‎Beck

The first album covered by Beck's Record Club was The Velvet Underground & Nico. In 1999, Beck contributed to a tribute album for Bruce Haack and Esther Nelson and their label Dimension 5 Records. The track was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance for the 65th Grammy Awards later in 2022. The experimental pop-fused record received generally positive reviews from critics. Upon receiving the Album of the Year award, the album beat out Pharrell Williams's G I R L, Beyoncé's self-titled album, Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour, and Ed Sheeran's x. The idea of Song Reader came about nearly fifteen years prior, shortly after the release of Odelay.

This was the fourth single to be released from their album For That Beautiful Feeling. Frontman Nate Ruess on the single "What This World Is Coming To", which was one of the Grammy-winning artist's many works featured on his debut solo album Grand Romantic released in June 2015. On June 20, 2009, Beck announced that he was starting an experiment called Record Club, in which he and other musicians would record cover versions of entire albums in one day. Initially, the eight-track album released digitally with a physical release on red vinyl set for 13 February, 2026. On June 21, 2023, Beck released the track "Odyssey" with French pop-rock band Phoenix, who did a co-headlining summer tour with Beck, which started in August and ended in September. It is currently unknown if this means a 15th studio album will be released in the upcoming future or not.

About Beck

The first contemporary music that made a direct connection with Beck was hip hop, which he first heard on Grandmaster Flash records in the early 1980s. Returning to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, he saw his commercial breakthrough with his 1993 single "Loser." After signing with DGC Records, the song peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and served as lead single for his third album and major label debut, Mellow Gold (1994). He has musically encompassed folk, funk, soul, hip hop, electronica, alternative rock, country, and psychedelia.

When he was 17, Beck grew fascinated after hearing a Mississippi John Hurt record at a friend's house, and spent hours in his room trying to emulate Hurt's finger-picking techniques. Beck obtained his first guitar at 16 and became a street musician, often playing Lead Belly covers at Lafayette Park. After his parents separated when he was ten, Beck stayed with his mother and brother Channing in Los Angeles, where he was influenced by the city's diverse musical offerings—everything from hip hop to Latin music and his mother's art scene—all of which would later reappear in his work.

• Beck lapsed into a period of melancholy and introspection, during which he wrote the bleak, acoustic-based tracks later found on Sea Change.
• As the decade progressed, Beck incorporated ideas borrowed from big-ticket pop, working with producers such as Pharrell Williams and Greg Kurstin on his albums Colors and Hyperspace—but he retained the wide-ranging approach that’s made him one of the alt-rock boom’s most enduring stars.
• Following the release of Sea Change, Beck felt newer compositions were sketches for something more evolved in the same direction, and wrote nearly 35 more songs in the coming months, keeping demos of them on tapes in a suitcase.
• Returning to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, he saw his commercial breakthrough with his 1993 single "Loser." After signing with DGC Records, the song peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and served as lead single for his third album and major label debut, Mellow Gold (1994).
• In December 2012, an interactive iPhone app titled "Rework_" was released to complement the album.

Mellow Gold, and independent albums (1993–

Many music critics have noted that it sounds like a return to the folk of Morning Phase and Sea Change. Following the commercial featuring the cover, Neil Young posted a still image from his 1988 music video for "This Note's For You", an anti-commercialization song in protest of the cover and commercial. On July 18, 2018, Beck performed the title track Colors, and the first single "Wow" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. It was recorded at co-executive producer Greg Kurstin's Los Angeles studio, with Beck and Kurstin playing nearly every instrument themselves.

In 2002 he released the stripped-down Sea Change, an introspective album that, to great acclaim, showed off the sensitive side of someone previously pegged as an ironist. Born in 1970, Beck Hansen got his musical start in New York’s anti-folk scene; his relocation to Los Angeles led to him incorporating hip-hop-inspired sounds, a combo that helped “Loser,” his chugging yet surrealistic breakthrough, go from college-radio oddity to one of 1994’s defining singles. He has been known to synthesize several musical elements together in his music, including folk, psychedelia, electronic, country, Latin music, hip hop, funk, soul, blues, noise music, jazz, art pop and many types of rock. A music video for the song was also filmed and feature appearances from the two musicians as well as drag queen Gigi Goode and actress Sharon Stone. He recorded "14 Rivers, 14 Floods" backed by a full gospel choir, live onto the first electrical sound recording system from the 1920s.

Beck has contributed three new songs—"Cities", "Touch the People" and "Spiral Staircase"—to the video game Sound Shapes for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita. In 2011, he collaborated with Seu Jorge on a track titled "Tropicália (Mario C. 2011 Remix)" for the Red Hot Organization's charitable album Red Hot+Rio 2, a follow-up to the 1996 album Red Hot + Rio. Beck wrote the music, co-wrote the lyrics, and produced and mixed the album. Then, on July 12, he added a section called Videotheque, which he said would contain "promotional videos from each album, as well as live clips, TV show appearances and other rarities". Soon after, on July 7, Beck announced that his website would be featuring "extended informal conversations with musicians, artists, filmmakers, and other various persons" in a section called Irrelevant Topics. Beck co-wrote and performed on the song "Flavor", from the 1994 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album Orange.

Digital download releases automatically downloaded the song's additional video for each single sale, and physical copies came bundled with an additional DVD featuring fifteen videos. The Information, Beck's tenth studio album, began production around the same time as Guero, in 2003. Also released in 2005 was A Brief Overview, a 12-track promotional-only "History of Beck" compilation CD sampler that featured a combination of older and newer Beck tracks. Following the release of Sea Change, Beck felt newer compositions were sketches for something more evolved khelaghor in the same direction, and wrote nearly 35 more songs in the coming months, keeping demos of them on tapes in a suitcase. Eventually, however, he decided the songs spoke to a common experience, and that it would not seem self-indulgent to record them.

Lead single "E-Pro" peaked at number one at Modern Rock radio, making it his first chart-topper since "Loser". Guero debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 162,000 copies, an all-time sales high. Beck was playful and energetic, sometimes throwing in covers of the Rolling Stones, Big Star, the Zombies and the Velvet Underground.

He also collaborated with Lady Gaga on the song "Dancin' in Circles", from her 2016 album Joanne. In 2014, Beck collaborated with Sia for the song "Moonquake Lake", which is featured in the soundtrack for the 2014 Annie film. Beck collaborated on two songs for Childish Gambino's "Royalty" mixtape in 2012.