Beck's Beautiful Blues: 10 Years of 'Sea Change'

September 25, 2012 – It was far more our doing than his, but in 2002 whether or not Beck "meant it" still felt like a fair question. His first hit, and still the song of his that a casual music fan is most likely to know, was 1993's "Loser" — pretty much the ne plus ultra of musical slackerdom. The LP from which "Loser" shrugged forth, the "ironically" titled Mellow Gold, closed on a drifting, seven-minute dirge called "Blackhole." I had to look that up. …
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