MELLOW GOLD
| Beck
MELLOW GOLD
Mellow Gold is the official debut studio album, third album overall, and major label debut by American alternative rockmusician Beck. Mellow Gold was released on March 1, 1994, following the surprise success of the song "Loser". Critics noted the album's hybrid of various styles including rock, hip hop, folk, blues, psychedelia, and country, and ironic, witty lyrics. The decidedly anti-commercial attitude of Mellow Gold became an unexpected commercial success and went platinum.-Wikipedia
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Consequence of Sound
For the first time I had listened to something uncomfortable and unfamiliar, and yet it didnt push me away. After all this time, I'm still trying to get Beck, and listening again, Mellow Gold has taken on a whole new life.
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Rolling Stone
Even the do-it-yourself aspect of the album, which was recorded on 8-track in Beck’s living room, speaks of lowered expectations, and yet there’s a sense of the empowerment derived from that cheap high technology.
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Stereogum
Mellow Gold, then, is maybe better understood as the first chapter in a book than it is as a story unto itself.
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All Music
From its kaleidoscopic array of junk-culture musical styles to its assured, surrealistic wordplay, Beck's debut album, Mellow Gold, is a stunner.
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Sputnik Music
This album might go a bit overboard on the silliness. But Beck still manages to bring lots of laughs from this album. 10 years later and I still enjoy this album to its fullest.
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Diffuser
The rest of ‘Mellow Gold’ is pretty great, too.
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Los Angeles Times
a sputtering-synapse stream of consciousness punctuated by cowboy chords on an untuned folk guitar
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Robert Christgau
Full of fun and loaded with 'tude, he doesn't care what you think of him and makes you love it, right down to the nose-thumbing bummer dirges that close each side.
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Mr Hipster
This will be looked back on as a classic in the years to come.
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Boise Weekly
Mellow Gold reminds us of when Beck used to be fun.
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The 405
I love Mellow Gold. I will probably feel that way for a long time, if not forever.
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