One Foot in the Grave [EXTRA TRACKS] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Beck

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 14, 2009)
• Original Release Date: April 14, 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Iliad Records / K Records
• ASIN: B001V7UX94
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,695 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Expanded edition of the Pop/Rock uber-genius' 1994 album including 16 bonus tracks (13 of them previously unreleased). This 15th Anniversary edition comes housed in an expanded and collectible digipak. Bonus tracks include cuts from the rare 'It's All In Your Mind' single. The original edition of the album has been out of print for over four years, making this collectible reissue a must-have for Beck fans, new and old. 2009.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THERE HASNT BEEN A CHANGE IN THE ATMOSPHERE...., April 20, 2009

By	wally gator "the only" (USA) - See all my reviews

Months ago I was talking up this album to a few peeps who missed it in its first run. One Foot in The Grave by Beck is one of those rare gems of an album that always remains under the radar. I picked up this album on the cheap years ago on LP and expected just another odd ball collection of Beck basement tapes. What I got was a timeless classic of an album, easily in a class of its own compared to the rest of Becks unique and varied catalouge and probably one of my top five favorite albums either from the nineties or amomgst the folk blues giants of old. Brilliant lo fi blues and folk, this is his talent in its rawest and purest form, free from the synth, broken game boy, drum machine vibes that swarm all of his other titles (even the other folk albums like Sea Change or Mutations cant match the atmosphere on this bit).

One Foot has been out of print for some time, leaving it only for the memories of us kids who were fortunate enough to find it accidently sometime in our high school haze... now its back. Twice as stuffed and just as good. The original sixteen tracks have been expanded to thirty-two, and the bonus cuts are just as rewarding as the originals, including a few coffee shop cut takes of songs that would be found on later albums. Its ccol to see that Beck still has this style in him. While I've always enjoyed the frenetic space race beats, and manic feel of the production on other Beck materials this album manages to bring all that feel to the table with nothing but soft twangs, sideways harmony, and bizarre yet poignant commentary of the world as he see it. It never finds itself ever disjointed like his other underground discs, song for song its a flawless portrait. I say this one still remains his all time best. Get it now while its still visible.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic 90s Oly Folk Rock.., May 23, 2009

By	J. Ball "Jithero" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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I am a huge Beck fan and a fan of the Olympia, WA music scene, so for me this is a must-own album. Of course I've owned it since its initial release, so really I was buying this for the new tracks. They are great and fit well with the rest of the album, which I always felt was too short anyway.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Expanded Fun, April 16, 2009

By	Jake "Angeljake" (St Paul, MN United States) - See all my reviews

4 and a half stars. If you are familiar with this CD you know all about its stripped down charms and humor. Sparse arrangements and Becks voice coupled with just a guitar and a little percussion. Its is amazing how even in its barest form Becks lyrics remain funny and interesting.
This edition comes as a cardboard digipak with a great inside gatefold of additonal pictures. I loved the original so I was glad that was not changed. Of the bonus tracks Teenage Wastebasket is hilarious, there is Feather in your cap in a different version than on Stray Blues and the Odelay Deluxe. And you also get a 'demo' of Its all in your mind which wound up in a different form on Sea Change. Here in its rawest form it is still affecting. Plus a 'studio' version of One Foot In the Grave which is different than the 'live' on stage version that can be found on Stereopathetic Soulmanure. Overall the bonus tracks expand the variety of the songs from the original CD without changing all of its low-fi charm.