"Im kim deal of sonic youth"

@notme193

5 жыл бұрын

hahahahahahah ...dude knows whats up

@MisterRON

5 жыл бұрын

Whats the context here? I mean, yeah, Beck, but someone please clue me in.

@gamingchanneldumbass6729

5 жыл бұрын

@@MisterRON The presenter is Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and his (ex) wife ,who is also in Sonic Youth, is Kim Gordon.

@imthegrk

3 жыл бұрын

@@MisterRON Kim Deal was in Pixies and Breeders.

@NOWtheband

3 жыл бұрын

That is indeed what he says. :-)

This is Beck, performing: Song.

@DEthe5150

5 жыл бұрын

Right on.

@lipgloss-and-cigarettes

5 жыл бұрын

DEthe5150 *awkward high five*

Yesh, nothing like 90's high fives

And no fucks were given that day

@steelyspielbergo

9 жыл бұрын

....decade

@lanceearlwoods528

9 жыл бұрын

mike spence :-) nice

@mebeasensei

9 жыл бұрын

Beck still get laid in the MTV spa later?

@shupamelapijaboludo

6 жыл бұрын

Basically, nobody paid no mind

he is improvising one of his own songs and singing about an industry that is about to absorb him. this is one of the greatest moments of all time.

@TheRealValus

4 жыл бұрын

3 lies and you're out

@mikepurdy1738

3 жыл бұрын

The trick is to embrace irony

@maximosolomon1385

3 жыл бұрын

instablaster...

@hjillumi880

2 жыл бұрын

eh why y´all styled like our generation and culture and how we grew up like we´re fashion ?

Beck has practically become his own genre by this point.

@fiddygd8304

5 жыл бұрын

"What's your favourite genre?" "Beck"

@MinorScalesMajorFuckups

3 жыл бұрын

I think the really really good musicians do that more or less.

@stevelibby6852

3 жыл бұрын

He invents new genres then he transcends them. --Someone on Futurama. Think it was Bender.

@drillbit8280

2 жыл бұрын

Only two bands who made their own genres : Beck, Primus

@paulrode662

2 жыл бұрын

love him

Ingenious performance by Kim Deal of Sonic Youth performing song. Kicks ass

@DazeyChaineMusic

3 ай бұрын

Kim deal performing beck through her consort , some guy, playing their smash hit, a song

This is perhaps the single best performance in the history of television.

Beck in general is amazing, but early Beck was on another level.

@jodyvance1554

2 жыл бұрын

Early Beck was just that, an musician early in his career, with about as many misses as hits, if you listen to his actual recordings pre-Mellow Gold as well as that album. 'Midnight Vultures', 'Mutations', ''Odelay', 'Guero' and esp. 'Sea Change' are all better, more mature works.

@abraxasjinx5207

4 ай бұрын

Ozzy, ozzy, ozzy, ozzy....

@jimjiminy5836

Ай бұрын

A genius

He's there to promote he's forthcoming album "Mellow Gold" on the Mtv, wich was huge in 1994. Any other artist would've tried to impress the audience but he was like "I don't give a fuck. I'll improv the lyrics to one of the best songs on the album and won't put any effort on my guitar playing...I might as well play Mtv makes me wanna smoke crack". Genius! On Mtv by '94 you could watch videos and performances of a lot of wannabe/impostors bands pretending to be alt rock-indie- grunge-whatever. Probably Beck didn't wanted to be mistaken with one of those acts.

“Someone kissed their own ass by mistake” Haha. He was such a fun lyricist

My favorite track off of Mellow Gold: Song.

@marciocouto3543

Жыл бұрын

my favourite Beck song. but the album version.

All you folks comparing Beck to Kurt Cobain, you might want to actually go listen to some more of his music. His influences are hugely varied, and he's no Kurt Cobain imposter. He is on the other hand a big Syd Barrett fan and the influence is glaringly obvious right here. Beck, you're the man my man!

@Dylanquinn666

10 жыл бұрын

I don't get the whole Kurt Cobain thing. I'm not saying that he should be compared to anyone, but if there is anyone he reminds me of it's early Ween.

@connorbowen3987

10 жыл бұрын

Dylan Quinn I don't get it either. "Oh he's got long blonde hair and a guitar? Obviously Kurt Cobain wannabe!"

@MrKmanthie

7 жыл бұрын

Anthony Monaghan "comparing 'Beck' to 'Kurt Cobain'"?? Whoa, wait a minute. Those 2 both sorta got "famous" around the same time & before that "explosion", so to speak, came from independent sources/areas/etc. Beck comes from an artistic family: his grandfather was a innovative artist in the "fluxus" movement & IDK about his parents, either mom or dad, but he had the freedom & openness of L.A. in which to blossom & thrive, which he did, even if you only counted up to Odelay & also that acoustic EP he did, One Foot in the Grave. Anyway, no, no, no. There's no comparing those 2. Cobain's influences were bands like Melvins, Husker Du, Frogs, and some other local (Washington-Based) bands in that same noisy, rebellious spirit. If there's any one person I'd use as a comparison to kurt cobain, it would be, hmm...hard to pick just one individual, but, much more of an apt example than Beck would be Buzz Osborne, of the Melvins, one of Cobain's faves.

@Junior13113

7 жыл бұрын

Definitely see a lot of Syd in him, as well as a bit of Lou Reed just in how he presents himself so nonchalantly and unpredictably.

@camila782

7 жыл бұрын

For these people he's the Kurt Cobain starter pack himself, pretty face, blonde hair and blue eyes

I'm Kim Deal of Sonic Youth, Lmao

that solo at the end is the greatest thing in the history of rock 'n' roll

@MrGreeenGenes

2 жыл бұрын

i like his laugh after he does it

What a great era to be alive. One of the greatest live performances ever.

It's incredible, really, how much he's both changed and not changed.

Mellow Gold is such a great and fucked up album. Classic 90s.

@williamkruegel5593

9 жыл бұрын

Awww Yes......Soooo fucked up. I loved it. Definitely helped mold me into who I am today.

@BlueHopi144

9 жыл бұрын

William Kruegel ohhh yeah ! loved it immediately when i got my ears on it - Stereopathetic Soulmanure is also a very well fucked up previous album . Gosh this guy has talent .

@dogpetdog

8 жыл бұрын

stereopathetic soulmanure is the greatest beck album of all time, you gotta love though how mellow gold keeps getting weirder and weirder as the album goes on, motherf**er and nitemare hippy girl, favs

@justindawson5930

3 жыл бұрын

@@dogpetdog truck driving neighbors downstairs

@fourlightsorchestra

3 жыл бұрын

Mellow gold is probably my favorite album from him, with one foot in the grave a close second. I gotta admit though, after odelay, I kinda lost interest.

Love how Beck amuses himself with the completely random playing at the very end 2:38.

@domesticatedsk8r40

3 жыл бұрын

acid makes things coo

the coolest person from the 90's

@marcsullivan7987

2 жыл бұрын

I think that award might have to go to Ween

@lippemuniz

5 ай бұрын

@@marcsullivan7987 No.

I a!ways loved Beck.... I loved him as a 14 year old kid and I still love his stuff, old and new at 45..... 🤓 Still get goosebumps too....

This is peak Generation X and it's hilarious.

It's such a beautiful thing to see an artist that's super precious for me like Beck, as a kid at the same time I was a kid. And fighting my abusers... Music was everything for me. The musicians I loved then and now, helped me in a way that's just huge. A natural and unoposable blackhole of natural happiness and rythums in my mind that helped me survive psychological torture. Now I look back with a smile that's just about palpable. Music is special anyway, but for me, in my history, it was part of something so huge, linked directly to my survival. Normally you'd look back and be triggered and re-traumatised by such memories of the past. But music is pure somehow. I look back and feel a pure and beautiful thing that doesn't seem to be connected to the source of my CPTSD with language and normal memory constructs. It's as pure feeling now as it was then. Even though the content of films and songs were used in gaslighting, which did work to traumatise me at the time..... I'd love to help people like me. If any doctors or therapists need a narcissistic abuse expert. I would love to help others using my knowledge and thoughts about the subject. I think I could keep up with even Sam Vacknin on this subject.....

@wesleyalan9179

2 жыл бұрын

❤

all the idiots comparing him to 'cobain' obviously dont know who bob dylan is because Beck reminds me alot of dylan here more than anyone. Also Dylan let beck record Leopard skin pillbox hat and personally told him to do it because dylan obviously likes him

@joekerr9150

3 жыл бұрын

bob dylan is gay for beck hansen

@orange_I_am

3 ай бұрын

​@@joekerr9150 I'm gay

I got bent like a wet cigarette and she's coming after me with a butterfly net

Why would anyone be comparing Beck to Kurt Cobain? Because he's sitting on a chair with a guitar and long-ish hair? Morons. They're both great in their own (totally different) ways.

@CapAnson12345

9 жыл бұрын

Seriously none of us who lived back then thought the two were any way similar.. other than the longish blond hair.

@MagnumEvolved

9 жыл бұрын

they're both INFPs

@SuperMiley1994

5 жыл бұрын

The Memorgia im also an infp nobody gives a shit i know but like im a fan of Beck and Kurt. So that makes me excited that they're also an infp lmaoo

@Nyxx2066

5 жыл бұрын

CapAnson12345 lmao we r comparing them because of how both of them do interviews, they make up weird answers...😂

@Cairo98_

3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't take much anymore does it? Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters is compared as well. 😂

dude trolling from the 90s yo

This was a great album. Beck blew my mind. Rad. The dude can write!

This is awesome. Maybe my favorite Beck song from back in the days of mellow gold

This version should be released on streaming services. Without being tinkered with, enhanced or anything, it sounds amazing just like this.

Beck: great American songwriter MTV: you can't sing the lyrics you wrote GenX: the story of our lives

I talked to the label guy from Virgin records who signed Beck. He told me he didn't sign him based on the song Loser, which turned into the biggest hit of the 90's, but on this song he's playing in the video. Beck was collaborating a lot back then with an act that went by the name Forest For The Trees. You can hear a lot of the ideas Beck used on Mello Gold on the hard to find Forest FTT debut.

sounds like he's writing it on the spot lmao

@ferrioseco5139

6 жыл бұрын

oneofanceantproficy He actually is at many points during the performance, especially at the beginning

@josephancion2190

4 жыл бұрын

@mm t It was his third album, what are you on abut ? His first was Golden Feelings.

you can totally see the ridiculously intense look on Becks face right after they cut the song in the middle and it goes back on ahahaha xDD

Perfect. Just perfect.

Thurston Moore trying so hard not to laugh xD

Stoned on another level!

The guy DOES have a phenomenal voice. I love Johnny Cash’s comment on the “Johnny Cash talks about Beck” KZread.

lol 'tonight the city is totally lame' I love his word play.

The young version of The Dude.

I think a more apt comparison would be between Beck and Daniel Johnston who he idolized around this time

@derailedamazementisfuzzy

7 жыл бұрын

you can definitely tell in this era he was split between making weird eclectic tapes like Johnston and making finger picking folk songs like Mississippi John Hurt and Woodie Guthrie

What happened in the USA to produce a kid like beck? Unbridled nonchalance. Wonderful

did he just introduce himself in the third person?

@PinkDevilFish

10 жыл бұрын

He introduced himself as Kim Deal from the Sonic Youth.

@TopazRocker

10 жыл бұрын

It's funny because Kim Gordan is actually of Sonic Youth but he said Kim Deal who is actually from The Pixies XD gotta love Beck

@bentnosewp

9 жыл бұрын

TopazRocker Breeders during this time frame.

@tables21

8 жыл бұрын

+TopazRocker omg you're so smart ,nobody noticed that

@TopazRocker

8 жыл бұрын

Jyzz Jnx I try to stay humble and all, but thank you. My observation skills are quite great.

WHOA!!! I haven't seen this in years; I remember seeing it on 120 minutes. I just realized that he teased the melody from the intro to Metroid at the very end. Awesome!!!

I like how he switched the names around and stuff. It lets you know he's very very alternative and cool for his 1.5 hit songs over the past 35 years.

@RB-nl6qv

Жыл бұрын

more importantly he's endured 35 years and still putting out new stuff.

genius, a once in a generation musician, most underrated of the 90s

He got to be Dylan without the voice of the generation baggage.

I love the both of them.

IMPROVISANDO PAY NO MIND ! GENIO !!!

Wow 120 minutes with Beck. Classic.

I never could figure Beck out- which is why I like him.

Tonight the city is full of morgues... This is amazing! Never seen this version thanks! My fav beck song ever.

I've seen this whole thing and honestly I keep getting this feeling that he was completely wasted the whole time.

@jdexposure

8 жыл бұрын

+Danny Mandeville Oh yeah, high as a Georgia pine!

@basedsouljah

3 жыл бұрын

I heard shrooms on this one haha someone told me that on the interview portions comments

@devilangel1519

Ай бұрын

Yall obviously can’t tell they both blowed tf out lol

These guys are the best at high fives

That ending is amazing.

This has to be the greatest thing I've ever seen.

just laughs at the end.

This is my favorite Beck, because of the satire and irony and truth. Once he got famous he became more pop.

The 90s were a magical, magical time.

Totally agree. It's the decade in one performance.

Hilariously brilliant lyrics.

alternate lyrics on this, finger picked rather than strummed, one of my favorites from that album.

loved this guy in superbad

this is the 90s-est thing I have ever seen. Apathetic shaggy white guy singing a grungy acoustic song. Well done Mr. Beck

Omg the guy looks like he is going to cry or laugh in the intro! I can’t stop laughing

best solo ever!

This put a giant smile on my face

"It's a hundred'n'.. MTV's a hundred and twunty two minutes, I'm Kim Deal of Sonic Youth your guest host tonight and now with music from his soon to be released debut album MelowGoldHere'sBeck.. performing: song." -Beck My fucking hero.

Beck not trying in this performance ironically makes one of his best songs even better

This song is the anthem to my town.

"everything in the city is totally lame" best opening lyric ever

"I'm Kim Deal of Sonic Youth" Thurston ALMOST lost it! LOL

love your masterful words Beck!

If they'll make a Then and Now with Beck - This should be the Then

I'm Kim Deal from Sonic Youth...too funny!

Gonna go write "Someone kissed their own ass by mistake" on the whites of my converse hi-tops

That ending is one of a kind.

Kim Deal dude! Thurston tryin' to keep it straight... LOL! One Foot and Mellow Gold... Never could top those two.

Great voice!

Beck was so high that day.

2:38 that's metroid (nes) song played in secret areas!

Beck is a hellava drug...

What an ending. EXCELLENT.

Kurt and Beck,,, that would`ve been awesome,,,,,

@chaosgamer1692

7 жыл бұрын

and neil young

@diegocraigdallie

7 жыл бұрын

And Neil Armstrong

@scottianmacleod

6 жыл бұрын

And Neil Cassidy

@fallenangelcrimson

3 ай бұрын

And Gibby Haynes

@valdrec Vintage VHS has a certain charm to it. We are too pampered with quality these days. Soon we won't watch any archive footage because it's isn't 1080p HD in 3D with 9.1 surround.

i fucking love the end

This guy is going places.

this would never occur on TV today. At all

The high five he does to the guy at the beginning is perfect

@bamboozle3990

Жыл бұрын

Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth it looked like

Artists could essentially sabotage their big chance on national tv back then because the talent always rose to the top regardless of how it was promoted or packaged. Different story these days

"someone kissed their own ass by mistake :p"

The anti folk folk singer Beck, F yeah!

I love the guitar. Not that hard to play if you know how to pick. The notes at the end really proves theres some sarcasm going on. He didn't care, he would have been happy working a day job and playing the night scene and never get signed by a major label. Incredible word man. Not that many people have the mind to know.

I think he plays a bit from Metroid (nes) at the end

I would love to see that!

It's like there is some "vintage-effect" turned to his guitar, sounds really nice

@fourlightsorchestra

3 жыл бұрын

Finger picking in a sort of Mississippi John Hurt style helps.

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@janotosinnumeros i am a woman...and i agree. this is one of my favorite albums by beck, but all of his stuff is incredibly inventive and creative. I just hope he keeps putting out records (after all...outside the music world 39 is not that old)

A bunch of people mad at people for comparing him to Kurt Cobain, but then you don't see anyone actually comparing him to Kurt Cobain.

“Giant ghetto blaster crushing the sun”