Odelay | 
| Manufacturer: Geffen
Buy New: $9.49
Rating:  182 reviews
Sales Rank: 4107
Genre: dance-pop-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 0 Minutes
ASIN: B000XNXM3Q
Publication Date: August 10, 2004
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 Happiness Is A Wacky Beck CD July 1, 2003
A. Bubul (PA)
49 out of 50 found this review helpful
Whoa, what a disc. This cd is just great all around. Every track is very, very unique, and several are remarkable. The hits (New Pollution, Devil's Haircut, Where It's At) are all good, but the real treasures are some of the lesser known songs on here. Hotwax is a weird, funk-inflected groove that will really catch your attention. Minus is a quick rocker that is also eye-widening, and Ramshackle is a long, bizarre ballad that is equally interesting. Beck's ingenuity was displayed on a minor scale before Odelay, and after this critically acclaimed award-winner, he's been a household name. Beck's fame is condign, and he is a good example of an artist that hasn't sold out. He sticks to what he does best. And that is writing outlandish songs that coalesce all genres into one fun, blurring album. Odelay could be an album for a party, for reading, for crying, for screaming, for laughing, you name it. It's so flexible and at the same time rigid enough to evoke passion and meaning each time you listen to it. I could go on and on about Beck and his masterful song-writing, but if you kept reading, it would detract from the most valuable time that would be better spent listening to the album. So do yourself a favor and pick this up if you don't have it. It will be a treat and a half.
 I Just Don't Get It, Do I? October 14, 2005
P. Morand (Knoxville, TN United States)
17 out of 56 found this review helpful
After hearing and reading the critical ravings from the four corners of the earth praising this album, I desperately wanted to like it. I listened...and listened...and I just can't hear what a large majority of listeners seem to hear. This sounds like cleverly constructed collages of noise instead of actual songs. Perhaps the aural equivalent of carelessly flung blobs of paint on a tilted canvass and then passed off as abstract art. This evidently appeals to quite a few folks out there. As for me, I find the whole thing rather unfortunate.
THE BEST BECK ALBUM TO DATE!!! September 30, 1999
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
I really have not been a Beck fan for very long. The first Beck album I bought was "Odelay", which was about a year ago. The only reason I bought it at the time was because "Where It's At" and "Devil's Haircut" were on it. But after I listened to the entire CD, I could not keep it out of my stereo. I heard what is now my favorite Beck song to date, "Hotwax". I thought that this was a fluke, I mean how many songwriters can have an album with all awesome songs? To test my theory, I went out and bought "Mutations". Once again, Beck outdid himself, with great numbers, like "Lazy Flies", "Cold Brains", "We Live Again" and "O Maria". All right, he's good, but nobody's perfect. The very next day, I bought "Mellow Gold" which, of course, had "Loser". Every song, completely addictive, especially "Snoozer", "Beercan", "Nitemare Hippy Girl" and "Soul Suckin' Jerk." "Odelay" got me rolling on the Beck Bandwagon. I searched, and finally found "One Foot In The Grave" which ranks all the way up with his other awesome albums. I am in the process of receiving "Stereopathetic Soul Manure" which I ordered from amazon.com. I am also anxiously awaiting the release of his newest album, "Midnite Vultures". Beck is one of the most original, raw and taleted artists of our time. He's so amazing because he doesn't just stick to one genre of music. I mean, he made country music sound HIP for Pete's sake. His lyrics cannot be turned into negative influences, because no one knows what to make of them. In a time of "gangsta" rap, telling kids to do drugs and shoot people, Beck gives music listeners what music listeners really want: good music, with none of the hassle. We're just able to sit back and listen to someone who's writing music for music's sake.Signed, Beck's biggest fan
 I'm a broken record. I have bubblegum in my brain. July 10, 2005
Johnny Heering (Bethel, CT United States)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Well, what can you say about this album? It is possibly the quintessential Beck album. Typically strange lyrics, with imaginative instrumentation and samples. Mellow Gold had his biggest hit, "Loser", but this album is more cohesive than that one. If you want to experience Beck, this would be a good album to start with.
yeah!! July 14, 1998
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
Here it is. The album that caused so many critics to pack up their bags and call it a decade. They'd found the album of the 90s (Nirvana-who?). And what more could we ask for in the 90s? Genre-destroying Beck has broken the rules and the categories to give us pure music, no, pure sound! The high-points (and there are many) don't rely on songwriting or musical ability, for the endless samples combine with Beck's many instrumentsto create pseudo-melodies and harmonies with Beck's oddball lyrics on top. The meaningless doggerel only slightly brings the album down, but we can all go listen to Dylan on our own time. This is Beck's time. He is the master of his domain. With the Dust Brothers he creates a completely different type of pleasure. The music sounds like it could self-destruct at any moment, but it just keeps on coming. You listen, and suddenly you're colliding through peeling layers of sonic texture, and loving it. Beck's fatal flaw, however, is that hi! ! s musical scope is so broad that it is hard to like all of his songs. Not everyone can be expected to like so many styles of music. Beck shines when he makes it his own style. Beck is the man. He is our leader.
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