This song brings back good memories of the early 90's. I was renting a room in a warehouse where my drummer was living illegally and selling weed to all the stoner kids in our small town. Those were the days. I fucking miss the 90's.
i was a teenager, smokin, drinkin, fightin, fucking, jammin, stealin, crankster gangster. one of our hustles was buyin levi's for the lebanese dudes. they would pick up 5 or 6 of us in a van, at fred meyer. we would travel to every store we could, and buy the limit. i would even disguise myself and go in twice. made a lot of money, cause apparently, they could sell em oversees for a bill. we were buying a lot of crank (meth wasnt really around yet). it was awesome. not proud of all it, but man i had fun. todays world is insane. the 90s were the last great years.
This is so much better then Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd has way better albums then that, but this album is a classic. Like is Mellow Gold better then Dark Side of the Moon? Fuck yes it is, is it better then 'Wish You Were Here' or 'Animals'? That's a harder questions.
Getting old sucks. Nearly 30 years ago. This song brings me back to those care free days. Goin to bed at night with this cd on my stereo stoned out of my mind. Without any kind of worry. Then i woke up and suddenly im in my 40s. But i wouldnt trade it for anything. Im so happy i grew up then and not in todays insane world. The 80s and 90s were the best time to be a kid.
agreed. im so glad i grew up when phones were still on cords. i got introduced to the internet in my teens, and it hadnt gotten that toxic yet, so all in all i avoided becoming like... a lot of people
You've got it backwards. You've enjoyed this amazing album longer than most. You should feel lucky. I definitely agree with you about growing up in the 80's and 90's though, assuming you had decent parents.
@@rars0n yeah i hear ya. And i did have good parents. And i am beyond grateful for it. I know many people sadly can have some pretty terrible parents. I feel like it was a blessing that i dont know what i did to deserve.
I had house sit my sisters huge apartment. Did really good acid I got from my deadhead friends and listened to this, dinosaur jr Bug and pavement’s crooked rain . Too much fun
I recently had the chance to buy a Limited-Gold- Edition, Original Press Vinyl that was signed... for $100 at my local record shop. I’ve been kicking my ass ever since, for not buying it. Instead, I bought a sealed OP of an Album Leaf vinyl, that day.
This is an anthem for anyone who's ever had to work really shitty jobs that you want to quit but you can't! Until the next shit job calls and you move on... Never ending shitty job music! LOL!!!
so the greatest insanity and inspiration i have ever known was keeping up with lunatics ravers street people magicians and ravers........mellowgold came from that......odelay was like affter rehab and professional dips influencing art and sucke compared to mellow god...insanity......is genius waiting to be mastered and refined..""st mike"
The drum solo at 3:01 sounds like Dale Crover. Like the heavy handed playing and the fills. I know Melvins are actually in the Beercan video but I've never heard a mention of that particular part
When it goes heavy at 1:26 listen to that, then listen to the credits music for the Breaking Bad episode Over (S2 EP10) and tell me if they sound similar.
Real Beck is many things as I see it - bit of a rarity to have an artist transform and re-invent themselves so prolifically - this is maybe just the thing you (and me) like the most.
I got a job making money for the man Throwing chicken in a bucket with a soda pop can Puke-green uniform on my back I had to set it on fire in a vat of chicken fat I leaped on the counter like a bird with no hair Running through the minimall in my underwear I got lost downtown, couldn't find a ride home Sun went down, I got frozen to the bone 'Til a hooker let me share her fake fur coat As I took a little nap, the cops picked up us both I tried to explain I was only trying to get warm I knew I never ever should have burned my uniform He said, "Too bad, better bite the bullet hard, son." I didn't have no teeth, so I stole his gun And I crawled out the window with my shadow on the spoon Dancing on the roof, shooting holes in the moon (gettin' busy) 'Cause I ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin' jack I ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin' jack I'm standing right here with a beer in my hand And my mouth is full of sand and I don't understand Fourteen days, I been sleeping in a barn Better get a paycheck tattooed on my arm [beck.com: headache and a paycheck] Whistling Dixie with the Dixie cup filled With the barbecue sauce and the dental floss chill Big fat veins pointing into my face Telling me to get busy cleaning up this place I got bent like a wet cigarette And she's coming after me with a butterfly net Riding on a bloodhound, ringing a bell Black cat wrapped and I'm rolling out to hell Pencil on my leg and I'm trying not to beg Taking turns baking worms with the bacon and eggs Now they got me in a birdcage flapping my jaw Like a parcel of stars just waiting to fall [beck.com: pretzel in the stars] So give me what I got to get so I can go 'Cause I ain't washing dishes in a ditch no more I ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin' jack I ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin' jack No no no no, soul sucking jerk, soul sucking jerk No soul sucking jerk, soul sucking jerk I ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin' jack Ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk Ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk
Beck! best song ever made ...besides I am a loser baby. It represents how I feel these days...Square city living folks...feel sorry for them...also would like to set fire to them!
@@letravaildegodard7537 oui c'est possible beaucoup de francophone aime la musique anglophone c'est tellement mieux que la musique francophone il faut le dire c'est plus créatif sur bien des points
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i did this song in sign language for a talent show....i didn't win ...but the faces of the crowd, Priceless.
L0L'Ss!!
cheers
My girlfriend's deaf and I just showed her this song and she saw your comment and had a shit eatin' grin...
@@jeffcraven2437 this is one of the funniest most unique funniest comment threads I've seen
Lol. Hahahaha I luv it! The faces! They had no idea what was going on probably!!
This was Beck's best album IMO
+ITIsFunnyDamnIT And he meant it to be his worst. Funny how things pan out. Motto in life: don't try lol
+itsjustskinsteven stevens: That's a "Springtime for Hitler," when you fail at failing.
I like Guero and Odelay too
Odelay would like to talk with you.
certissimo thomas cabral
I unironically wish I could write a song as good as this one
I don't understand what you mean by "unironically."
For real
It implies deep sincerity or genuine connotation.
This song brings back good memories of the early 90's. I was renting a room in a warehouse where my drummer was living illegally and selling weed to all the stoner kids in our small town. Those were the days. I fucking miss the 90's.
i was a teenager, smokin, drinkin, fightin, fucking, jammin, stealin, crankster gangster. one of our hustles was buyin levi's for the lebanese dudes. they would pick up 5 or 6 of us in a van, at fred meyer. we would travel to every store we could, and buy the limit. i would even disguise myself and go in twice. made a lot of money, cause apparently, they could sell em oversees for a bill. we were buying a lot of crank (meth wasnt really around yet). it was awesome. not proud of all it, but man i had fun. todays world is insane. the 90s were the last great years.
I fuckin miss them too...everyday!
@@thundarrisaboss2725
I moved to Mesa, AZ in 1994 and meth was big there - that's actually where I heard the word "tweeker" for the first time.
We all miss the 90's.
Ah the early 90's.... as a teenager, hands down the best time of my life.
this album tripped me about as hard as dark side of the moon
The Passion Play by Jethro Tull
Same brother
I was 17 when this album came out. good times. 1994? GREAT MUSIC ALL AROUND those times.
This is so much better then Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd has way better albums then that, but this album is a classic. Like is Mellow Gold better then Dark Side of the Moon? Fuck yes it is, is it better then 'Wish You Were Here' or 'Animals'? That's a harder questions.
yeah...its far deep. not for the masses of idiots living in SQUARE CITY
This is the song in my head while at work.
Por Vida
This should be on everyone's top 5 albums of all times
Yes!
The amount of times I have listened to this tripping since 1995! Ha.
THIS IS MY JAM DUDE!!!
CHRIST LOVES BECK SO MUCH!!!
MELLOW GOLD RULES 1994.
Getting old sucks. Nearly 30 years ago. This song brings me back to those care free days. Goin to bed at night with this cd on my stereo stoned out of my mind. Without any kind of worry. Then i woke up and suddenly im in my 40s. But i wouldnt trade it for anything. Im so happy i grew up then and not in todays insane world. The 80s and 90s were the best time to be a kid.
agreed. im so glad i grew up when phones were still on cords. i got introduced to the internet in my teens, and it hadnt gotten that toxic yet, so all in all i avoided becoming like... a lot of people
You've got it backwards. You've enjoyed this amazing album longer than most. You should feel lucky.
I definitely agree with you about growing up in the 80's and 90's though, assuming you had decent parents.
@@rars0n yeah i hear ya. And i did have good parents. And i am beyond grateful for it. I know many people sadly can have some pretty terrible parents. I feel like it was a blessing that i dont know what i did to deserve.
Oh God, yes!
Best ever. Picturing him sharing her fur coat
Get Busy! Puke green uniform! This is so apt for those who are stuck in a monotonous job!
1:18 probably best guitar solo ever
It really is. It feels kinda weird to enjoy it unironically.
It's the perfect lead-in to what sonic chaos comes after it
Epic
Oh damn that was good
one of my favorite albums ever. This came out when I was 13 and I've love it since
best of mellow gold
Few people realize that this is one of the best songs on a fucking amazing album.
I prefer the “Reject” version
Another masterpiece
Yes agreed
Throw a like down if you've ingested ample amounts of drugs in the 90's, and this song brings it back like a wet cigarette.
Dancin' on the roof shootin' hole in the moon, hell fucking yeah.
Hahaha
get busy
I was 12 when this came out. Still dig every song yrs later!!!
in '94 i worked on fries at Wendy's but had to move on when i graduated. i failed all my classes and still got my diploma.
Hell yes, brother!
reminds me of fry baskets back in '94. good times with the oil.
BECK WAS HOMELESS TOO!!!
No
Yes
I had house sit my sisters huge apartment. Did really good acid I got from my deadhead friends and listened to this, dinosaur jr Bug and pavement’s crooked rain . Too much fun
This was actually a day in my sorted life.. Gotta love it!!
best song from this album...
This song is my life
Anyone who has ever worked retail or at a fast food restaurant can relate to this song sometimes
Shadow in the spoon and shoot the moon is a heroin reference
So is "big fat veins pointing into my face, telling me to get busy cleaning up this place"
Wish Beck talked about this more, but understand why he doesn't. It's probably the blackmail that kept him in Scientology for so long.
@@EG-st7mp thats more of a cocaine/meth shootin reference
gotta be one of my favorite songs of all time
I recently had the chance to buy a Limited-Gold- Edition, Original Press Vinyl that was signed... for $100 at my local record shop. I’ve been kicking my ass ever since, for not buying it. Instead, I bought a sealed OP of an Album Leaf vinyl, that day.
Play it at 1.25/1.5, it plays more smooth
The best track in the universe.
i love this song
everything was making so much sense until somebody put some shadow in a spoon
heroin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
if you searched this, how could ü dislike it ?? ppl amaze me.. #Beck1994
This is an anthem for anyone who's ever had to work really shitty jobs that you want to quit but you can't! Until the next shit job calls and you move on... Never ending shitty job music! LOL!!!
This is Beck's third best album right behind Sea Change and my favorite, Mutations.
so the greatest insanity and inspiration i have ever known was keeping up with lunatics ravers street people magicians and ravers........mellowgold came from that......odelay was like affter rehab and professional dips influencing art and sucke compared to mellow god...insanity......is genius waiting to be mastered and refined..""st mike"
The drum solo at 3:01 sounds like Dale Crover. Like the heavy handed playing and the fills. I know Melvins are actually in the Beercan video but I've never heard a mention of that particular part
First time listening to the full album this is the first one I've liked besides loser. Good stuff
When it goes heavy at 1:26 listen to that, then listen to the credits music for the Breaking Bad episode Over (S2 EP10) and tell me if they sound similar.
I thought it was "Big fat fingers pointing into my face"
It is for sure
I also think/thought it is/was ". . .the cops picked up the smoke."
they need to have music for this (like for the drums or guitar) cuz that is a sick drum beat and I want to know what he is hitting
University Year 1. Paradise Lost and this!
Did I say GENIUS?
I miss old school Beck! 😂
After listening to this album this cover sunadly makes sense
To all of you charlatan/prick bosses/supervisors out there: this song is deadicated to yew:
Hell yea
Fucking majestic.
imo this knocks the socks off the LP version.
LP version
haha post the lyrics, i love this song
Frank Zappa would be proud
Beck is better than Frank Zappa
@@bulletbelt97 Hey.....Wait a second....
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON
She's after that monarch butterfly 🦋!
this was the only real beck album
leah hehr nah dude listen to fresh meat old slabs, it’s a hidden gem
Real Beck is many things as I see it - bit of a rarity to have an artist transform and re-invent themselves so prolifically - this is maybe just the thing you (and me) like the most.
One foot in the Grave and his previous noise efforts... not to mention theres an argument for Odelay. but Mellow gold is the last 10/10 Beck no doubt
3:07 scared me when I had my first listen, but in the best way possible
1:56 The lyric is "big fat fingers", not "big fat veins" - what the fuck does that even mean?
2:22 "Like a pretzel in the stars"
I ain't saying jack !!
saint jack
Song starts with...
"girl"
I always thought he said gay or yay or something
He said “gay”
He says: “Daddy”
what is this album, sometimes I ask myself how could a human being do such a proper work. guess beck is not even human
listen to it at 1.5 speed.
Almost sounds like Primus at times haha
I got a job making money for the man
Throwing chicken in a bucket with a soda pop can
Puke-green uniform on my back
I had to set it on fire in a vat of chicken fat
I leaped on the counter like a bird with no hair
Running through the minimall in my underwear
I got lost downtown, couldn't find a ride home
Sun went down, I got frozen to the bone
'Til a hooker let me share her fake fur coat
As I took a little nap, the cops picked up us both
I tried to explain I was only trying to get warm
I knew I never ever should have burned my uniform
He said, "Too bad, better bite the bullet hard, son."
I didn't have no teeth, so I stole his gun
And I crawled out the window with my shadow on the spoon
Dancing on the roof, shooting holes in the moon (gettin' busy)
'Cause I ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin' jack
I ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin' jack
I'm standing right here with a beer in my hand
And my mouth is full of sand and I don't understand
Fourteen days, I been sleeping in a barn
Better get a paycheck tattooed on my arm [beck.com: headache and a paycheck]
Whistling Dixie with the Dixie cup filled
With the barbecue sauce and the dental floss chill
Big fat veins pointing into my face
Telling me to get busy cleaning up this place
I got bent like a wet cigarette
And she's coming after me with a butterfly net
Riding on a bloodhound, ringing a bell
Black cat wrapped and I'm rolling out to hell
Pencil on my leg and I'm trying not to beg
Taking turns baking worms with the bacon and eggs
Now they got me in a birdcage flapping my jaw
Like a parcel of stars just waiting to fall [beck.com: pretzel in the stars]
So give me what I got to get so I can go
'Cause I ain't washing dishes in a ditch no more
I ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin' jack
I ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin' jack
No no no no, soul sucking jerk, soul sucking jerk
No soul sucking jerk, soul sucking jerk
I ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk
I'm gonna take it all back and I ain't sayin' jack
Ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk
Ain't gonna work for no soul-suckin jerk
These lyrics are a story almost like a acid trippin dream ..even without a beat these lyrics woulda got him 1st place at poetry slam
I ain’t washing dishes in a ditch no more
So gimme what I got to get so I can go cause I ain't washing dishes in a ditch no more.
i stole his gun... shadow in the spoon... shoot at the moon... hmm...
Woo
time to get busy dreaming about better days.
2x speed
Im pretty sure its "black cat wrapped in the roadmap to hell.. but whatever the lyrics dont really make sense anyways ;)
+Peter F. i think your right..gotta find my old cd liner !!!
I might be wrong as I said most of the lyrics in this song are basically goofy lol
Peter F. right on bro !!
Becky lyrics make plenty of sense
Song about not selling your soul and all the hardships of working a dead end job and being poor what not
Fucking fuck yeah…
25 years? Fuck.....
How can this be Beck's only good album?
The modern equiv of take this job and shove it while under the influence of rugs.... IF I was to ever do drunk karoake they better have this song.
correction: "big fat fingers pointing into my face"
Beck! best song ever made ...besides I am a loser baby. It represents how I feel these days...Square city living folks...feel sorry for them...also would like to set fire to them!
THROWIN CHICKEN IN A BUCKET WITH A SODA POP CAN
Aaaaanh ouaaaais...
My neighbor gets subjected to this. Poor dude.
Hmmm… never realized this song is actually Skynet’s funny Ode to Cyberdine Systems. Lol. At least up through Terminator 2 anyways. 🤠🤖🤡
KFC, Shake Junt, and P Funk!
115th dream
I got bent like a wet cigarette and she coming up to me with a butterfly net
Space theory demands loves for you
and i ain't saying jack !!!
This song is about Bubba Hotep lol
I got bent like a wet cigarette and she's coming after me with a butterfly net
That's dissociatives in a nut shell..
Put... c'que c'est bon !
Un français !!
@@letravaildegodard7537 oui c'est possible beaucoup de francophone aime la musique anglophone c'est tellement mieux que la musique francophone il faut le dire c'est plus créatif sur bien des points
He has mia
200th comment
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😂
Kinda sounds like Beastie Boys' Rhymin and Steelin
NOT ANYMORE!!!
Get busy
sounds a little like a rap beat
no, no, no!
I ain't gonna work for americans no more
Disturbed man song
Did too much drugs on this one
..I Did Too Much Alcohol....lol.. . .
No way, he did the EXACT right amount of drugs on this one.