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Unlike Stereopathetic Soul Manure and One Foot in the Grave, the indie albums that followed his debut Mellow Gold by a mere matter of months, Odelay was a full-fledged, full-bodied album, released on a major label in the summer of 1996 and bearing an intricate, meticulous production by the Dust Brothers in their first gig since the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique. Odelay shared a similar collage structure to that 1989 masterpiece, relying on a blend of found sounds and samples, but instead of lending the album its primary colors, the Dust Brothers provided the accents, highlighting Beck's ever-changing sounds, tying together his stylistic shifts, making the leaps from the dirge-blues of "Jack-Ass" to the hazy party rock of "Where's It's At" seem not so great. Like Mellow Gold, Odelay winds up touching on a number of disparate strands -- folk and country, grungy garage rock, stiff-boned electro, louche exotica, old-school rap, touches of noise rock -- but there's no break-neck snap between sensibilities, everything flows smoothly, the dense sounds suggesting that the songs are a bit more complicated than they actually are. Most of the songs here betray Beck's roots as an anti-folk singer -- he reworks blues structures ("Devil's Haircut"), country ("Lord Only Knows," "Sissyneck"), soul ("Hotwax"), folk ("Ramshackle") and rap ("High 5 [Rock the Catskills]," "Where It's At") -- but each track twists conventions, either in their construction or presentation, giving this a vibrant, electric pulse, surprising in its form and attack. Like a mosaic, all the details add up to a picture greater than its parts, so while some of Beck's best songs are here, Odelay is best appreciated as a recorded whole, with each layered sample enhancing the allusion that came before.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Beck Hansen, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Mike Simpson, ComposerLyricist - JOHN KING, ComposerLyricist - JAMES BROWN, ComposerLyricist - Phil Coulter, ComposerLyricist - Beck, Producer, MainArtist - The Dust Brothers, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tommy Scott, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Beck Hansen, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Mike Simpson, ComposerLyricist - JOHN KING, ComposerLyricist - Beck, MainArtist - The Dust Brothers, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Beck Hansen, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Beck, Producer, MainArtist - The Dust Brothers, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Beck Hansen, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Mike Simpson, ComposerLyricist - JOHN KING, ComposerLyricist - Beck, MainArtist - The Dust Brothers, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Beck Hansen, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Mike Simpson, ComposerLyricist - JOHN KING, ComposerLyricist - Beck, Producer, MainArtist - The Dust Brothers, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Beck Hansen, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Mike Simpson, ComposerLyricist - JOHN KING, ComposerLyricist - Beck, Producer, MainArtist - The Dust Brothers, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Beck Hansen, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Mike Simpson, ComposerLyricist - JOHN KING, ComposerLyricist - Bob Dylan, ComposerLyricist - Beck, MainArtist - The Dust Brothers, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Beck Hansen, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Mike Simpson, ComposerLyricist - JOHN KING, ComposerLyricist - Beck, MainArtist - The Dust Brothers, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Beck Hansen, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Mario Caldato Jr., Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - BRIAN PAULSON, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Beck, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Beck Hansen, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Adam Taylor, ComposerLyricist - Mike Simpson, ComposerLyricist - JOHN KING, ComposerLyricist - Beck, Producer, MainArtist - The Dust Brothers, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Harold Paris, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Beck Hansen, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Mike Simpson, ComposerLyricist - JOHN KING, ComposerLyricist - Beck, Producer, MainArtist - The Dust Brothers, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Beck Hansen, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Mike Simpson, ComposerLyricist - JOHN KING, ComposerLyricist - Beck, Producer, MainArtist - The Dust Brothers, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Vincent Willis, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Beck Hansen, ComposerLyricist - Tom Rothrock, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Rob Schnapf, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Beck, MainArtist
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tom Rothrock, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Rob Schnapf, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Beck, Composer, MainArtist
℗ 2003 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Unlike Stereopathetic Soul Manure and One Foot in the Grave, the indie albums that followed his debut Mellow Gold by a mere matter of months, Odelay was a full-fledged, full-bodied album, released on a major label in the summer of 1996 and bearing an intricate, meticulous production by the Dust Brothers in their first gig since the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique. Odelay shared a similar collage structure to that 1989 masterpiece, relying on a blend of found sounds and samples, but instead of lending the album its primary colors, the Dust Brothers provided the accents, highlighting Beck's ever-changing sounds, tying together his stylistic shifts, making the leaps from the dirge-blues of "Jack-Ass" to the hazy party rock of "Where's It's At" seem not so great. Like Mellow Gold, Odelay winds up touching on a number of disparate strands -- folk and country, grungy garage rock, stiff-boned electro, louche exotica, old-school rap, touches of noise rock -- but there's no break-neck snap between sensibilities, everything flows smoothly, the dense sounds suggesting that the songs are a bit more complicated than they actually are. Most of the songs here betray Beck's roots as an anti-folk singer -- he reworks blues structures ("Devil's Haircut"), country ("Lord Only Knows," "Sissyneck"), soul ("Hotwax"), folk ("Ramshackle") and rap ("High 5 [Rock the Catskills]," "Where It's At") -- but each track twists conventions, either in their construction or presentation, giving this a vibrant, electric pulse, surprising in its form and attack. Like a mosaic, all the details add up to a picture greater than its parts, so while some of Beck's best songs are here, Odelay is best appreciated as a recorded whole, with each layered sample enhancing the allusion that came before.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:52:15
- Main artists: Beck
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Interscope
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
© 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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