Odelay

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Odelay
Beck's studio album

Publication
(s)

June 18, 1996

Label (s) Geffen Records

Format (s)

LP , CD , MC

Genre (s)

Alternative rock , hip-hop , lo-fi

Title (number)

13

running time

54:13

occupation

production

Beck , The Dust Brothers , Mario Caldato, Jr., Brian Paulson, Tom Rothrock, Rob Schnapf, Jon Spencer

Studio (s)

chronology
Mellow Gold
(1994) 		Odelay Mutations
(1998)
Single releases
July 11, 1996 Where It's At
December 11, 1996 Devils haircut
February 28, 1997 The New Pollution
June 17, 1997 Sissyneck
August 1997 Jack ace

Odelay is the second studio album by American rock musician Beck . It was released in June 1996 by DGC ( Geffen Records ) and the indie label Bong Load Records. Odelay is considered the defining album of alternative music of the 1990s and has received two Grammy Awards , including Best Alternative Album .

background

Odelay was recorded in several studios in the Los Angeles area in 1994/95 . Beck played most of the instruments himself, but was supported by guest musicians like Charlie Haden on the double bass. Beck was also involved in the production , mixing and art direction of the album.

Odelay is Beck's second regular studio album to be released by a major label . In 1993 he signed a contract with Geffen Records , in 1994 the debut album Mellow Gold was released with the acclaimed hit Loser . In the same year, the two albums Stereopathetic Soulmanure and One Foot in the Grave were released again on indie labels .

The meaning of the title "Odelay" is ambiguous. On the one hand, it can be based on the Spanish exclamation Órale (“Los!”), But it can also be understood as oh delay (“delay”), since the album was in production for two years.

On Odelay Beck combined contemporary rock music with elements of hip hop such as rap , sampling and turntablism . He drew influences and samples from styles such as blues , folk , Americana , psychedelia , country , funk , jazz , electronica , classical and Latin American music .

Track list

With the exception of the marked exceptions, all songs were written by Beck Hansen , John King and Michael Simpson .

  1. Devil's Haircut - 3:14
  2. Hotwax - 3:49
  3. Lord Only Knows (Beck Hansen) - 4:14
  4. The New Pollution - 3:39
  5. Derelict - 4:12
  6. Novacane - 4:37
  7. Jack Ace - 4:11
  8. Where It's At - 5:30
  9. Minus (Beck Hansen) - 2:32
  10. Sissyneck - 3:52
  11. Readymade - 2:37
  12. High 5 (Rock the Catskills) - 4:10
  13. Ramshackle 1 (Beck Hansen) - 7:29
1Contains the hidden track Computer Rock

Except for Minus (Beck Hansen, Mario Caldato Jr., Brian Paulson) and Ramshackle (Tom Rothrock, Rob Schnapf), all songs were produced by Beck and The Dust Brothers (King and Simpson).

Samples

The album contains numerous samples from different musical genres.

Devil's haircut

  • I Can Only Give You Everything - Them (Re-recorded)
  • Out of Sight - Them
  • Soul Drums - Pretty Purdie
  • Climax One - Z

Hotwax

Lord Only Knows

  • Lookout for Lucy - Mike Millius
  • Then It Comes - Edgar Winter

The New Pollution

  • Venus - Joe Thomas
  • Hallelujah, Alright, Amen - Gus Poole

Derelict

  • Get Up and Dance - Freedom
  • I Just Want to Celebrate - Rare Earth

Novacane

  • Don't Push It Don't Force It - Leon Haywood
  • Poème Non-Epique N ° III - Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes
  • (Don't Want No) Woman - Lee Michaels
  • Get Up and Dance - Freedom

Jack ace

Where It's At

  • Sex for Teens (Where It's At) - Dr. Stanley Z. Daniels
  • Needle to the Groove - Mantronix
  • I Don't Care If U Disrespect Me (Just So You Love Me) - The Frogs
  • Military Scratch - Scratch Mix - Grand Wizard Theodore
  • Get Out of My Life, Woman - Lee Dorsey

Sissyneck

Readymade

High 5 (Rock the Catskills)

Deluxe Edition

On January 28th, 2008 Geffen Records and Universal released an extended edition of Odelay on 2 CDs and 4 LPs , which includes the original album and three previously unreleased tracks, B-sides and remixes . The Deluxe Edition has a running time of 135 minutes.

Additional tracks from the Deluxe Edition

  1. Deadweight - 6:12
  2. Inferno - 7:03
  3. Gold Chains - 4:59
  4. Where It's At ( UNKLE remix) - 12:26
  5. Richard's Hairpiece (remix by Aphex Twin ) - 3:19
  6. American Wasteland (remix by Mickey P.) - 2:42
  7. Clock - 3:17
  8. Thunder Peel - 2:40
  9. Electric Music and the Summer People - 4:38
  10. Lemonade - 2:21
  11. SA-5 - 1:53
  12. Feather in Your Cap - 3:46
  13. Erase the Sun - 2:56
  14. 000,000 - 5:25
  15. Brother - 4:47
  16. Devil Got My Woman - 4:34
  17. Trouble All My Days - 2:25
  18. Strange Invitation - 4:06
  19. Burro - 3:13

reception

source rating
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
Pitchfork Media
Spin
Music Express

With Odelay Beck won two Grammys in the categories Best Alternative Music Album and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for Where It's At . Odelay was also nominated for Album of the Year .

The album is ranked 306 in the list of 500 best albums of all time the music magazine Rolling Stone . In addition, Odelay magazine ranked 9th in the top 100 albums of the 1990s.

The New Musical Express ranks it 371 out of the 500 best albums of all time.

In the selection of the 100 best albums of the decade from Pitchfork Media has Odelay place 19th

Spin magazine chose it as number 4 in their compilation of the 90 best albums of the 1990s.

The album was included in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die .

The German magazine Musikexpress named Odelay album of the year 1996.

“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. "

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine

"Deeper and more empathetic than Mellow Gold is distinguished Odelay by influences and samples from all possible directions, from country to hip hop, from. A great album to let yourself go. "

- Michael Andrews

“With Odelay he mixed all these different ideas into a pulsating whole. Beck teamed up with the Dust Brothers, the producers of the vibrating roar in Paul's Boutique of the Beastie Boys were responsible. It was an inspiring combination: The first track, Devil's Haircut , contains a James Brown sample, fat riffs, excellent beats and a loud collage of sonic tricks and spleens. The New Pollution starts very relaxed before it picks up on the rhythms of Taxman the Beatles . Where It's At is a funky hip hop track. Jack-Ass is a rattling country ballad based on the sublime themed cover version of Bob Dylan's song It's All Over Now, Baby Blue . Confusingly versatile, Odelay is the sound of a young outsider who has fun and goes his own way. "

- Craig McLean

“Illustrious producers ensured that this hodgepodge of styles, instruments and ideas from the unstoppable hobbyist Beck could actually take on a final form and thus be published. Also present: Tom Rothrock, Rob Schnapf from the US label Bongload Records and The Dust Brothers, who were responsible for works by Young MC , Tone Loc and the Beastie Boys, among others . The bottom line was a great album, a music-historical biography that looks back, but anticipates upcoming nuances of pop music through the carefree negation of all genre boundaries. Back to the future, Beck Hansen! "

- Cloat Gerold

The album has sold over 3 million copies worldwide and achieved platinum status in the US and UK.

Websites

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schmidt-Joos, Siegfried / Kampmann, Wolf (eds.): Rock-Lexikon 1, 2nd edition, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Hamburg 2009, p. 154.
  2. ↑ Definition: Odelay on urbandictionary.com (accessed January 7, 2018)
  3. ↑ Beck: Sample overview on whosampled.com (accessed January 7, 2018)
  4. ↑ a b Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine on allmusic.com (accessed January 7, 2018)
  5. ↑ Review by Mark Kemp on rollingstone.com (accessed January 7, 2018)
  6. ↑ Review by Ryan Schreiber on pitchforkmedia.com (archived) (accessed January 7, 2018)
  7. ↑ Review by Chris Morris, in: Spin 7/1996, p. 87.
  8. ↑ a b Review by Cloat Gerold on musikexpress.de (accessed on January 7, 2018)
  9. ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time on rollingstone.com (accessed January 7, 2018)
  10. ↑ 100 Best Albums of the '90s on rollingstone.com (accessed January 7, 2018)
  11. ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 400-301 at nme.com (accessed January 7, 2018)
  12. ↑ Top 100 Albums of the 1990s on pitchfork.com (accessed January 7, 2018)
  13. ↑ SPIN Magazine's Top 90 albums of the 90's on rateyourmusic.com (accessed January 7, 2018)
  14. ^ Buckley, Peter (ed.): Rock Rough Guide, 2nd edition, Verlag JB Metzler Stuttgart / Weimar 2004, p. 56.
  15. ↑ Dimery, Robert (ed.): 1001 albums - music you should hear before life is over, 8th edition, Edition Olms Zurich 2015, p. 776.