Beck – One Foot In The Grave (Expanded Edition)

Iv had this album in many forms since the 90’s…this is by far the best Iv ever heard this album.
This was cut and pressed by what appears to be by RTI…and sounds like analogue tape to me.
This might be why y’all think this is a remaster.
Yes sides C/D are mastered by Bob Ludwig

Think about it…why would he and RTI do a digital cut? Nowhere does this state a remaster.
This is an analogue cut until someone can prove me wrong.

The mastering does change the vibe a bit but it's cool to hear all the instruments and voices crystal clear and the wax is dead quiet.
The extra tracks are great. It's like having a whole new one foot era beck album to discover.
I'm having a great time listening to this.

The mastering does change the vibe a bit but it's cool to hear all the instruments and voices crystal clear and the wax is dead quiet.
The extra tracks are great. It's like having a whole new one foot era beck album to discover.
I'm having a great time listening to this.

One of my all time favorite albums. I don't like the remaster on this version. The bonus tracks are great so I'm going to keep it, but I have an original copy too for when I want to play the regular album. Whoever remastered it missed the point and the charm of the original.

Beck is one of those strange musicians that just happens to be hated by critics sometimes because of either the popularity of his commercially-successful music, or how much they hate earlier albums like this one. But, with negative reviews of this album and some of his earlier lo-fi indie work, I've noticed that they all follow a pattern of stuff like "The quality is low" or "These songs don't have meaning!" or, "Not enough aesthetic!". Well, the thing about his music is that it's something more of a feeling. Yes sometimes the lyrics don't make sense, or there might not be enough sound in a song, but why is that any reason to say it's bad? Songs on this album like "Hollow Log", "Cyanide Breath Mint" and "Fourteen River, Fourteen Floods" only have acoustic guitar for the most part. I say, for this kind of weird experimental anti-folk, there's really no position to compare it to other music and say it's bad because it doesn't follow the standards of the norm. Beck was selling millions of copies of "Mellow Gold" with his new hit single "Loser", and he still had the audacity to release something like this afterwards on a small indie record label. Well, why would he do that? Because although his style was commercially appealing at the time in the aspect of his Mellow Gold style, the intention of his style on this album and other earlier albums wasn't to keep his sudden success going, Some of these songs are songs he wrote a LONG time before he was famous, he had been playing "Hollow Log" and "Woe On Me" (formerly known as "Feel the Strain of Sorrow Never Cease") ever since he was making silly little tape demos for his mom and playing radio stations. He obviously knew that these songs weren't going to be loved by critics. He released them simply because these songs come from the heart, were weird and folky sounding, and are good not in the aspect of commercial music at the time and the success he had, but in the aspect of what these songs mean after listening to them and feeling them. This album is wonderful simply because of that aspect, which a lot of music critics can't bother to look into. Music falling under indie genres like this don't get enough credit.

This Back to Black vinyl is awesome quality! I absolutely love this album, it is Beck's best in my opinion by far, and this release does it justice. The extra tracks are a great bonus, and just another reason to pick this album up! If you are a Beck fan, and love this album like I do, this is the version for you!