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Beck - One Foot in the Grave Audio CD

A fair review of the Beck "One Foot in the Grave" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Beck reviews here, or go back to the Beck tabs.

Beck Band: Beck
Title: One Foot in the Grave
Rating:
Release Date: 2009-04-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: He's a Mighty Good Leader 2: Sleeping Bag 3: I Get Lonesome 4: Burnt Orange Peel 5: Cyanide Breath Mint 6: See Water 7: Ziplock Bag 8: Hollow Log 9: Forcefield 10: Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods 11: Asshole 12: I've Seen the Land Beyond 13: Outcome 14: Girl Dreams 15: Painted Eyelids 16: Atmospheric Conditions 17: It's All in Your Mind [#] 18: Whiskey Can Can [#] 19: Mattress [#] 20: Woe on Me [#] 21: Teenage Wastebasket [#] 22: Your Love Is Weird [#] 23: Favorite Nerve [#] 24: Piss on the Door [#] 25: Close to God [#] 26: Sweet Satan [#] 27: Burning Boyfriend [#] 28: Black Lake Morning [#] 29: Feather in Your Cap [#] 30: One Foot in the Grave [#] 31: Teenage Wastebasket [#] 32: I Get Lonesome [#]

If you like Mutations and Sea Change, well, there is no guarantee that you will like this.
After buying and listening to this one, I am not under that impression any longer. I thought I would probably find something on all of Beck's albumns that I would like. I didn't like a single one of these tunes enough to keep it in my collection. Do yourself a favor and be sure to listen to the samples before you buy this one.


Oh yeahhhh

This shows Beck's raw beauty. Well i have to say that Beck is just the greatest! This has the original album plus so many unreleased songs! They're all fantastic. Really. Just buy it, if you're reading this, you just need to buy it. Do it already!.


Classic 90s Oly Folk Rock..
Of course I've owned it since its initial release, so really I was buying this for the new tracks. I am a huge Beck fan and a fan of the Olympia, WA music scene, so for me this is a must-own album. They are great and fit well with the rest of the album, which I always felt was too short anyway.


THERE HASNT BEEN A CHANGE IN THE ATMOSPHERE....
One Foot in The Grave by Beck is one of those rare gems of an album that always remains under the radar. Months ago I was talking up this album to a few peeps who missed it in its first run. I picked up this album on the cheap years ago on LP and expected just another odd ball collection of Beck basement tapes. What I got was a timeless classic of an album, easily in a class of its own compared to the rest of Becks unique and varied catalouge and probably one of my top five favorite albums either from the nineties or amomgst the folk blues giants of old. Brilliant lo fi blues and folk, this is his talent in its rawest and purest form, free from the synth, broken game boy, drum machine vibes that swarm all of his other titles (even the other folk albums like Sea Change or Mutations cant match the atmosphere on this bit).

One Foot has been out of print for some time, leaving it only for the memories of us kids who were fortunate enough to find it accidently sometime in our high school haze. . . now its back. Twice as stuffed and just as good. The original sixteen tracks have been expanded to thirty-two, and the bonus cuts are just as rewarding as the originals, including a few coffee shop cut takes of songs that would be found on later albums. Its ccol to see that Beck still has this style in him. While I've always enjoyed the frenetic space race beats, and manic feel of the production on other Beck materials this album manages to bring all that feel to the table with nothing but soft twangs, sideways harmony, and bizarre yet poignant commentary of the world as he see it. It never finds itself ever disjointed like his other underground discs, song for song its a flawless portrait. I say this one still remains his all time best. Get it now while its still visible.


Expanded Fun
If you are familiar with this CD you know all about its stripped down charms and humor. 4 and a half stars. Sparse arrangements and Becks voice coupled with just a guitar and a little percussion. Its is amazing how even in its barest form Becks lyrics remain funny and interesting.
This edition comes as a cardboard digipak with a great inside gatefold of additonal pictures. I loved the original so I was glad that was not changed. Of the bonus tracks Teenage Wastebasket is hilarious, there is Feather in your cap in a different version than on Stray Blues and the Odelay Deluxe. And you also get a 'demo' of Its all in your mind which wound up in a different form on Sea Change. Here in its rawest form it is still affecting. Plus a 'studio' version of One Foot In the Grave which is different than the 'live' on stage version that can be found on Stereopathetic Soulmanure. Overall the bonus tracks expand the variety of the songs from the original CD without changing all of its low-fi charm.


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