Jump to content

Loser- Beck


Heather22960

Recommended Posts

I´ll post it so we´ll see clearly...

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey

Butane in my veins and I?m out to cut the junkie

With the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables

Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose

Kill the headlights and put it in neutral

Stock car flamin? with a loser and the cruise control

Baby?s in reno with the vitamin d

Got a couple of couches, sleep on the love-seat

Someone came in sayin? I?m insane to complain

About a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt

Don?t believe everything that you breathe

You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve

So shave your face with some mace in the dark

Savin? all your food stamps and burnin? down the trailer park

Yo. cut it.

Soy un perdedor

I?m a loser baby, so why don?t you kill me?

Soy un perdedor

I?m a loser baby, so why don?t you kill me?

Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare

Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber

?cuz one?s got a weasel and the other?s got a flag

One?s on the pole, shove the other in a bag

With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job

The daytime cr*p of the folksinger slob

He hung himself with a guitar string

A slab of turkey-neck and it?s hangin? from a pigeon wing

You can?t write if you can?t relate

Trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate

And my time is a piece of wax fallin? on a termite

That?s chokin? on the splinters

Soy un perdedor

I?m a loser baby, so why don?t you kill me?

(get crazy with the cheese whiz)

Soy un perdedor

I?m a loser baby, so why don?t you kill me?

(drive-by body-pierce)

(yo bring it on down)

Soooooooyy....

(I?m a driver, I?m a winner; things are gonna change I can feel it)

Soy un perdedor

I?m a loser baby, so why don?t you kill me?

(I can?t believe you)

Soy un perdedor

I?m a loser baby, so why don?t you kill me?

Soy un perdedor

I?m a loser baby, so why don?t you kill me?

(schprechen sie deutches, baby)

Soy un perdedor

I?m a loser baby, so why don?t you kill me?

(know what I?m sayin?? )

I don´t see much clearer now... let´s wait till someone knows about it and tells us more...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This is quite an interesting article I found :)

Loser

I was in the car with my brother, driving to KFC. I was, as I usually do, playing with the car stereo, skipping from station to station trying to find some reasonably good music. I hit a button and the familiar slide guitar at the beginning of "Loser" came through the speaker. And I thought to myself what the hell was that?

When loser was a hit, in 1994, it seemed like a such an incredibly cool song. It was the definition of cool. There was the dorky slide guitar, the underlying hip-hop beat, the lyrics that didn't really mean anything and the glorious chorus peaking with "I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me!"

For the nations of fashionably cynical teens, it was an anthem. I remember driving around with my friend singing along. Man, we were losers! Who cares about job, education, responsibility, we were losers so we didn't have to care about that sort of "bullshit".

How wrong can you be?

I think the turning point for me came when I saw Beck perform live. Surrounding me was a sea of alternative conformity. Doc Martens boots. Piercings. Goatees. It was everywhere and most of the audience was there for one man and one song.

A few much cooler people were there solely for the support band, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, who really confused the audience who wanted to like them, but couldn't yell and scream because the JSBX played continuously, with no breaks between songs.

Beck joined the JSBX for a song, which massively excited the audience, but it wasn't Loser so it didn't really matter.

When Beck finally got on everyone wanted him to play Loser, Loser Loser and for an encore, Loser. Unfortunately he played other songs, but the B-sides from the Loser single were recognised and screamed joyfully at.

Then Beck did something that really confused the alterna-gang. He sang a capella. At one part of the song, he paused and from the audience a guy yelled out "But you're a loser!". Beck stared straight ahead and sang "Have you seen the [bleep]? It's all here tonight".

I just stood there wondering if anyone else was as amazed at what he'd just sung than I was.

He eventually played Loser and the crowd jumped along. But when it came to the chorus, he sang what sounded like "I'm a milky baby, so why don't you kill me". The crowd was pleased.

So back in the car with my brother, I was trying to work out what the song was all about. The lyrics didn't mean anything: "Dog food skulls with the beefcake pantyhose". At best it's some sort of 1980's reminisce, but in actuality it was meaning to its listeners.

The chorus starts with (according to a magazine article of the time) "Soy un perdidor", Spanish for "I'm a loser". Of course a lot of people had no idea what he was singing and various interpretations such as "So, I walked in the door" were sung by the alternoids.

The song has various samples. My favourite was "I'm a driver, I'm a winner, things are going to change, I can feel it". It seemed like a message of hope, like all this cynical bullshit was going to end, but I realised otherwise when it was revealed that it was from a George Bush speech.

Then the song ended and I was left wondering just what the hell was going on in 1994 that made Loser such a hit. Fortunately whatever it was has gone away, taking with it the slacker attitude that went with it. Because if all the cool people are losers, then wouldn't that make all the people who suck winners?

I just wish I could fins something from the man himself where he describes it. Or perhaps, like alot of other artists, he wants you to listen to it and form your own interpretation. :thumbsup:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Please sign in to comment

You will be able to leave a comment after signing in



Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...