Steal My Body Home
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| "Steal My Body Home" | |
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| Song by Beck | |
| from the album Mellow Gold | |
| Released | March 1, 1994 |
| Recorded | 1992 |
| Genre | Alternative rock[1] |
| Length | 5:34 |
| Label | DGC |
| Songwriter(s) | Beck Hansen |
| Producer(s) |
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"Steal My Body Home" is a song by the American musician Beck. It was released in 1994 on the album Mellow Gold. The song was recorded in 1992 along with Carl Stephenson, around the same time they had been working on Beck's biggest hit, "Loser". Stephenson added rattling percussion and a kazoo solo to the song.[2]
Although the majority of the song is slow and sinister sounding, it becomes more upbeat during the last one and a half minutes, with the use of a kazoo and a sitar, contrasting with the first part of the song which mainly uses a violin. The lyrics features blues imagery, with lines such as "sleeping on a hollow log" and "you know you cannot hide when the devil's your only friend".[3]
Stereogum writer Tom Breihan described Beck's vocals in the song as being "near-atonal".[4]