Mellow Gold (studio album) by Beck

From sszwalbenest 08/04/2021 17:05

Love this album! What would happen if the Beastie Boys dropped acid. Hilarious lyrics, coupled with a great use of sampling. Overall a fun time:)

Fun stuff. Saw him a couple years ago.

From zwiebel 03/22/2021 20:43

very cool experimental album, "loser" is great, wish there were more tracks like that on the album. Overall a bit overrated tho

About as fun as it gets. The lyrics are hilarious and the overall sound of the album is lo-fi and and a fun mash-up of styles. It all works well together. Classic.

From Boltzmann 03/06/2020 10:54

The opening track and some tracks here and there were kinda surprising, and it's a nice concept to throw synths in such acoustic songs, but really great they aren't; some tracks are nearly unlistenable because of the forced experimentalism - would it kill you to just make a song that is nice to listen to. And for the rest of the album he's just mimicking Kurt Cobain.

Very underwhelming album in my opinion. Knowing "Loser" already, I was expecting most other songs to at least be fun and have good guitar riffs. Outside of the last three, I thought the album was directionless and uninspiring. I think the mid-90s college crowd could've gotten something out of this, but it's not for me at all. I'll check out his other stuff though.

From Graeme2 04/08/2018 18:19

It's ok I guess. I do chuckle when I see the word genius associated with beck. What's genius here? Also apparently this is a highly original and innovative record. He threw a couple breaks under some tracks. Wow. Just about every indie band in the uk had been doing that since the late 80s. Other than that it's just some obvious strummed chords of folky rock in a lo FI style with a bit noise, some sounding like it was made up on the spot. Mixing rock and hip hop beats in 94 wasn't new. It does have a fun style though and features a classic track of the 90s. Also the lyrics are cool.

From Jbalbinolr 11/22/2017 21:22

Lo-fi folk-rock, it makes you feel unease, and you aren´t sure what´s to come in the album, a dark album for the ages.

A stunning album from Beck and a worthy precursor to his masterpiece "Odelay". Beck manages to fuse genres like no other artist can on "Mellow Gold", and all of the tracks have diverse production, witty lyrics and great vocal delivery. Beck really is the essence of cool, and he's an artist that wasn't afraid to take risks even early on in his career.

Absolutely weird. An odd mix of very good songs (first three songs) and experimental tracks (interesting, but not always brilliant). The result is good, but I think it could have been better