Beck / One Foot In The Grave
Artist Beck
Album Title: One Foot In The Grave
Album Cover:
Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Indie
Format CD
Released 06/27/1994
Label K Records
Catalog No KLP.28.
Bar Code No 7 89856-1028-2 2
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. He's A Mighty Good Leader (2:40)
2. Sleeping Bag (2:15)
3. I Get Lonesome (2:49)
4. Burnt Orange Peels (1:38)
5. Cyanide Breath Mint (1:37)
6. See Water (2:22)
7. Ziplock Bag (1:44)
8. Hollow Log (1:54)
9. Forcefield (3:30)
10. Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods (2:54)
11. Asshole (2:32)
12. I've Seen The Land Beyond (1:40)
13. Outcome (2:10)
14. Girl Dreams (2:04)
15. Painted Eyelids (3:05)
16. Atmospheric Conditions (2:07)
Date Acquired 07/01/1994
Personal Rating
Acquired from Roadrunner Records
Purchase Price 13.00

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Notes

Recorded Oct 93 and Jan 94 at Dub Narcotic

CD pressed by various companies, so will have different inner rings.

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Analyzed: Beck / One Foot in the Grave
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR11      -3.24 dB   -17.07 dB      2:41 01-He's a Mighty Good Leader
DR11      -0.09 dB   -13.48 dB      2:16 02-Sleeping Bag
DR11      -0.09 dB   -13.97 dB      2:50 03-I Get Lonesome
DR9       -0.07 dB   -10.50 dB      1:39 04-Burnt Orange Peel
DR9       -3.45 dB   -14.61 dB      1:37 05-Cyanide Breath Mint
DR12      -0.09 dB   -14.33 dB      2:22 06-See Water
DR9       -0.86 dB   -12.15 dB      1:45 07-Ziplock Bag
DR11      -1.78 dB   -15.94 dB      1:54 08-Hollow Log
DR12      -0.86 dB   -15.03 dB      3:31 09-Forcefield
DR13      -0.09 dB   -17.01 dB      2:55 10-Fourteen Rivers, Fourteen Floods
DR9       -0.74 dB   -13.37 dB      2:32 11-Asshole
DR10      -1.39 dB   -13.06 dB      1:41 12-I've Seen the Land Beyond
DR10      -0.09 dB   -11.26 dB      2:10 13-Outcome
DR10      -2.30 dB   -15.33 dB      2:04 14-Girl Dreams
DR12      -0.09 dB   -14.25 dB      3:06 15-Painted Eyelids
DR11      -0.09 dB   -12.60 dB      2:07 16-Atmospheric Conditions
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Number of tracks:  16
Official DR value: DR11

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           817 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Recorded prior to Mellow Gold but released several months after that album turned Beck into an overnight sensation, One Foot in the Grave bolsters his neo-folkie credibility the way the nearly simultaneously released Stereopathetic Soul Manure accentuated his underground noise prankster credentials. One Foot is neatly perched between authentic folk-blues -- it opens with "He's a Mighty Good Leader," a traditional number sometimes credited to Skip James, and he rewrites Rev. Gary Davis' "You Gotta Move" as "Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods" -- and the shambolic, indie anti-folk coming out of the Northwest in the early '90s, a connection underscored by the record's initial release on Calvin Johnson's Olympia, WA-based K Records, and its production by Johnson, who also sings on a couple of cuts. Parts of One Foot in the Grave may be reminiscent of other K acts, particularly the ragged parts, but it's also distinctively Beck in how it blurs lines between the past and present, the traditional and the modern, the sincere and the sarcastic. Certainly, of his three 1994 albums, One Foot errs in favor of the sincere, partially due to those folk-blues covers, but also in its overall hushed feel, its muted acoustic guitars and murmured vocals suggesting an intimacy that the words don't always convey. Much of the album is about mood as much as song, a situation not uncommon to Beck, which is hardly a problem because the ramshackle sound is charming and the songwriting is often excellent, channeling Beck's skewed sensibilities into a traditional setting, particularly on the excellent "Asshole," which is hardly as smirking as its title. It's that delicate, almost accidental, balance of exposed nerves and cutting with that sets One Foot in the Grave apart from Beck's other albums; he'd revisit this sound and sensibility, but never again was he so beguilingly ragged.

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