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Odelay is a 1996 album by alternative rock artist Beck. After the mainstream success of "Loser", Odelay included several new hit singles, including "Where It's At", "Devils Haircut" and "The New Pollution", which expanded his audience considerably. The album peaked at #16 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart and eventually sold over 2 million copies in the US. It was also Beck's first hit album in the UK, making #17.

The album's unusual cover photo, which appears to show a mop jumping over a hurdle, is actually a real photo of a Komondor, a rare Hungarian breed of dog with thick matted hair.

Odelay might have been drastically different in direction and style. In 1994, when Beck started to record tracks for his follow-up to Mellow Gold, he recorded a number of songs with Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf of Bong Load, but then decided to work with the Dust Brothers instead. Three songs from these Bong Load sessions have been released: one, "Ramshackle", on Odelay, and two others: "Feather In Your Cap", which was released on its own as a single and on the soundtrack to Suburbia, and "Brother", which was not available to the public until the release of "Jackass" in 1997. All three of these songs are acoustic, sparse, and melancholy, and have a haunting sound very different to the party vibes of the Dust Brothers' Odelay.

The name Odelay was inadvertently invented by a sound engineer who was working on the album. He misheard the Mexican slang phrase "órale" in one of the songs as "Odelay" and transcribed it as such. Beck liked the name, and used it.

Odelay won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1997. It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Odelay the 51st greatest album of all time. Template:RS500 Voters in Channel 4's 2005 "100 Greatest Albums" poll placed it at number 73. The influential indie website Pitchfork Media ranked it at #17 on their top 100 albums of the 1990's.

In 2006, Odelay will be released as a two-disc Deluxe edition set as part of Universal Records' Deluxe series and in recognition of the album's tenth anniversary. The set will include b-sides, international tracks, remixes and the song "Deadweight" from the 1997 movie A Life Less Ordinary. link

Track listing

All songs written by Beck, John King and Michael Simpson, except where noted. All tracks produced by Beck Hansen and The Dust Brothers, except where noted.

  1. "Devil's Haircut" – 3:13
  2. "Hotwax" – 3:49
  3. "Lord Only Knows" (Beck Hansen) – 4:14
  4. "The New Pollution" – 3:40
  5. "Derelict" – 4:13
  6. "Novacane" – 4:38
  7. "Jack-Ass" – 4:01
  8. "Where It's At" – 5:30
  9. "Minus" (Beck Hansen) – 2:31
    • Produced by Beck Hansen, Mario Caldato Jr. and Brian Paulson.
  10. "Sissyneck" – 3:53
  11. "Readymade" – 2:37
  12. "High 5 (Rock the Catskills)" – 4:10
  13. "Ramshackle" (Beck Hansen) – 7:30
    • Produced by Tom Rothrock and Tom Schnapf.
    • Includes a hidden track of electronic music
    • Some non-U.S. versions contain "Diskobox" and/or "Clock" as bonus tracks.

Samples

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Personnel

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