So how many people here are eMusic subscribers? Should I continue to point out bargains, like this Beck album One Foot In The Grave (Deluxe Reissue)?

32 songs for only 12 credits. This is some stuff he recorded before Mellow Gold....

eMusic sez:

Beck's darkest, sparest and purest album, from its opening rewrite of Skip James' "Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader" to its slow-crawling sickbed blues, recorded before almost anyone had heard of him (and backed up by members of Beat Happening and the Spinanes). If it'd been the only thing he recorded, 75 years ago, he'd be a legend.

That early Beck stuff is really different from what most people are familiar with. Kinda sparse folky-bluesy.

That early Beck stuff is really different from what most people are familiar with. Kinda sparse folky-bluesy.

Yep. I like it but it may not be everyone's cup o' tea.

What other pre-Mellow Gold Beck stuff is out there? Like, how were "Satan Gave Me a Taco" and "MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack" released?

The former was on the "Stereopathetic Soulmanure" LP, and the latter was on a 7".

Like, how were "Satan Gave Me a Taco" and "MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack" released?

I grabbed the latter a year or two ago, and, yeah, a very different Beck. Sounded more like early Nirvana.

Pete Quaife Dead at 66

Pete Quaife would be the first to admit he wasn't the greatest bass player in the world. When I interviewed him 20 years ago on the occasion of the Kinks' induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame he joked that he became famous for playing the same two notes over and over on You Really Got Me, but he was a vital part of a band that survived the '60s with its legacy virtually untainted (so help me, I love those Preservation albums from the '70s). He just seemed a perfect fit between the sibling rivalry of Ray and Dave Davies, deftly handling the rapid shift from teen rage to middle age wistfulness, only to bow out when the pressures of the musical money-go-round overwhelmed the pleasure of playing those two notes and providing the rhythmic anchor chain to Mick Avory's drums on Ray's visions of England's vanished golden age.

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Pete passed away in Denmark on Thursday after a decade of struggling with kidney disease. You can read a CBC obit here, or just do what I'm going to do and put on The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society and quietly mourn the loss of a well respected man.

The song my buddy Rob Kleiner wrote/produced with Cee Lo Green for the Twilight soundtrack is being released as a single.

I realize I'm biased, but What Part of Forever is simply gorgeous.

DX is gonna be so sad.

Pete Quaife played the hell out of the bass on Something Else and The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, though.

Cor, you'll appreciate this.

My upcoming writing lineup for Hilobrow:

Iceberg Slim
Buck Owens
Nicholas Roeg
Diana Rigg
Junior Kimbrough