Mutations [Import]

mutations [import]

Track Listings
1. Trade Off
2. Pocket
3. Matter of Time
4. Two Roads
5. Follow Me No More
6. Another One Like You
7. Unbeliever
8. Debris
9. Yes Man
10. This Morning [Orchestral]
11. Too Good Looking to Lose
12. When the Truth Comes Calling
13. I'm Set Free
14. Price of Freedom
15. Know Your Product
16. Honey in the Jar
17. Mind of an American

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Further to last year's release of the Hunters albums Natural Selection (hit singles) and Unnatural Selection (great album tracks), comes the final part of the trilogy. Mutations brings together 17 of the band's best rarities and B sides on the one album, many of them on CD for the very first time. "Of all the recent Hunters retrospectives this is the most compelling. It speaks volumes about the band's capacity to re-invent itself year after year whilst driving the songs home through constant touring. Listening to this material again after so many years, I am staggered by the diversity. Try marrying 'Yes Man' with 'Pocket'. How songs like 'The Trade Off' or 'Another One Like you' didn't make it on to albums seems beyond rational explanation. Hunters and Collectors was a powerful artistic community where decisions were often made in the highly charged atmosphere of studio control rooms. Above all, this collection lends testimony to the sheer "We'll Try Anything" attitude that kept the band alive for so long. And ponder this thought: In the contemporary Australian Musical landscape, Hunters and Collectors would be impossible." Liberation. 2005.

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Mutations [Import]
Mutations
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Beck's best album ever!
  • Constantly in my CD player
 Mutations
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Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000G43S
Release Date: 1999-01-05

Tracks:

  1. Cold Brains
  2. Nobody's Fault but My Own
  3. Lazy Flies
  4. Canceled Check
  5. We Live Again
  6. Tropicalia
  7. Dead Melodies
  8. Bottle of Blues
  9. O Maria
  10. Sing It Again
  11. Static
  12. Electric Music and the Summer People
  13. Diamond Bollocks
  14. Runners Dial Zero

Album Description

Japanese edition of Beck's folky 1998 album with three bonustracks, 'Electric Music And The Summer People', 'Diamond Bollocks' & 'Runners Dial Zero'. 14 tracks total, also including the single 'Tropicalia'. A Bongload/ Geffen Records release.

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: Electric Music and the Summer People (Unreleased Version), and Runners Dial Zero.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Beck's best album ever!.......2005-02-23

This is probably one of the 10 best alternative albums of all time. Beck is well-known for his country roots and on Mutations he explores them damn fine.
Opener "Cold Brains" sets the tone for a soft beginning and "Nobody's Fault.." is even softer but also dark with its slow tempo. Both tracks reveal a stoner-folk side of his which 3rd track "Lazy Flies" manipulates to even more essential listening with its close-to-latin sound.
"We Live Again" pays tribute to the Beatles and early Bowie and it's an absolute masterpiece while first single "Tropicalia" reminds us of his 1997 single "Deadweight" and does what its name says.
"Dead Melodies" & "Bottle Of Blues" are beck country-folk-classics while "O Maria" is a tremendous work of jazz-ballad-crooner kinda thing.
"Sing It Again" reminds of "Rowboat" and "Modesto" from 1994's "Stereopathetic Soul Manure" Collection. Last song "Static" sounds extatic and sums it up for bonus tracks: Rockish "Diamond Bollocks" (one of the most peculiar songs Beck ever came up with) and spooky "Runners Dial Zero".
This is one of the few albums that they have to put an "Essential Listening" etiquette. You can listen to it all day long, it's catchy and its Beck's finest Hour.

5 out of 5 stars Constantly in my CD player.......2000-06-20

Good gravy, this Beck fella's talented. And I don't mean merely in the lyrics department--my feeling is that he's still learning to control his tongue. Even the music on this disc is enough to get you hooked. I can't stop singing and/or humming these tunes. They go everywhere, it seems. To call this album "folky" (see below) is to miss the point. This goes way beyond "folk" (I'd like to meet the "folk" who dabble in this strange hybridity). Bonus: the Japanese version gives you two extra tracks that are *maybe* as good as anything else on the disc. "Electric Music and the Summer People" has a surfy, sixties, party feel to it, while "Runners Dial Zero" has an eerie, driving-late-at-night vibe. Outstanding disc, all told. I only wish he would've played some of these songs when I saw him live several months ago. This is a CD I won't even leave at my girlfriend's house.
Mutations
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    		Mutations
    Beck
    Manufacturer: Geffen Import
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000026JMB
    Release Date: 1999-02-09

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