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April 13, 2009

New Old Beck - "Teenage Wastebasket" (Stereogum Premiere)

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Last week we posted about One Foot In The Grave, Beck's old, satisfyingly straight-up K Records folk album. (At the time of its release, I was one of those people who didn't dig Mellow Gold as much as a tried, but was immediately taken by One Foot, and not just because it included members of Lync.) As we mentioned, the Iliad reissue comes with 16 bonus tracks, including the previously unreleased "Teenage Wastebasket." Hardcore Beck fans have already noted the song was referenced in a SPIN article in July 1994. Well, 15 years later, the brief and playfully bleak tune -- is "her mother is proud to be dead / her dad is breakdancing underneath the bed / she's got lipstick scraleld across her forehead saying 'please destroy me'" -- streaming in a Stereogum post. Take a listen.

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]The One Foot In The Grave reissue is out 4/14 on Beck's Iliad imprint.

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Why does this have an mp3 tag? I'd like to download it, but I can't, it would seem.

Posted by: oh. at 04/13/09 2:40 PM | Reply
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brandon

Sorry about that -- stray MP3 tag. It's a stream. Fixed.

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Paper Werewolf

Like meeting an old friend for the first time.

Posted by: Paper Werewolf profile link at 04/13/09 2:49 PM | Reply
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A Fant TND

I came.

Posted by: A Fant TND profile link at 04/13/09 2:51 PM | Reply
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zombean

yawn

Posted by: zombean profile link at 04/13/09 2:53 PM | Reply
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I forgot that Beck was actually good at one point in his annoying career......I really like this song

Posted by: Lee at 04/13/09 4:30 PM | Reply
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i forgot you were such a fucking idiot o wait no i didnt dumb bitch

Posted by: erikaspanis in reply to Lee's comment at 04/13/09 5:30 PM | Reply
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u tell him ! !

xxx

Posted by: xxx in reply to erikaspanis's comment at 04/13/09 5:35 PM | Reply
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Wow you really like your Beck "erikaspanis".......NERD. The guy is cheesy hack, but that's just the opinion of a "fucking idiot" slash "dumb bitch." Next time "erikaspanis" use your big boy words and maybe you can convey a legitimate argument.....

Posted by: Lee in reply to erikaspanis's comment at 04/13/09 6:39 PM | Reply
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I agree, the guy now makes cheesy, commercial soundtrack ready music, but this album was brilliant.

" erikaspanis's" nice mouth sailor......

Posted by: Tyler in reply to Lee's comment at 04/13/09 6:44 PM | Reply
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Holy smokes! Beck is one of our generations great musical innovators/songwriters. Just by saying that he makes "cheesy, commercial soundtrack ready music" shows that you haven't really given his newer stuff a full listen and are rushing to judgment. Get off your hipster high-horse and listen to his recent material.

Posted by: thewildrumpus in reply to Tyler's comment at 04/14/09 10:31 AM | Reply
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btw the so called hardcore fans would be from http://www.whiskeyclone.net and http://www.stewoo.net/beck/forum/ thanks for the linkage =|

Posted by: Thunderpeel at 04/13/09 6:13 PM | Reply
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brandon

It's hard to know which hardcore fans to link, because it seems like this is common knowledge among 'em, but since you pointed out two, I was able to narrow it down some ... thanks!

Posted by: brandon profile link in reply to Thunderpeel's comment at 04/13/09 6:57 PM | Reply
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Thanks! Usualy when of of us Beck fans find something here we link you guys up also. ;)

Posted by: Thunderpeel in reply to brandon's comment at 04/14/09 1:37 AM | Reply
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much love thunderpeel !

Posted by: Delta at 04/13/09 11:58 PM | Reply
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I I I I I Love Lee Remick, she's a darlin'

Posted by: Clark at 04/14/09 2:12 AM | Reply
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You can buy the album with lossless audio (FLAC or Apple Lossless) from Beck.com with vinyl and even a very limited signed poster: http://awe.sm/4mA

Posted by: ian c rogers profile link at 04/14/09 10:36 AM | Reply
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Apologies, here's the correct direct URL, or you can just go to Beck.com. http://awe.sm/4mH

Posted by: ian c rogers profile link in reply to ian c rogers's comment at 04/14/09 10:43 AM | Reply
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kinny

who the fuck is beck? and why didn't he finish this song?

Posted by: kinny profile link at 04/14/09 11:17 AM | Reply
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My favorite beck record of all time.

Posted by: ian at 04/16/09 6:32 PM | Reply
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