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1993 single past Beck

1993 unmarried past Beck

"Loser"
Beck Loser.jpg
Single by Brook
from the album Mellow Gold
Released
  • March 8, 1993
  • February 4, 1994 (re-release)
Recorded 1992
Genre
  • Culling rock[ane]
  • hip hop[two]
Label
  • Bong Load Custom
  • DGC (re-release)
Songwriter(s)
  • Beck
  • Carl Stephenson
Producer(s)
  • Beck
  • Carl Stephenson
  • Tom Rothrock
Beck singles chronology
"MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack"
(1993) 		"Loser"
(1993) 		"Pay No Mind (Snoozer)"
(1994)
Music video
"Loser" on YouTube

"Loser" is a unmarried past American musician Beck. Information technology was written by Beck and tape producer Carl Stephenson, who both produced the song with Tom Rothrock. "Loser" was initially released as Beck'due south 2d unmarried past independent record label Bong Load Custom Records on 12-inch vinyl format with catalogue number BL5 on March 8, 1993.

When information technology was kickoff released independently, "Loser" began receiving airplay on various modern rock stations, and the song's popularity eventually led to a major-label tape deal with Geffen Records-subsidiary DGC Records. Later on the song's re-release nether DGC, the song peaked at number ten on the United states Billboard Hot 100 in Apr 1994, becoming Brook's first unmarried to hit a major chart. The song performed well internationally, reaching number one in Norway and the meridian x in Commonwealth of australia, Republic of austria, Canada, Republic of iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. The song was later released on the 1994 anthology Mellow Gilded.

Conception and recording [edit]

In the tardily 1980s and early on 1990s, Beck was a homeless musician in the New York Metropolis anti-folk scene. He returned to his hometown of Los Angeles in early 1991, due to his financial struggles.[3] Described by biographer Julian Palacios every bit having "no opportunities whatsoever", Beck worked low-wage jobs to survive, but notwithstanding found time to perform his songs at local coffeehouses and clubs.[4] In order to keep indifferent audiences engaged in his music, Beck would play in a spontaneous, joking manner.[v] "I'd exist banging away on a Son House tune and the whole audience would be talking, then maybe out of desperation or boredom, or the audience's boredom, I'd make up these ridiculous songs only to see if people were listening. 'Loser' was an extension of that."[half-dozen] Tom Rothrock, co-possessor of independent tape label Bong Load, expressed interest in Brook's music and introduced him to Carl Stephenson, a tape producer for Rap-A-Lot Records.[vii]

"Loser" was written and recorded by Beck while he was visiting Stephenson'south home.[eight] Although the song was created spontaneously, Brook has claimed to have had the idea for the song since the late 1980s; he once said, "I don't think I would have been able to get in and do 'Loser' in a six-hour shot without having been somewhat prepared. It was accidental, but information technology was something that I'd been working toward for a long time."[9] Beck played some of his songs for Stephenson; Stephenson enjoyed the songs, but was unimpressed by Beck's rapping. Stephenson recorded a brief guitar part from one of Beck's songs onto an 8-track, looped it, and added a drum track to it.[8] Stephenson then added his ain sitar playing and other samples.[x] At that point, Brook began writing and improvising lyrics for the recording.[viii] For the song's vocals, Beck attempted to emulate the rapping manner of Public Enemy'southward Chuck D.[ten] According to Beck, the line that became the song'due south chorus originated because "When [Stephenson] played information technology back, I idea, 'Man, I'1000 the worst rapper in the world, I'thou but a loser.' So I started singing 'I'm a loser baby, and then why don't you kill me.'"[11] According to Rothrock, the song was largely finished in half-dozen and a half hours, with ii minor overdubs several months after.[12]

Limerick and lyrics [edit]

Beck best-selling the bear on of folk on the song, maxim "I'd realized that a lot of what folk music is about taking a tradition and reflecting your ain time. I knew my folk music would take off, if I put hip-hop beats behind it."[xiii] He had as well perceived similarities between Delta blues and hip hop, which helped to inspire the vocal.[x] The A.V. Club's Annie Zaleski opines that the vocal imitates abstract hip hop,[14] while James Reed from The Boston Globe called it an culling rock anthem,[1] and Veronica Chambers for Vibe magazine described the vocal as a "folk-based hip hop song."[ii] "Loser" revolves around several recurring musical elements: a slide guitar riff, Stephenson'southward sitar, the bassline, and a tremolo guitar role.[15] The vocal's drum track is sampled from a Johnny Jenkins cover of Dr. John's "I Walk on Golden Splinters" from the 1970 album Ton-Ton Macoute!.[xvi] During the song's break, there is a sample of a line of dialogue from the 1994 Steve Hanft-directed motion-picture show Kill the Moonlight, which goes "I'one thousand a driver/I'grand a winner/Things are gonna alter, I can feel it".[10] Hanft and Brook were friends, and Hanft would go on to directly several music videos for Beck, including the video for "Loser".

Referred to as a "stoner rap" by AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine,[17] the lyrics are mostly nonsensical.[18] The song's chorus, in which Beck sings the lines "Soy united nations perdedor/I'1000 a loser infant, and so why don't you kill me?", is often interpreted as a parody of Generation X'due south "slacker" culture.[nineteen] Brook has denied the validity of this pregnant, instead saying that the chorus is simply near his lack of skill as a rapper.[20] Jon Pareles wrote in The New York Times that "The sentiment of 'Loser' [...] reflects the twentysomething trademark, a mixture of self-mockery and sardonic disobedience", noting Beck's "offhand vocal tone and gratis-associative lyrics" and comparing his vocals to "Bob Dylan talk-singing".[21] After its recording, Beck thought that the vocal was interesting merely unimpressive. He later said, "The raps and vocals are all first takes. If I'd known the bear upon it was going to make, I would have put something a niggling more than substantial in information technology."[x] The relationship between Brook and Stephenson soured after the release of "Loser" as a unmarried. Stephenson regretted his involvement in creating the song, in item the "negative" lyrics, saying "I experience bad about it. Information technology's non Beck the person, it's the words. I just wish I could have been more of a positive influence."[22]

Release and reception [edit]

"Loser" was first released in March 1993 every bit a 12-inch vinyl single on Bong Load, with just 500 copies pressed.[23] Beck felt that "Loser" was mediocre, and only agreed to its release at Rothrock'due south insistence.[24] "Loser" unexpectedly received radio airplay, starting in Los Angeles, where college radio station KXLU was the first to play information technology, followed by modern rock station KROQ-FM.[25] The vocal then spread to Seattle through KNDD, and KROQ-FM began playing the vocal on an almost hourly footing. By the time stations in New York were requesting copies of "Loser", Bong Load had already run out.[23] Beck was soon beset with offers to sign with major labels.[26] Convinced that the vocal was a potential hit, Rothrock gave a vinyl pressing of the unmarried to his friend Tony Berg, who had been working in the A&R section for Geffen Records. Berg said, "I just lost my listen when I heard it. He left my office, and I swear, past the time he got home, I had left a message asking him to innovate me to [Brook]".[x] Brook, in spite of his hesitance to be on any major label, signed with Geffen subsidiary DGC. He explained, "I wasn't going to do anything for a long time, but Bell Load didn't have the means to make as many copies as people wanted. Geffen were involved and they wanted to make it to more of an organized identify, one with a bigger budget and better distribution."[27]

In January 1994, DGC reissued "Loser" on CD and cassette, and Geffen began heavily promoting the single.[26] Bong Load, having retained the rights to release Beck's songs on vinyl due to the nature of Beck's contract with DGC, re-pressed the 12-inch single in larger quantities than before.[26] "Loser" rapidly ascended the charts in the United states of america, reaching a peak of number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles nautical chart and topping the Modern Rock Tracks nautical chart.[28] [29] It was certified gold past the RIAA and sold 600,000 copies domestically.[30] [31] The vocal as well charted in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and throughout Europe. "Loser"'due south worldwide success shot Beck into a position of attending, and the media dubbed him the center of the new so-called "slacker" motility.[32] Beck refuted this characterization of himself, saying, "Slacker my ass. I never had whatsoever slack. I was working a $4-an-hour job trying to stay alive. That slacker stuff is for people who have the time to be depressed near everything."[33]

The single ranked first identify in the 1994 Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[34] In 2004, this song was ranked number 203 in Rolling Stone'due south The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[35] In September 2010 Pitchfork Media included the vocal at number 9 on their Top 200 Tracks of the 90s.[36] In 2007 Vh1 ranked the song 22 on their listing of the "100 greatest songs of the 90'south".

In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau gave the unmarried CD a 1-star honorable mention ( (1-star Honorable Mention) ), picked out two songs, "Fume" and "Alcohol", and stated that it's Beck's "greatest hit, an album demo, and two-for-three prime odds and ends".[37] Music & Media wrote, "Despite its championship, the odd combination of sitar and dobro-driven(!) culling pop with dance rhythms, makes a winner out of this song."[38]

Effectually the fourth dimension of the song'due south release, Brook had been approached about including "Loser" on the soundtrack of the comedy film Impaired and Dumber, merely he refused. He recalled the process, "I remember getting a phone call one twenty-four hour period. My manager said, 'There's a film. They want to utilize 'Loser' as the theme song.' In that location was a long pause, and he said, 'The name of the film is Impaired And Dumber.' And I just call back: That sums upwards what the world thinks of me at this point. I tried to accept fun with information technology, tried to non accept it as well serious. But at the same time, it was a picayune disheartening sometimes."[39]

Music video [edit]

The video for "Loser" was directed by Beck's friend Steve Hanft. Hanft had worked for a week on storyboards for the video, and then called a coming together with Beck'southward characterization, Bong Load Records, and requested a $300 shooting upkeep. The unprocessed sixteen mm motion-picture show footage was frozen for 6 months until Brook signed with Geffen Records. Geffen gave Hanft $xiv,000 to process, edit, and master the video, making the budget total $14,300. Filming for the video was done all across California, including in Rothrock'due south Humboldt County studio and lawn and at the Santa Monica graveyard.[12] The video is a mashup of various 16 mm motion picture clips. Beck insisted they were "fucking around" when they made the video; he told Selection in 1994, "We weren't making anything slick – it was deliberately rough. Yous know?"[40]

Hanft, inspired past the Blackness Sabbath's 16 mm film promo "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and also surrealist filmmakers Luis Buñuel and Maya Deren, included end-motion blitheness footage of a moving coffin in the video. Two coffins were used, one which was a prop borrowed from a local drama schoolhouse and the other which had been congenital by Brook and Hanft.[12] Clips and sounds sampled from Hanft'southward 1991 Cal Arts, MFA thesis film, "Kill the Moonlight", about a loser stock motorcar racer, are also included in the video and song. The moment where Brook is wearing a storm trooper mask is often censored for copyright reasons. The piece of work'due south only clip shot on video rather than film is the one depicting famous mountain dancer Jesco White wearing a white satin shirt and dancing on a picnic table. The clip was shot by director Julian Nitzberg and was added to the final cut on the last day of editing.

"Loser" ranked sixth in the music video category in the 1994 Village Vocalism Pazz & Jop poll.[34]

The music video for Beck'south 2014 song "Center Is a Pulsate" features characters from the "Loser" video, including the grim reaper, and another version of Brook in which he wears the white outfit from the "Loser" video. As well, two spacemen enter well-nigh the cease of the "Centre Is a Drum" video as they ride away on the dorsum of a pick up truck but as they do in the "Kill the Moonlight" film clip that was included in the "Loser" video.

Formats and track list [edit]

All songs were written by Beck except where noted.

Charts and certifications [edit]

See too [edit]

  • Loser.com

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External links [edit]

  • "Loser" on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
  • "Loser" official music video on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loser_(Beck_song)

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