This is my favorite album out of the bunch. He's a Mighty Good Leader, Cyanide Breathmint...such amazing songs. What happened to this guy? I don't understand...
From Lou Thomas at BBC Music:
Originally released in 1994, One Foot in the Grave captured Beck Hansen just before he unveiled slacker anthem Loser. Since then the Los Angelino has broadly 'done a Prince' and put out a consistently funky genre-mashing body of work with only occasional dips in quality.Aside from reissuing this album with 13 previously unreleased tracks, it appears the chief reason to flog One Foot… now is to surf the 2009 sub-zeitgeist of stripped-down roots music alongside artists like Seasick Steve and Son of Dave.
Given that this raw, thrifty set has never sounded contemporary, it has aged particularly well.Beck's wry, lightly surrealistic lyrics on Asshole, ''Your brains went black when she took back her love and put it out into the sun'', give an early indication of his playful, skewed and evocative use of language.
Elsewhere the Delta blues of Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods blends acoustic slide guitar with sparse but heavy percussion to such earthy effect it's a struggle to remember the man who wrote the song was a white man in his early twenties.
There's also the great garage turbulence of Burnt Orange Peel and the Von Bondies lounge noir of Outcome to prove the album's not all about Deliverance folk.
Quality control is high on the original release with only Ziplock Bag's almost unlistenable blend of annoying distortion and tenth rate Tom Waits growling really sullying the overall piece.
Of the unreleased tracks and three former Japanese album bonus songs many are of a similarly high standard. Whiskey Can Can is a charming basic and lightly psychedelic ditty, Mattress has violently urgent acoustic strumming and shuffling percussion, while Teenage Wastebasket is great portion of primitive slacker fun, half Eels, half Velvet Underground. Of the few missteps, only Favorite Nerve seems pointlessly drab.
Technical Information:
Artist: Beck
Album: One Foot in the Grave (Deluxe Edition)
Year: 1994/2009
Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: EAC split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 750 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 391 MB
Length: 1:12:57
Tracklisting:
01. He's a Mighty Good Leader (2:41)
02. Sleeping Bag (2:16)
03. I Get Lonesome (2:50)
04. Burnt Orange Peel (1:39)
05. Cyanide Breath Mint (1:37)
06. See Water (2:22)
07. Ziplock Bag (1:45)
08. Hollow Log (1:54)
09. Forcefield (3:31)
10. Fourteen Rivers, Fourteen Floods (2:55)
11. Asshole (2:32)
12. I've Seen the Land Beyond (1:41)
13. Outcome (2:10)
14. Girl Dreams (2:04)
15. Painted Eyelids (3:06)
16. Atmospheric Conditions (2:11)
Bonus tracks:
17. It's All in Your Mind (2:54)
18. Whiskey Can Can (2:13)
19. Mattress (2:32)
20. Woe On Me (3:11)
21. Teenage Wastebasket (2:28)
22. Your Love Is Weird (2:28)
23. Favorite Nerve (2:06)
24. Piss on the Door (2:05)
25. Close to God (2:28)
26. Sweet Satan (1:46)
27. Burning Boyfriend (1:13)
28. Black Lake Morning (2:26)
29. Feather in Your Cap (1:13)
30. One Foot in the Grave (3:18)
31. Teenage Wastebasket (1:27)
32. I Get Lonesome (1:56)
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