Search - Beck :: One Foot in the Grave (Aniv)

What Re-issues should be

Nathan Raabe | milwaukee, wi | 04/14/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I was about 14 when I picked up this album. Odelay was all over MTV at the time. I intended to buy Mellow Gold, but it had the parental advisory sticker on it and I feared that my parents would see it. I ended up having them buy me One foot in the Grave. I put it in and hated it. I was so upset at what I was hearing. This was so far away from what Odelay was. After a few listens, I grew to love it.

I continued to love every album Beck put out until Sea Change. Sea Change through Modern Guilt are missing something that I can't quite put my finger on. There are good songs on these albums, but I couldn't get into them as much.

One Foot in the Grave and Mellow gold are probably my 2 favorite Beck albums. I hope to see a Mellow Gold re-issue

The reissue for One Foot in the Grave is amazing. Hearing brand new songs during my favorite Beck era is a dream come true. I had no idea that there were so many unreleased One foot songs. This is what reissues should be. Songs that we haven't heard before. Many re-issues contain remixes or different takes of songs we know. I enjoy hearing different takes of a song, but remixes get old pretty fast for me.

The new songs are just as memorable as the original songs. I hear there are even more songs, but Beck picked the best of the bunch.

The packaging is nice as well. A few pictures in here that I don't recall being on the original release. There are also printed lyrics that are a great addition.

I highly reccomend this to harcore beck fans as well as casual fans."

THERE HASNT BEEN A CHANGE IN THE ATMOSPHERE....

wally gator | USA | 04/21/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Months ago I was talking up this album to a few peeps who missed it in its first run. One Foot in The Grave by Beck is one of those rare gems of an album that always remains under the radar. I picked up this album on the cheap years ago on LP and expected just another odd ball collection of Beck basement tapes. What I got was a timeless classic of an album, easily in a class of its own compared to the rest of Becks unique and varied catalouge and probably one of my top five favorite albums either from the nineties or amomgst the folk blues giants of old. Brilliant lo fi blues and folk, this is his talent in its rawest and purest form, free from the synth, broken game boy, drum machine vibes that swarm all of his other titles (even the other folk albums like Sea Change or Mutations cant match the atmosphere on this bit).



One Foot has been out of print for some time, leaving it only for the memories of us kids who were fortunate enough to find it accidently sometime in our high school haze... now its back. Twice as stuffed and just as good. The original sixteen tracks have been expanded to thirty-two, and the bonus cuts are just as rewarding as the originals, including a few coffee shop cut takes of songs that would be found on later albums. Its ccol to see that Beck still has this style in him. While I've always enjoyed the frenetic space race beats, and manic feel of the production on other Beck materials this album manages to bring all that feel to the table with nothing but soft twangs, sideways harmony, and bizarre yet poignant commentary of the world as he see it. It never finds itself ever disjointed like his other underground discs, song for song its a flawless portrait. I say this one still remains his all time best. Get it now while its still visible."

Classic 90s Oly Folk Rock..

J. Ball | Seattle, WA USA | 05/24/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I am a huge Beck fan and a fan of the Olympia, WA music scene, so for me this is a must-own album. Of course I've owned it since its initial release, so really I was buying this for the new tracks. They are great and fit well with the rest of the album, which I always felt was too short anyway."