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All Songs Considered

The golden age of slacker rock

All Songs Considered

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Music

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Thirty years after the release of Beck's "Loser," we look back at its impact on the rise of slacker rock and how we still hear its influence today.

Note: This episode originally ran on Feb. 27, 2024.

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0:00.0

A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.0

Well, dig out your case logic, CD binders, get your baggy worn out t-shirt and rip jeans on,

0:11.2

your trench coat with the oversized shoulder pads

0:15.0

sewn in.

0:17.0

And flop back in that nasty old recliner,

0:19.5

you and your roommate picked up

0:21.0

after someone left it on the street because maybe the most

0:25.2

inescapable song of 1994 loser by Beck it is 30 years old it was the opening

0:30.4

track to the album Melogold that came out on March 1st of 1994, absolute

0:35.3

watershed year for Beck.

0:37.1

But also for what I think you could call the Golden Age of Slacker Rock.

0:40.9

So on this episode of all songs considered, we're going to look back at 1994 why it was such a

0:45.4

pivotal year what was so special about it its impact on popular music and how we're

0:50.1

still hearing that impact today. In the time I'm two pansies, I was a monkey.

0:55.0

Butane in my veins, a mouth to cut the chuggy with the plastic eye balls.

0:59.0

Spray paint the vegetables,

1:01.0

stog food skulls,

1:02.0

with the beef cake panios.

1:04.0

Kill the headlights and put it in neutral.

1:06.0

Stock car flaming with a loser in the cruise control.

1:09.0

Babysen Reno with the vitamin D.

1:11.0

Got a couple of couchesches sleep on the love seat so it

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