okay, okay, they're gonna self-correct you.

Speaker 6:

So now this is Black Hole. It's more Zen.

Speaker 4:

When we, when we looking for a better one, got to burn that alive, bob.

Speaker 1:

Yellow Car Yellow Car Reach for the sky. I'm a better.

Speaker 8:

Heal is often a wax one. Big hair Nana.

Speaker 4:

I think I'm gonna talk about Black Hole at all.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 5:

It's not it's not it's.

Speaker 4:

the lyric is in the end of the song. But it's deep, it stands through the orange juice.

Speaker 7:

How much more black could this be? And the answer is none, none.

Speaker 1:

None.

Speaker 4:

None, it ain't pretty intense.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, this is More composed, More soundtrack-y. Yeah, for now.

Speaker 4:

I mean I think it keeps. It keeps at this pace Through the song. The strings are nice.

Speaker 6:

Shout out to the fresh squeezed orange juicers out there.

Speaker 4:

Absolutely. You know, hey, vitamin C, it packs a punch, it does. It's good for the immune system.

Speaker 6:

It fights off colds. Not to mention you know we need like 20 oranges nowadays to equal the vitamins of one orange back like 30 years ago. But what are you?

Speaker 4:

gonna do. Today's orange is better than no orange, that's true. I want to set the right example.

Speaker 6:

Yeah, oranges are shit.

Speaker 4:

I like those candy cane grapes. Those are pretty good Pineapples where it's at. I mean, has that lost when it's at?

Speaker 6:

Pineapples.

Speaker 4:

Where it's at.

Speaker 1:

Where it's at Big hitter Mama.

Speaker 6:

And he says there will be no money. When you die On your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So let that go for me, which is nice.

Speaker 8:

And orange juice.

Speaker 4:

We got orange juice yeah.

Speaker 6:

And orange juice and orange juice. We got orange juice yeah.

Speaker 8:

Nobody wants to die, nobody. Well, you know it was Carl.

Speaker 1:

Little Carl in there.

Speaker 6:

Shout out to GC.

Speaker 4:

It's kind of like a nightmare feel to it. It does Like it's like a nightmare feel to it. It's like a nightmare, kind of like he's trying to make this for people on ass.

Speaker 6:

I feel like this is hitting some weird Radiohead Pink Floyd shit here now.

Speaker 4:

A little bit with the guitar in the background when you layer all these other things.

Speaker 8:

Alright.

Speaker 4:

Do you want to go to hit? This is part of the same song. I think it's like a hidden track. We're not doing anything. This is all.

Speaker 6:

Well, we might be doing some shit.

Speaker 4:

Alright, ron Burgamy. Oh, don't do that. I'm top of this, what's?

Speaker 3:

happening. Yes, yes, oh, that's the whole, oh, no.

Speaker 6:

This is a deep track.

Speaker 4:

We need Ron Burgamy here. I'm a deep ruch.

Speaker 3:

Anyhow, this is a very disrespectful to listen to.

Speaker 6:

This song is already pretty, oh yeah.

Speaker 4:

No, I'm talking about this song. I'm not talking about it. I have it just like this. Alright, I think we should. We should cut this off.

Speaker 8:

Just take it easy, champ. Why don't you stop talking for a while? Maybe sit the next couple plays out?

Speaker 6:

Stop turning the knobs for a while. Yeah, exactly, alright, so that one definitely wasn't on. You know, it's a hidden track.

Speaker 4:

It's part of Black Hole, they guess.

Speaker 1:

If it's a 13th track. It makes a baker's dust.

Speaker 4:

I guess so.

Speaker 6:

Make a baker's dust. We're top three.

Speaker 4:

You're gonna lose yourself, man, you're gonna lose yourself.

Speaker 6:

Alright, I'm going Black Hole number three because it's something different and different than Different than a lot of stuff. I don't even know where I'm going with, how different it is, but I like it. It's got grit and sort of like creepiness to it, which I think Beck like avoids the creepiness and the creepy parts.

Speaker 4:

Sure For me. I think I'm gonna go Whiskey Clone hotel sounded really good and look when I heard it. It got better. The second or third time I've heard it. Okay, he's having a creative peak there, you know, with some of the lyrics and themes with that, and just the fact that we needed a palette cleanser after that speaks to its quality.

Speaker 6:

I'll leave it at that.

Speaker 4:

So, that's my number three.

Speaker 6:

Okay, I really want Pay no Mind to be in there, because he changes the lyrics every time. He plays it live, which is kind of cool, and he improves the lyrics, but I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go fucking with my head number two, just because this whole album has fucked with my head. What about you? I mean, has it not?

Speaker 4:

No, no, no, yeah, that's legit Okay.

Speaker 6:

Even the covers, just fucking with my head. I hate staring at that robot's eyes.

Speaker 4:

I'll go with that. Yeah, I think I'm gonna go with Beer Can as my number two. Okay, I liked, I mean I liked all the. There seemed to be a lot of innuendo in there and dual meaning types of things with the lyrics and, yeah, how the title just seemed to be unlike the actual song kind of a thing. So Okay. I thought it was very experimental and done well.

Speaker 6:

So yeah, I think Beer Can was my number one for sure. Yeah, it's just good. It's just good you got a lot of different playlists to jump off of, of moods, and that you could have each one of these songs on there, you know.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 6:

It's such a like a mixed grab bag, a collage, if you will, of songs that are also collages. It's of songs and sounds and yeah.

Speaker 4:

I feel that way with Truck Drive and Neighbors, I mean they. He actually took like an argument and put it at the beginning of a song and sort of tied it all in together creatively and yeah, I would make that my number one, but I mean it was a close. It was close to my third, so that's going to be an honorable mention. I'm going to go with Nightmare Hippy Girl because the last time that I heard it it sounded, so I I really I started to get how you know the genius behind it.

Speaker 4:

I hate using that term, but I can see I was like really kind of like speechless by how well he used the aesthetic of the hippie culture and the words and its scenes.

Speaker 6:

So I just kind of felt the vibe it deserves to be on one of our top three greatest non-hits for this album.

Speaker 4:

I think Truck Drive, and Neighbors should have too. I wish one of us had had it, but it was just. There was enough room, there were. You know these songs, but it was a close fourth, I think there were four strong tracks on here and yeah, that was one of them for me.

Speaker 6:

So anyway, it was good talk, man, good talk. Any last words, yeah, give it another listen, disgography, because it's really great. I mean, even you know it's purely acoustic stuff.

Speaker 2:

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 6:

It's its own form of, you know, mellow gold.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, odeley was a good album too. It's got a lot of the familiar hits, but it's got some deeper stuff that's that kind of gets out there and explores it the way this does as well.

Speaker 6:

Oh yeah, and let's see other album. They're all good, check them all out. But yeah, thanks for listening.

Speaker 4:

Rock on Rock on, Take care folks.

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