Beck - One foot in Grave: c/d

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Best album of the 90's. It has that guy from Beat Happening.

― Elvis is Dead, Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

absolutely classic for "Hollow Log" and beck's "I Have Seen the Land Beyond" alone. Totally.

― cws (cws), Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Also, I will take this over his other less super-fun-party albums (hard to compare One Foot in the Grave to Odelay, really) like Mutations and Sea Change any day of the week.

― cws (cws), Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago)

i like "forcefield"

― big chaki (chaki), Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:39 (twenty years ago)

He doesn't sound like Kid Rock on this at all. Too bad.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago)

his best, most interesting record.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago)

yes, im pretty much inclined to agree with this as his best album.. the non-us version is even better with the original (and superior) version of 'all in your mind' and 'feather in your cap'. stunner.

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:56 (twenty years ago)

He doesn't sound like Kid Rock on this at all. Too bad.

that review you linked to is my new favorite all-time record review.

dear editors on this board: please find this guy and hire him. thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago)

A drunk uncle playing a three-stringed guitar on the hood of a Trans Am beats Kid Rock any day of the fuckin week!

but I have cool uncles.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Classic. And Stereopathetic Soulmanure too. The '80s officially died when this record was published.

― Anonymous Coward, Friday, 3 September 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago)

Classic, it's the only Beck album I've listend to consistently since its release, all the others seem to have an expiry date of 3 months after purchase.

― tomp (tomp), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:48 (twenty years ago)

Yeah it's my favorite Beck CD too. I got it shortly after its release at a Beck show in SF in '94.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:51 (twenty years ago)

I was stunned when I first heard this album, I couldn't believe the same doofus kid who wrote "Soul Sucking Jerk" could lay down something as righteous as "Hollow Log".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 3 September 2004 12:38 (twenty years ago)

I also think it's one of the best utilizations of that Calvin Johnson/K Records aesthetic/sound.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 3 September 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

XL Recordings are set to re-issue Beck's 1994 album 'One Foot In The Grave' on 1st June. The album, originally released on K Records a few months after his debut 'Mellow Gold,' will be released in a deluxe format and include 13 previously unreleased tracks and will be released on CD, LP and Download.

The full tracklisting for the re-issue is:

He's A Mighty Good Leader
Sleeping Bag
I Get Lonesome
Burnt Orange Peel
Cyanide Breath Mint
See Water
Ziplock Bag
Hollow Log
Forcefield
Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods
Asshole
I've Seen The Land Beyond
Outcome
Girl Dreams
Painted Eyelids
Atmospheric Conditions

Bonus tracks:

It's All In Your Mind (K Records 7")
Whiskey Can Can (K Records 7")
Mattress*
Woe On Me*
Teenage Wastebasket*
Your Love Is Weird*
Favourite Nerve*
Piss On The Door*
Close To God*
Sweet Satan*
Burning Boyfriend*
Black Lake Morning*
Feather In Your Cap (K Records 7")
One Foot In The Grave*
Teenage Wastebasket*
I Get Lonesome*

* previously unreleased

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 23 April 2009 13:14 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

listening to the reissue, its cool

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 22:04 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, my souv from NY.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 22:58 (sixteen years ago)

What's a souv?

― bamcquern, Thursday, 2 July 2009 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.athensguide.com/photos/souvlagyro.jpg

i think it is something you get on hols

― kickstand. kickstand? kickstand! (los blue jeans), Thursday, 2 July 2009 02:37 (sixteen years ago)

it's beck's best album, imo

― Mike Crandle, Financial Analyst, Bear Stearns, New York, NY 10185 (res), Thursday, 2 July 2009 03:11 (sixteen years ago)

beck's best, for sure

― kamerad, Thursday, 2 July 2009 03:48 (sixteen years ago)

definitely, this is the wrong place to be, there's blood on the futon, there's a kid drinking fire

― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 2 July 2009 03:54 (sixteen years ago)

i love this record

― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 2 July 2009 03:54 (sixteen years ago)

"painted eyelids" another favorite

― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 2 July 2009 03:54 (sixteen years ago)

Islands has a really odd cover of "Cyanide Breathmint" on their myspace page.

http://www.myspace.com/islands

― Mike Crandle, Financial Analyst, Bear Stearns, New York, NY 10185 (res), Thursday, 2 July 2009 04:00 (sixteen years ago)

Same era, another favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJzigS8lSpg

― Eazy, Thursday, 2 July 2009 06:23 (sixteen years ago)

For this first edition, after lengthy deliberation and coming close to covering Digital Underground's Sex Packets, all present voted in favor of the 'other' Underground's The Velvet Underground & Nico. Participants included this time around are Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, Brian Lebarton, Bram Inscore, Yo, Giovanni Ribisi, Chris Holmes, and from Iceland, special guest Thorunn Magnusdottir, and myself. Thanks to everyone who helped put this together, and to all of you for indulging in this experiment.

http://www.beck.com/

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 13:27 (sixteen years ago)

coming close to covering Digital Underground's Sex Packets

^^ would have way preferred this

― surm? lol (sic), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:23 (sixteen years ago)

I was about to say, WTF!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:28 (sixteen years ago)

coming close to covering Digital Underground's Sex Packets

yikes serious missed opportunity there

― Apollo C. Vermouth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:36 (sixteen years ago)

Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, Brian Lebarton, Bram Inscore, Yo, Giovanni Ribisi, Chris Holmes

otoh not really interested in what any of these other scientology wankers would do to DU

― Apollo C. Vermouth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:37 (sixteen years ago)

this is all "on the internet" but it looks like godrich and waronker have had diffs w/ beck over x3nu BS in the past, i don't think they're in, dunno about those other dudes, whoever they are (ribisi aside)

― goole, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:40 (sixteen years ago)

Waronker shows up on the new Sia record alongside Meldal-Johnson, Ribisi, Jason Lee etc... maybe clams got 'im

― surm? lol (sic), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 02:43 (sixteen years ago)

Wish Beck could've maintained his Pomo Stupid Hick character for longer.

― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 10:16 (sixteen years ago)

yeh woulda been nice

― Apollo C. Vermouth (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 14:53 (sixteen years ago)

A friend of mine once sang me the lyric "I've got one foot in the grave and the other one's making the peace sign" -- I was convinced for a long time that it was a real Beck lyric and very disappointed to find out it wasn't.

― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 15:14 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

who's the other singer on "outcome?" def not calvin johnson.

also this is on wikipedia: "Under a recently issued court order, K Records is no longer allowed to sell this original version."

― billstevejim, Saturday, 2 March 2013 23:20 (twelve years ago)

Ooh, collector's item.

― your fretless ways (Eazy), Saturday, 2 March 2013 23:23 (twelve years ago)

sam jayne?

― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Saturday, 2 March 2013 23:25 (twelve years ago)

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