So it looks as if the most recent pressing of Beck’s Odelay: Deluxe Edition was released with incorrect lyrics in the liner notes. Supposedly, lyrics were taken off of lyrics sites online as placeholders for the design team and then were never proofed or removed before the disc went to print.
No offense to the man himself, but I highly doubt that anyone would even notice. Beck is an outrageous lyricist and flows random thoughts off the tongue like no other. So heres a little test for any of you out there who think you know Beck’s style. Below are ten lines and your job is to find which ones are actually lyrics from Odelay. Good luck, answers after the cut.
1. Is it long before the spirit shaves his legs?
2. Discount orgies on the dropout buses
3. Cats riding low in their Hyundais
4. Ooo la la in the lady barbershop
5. Can Judas hear them calling?
6. I put my eyes in a paper bag
7. Rhumba, brickshot, doing the foxtrot
8. Asian b-boys rockin the robot on hot rooftops
9. Strike one, two, three – oh well c’est la vie!
10. Soda pop spittin’ out slime
True lyrics from Odelay: 1, 2, 6, 7, 10
Melby’s hot rhymes: 3, 4, 5, 8, 9
So? How’d you do?
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Comment by Borch — February 14, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
Not cheating, not cheating, not cheating…
1. Not Beck
2. Beck
3. Of course it’s Beck, it’s about Hyundais. Or is that a sneaky trick to fool us all?
4. Not Beck
5. Too Beck for Beck = Not Beck
6. Beck
7. Talks about dancing? Beck.
8. Beck.
9. Not Beck - why would he need other weird languages?
10. Beck
7/10, C+ Of course, ‘Hyundai’ was too obvious - nice one.