Lost Cause (song)

"Lost Cause"
Single by Beck
from the album Sea Change
Format	Promo Single
Genre	Folk
Label	Geffen Records
Writer(s)	Beck Hansen
Producer	Nigel Godrich
Beck singles chronology
"Nicotine & Gravy" (2000) "Lost Cause" (2002) "Guess I'm Doing Fine" (2002)
Sea Change track listing "The Golden Age" "Paper Tiger" "Guess I'm Doing Fine" "Lonesome Tears" "Lost Cause" "End of the Day" (originally titled "Nothing I Haven't Seen") "It's All in Your Mind" "Round the Bend" "Already Dead" "Sunday Sun" "Little One" "Side of the Road" "Ship in the Bottle" (Japanese version only)

"Lost Cause" is the fifth song by Beck from his fifth major-label studio album, Sea Change. It was released as a promo single.

Music video

Two music videos were made for "Lost Cause", both being directed by Garth Jennings. The original video features an effigy of Beck falling from the sky. It was produced entirely in Adobe Photoshop. The second version just features the band playing the song.

Other appearances

• The song was featured prominently in the Ben Stiller movie, Along Came Polly.
• A version appears on the 2007 compilation album, The Saturday Sessions: The Dermot O'Leary Show
• The song title and album art is also featured on various screenshots of the iPod Touch on the Apple website.
• The song appears in the Scrubs episode, "My New Game".
• Good Charlotte recently posted a downloadable cover on their website.
• Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Chiara Angelicola, AKA Bird Call, released a version on her 'Other Creatures' EP in May 2011.

External links

• "Lost Cause" official music video (original version) on YouTube
• "Lost Cause" official music video (second version) on YouTube