Word: odelay
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Still, Zittrain hasn’t been pirating Odelay in his spare time: every one of the songs in his playlist is his, fair-and-square, copied for personal use from a legally purchased CD. He isn’t even taking advantage of iTunes’ legal sharing function, which might allow him to listen in on the mp3 collection of Law School Dean Elena Kagan, whose office is three floors down, should she have one. All in all, Zittrain listens to music on his PC the same way your dad might...
...supposed to be a rock show, and the glorious reentrance of the Flaming Lips during the bittersweet song “The Golden Age” did little to lift Beck’s spirits. During “Lord Only Knows”, a kitchy trucker rap from Odelay, Coyne lifted his arms in desperate appeal for the applause he apparently knew Beck needed. The crowd cheered loudly in loving spurts; but all attempts to make the singer say something were met only by reticent nods and waves. Beck did start to break out of his shell...
Beck took a low offer from DGC (now Interscope), because it allowed him to record on the side with independent labels and gave him complete artistic freedom. As his subsequent albums bounded between the accessible (Odelay, Mellow Gold) and the avant-garde (Stereopathetic Soulmanure, Mutations), artistic freedom and experimentation became his shtick. It's an inherited trait. His grandfather Al Hansen was a member of the European artists' collective Fluxus, which specialized in Dadaist performance pieces. But Beck draws inspiration from contemporary sources too. "Brando was in some movie"--1996's The Island of Dr. Moreau--"where...
Mittleman’s crazy guy turned out to be Beck, and the phenomenal success of Mellow Gold and Odelay spurred record companies to court her next catch aggressively. After being wined and dined by more than a dozen labels, Lord decided to sign with The Work Group, a Sony label that had released Fiona Apple’s Tidal and several albums from Jamiroquai. The Mary Lou Lord with little more to her name than a guitar and a futon was no more—she had become a big-league recording artist with a six-figure advance...