BECK - One Foot In The Grave: Expanded Edition
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 10:00AM 
Much like Dylan and The Band's Basement Tapes (also recently reissued, as it were), One Foot In The Grave saw Beck Hansen temporarily setting up camp in a new town, in this case Olympia, Washington, woodshedding with willing players (K Records' Calvin Johnson, The Spinanes' Scott Plouf, Lync's Sam Jayne and James Bertram, and Chris Ballew from The Presidents Of The United States) and cobbling together an inspired, ramshackle and oft-old-time-influenced batch of songs ranging from the nonsensical and light-hearted to the dead-serious and forlorn. Beloved by many since its initial release on K back in 1994, this expanded edition on Beck's own Iliad imprint practically doubles the playing time, including the originally-omitted blues-harp stomper title track, the tender two-chord ballad "It's All In Your Mind", and enough other unreleased off-cuts to fall for that budding young 'alternative' troubadour all over again.
Reader Comments (1)
One Foot In the Grave is definitely one of the Beck's best album.
A total indie treasure I discovered when I was 16 in 1999, never found his other "acoustic" albums like Mutations and Sea Change nearly as interesting as One Foot.
Highly recommended.