New Beck Album Revisits ‘Highway 61’’Highway 61 Revisited is one of the first great anti-covers. Dylan looks burnt, shirt wrinkled — like he’s waiting for catering at the gig or something,’ Beck once wrote.
‘Odelay,’ the Best Album of 1996, Goes ‘Deluxe’Before reinventing himself as a melancholy Scientologist, Beck Hansen proudly rap-sung about rocking the plastic like a man from the Catskills, passing the dutchie from coast to coast, and doing the hot-dog dance.
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How Well Did Beck Know Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake?Almost besting Morgan Spurlock’s supposed discovery of Osama bin Laden as 2007’s most insane pop-cultural crossover, Vanity Fair is reporting that Beck might’ve have played a tangential role in the double suicide of artists Theresa Duncan and boyfriend Jeremy Blake.
