Beck

. The band's name comes from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, in which Boo Radley is the name of a character who is feared by the neighbourhood children as some kind of freak, but ultimately turns out to be misunderstood.
. Kingsize also featured some electronic beats, anticipating the direction that Martin Carr would take his solo project Bravecaptain. Beck is a Scientologist. The record demonstrated the group's less visceral, more elegant side, and was praised as a fine addition to their canon. He has also appeared as a guest on another animated show Space Ghost: Coast to Coast. The Boo Radleys' final LP was 1998's Kingsize.

In keeping with Beck's sense of humour, there is much self-deprecation ("Odelay is a word! Just look it up in the Becktionary"). (According to indie lore, Radiohead listened to C'mon Kids while recording OK Computer, and were inspired to make their classic more experimental.) Although the singles charted, the band were soon a cult favourite once again. Beck has done a guest voice on Matt Groening's animated show Futurama, playing himself. The Boos were quickly tagged a Britpop band, and they responded in 1996 with C'mon Kids, featuring what some believe to be some of the most challenging and innovative music, indie or otherwise, of the 1990s. Instead of pushing for an early release, a variety of bonus tracks including remixes from Boards of Canada and Dizzee Rascal will be released on March 29th, 2005. Their fourth album, Wake Up (1995), was catchy, but still featured imaginative arrangements, sophisticated songwriting, and esoteric songs like "Martin, Doom! It's Seven O' Clock". Like many commercial artists, Beck's newest album fell victim to an internet leak in mid January 2005. But the press agreed that the band had not sold out, but simply evolved a pop sensibility which had always been present in their music.

The video for the first single, "E-Pro," has been released to the general public on msn.com. This changed when the band made an exciting bid for mainstream success with the euphoric "Wake Up Boo!" This perfect pop song scored a Top 10 position in the UK charts, and the Boos were big. The record, Guero, produced by the Dust Brothers and Tony Hoffer, is tentatively slated for an early 2005 release. Despite massive critical acclaim and a cult fanbase, the Boo Radleys were still largely unknown to the general public by the time that Britpop broke through in 1995. In late 2004, Beck returned to the studio to work on his sixth major-label album. The album takes his title from the John Coltrane opus, of which Carr is a big fan. Beck has a number of b-sides and soundtrack-only songs as well, including "Midnite Vultures" (curiously, not on the album of the same name), a cover of Korgis' "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" which appeared in the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and David Bowie's Diamond Dogs from Moulin Rouge!. The album was received rapturously: picking Giant Steps as their Album of the Year, Select magazine described it as 'an intentional masterpiece'.

The Sea Change tour featured The Flaming Lips as Beck's opening and backing band. The record is infectiously catchy and melodic; kaleidescopic in texture; eclectic –– the second track on the record launches straight into a convincing dub pastiche; and at over an hour in length, one of the most ambitious indie records ever made. Although some radio singles were released no commercial singles were made available to the public. But no-one was prepared for the Boo's 1993 disc, the magnificent Giant Steps. The album also featured string arrangements by Beck's father David Campbell and a sonically dense mix recalling at times Mutations and elements of Midnite Vultures. The record was immediately praised by critics and fans alike as a development and refinement of the group's sound. Sea Change was conceptualized as an album with one unifying theme—the stages following the end of a relationship. Almost immediately after the release of the Every Heaven EP in 1991, Rough Trade collapsed and the Boo Radleys had to move to Creation Records for the release of Everything's Alright Forever in 1992.

After Midnite Vultures came Sea Change in 2002, another airy and emotional album with producer Nigel Godrich. It scraped the bottom of the UK charts, and the Boo Radleys were signed to Rough Trade Records. For Beck, it was a return to the high-energy performances that had been his trademark as far back as Lollapalooza—the live stage set including a red bed that descended from the ceiling for the song "Debra" and the touring band was supplemented by a brass section. Although essentially a shoegazing record, influenced by My Bloody Valentine and Dinosaur Jr, the album was an underground hit. In 1999, Geffen released the much-anticipated Midnite Vultures, an orgy of sexual and culinary innuendo that was supported by a world tour. In 1990, the Boos (as they are fondly known to fans) released Ichabod and I on a small British indie label. A catalogue of the show was published by Plug In Editions/Smart Art Press. Singer/guitarist Sice, guitarist/songwriter Martin Carr, and bassist Timothy Brown originally enjoyed the company of drummer Steve Hewitt, but he was replaced by Rob Cieka after the release of the band's first record.

The show toured from the Santa Monica Museum of Art to galleries in New York City and Winnipeg, Canada. The Boo Radleys were formed in Liverpool, England in 1988. During 1998, Beck's art collaborations with his grandfather Al Hansen were featured in an exhibition entitled Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches and showcased solo and collaborative collage, assemblage, drawing and poetry works. The band split in 1999, and fans believe that the group remains one of the most underrated bands of the past 15 years. Track 10, "Sing It Again,"was written for Johnny Cash, but Beck never submitted it, considering it "rubbish." Cash would go on to record "Rowboat," a song that originally appeared on Beck's Stereopathetic Soul Manure. The Boo Radleys were a British guitar band of the 1990s who made experimental indie music, and were briefly associated with the Britpop movement. Songs on the album consisted of older tracks, some even dating back as far as 1994.

Mutations was a departure from the electronic density of Odelay, and was filled with folk and blues influences. Recorded over two weeks, during which Beck recorded one song a day, the sessions produced 14 songs. Produced by Nigel Godrich of Radiohead fame, it was intended as a stopgap measure before the next album proper. Odelay was followed in 1998 by Mutations.

Within the year, Odelay had received perfect reviews in Rolling Stone and Spin magazines, been listed on countless "Best of" lists, had received double-platinum status, and earned an impressive number of industry awards, including two Grammies. The lead single, "Where It's At," received heavy airplay and its video was in constant rotation on MTV. That one-hit wonder label was put to rest with the release of 1996's Odelay, a collaborative effort with the Dust Brothers, creators of the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique. It didn't help that a lot of audiences (especially at Lollapalooza) were only familiar with "Loser"' and would generally ignore his other work.

Beck took his act on the road with the 1995 Lollapalooza tour. Still, some critics panned him as a one-hit wonder. At the same time, he released One Foot in the Grave on independent K Records and Stereopathetic Soul Manure on Flipside Records. Beck would comment often that like "Loser," the song that inspired it, the "slacker" label was very ironic. In 1994, Geffen's release of Mellow Gold made Beck a mainstream success—and led to his iconic status as the "slacker" representative of the alternative rock scene.

Eventually, he chose Geffen Records, who offered him terms that included allowing for the release of independent albums while under contract. Their 1993 12" vinyl "Loser," from an initial run of 500 copies, created a sensation on alternative radio that led to a furious bidding war between labels to sign Beck. It was in this atmosphere of heady creativity that the founders of Bong Load Custom Records discovered Beck. Some of his earliest and most thought provoking recordings were achieved by working with Tom Grimley at Poop Alley Studios, a part of WIN Records.

In the spirit of an artist struggling to make a name for himself, his shows were memorable for their mix of humor and eccentricity. During this time, Beck sought out (or snuck onto) stages at venues all over LA, from punk clubs to coffee shops. To support himself, he took a variety of low-paying, dead-end jobs, and even lived in a shed, all the while continuing to develop his music. Beck returned to LA at the turn of the decade, destitute but motivated.

New York City and the late '80s found himself part of the punk-influenced anti-folk music movement. In Germany, he spent time with his maternal grandfather, fluxus artist Al Hansen. After dropping out of high school in the mid-1980s, Beck educated himself and traveled widely. Hopefully compared by critics to the more obscure moments of Bob Dylan and given an enthusiastic seal of approval by Allen Ginsberg, Beck was a link between the folk and beatnik past and the hip-hop present.

Bungle and avant garde composers such as John Zorn who experimented with similar genre raiding, Beck achieved notice with his free-flowing, sometimes absurd lyrical stylings. Beck's music is often considered to be typical of much popular alternative music of the 1990s with its disdain for genre conventions, obtuse and ironic lyrics, and the melding of samples with played instruments. However, what set him apart from rock groups such as Mr. When his parents separated, he stayed with his mother and brother in LA, where he was influenced by that 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 recorded and published work. Beck Hansen was born in Los Angeles, California to parents, David Campbell, a musician, and Bibbe Hansen, a visual artist.

Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician and songwriter. Southlander. Download sample of "Sissyneck" from Odelay.