Product Description

Like its creator's freewheeling songwriting process, ODELAYis a monument to wondrously precise pastiche. It's a glowing junkyard of musical styles, absurdist images, distorted samples, postmodern anti-emotions, you name it. Over the course of his three previous albums, Beck tinkered with more traditions and aesthetic approaches than an average cultural-studies professor sees in a career: hip-hop beats, acoustic folk-blues, indie-punk guitar squalls, DIY production, commercial smash! ODELAY accounts for all those things, too, but it also furthers the seamless, rump-shaking sheen of its collage nature, turning process into possible meaning.
On one hand, the thematic darkness that hangs over most of these songs exposes Beck for the creative doomsayer he is--just another sullen young man with a gift of the native tongues. On the other, the life-affirming irreverence with which he drops harebrained couplets, monologues and call-and-response chants based on designer-jeans brands betrays the glowing confidence of someone in love with all the places the creative process can take you. Grooving all the while, Beck seems like the loving creator of a '90s version of the electric Dylan frenzy. And ODELAY seems sorta like his BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME.

Track Listing

1. Devils Haircut
2. Hotwax
3. Lord Only Knows
4. The New Pollution
5. Derelict
6. Novacane
7. Jack-Ass
8. Where It's At
9. Minus
10. Sissyneck
11. Readymade
12. High 5 (Rock The Catskills)
13. Ramshackle
14. Diskobox

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1680 in Music
• Released on: 2002-12-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 55 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
As it turns out, Beck isn't just a funny guy with a good blues-rap hybrid novelty up his sleeve--he's a funny guy with a deep understanding of the history of pop music, an unstoppable universalist impulse, and a whole lot of excellent songs up his sleeve. Produced with hyperactive kitchen-sink technique by the Dust Brothers (of the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique fame), Odelay sounds like 60 years' worth of radio at once, but the foundation beneath the flash owes more to pre-war blues than anything else. Beck can turn a surreal pomo phrase like nobody's business, and he knows a good drum break when he hears one; his greatest strength, though, is having enough respect for tradition to make it sound modern. --Douglas Wolk

Customer Reviews

ok but not that good
massiveley overated, all the beats have been done better in hip hop, doesn't hold up to repeated listening

THE BEST ALBUM EVER
this album ios truely the nuts. all of the songs are really catchy and addictive. the album seems to be pieced together like a jigsaw it fits perfectly.

1- devil's haicut 9/10: Nice little tune. catchy and a good start
2- hotwax 9/10: Little bit country, little bit slower but once again a tasty little beat
3- lord only knows 10/10: really country. the sort of song you can hang out with...while you downshiftin' the 18 wheeler!
4- New pollution 10/10: becks most likeable song. an instant hit. i could groove around for hours with this pup!
5- Derelict 10/10: Much slower. but a song that helps make the album so beautiful
6- Novacane 8/10: A bit mental. but very enjoyable
7- Jack-ass 9/10: the most perfectly composed song on the album, a true pop gem
8- where it's at- 10/10: the wonder mic of the album. a total, bloody, mental and genius. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!""""""""""£££££££££££
9- minus 9/10: sweet little short sharp pop tune
10- sissyneck 10/10: Another kentucky classic, but a bit more of a vibe rolling through it
11- 9/10 readymade: another chill out laid back song, but with nice lyrics
12- 7/10 high 5: strange yet beautiful
13- 7/10 Ramshackle: what can i say, hhhhmmmm?

top 5 songs
1- where it's at
2-lord only knows
3-new pollution
4-sissyneck
5-Derelict

HIGH 5 < THIS IS WHERE ITS AT !!!!
LETS ALL WATCH X FACTOR AND BE PLEASED THAT WE ARE CLEVER

AGGGHHHHH FOR ANYONE THAT IS BORED OF HEARING ANOTHER RIPPED OFF SONG HERE COMES BECK SOMEONE WHO NOT ONLY WRITES,SINGS AND PLAYS HIS OWN MUSIC
BUT ADDS DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS TO SOUNDS,LYRICS AND EVEN A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE WORLD. THIS ALBUM LIKE ALL HIS OTHER WORK PAINTS PICTURES IN YOUR MIND EACH AND EVERY TIME YOU HEAR THEM BUT AMAZINGLY SEEEMS TO PAINT DIFFERENT PICTURES EVERY TIME.
ORIGINAL ,ACCOMPLISHED AND EXTREMELY POLISHED IN A FOLKY HIP HOP JAZZ FUNK COUNTRY ELECTRO BLUES MISMASH OF STYLES.
PEERLESS AN EXCEPTIONAL ALBUM THAT FUSES EVERYTHING INTO A GIANT ECLECTIC SOUND CLASH OF TOTAL PERFECTION

BEG BORROW OR STEAL THIS ALBUM < OR JUST STUMP UP THE DOUGH > YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.

BETTER GO I GOT ''PIGS AND ROBOTS RIDING AT MA HEELS''!!