{"product_id":"lp-beck-mellow-gold","title":"LP - Beck - Mellow Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003e1 LP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Acid casualty with a repossessed car,\" croaks Beck Hansen. \"Vietnam vet playin' air guitar...\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOdelay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e would later herald Beck as pre-Millennial jester without compare, but 1993's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMellow Gold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e finds Beck slumming in The City of Angels, working in a video store for four dollars an hour. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuite rightly, he's got the blues, but there's plenty more besides. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMellow Gold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a grimy Polaroid of fried white-trash invention. Reconciling the painfully fashionable grunge aesthetic with the drunken verbiage of the Beat Generation, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMellow Gold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e founded the slacker generation, and \"Loser\"--the opening track--became its unofficial anthem. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA concept album of sorts, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMellow Gold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e narrated the backdrop of Los Angeles as seen from the bottom of the dustbin, framed with the impoverished strains of fractured, missing-stringed folk and ramshackle white-boy hip-hop. Time would prove, though, that Beck was no slacker; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMellow Gold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e provided the scrawled blueprint for Beck's next major label album, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOdelay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which would prove one of the defining albums of the 1990s. --\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLouis Pattison\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Encore Records Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47261133635838,"sku":null,"price":34.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1546\/6351\/files\/712s-nGzzaL._AC_SL1400.jpg?v=1757356790","url":"https:\/\/encorerecords.ca\/products\/lp-beck-mellow-gold","provider":"Encore Records Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}