Beck - Odelay

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2015

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

With his sophomore effort, Beck quieted the critics and pundits who thought he may be a one trick pony by collaborating with production team the Dust Brothers. Known for their work in sampling, the producers helped Beck combine elements of hip hip, rock, soul, jazz, alternative, and R&B to create a nearly undefinable sound. Bill and Brian do their best to analyze and discuss a very dense piece of art. Along the way, they discuss Beck's originality, exactly which samples are being used and how (but we're still not totally sure), positivity, Andy Wharhol, the strange connection betwen Beck and Hanson, Brian's formative years, and more as we talk about the album's production and each song, track by track!

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0:00.0	Something's wrong because my mind is spreading
0:11.0	And everywhere I look there's a dead and waiting
0:15.0	Temperatures dropping at the rotten oasis
0:19.0	Stealing kisses from the leopard's faces.
0:29.7	Hello, welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bell.
0:32.7	And I'm Brian.
0:33.5	And today we have a guest with us, Jill Herbers.
0:37.0	Hi, Jill.
0:37.4	Hey. Jill is an us, Jill Herbers. Hi, Jill. Hey.
0:38.3	Jill is an author, writer, musician.
0:43.6	All around cultural luminary.
0:46.6	And a longtime listener of the podcast, too. And she's come up a few times.
0:51.7	So the first question we have to ask you, Jill, is did that person with the John Mellencamp
0:59.3	show that, or they followed John Mellencamp?
1:03.6	I was an anonymous person in that, so I'm not sure that it was me or not.
1:07.3	Oh, we didn't say, we didn't say your name on it?
1:10.3	No, no, I definitely said my friend Jill.
1:14.3	Sorry, we're calling you out. We're calling you out. Did that person get a second date?
1:18.9	It's actually fine. Absolutely not. Not for that reason, I'm assuming.
1:23.9	It was really, that conversation and the reason I texted, you know, Brian in particular
1:28.4	at that moment is because Brian and I have had great musical conversations.
1:33.6	And I think that it's just really interesting to be able to kind of say, okay, is this person
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