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Beck Hansen has never sought to seize the commercial mainstream, but in , the commercial mainstream seized him. Two experimental, independently-released albums in, he suddenly found himself in the role of reluctant representative of the youth zeitgeist of the day thanks to a song that mixed self-ridicule and sardonic wit.

But it developed a life of its own, and it led Beck to the record deal that produced the next album in our Essentials series, his major label debut Mellow Gold. The single first appeared in a run of just copies on inch vinyl in March on Bong Load, after label owner Tom Rothrock introduced Beck to Stephenson.

It happened in with "Mutations," in with "Sea Change, and again on his new brand-new album "Morning Phase," release this week. Paradoxically, on March 1, exactly 20 years will have passed since Beck released his first major-label album, "Mellow Gold.

The standout single, "Loser," made Beck both an unlikely star and an inaccurate and unwilling representative of slacker culture. Nonetheless, the helter-skelter construction of "Mellow Gold" became a template for the lo-fi, subtly subversive indie-rock genre and ultimately influenced a wide range of artists, from Cat Power to Arcade Fire and practically everyone in between. Yahoo Music scraped the vaults to unearth 10 little-known facts about the album that launched Beck's career and helped changed the ever-morphing face of alternative music.

Beck considered calling the album "Cold Ass Fashion," but instead named it after a potent strain of California marijuana. The sculpture was titled "Survivor From the Nuclear Bomb. The final image was reshot in a studio where Harris was able to control the environment and add visual effects to make it look more apocalyptic. The groundbreaking "Loser" was a musical experiment created over an impromptu jam session with Rap-A-Lot producer Carl Stephensen.

Bong Load Records partner Tom Rothrock encouraged Beck to show his folk songs to Stephensen, and since Beck knew the producer dealt mostly with hip-hop, he mentioned that he sometimes rapped in concert between songs. He improvised a slide guitar riff on the spot and Stephensen programmed a complimentary beat. Inspired, Beck wrote and rapped lyrics for the verse "When [Stephensen] played it back, I thought, 'Man, I'm the worst rapper in the world — I'm just a loser,' Beck told Option magazine.

Beck wrote one of the oldest songs on the album, "Pay No Mind Snoozer ," when he was 18 years old. In the same Spin interview where he raged against the toaster, he remembered the communal warmth he felt as a teenager riding the bus on L. Mostly though, fashioning himself as a kind of rapper was a chance for Beck to undermine the sanctity of what it meant to be a white guy with an acoustic guitar.

That he understood hip-hop as an extension of folk music rather than a betrayal of it—the way rap spun meaningful, entertaining stories out of everyday life using equipment anyone could get their hands on—felt insightful, even subversive, especially at a time when we were starting to digest the reality that grunge was just classic rock after all: the same quest for glory, the same macho, self-serious dream.

And as vivid as it was, it also felt magically displaced in time. Part of the fun and frustration of encountering Mellow Gold was figuring out what, if any of this, Beck took seriously. His mother, Bibbe, had been in some Andy Warhol movies and later played in a band called Black Fag with the drag performer Vaginal Davis. Where punks of generations past responded to dwindling prospects with angst, the slacker supposedly shrugged. Devil's Haircut 2. Hotwax 3.

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