Guero
Studio album by BeckWikipedia
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Oct 7, 2026
Josh SchwartzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They wanted to drop their first song on the show.
Josh SchwartzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Beck, you know, with Guero, reached out, and we did a Beck episode in, in Season 2 where we had, like, his entire album basically, or seven songs from the album play.
Josh SchwartzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Capitol Records reached out and said, "Coldplay is putting out their new album, and come listen to it in our offices and pick whatever song you want, and it'll be held just for you guys." And heard Fix You, and that kind of felt like the show, and at that moment, they were probably the biggest rock band in the world.
Josh SchwartzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So it was a trade-off.
Josephine RiesmanHOST
If you follow me on Blue Sky or Instagram or anywhere, I'm sure I've been inundating you with links to people talking to me about the book.
Josephine RiesmanHOST
We wanted to have a friendly conversation today about the album.
Josephine RiesmanHOST
The album is an album of tie-in songs.
Josephine RiesmanHOST
It's all music that's not Beck covers.
Josephine RiesmanHOST
No Beck covers there at all.
Josephine RiesmanHOST
It's all original music, and it was put together inspired by musicians, uh, writing songs based on them reading the book.
Josephine RiesmanHOST
I gave them advance copies, this small group of musicians I trusted, and each one of them, or each one of these acts, put together a track for this album that we are calling Loser Babies, music inspired by Josephine Riesman's The Last Temptation of Beck, which was, of course, pushing us into Push based on the novel, Push by Sapphire, whatever.
Josephine RiesmanHOST
You know, it, it gets a long title, but Loser Babies is what will suffice today.
Josephine RiesmanGUEST
A lot of it may have come from his brief time in a public school that was predominantly Latinx and was, was, or surrounded by Spanish all the time.
Josephine RiesmanGUEST
Uh, you know, he named this Odelay, which comes from, was a corruption of the, the s- the phrase orale, and then there's Guero, his album.
Josephine RiesmanGUEST
So he comes back to this over and over again.
Josephine RiesmanGUEST
But Spanish, a- and his stepfather is, is, is Mexican American, Stone Corio, so he was surrounded by a certain degree of Spanish growing up and throughout his LA existence.
Josephine RiesmanGUEST
I love Midnight Vultures, but it wasn't Odelay.
Josephine RiesmanGUEST
It didn't sell like Odelay, didn't have the impact of Odelay.
Josephine RiesmanGUEST
Guero wasn't Odelay.
Josephine RiesmanGUEST
Although it, it did sell pretty well, it was n- it didn't have that same cultural cachet and critical response.
Randy AllainHOST
As I mentioned earlier, Beck wrapped up that Interscope deal with Modern Guilt.
Randy AllainHOST
We've been talking for a few episodes of this podcast now that, that Beck has been nursing a pretty rough back injury from back on Guero, and the music video for E-Pro has been pretty brutal.
Randy AllainHOST
He's a private guy, he's got stuff going on behind the scenes.
Randy AllainHOST
But I think he's feeling a little of that sense of relief, like I'm out from under a, a corporate thumb right now.
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Justin ManciniHOST
Like, this is in line, at least right now for me, with, you know, that kind of golden period [laughs]-
Randy AllainHOST
Sure
Justin ManciniHOST
... that, that we mentioned, um, you know, starting from Odellay to Guero.
Justin ManciniHOST
Yeah, that's kind of, that's where I'm at in terms of that, uh, comparison.
AndrewHOST
I love Modern Guilt.
AndrewHOST
Maybe is it Wero or Guero? I don't know how to actually pronounce that.
AndrewHOST
But yeah, I think this is really, really good.
AndrewHOST
So that's kind of where it fits in with his discography, according to us and our opinions.