Beck – Beercan
1994 · Directed by Steve Hanft
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Best comments
1.“When asked in an interview if he thought he was the Bob Dylan of the '90s, Beck said, 'Naw – more like the Bon Jovi of the '60s.'”
More comments
- 2.“Back when you could still find good acid. The '90s... *sniff*”
- 3.“I'm 75 and I love this shit. Nobody's like Beck. Makes me feel like I'm never going to be a dinosaur.”
The story
Beercan came off Mellow Gold, Beck's first major-label album, in 1994. The track is a junk drawer with a beat: producer Carl Stephenson and Beck folded in a sample from a Care Bears record and a quick grab from the Melvins. It reached number 27 on the US Modern Rock chart.
Steve Hanft, Beck's friend and the director of Loser, shot the video, and it's loose and experimental. A group of homeless people raids an empty house and tears it apart, a rainbow keeps showing up (maybe a wink at that Care Bears sample), and the camera flips between a fisheye lens and a normal one. Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne turns up too. Paste put it on its list of Beck's most surreal videos and compared it to a skate video directed by Michel Gondry. The pictures and the song mostly ignore each other. That's the charm.
