Beck: Odelay Deluxe Edition
It’s not just Michael Jackson releasing a deluxe (remixed) version of a classic album. Beck is getting in on the action too with the release of the Deluxe Edition of Odelay. Just a mere 12 years after is original release.
The scribble of a face might help people decipher that it’s actually a breed of dog jumping over the bar. A Komondor, a rare Hungarian breed of dog with thick matted hair. I think Lenny Kravitz has one :)
Here’s another image from the same set. It would have been nice of them to use this photo for the deluxe edition. 12 years later and the dog has moved 20 cm. Photo from here.
If you want more intfo there are plenty of breeder sites about the dogs like this one.
Look how adorable they look as a puppy! LOL cats can get stuffed.
They also come in a variety of colours and shades.
Ok, enough about the dog. But if you think the dog is weird check out this Blob Fish photo I found while researching this.
Ok, back to the cover at hand.
Above is the “Big Active” version of the cover. Which differs from what’s seen on Amazon and other online stores which has the “deluxe edition” watermark. Which was picked up in the comments as probably a sticker/plastic slip that is standard for all Universal deluxe releases.
It reminds me of the “Print is Dead” cover which we featured a while back.
The artwork for the original album has been completely defaced and reworked but it’s essentially the same. Which is an easy analogy to make when talking about the contents of the actual double album.
It’s as if you lent the album to your younger brother and it comes back defaced. You didn’t have a chance to thank him for the “artwork” as he returned it directly to your CD stack 2 years earlier and you didn’t realise. It’s too late to do anything about it so you just end up smashing something of his and hiding it under his bed as payback.
Here’s a few more pieces from the original reworked.
The cover was deisned by Big Active’s Mat Maitland. The same guy behind “The Information” cover. Big Active have also reworked their site and now has direct links to the work! This means I can link directly to where I ripped their images from like here.
There are also reported in Pitchfork that placeholder lyrics were wrongly printed on the first run of the album.
“It turns out the “Deluxe Edition” reissue of Beck’s sampledelic Odelay that shipped this week came with a lyric booklet full of mistakes. According to a press release, “The first pressing of the recent Odelay: Deluxe Edition was found to have gone out with un-proofed lyrics that were taken from a lyrics website as placeholders for layout purposes. Beck apologizes for this unfortunate oversight and is making arrangements for the corrected lyrics to be available gratis via Beck.com. Subsequent pressings of the Odelay: Deluxe Edition will also include the corrected lyrics.”
So if you have a version of that it might be worth something down the track.
The album has also spawned some fan made film clips. These weren’t clips created in response to a competition to create a film clip but actual ones created for fun! Imagine that.
And if you enjoyed those two then you probably wont enjoy this one.
You gotta love fans.
