Golden Feelings
| Golden Feelings | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1993 | |||
| Recorded | 1992 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 42:35 | |||
| Label | Sonic Enemy | |||
| Producer | Beck Hansen | |||
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Golden Feelings is the debut studio album by American musician Beck, released in 1993 by Sonic Enemy. The album showcases his roots in the anti-folk scene. Initially available only in limited quantities on cassette, Sonic Enemy remastered the album and re-released it on CD in 1999.[1][2] Beck was upset that they did so without his permission, and after he made his displeasure known, Sonic Enemy ceased to press any more copies.[3] Only 2,000 were made, causing the CD to become quite valuable.[4]
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [6] |
AllMusic described the album as "an extremely interesting, entertaining, and humorous document that proves that from the start Beck had his heart set on making experimentation his only gimmick."[5]
UDiscoverMusic wrote that the album had varisped vocals and backward tapes, that "battle with cut-and-pasted audio scraps, weird, dissonant effects and deranged screams, in an oddly involving and darkly humorous excursion to Dystopia". They also wrote that Golden Feelings was anarchic and "sometimes not entirely listenable", but that "the contents of that lowest of lo-fi cassettes were nonetheless compelling".[7]
Track listing
All songs written by Beck.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Fucked Up Blues" | 2:11 |
| 2. | "Special People" | 1:42 |
| 3. | "Magic Stationwagon" | 1:36 |
| 4. | "No Money No Honey" | 2:35 |
| 5. | "Trouble All My Days" | 2:07 |
| 6. | "Bad Energy" | 1:39 |
| 7. | "Schmoozer" | 2:38 |
| 8. | "Heartland Feeling" | 7:11 |
| 9. | "Super Golden Black Sunchild" | 2:11 |
| 10. | "Soul Sucked Dry" | 1:49 |
| 11. | "Feelings" | 1:35 |
| 12. | "Gettin' Home" | 4:14 |
| 13. | "Will I Be Ignored by the Lord" | 1:59 |
| 14. | "Bogus Soul" | 1:15 |
| 15. | "Totally Confused" | 2:00 |
| 16. | "Mutherfukka" | 2:44 |
| 17. | "People Gettin Busy" | 3:09 |
References
- ^ Bauer, Brian (2008-11-24). "Beck: This one will test ya!, golden feelings, ebay". En.allexperts.com. Archived from the original on 2003-05-01. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; 2012-05-23 suggested (help) - ^ "Beck – Golden Feelings (1999, CD) - Discogs". discogs.com.
- ^ "The Winds of Change". SonicEnemy.com. Archived from the original on 2000-09-18. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
- ^ "Disco Quebrado - Beck Discography - Golden Feelings". Whiskeyclone.net. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
- ^ a b Matt Fink. "Beck Golden Feelings". AllMusic.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
- ^ "Beck: Golden Feelings - Behind the Albums | uDiscoverMusic". 25 June 2015.
External links
- Golden Feelings at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
- Discogs entry
