Beck in the Day. Geddit !!! Beck turned up in the middle of the BritPop Feast at round about the time when Chris Evans declared himself the Hipster King of England and things were starting to get questionable and laddish and not like the Sixties at all which we got the sense was the guiding inspiration for it all.
Anyway Odelay came out and King Chris loved it and he was right too. It showed much more invention, humour joie de vivre and sense that there was a big world out there than the average Joes churning out second hand Kinks and Small Faces riffs for a hungry general public seemed willing to acknowledge. It actually used incredibly inventive samples rather than being threatened with court cases by Wire, The Stranglers and err, The Rutles for ripping off their finest moments so brazenly.
Beck has gone from strength to strength since. He has not reformed in 2025 to pay lawyer's fees and churn out a tured back catalogue that seemed dated then. Good luck to him. Beck is still streets ahead and Odelay still a manual to 'Do Different'.
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