Early Beck was just that, an musician early in his career, with about as many misses as hits, if you listen to his actual recordings pre-Mellow Gold as well as that album. 'Midnight Vultures', 'Mutations', ''Odelay', 'Guero' and esp. 'Sea Change' are all better, more mature works.
He's there to promote he's forthcoming album "Mellow Gold" on the Mtv, wich was huge in 1994. Any other artist would've tried to impress the audience but he was like "I don't give a fuck. I'll improv the lyrics to one of the best songs on the album and won't put any effort on my guitar playing...I might as well play Mtv makes me wanna smoke crack". Genius! On Mtv by '94 you could watch videos and performances of a lot of wannabe/impostors bands pretending to be alt rock-indie- grunge-whatever. Probably Beck didn't wanted to be mistaken with one of those acts.
All you folks comparing Beck to Kurt Cobain, you might want to actually go listen to some more of his music. His influences are hugely varied, and he's no Kurt Cobain imposter. He is on the other hand a big Syd Barrett fan and the influence is glaringly obvious right here. Beck, you're the man my man!
Anthony Monaghan "comparing 'Beck' to 'Kurt Cobain'"?? Whoa, wait a minute. Those 2 both sorta got "famous" around the same time & before that "explosion", so to speak, came from independent sources/areas/etc. Beck comes from an artistic family: his grandfather was a innovative artist in the "fluxus" movement & IDK about his parents, either mom or dad, but he had the freedom & openness of L.A. in which to blossom & thrive, which he did, even if you only counted up to Odelay & also that acoustic EP he did, One Foot in the Grave. Anyway, no, no, no. There's no comparing those 2. Cobain's influences were bands like Melvins, Husker Du, Frogs, and some other local (Washington-Based) bands in that same noisy, rebellious spirit. If there's any one person I'd use as a comparison to kurt cobain, it would be, hmm...hard to pick just one individual, but, much more of an apt example than Beck would be Buzz Osborne, of the Melvins, one of Cobain's faves.
William Kruegel ohhh yeah ! loved it immediately when i got my ears on it - Stereopathetic Soulmanure is also a very well fucked up previous album . Gosh this guy has talent .
stereopathetic soulmanure is the greatest beck album of all time, you gotta love though how mellow gold keeps getting weirder and weirder as the album goes on, motherf**er and nitemare hippy girl, favs
Mellow gold is probably my favorite album from him, with one foot in the grave a close second. I gotta admit though, after odelay, I kinda lost interest.
Why would anyone be comparing Beck to Kurt Cobain? Because he's sitting on a chair with a guitar and long-ish hair? Morons. They're both great in their own (totally different) ways.
It's such a beautiful thing to see an artist that's super precious for me like Beck, as a kid at the same time I was a kid. And fighting my abusers... Music was everything for me. The musicians I loved then and now, helped me in a way that's just huge. A natural and unoposable blackhole of natural happiness and rythums in my mind that helped me survive psychological torture. Now I look back with a smile that's just about palpable. Music is special anyway, but for me, in my history, it was part of something so huge, linked directly to my survival. Normally you'd look back and be triggered and re-traumatised by such memories of the past. But music is pure somehow. I look back and feel a pure and beautiful thing that doesn't seem to be connected to the source of my CPTSD with language and normal memory constructs. It's as pure feeling now as it was then. Even though the content of films and songs were used in gaslighting, which did work to traumatise me at the time..... I'd love to help people like me. If any doctors or therapists need a narcissistic abuse expert. I would love to help others using my knowledge and thoughts about the subject. I think I could keep up with even Sam Vacknin on this subject.....
all the idiots comparing him to 'cobain' obviously dont know who bob dylan is because Beck reminds me alot of dylan here more than anyone. Also Dylan let beck record Leopard skin pillbox hat and personally told him to do it because dylan obviously likes him
I talked to the label guy from Virgin records who signed Beck. He told me he didn't sign him based on the song Loser, which turned into the biggest hit of the 90's, but on this song he's playing in the video. Beck was collaborating a lot back then with an act that went by the name Forest For The Trees. You can hear a lot of the ideas Beck used on Mello Gold on the hard to find Forest FTT debut.
you can definitely tell in this era he was split between making weird eclectic tapes like Johnston and making finger picking folk songs like Mississippi John Hurt and Woodie Guthrie
WHOA!!! I haven't seen this in years; I remember seeing it on 120 minutes. I just realized that he teased the melody from the intro to Metroid at the very end. Awesome!!!
"It's a hundred'n'.. MTV's a hundred and twunty two minutes, I'm Kim Deal of Sonic Youth your guest host tonight and now with music from his soon to be released debut album MelowGoldHere'sBeck.. performing: song." -Beck My fucking hero.
@valdrec Vintage VHS has a certain charm to it. We are too pampered with quality these days. Soon we won't watch any archive footage because it's isn't 1080p HD in 3D with 9.1 surround.
It's MTV's 120 minutes i'm Kim Deal of Sonic Youth your guest host tonight and now with music from his soon to be released debut album "Mellow Gold" here is Beck performing song.
@janotosinnumeros i am a woman...and i agree. this is one of my favorite albums by beck, but all of his stuff is incredibly inventive and creative. I just hope he keeps putting out records (after all...outside the music world 39 is not that old)
I love the guitar. Not that hard to play if you know how to pick. The notes at the end really proves theres some sarcasm going on. He didn't care, he would have been happy working a day job and playing the night scene and never get signed by a major label. Incredible word man. Not that many people have the mind to know.
"Im kim deal of sonic youth"
hahahahahahah ...dude knows whats up
Whats the context here? I mean, yeah, Beck, but someone please clue me in.
@@MisterRON The presenter is Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and his (ex) wife ,who is also in Sonic Youth, is Kim Gordon.
@@MisterRON Kim Deal was in Pixies and Breeders.
That is indeed what he says.
:-)
This is Beck, performing: Song.
Right on.
DEthe5150 *awkward high five*
Yesh, nothing like 90's high fives
Beck has practically become his own genre by this point.
"What's your favourite genre?"
"Beck"
I think the really really good musicians do that more or less.
He invents new genres then he transcends them.
--Someone on Futurama. Think it was Bender.
Only two bands who made their own genres : Beck, Primus
love him
Ingenious performance by Kim Deal of Sonic Youth performing song. Kicks ass
Kim deal performing beck through her consort , some guy, playing their smash hit, a song
This is perhaps the single best performance in the history of television.
he is improvising one of his own songs and singing about an industry that is about to absorb him. this is one of the greatest moments of all time.
3 lies and you're out
The trick is to embrace irony
instablaster...
eh why y´all styled like our generation and culture and how we grew up like we´re fashion ?
And no fucks were given that day
....decade
mike spence :-) nice
Beck still get laid in the MTV spa later?
Basically, nobody paid no mind
My favorite track off of Mellow Gold: Song.
my favourite Beck song. but the album version.
Beck in general is amazing, but early Beck was on another level.
Early Beck was just that, an musician early in his career, with about as many misses as hits, if you listen to his actual recordings pre-Mellow Gold as well as that album. 'Midnight Vultures', 'Mutations', ''Odelay', 'Guero' and esp. 'Sea Change' are all better, more mature works.
Ozzy, ozzy, ozzy, ozzy....
A genius
He's there to promote he's forthcoming album "Mellow Gold" on the Mtv, wich was huge in 1994. Any other artist would've tried to impress the audience but he was like "I don't give a fuck. I'll improv the lyrics to one of the best songs on the album and won't put any effort on my guitar playing...I might as well play Mtv makes me wanna smoke crack". Genius!
On Mtv by '94 you could watch videos and performances of a lot of wannabe/impostors bands pretending to be alt rock-indie- grunge-whatever. Probably Beck didn't wanted to be mistaken with one of those acts.
What a great era to be alive. One of the greatest live performances ever.
All you folks comparing Beck to Kurt Cobain, you might want to actually go listen to some more of his music. His influences are hugely varied, and he's no Kurt Cobain imposter. He is on the other hand a big Syd Barrett fan and the influence is glaringly obvious right here. Beck, you're the man my man!
I don't get the whole Kurt Cobain thing. I'm not saying that he should be compared to anyone, but if there is anyone he reminds me of it's early Ween.
Dylan Quinn I don't get it either. "Oh he's got long blonde hair and a guitar? Obviously Kurt Cobain wannabe!"
Anthony Monaghan "comparing 'Beck' to 'Kurt Cobain'"?? Whoa, wait a minute. Those 2 both sorta got "famous" around the same time & before that
"explosion", so to speak, came from independent sources/areas/etc. Beck comes from an artistic family: his grandfather was a innovative artist in the "fluxus" movement & IDK about his parents, either mom or dad, but he had the freedom & openness of L.A. in which to blossom & thrive, which he did, even if you only counted up to Odelay & also that acoustic EP he did, One Foot in the Grave. Anyway, no, no, no. There's no comparing those 2. Cobain's influences were bands like Melvins, Husker Du, Frogs, and some other local (Washington-Based) bands in that same noisy, rebellious spirit. If there's any one person I'd use as a comparison to kurt cobain, it would be, hmm...hard to pick just one individual, but, much more of an apt example than Beck would be Buzz Osborne, of the Melvins, one of Cobain's faves.
Definitely see a lot of Syd in him, as well as a bit of Lou Reed just in how he presents himself so nonchalantly and unpredictably.
For these people he's the Kurt Cobain starter pack himself, pretty face, blonde hair and blue eyes
“Someone kissed their own ass by mistake” Haha. He was such a fun lyricist
that solo at the end is the greatest thing in the history of rock 'n' roll
i like his laugh after he does it
I'm Kim Deal of Sonic Youth, Lmao
Mellow Gold is such a great and fucked up album. Classic 90s.
Awww Yes......Soooo fucked up. I loved it. Definitely helped mold me into who I am today.
William Kruegel ohhh yeah ! loved it immediately when i got my ears on it - Stereopathetic Soulmanure is also a very well fucked up previous album . Gosh this guy has talent .
stereopathetic soulmanure is the greatest beck album of all time, you gotta love though how mellow gold keeps getting weirder and weirder as the album goes on, motherf**er and nitemare hippy girl, favs
@@dogpetdog truck driving neighbors downstairs
Mellow gold is probably my favorite album from him, with one foot in the grave a close second. I gotta admit though, after odelay, I kinda lost interest.
It's incredible, really, how much he's both changed and not changed.
I a!ways loved Beck.... I loved him as a 14 year old kid and I still love his stuff, old and new at 45..... 🤓 Still get goosebumps too....
Love how Beck amuses himself with the completely random playing at the very end 2:38.
acid makes things coo
the coolest person from the 90's
I think that award might have to go to Ween
@@marcsullivan7987 No.
This is peak Generation X and it's hilarious.
I got bent like a wet cigarette and she's coming after me with a butterfly net
Why would anyone be comparing Beck to Kurt Cobain? Because he's sitting on a chair with a guitar and long-ish hair? Morons. They're both great in their own (totally different) ways.
Seriously none of us who lived back then thought the two were any way similar.. other than the longish blond hair.
they're both INFPs
The Memorgia im also an infp nobody gives a shit i know but like im a fan of Beck and Kurt. So that makes me excited that they're also an infp lmaoo
CapAnson12345 lmao we r comparing them because of how both of them do interviews, they make up weird answers...😂
Doesn't take much anymore does it? Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters is compared as well. 😂
It's such a beautiful thing to see an artist that's super precious for me like Beck, as a kid at the same time I was a kid. And fighting my abusers... Music was everything for me.
The musicians I loved then and now, helped me in a way that's just huge. A natural and unoposable blackhole of natural happiness and rythums in my mind that helped me survive psychological torture. Now I look back with a smile that's just about palpable. Music is special anyway, but for me, in my history, it was part of something so huge, linked directly to my survival. Normally you'd look back and be triggered and re-traumatised
by such memories of the past. But music is pure somehow. I look back and feel a pure and beautiful thing that doesn't seem to be connected to the source of my CPTSD with language and normal memory constructs. It's as pure feeling now as it was then. Even though the content of films and songs were used in gaslighting, which did work to traumatise me at the time..... I'd love to help people like me. If any doctors or therapists need a narcissistic abuse expert. I would love to help others using my knowledge and thoughts about the subject. I think I could keep up with even Sam Vacknin on this subject.....
❤
dude trolling from the 90s yo
all the idiots comparing him to 'cobain' obviously dont know who bob dylan is because Beck reminds me alot of dylan here more than anyone. Also Dylan let beck record Leopard skin pillbox hat and personally told him to do it because dylan obviously likes him
bob dylan is gay for beck hansen
@@joekerr9150 I'm gay
This was a great album. Beck blew my mind. Rad.
The dude can write!
This is awesome. Maybe my favorite Beck song from back in the days of mellow gold
This version should be released on streaming services. Without being tinkered with, enhanced or anything, it sounds amazing just like this.
What happened in the USA to produce a kid like beck? Unbridled nonchalance. Wonderful
sounds like he's writing it on the spot lmao
oneofanceantproficy He actually is at many points during the performance, especially at the beginning
@mm t It was his third album, what are you on abut ? His first was Golden Feelings.
I talked to the label guy from Virgin records who signed Beck. He told me he didn't sign him based on the song Loser, which turned into the biggest hit of the 90's, but on this song he's playing in the video. Beck was collaborating a lot back then with an act that went by the name Forest For The Trees. You can hear a lot of the ideas Beck used on Mello Gold on the hard to find Forest FTT debut.
you can totally see the ridiculously intense look on Becks face right after they cut the song in the middle and it goes back on ahahaha xDD
lol 'tonight the city is totally lame' I love his word play.
Stoned on another level!
The young version of The Dude.
did he just introduce himself in the third person?
He introduced himself as Kim Deal from the Sonic Youth.
It's funny because Kim Gordan is actually of Sonic Youth but he said Kim Deal who is actually from The Pixies XD gotta love Beck
TopazRocker Breeders during this time frame.
+TopazRocker omg you're so smart ,nobody noticed that
Jyzz Jnx I try to stay humble and all, but thank you. My observation skills are quite great.
I think a more apt comparison would be between Beck and Daniel Johnston who he idolized around this time
you can definitely tell in this era he was split between making weird eclectic tapes like Johnston and making finger picking folk songs like Mississippi John Hurt and Woodie Guthrie
Thurston Moore trying so hard not to laugh xD
WHOA!!! I haven't seen this in years; I remember seeing it on 120 minutes. I just realized that he teased the melody from the intro to Metroid at the very end. Awesome!!!
The guy DOES have a phenomenal voice.
I love Johnny Cash’s comment on the “Johnny Cash talks about Beck” UA-cam.
Perfect. Just perfect.
I've seen this whole thing and honestly I keep getting this feeling that he was completely wasted the whole time.
+Danny Mandeville Oh yeah, high as a Georgia pine!
I heard shrooms on this one haha someone told me that on the interview portions comments
Yall obviously can’t tell they both blowed tf out lol
genius, a once in a generation musician, most underrated of the 90s
Wow 120 minutes with Beck. Classic.
I love the both of them.
The 90s were a magical, magical time.
That ending is amazing.
IMPROVISANDO PAY NO MIND ! GENIO !!!
These guys are the best at high fives
Tonight the city is full of morgues... This is amazing! Never seen this version thanks! My fav beck song ever.
This has to be the greatest thing I've ever seen.
Beck: great American songwriter
MTV: you can't sing the lyrics you wrote
GenX: the story of our lives
I never could figure Beck out- which is why I like him.
"It's a hundred'n'.. MTV's a hundred and twunty two minutes, I'm Kim Deal of Sonic Youth your guest host tonight and now with music from his soon to be released debut album MelowGoldHere'sBeck.. performing: song."
-Beck
My fucking hero.
just laughs at the end.
Omg the guy looks like he is going to cry or laugh in the intro! I can’t stop laughing
loved this guy in superbad
alternate lyrics on this, finger picked rather than strummed, one of my favorites from that album.
Totally agree. It's the decade in one performance.
He got to be Dylan without the voice of the generation baggage.
Hilariously brilliant lyrics.
This put a giant smile on my face
this is the 90s-est thing I have ever seen. Apathetic shaggy white guy singing a grungy acoustic song. Well done Mr. Beck
This song is the anthem to my town.
That ending is one of a kind.
"I'm Kim Deal of Sonic Youth" Thurston ALMOST lost it! LOL
I'm Kim Deal from Sonic Youth...too funny!
2:38 that's metroid (nes) song played in secret areas!
"everything in the city is totally lame" best opening lyric ever
This is my favorite Beck, because of the satire and irony and truth. Once he got famous he became more pop.
@valdrec Vintage VHS has a certain charm to it. We are too pampered with quality these days. Soon we won't watch any archive footage because it's isn't 1080p HD in 3D with 9.1 surround.
best solo ever!
love your masterful words Beck!
Beck not trying in this performance ironically makes one of his best songs even better
If they'll make a Then and Now with Beck - This should be the Then
Beck is a hellava drug...
Beck was so high that day.
Gonna go write "Someone kissed their own ass by mistake" on the whites of my converse hi-tops
What an ending. EXCELLENT.
I would love to see that!
this would never occur on TV today. At all
I like how he switched the names around and stuff. It lets you know he's very very alternative and cool for his 1.5 hit songs over the past 35 years.
more importantly he's endured 35 years and still putting out new stuff.
Great voice!
It's like there is some "vintage-effect" turned to his guitar, sounds really nice
Finger picking in a sort of Mississippi John Hurt style helps.
This guy is going places.
It's MTV's 120 minutes i'm Kim Deal of Sonic Youth your guest host tonight and now with music from his soon to be released debut album "Mellow Gold" here is Beck performing song.
The high five he does to the guy at the beginning is perfect
Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth it looked like
Aaaah the good old times. The ninties alternative "indie rock" scene. Will we ever have something like this again?
Nope
If Kanye lets you
i fucking love the end
Kurt and Beck,,, that would`ve been awesome,,,,,
and neil young
And Neil Armstrong
And Neil Cassidy
And Gibby Haynes
Kim Deal dude! Thurston tryin' to keep it straight... LOL! One Foot and Mellow Gold... Never could top those two.
2:30 best solo ever
It actually does sound amazing.
@janotosinnumeros i am a woman...and i agree. this is one of my favorite albums by beck, but all of his stuff is incredibly inventive and creative. I just hope he keeps putting out records (after all...outside the music world 39 is not that old)
Actually, you're both wrong. It's neither Beck nor Jeff Beck. It's Kim Deal of Sonic Youth, performing song.
I love the guitar. Not that hard to play if you know how to pick. The notes at the end really proves theres some sarcasm going on. He didn't care, he would have been happy working a day job and playing the night scene and never get signed by a major label. Incredible word man. Not that many people have the mind to know.
I think he plays a bit from Metroid (nes) at the end
@janotosinnumeros
every decade is unique and i doubt this brilliance will be matched
"As we walk out among the manure"