Beck
Mellow Gold
America Canada Acid casualty with a repossessed car croaks Beck Hansen Vietnam vet playin' air guitar 1993's Mellow Gold finds Beck slumming in The City of Angels working in a video store for four dollars an hour Quite rightly he's got the blues but there's plenty more besides Mellow Gold is a grimy Polaroid of fried whitetrash invention Reconciling the painfully fashionable grunge aesthetic with the drunken verbiage of the Beat Generation Mellow Gold founded the slacker generation and Loserthe opening trackbecame its unofficial anthem