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Pay No Mind (Snoozer)

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318:. A music video, directed by Beck's friend Steve Hanft, was released for the song which featured Beck playing the acoustic guitar while wearing a shirt with the words "Rock Me" written onto the fabric; interspersed throughout the video are people enjoying cocktails, professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales performing random tricks, lava eruptions, diamonds, and other random stuff. Footage of the lava erupting and the final scene of a policeman running into a police station comes from episodes of the TV series 300:
Also to be noted is that the songs "Special People", "Trouble All My Days", and "Super Golden Black Sunchild" are from Beck's 1993 "Golden Feelings". On the release, "Special People" is listed as track 2; "Trouble All My Days" is listed as track 5; and "Super Golden Black Sunchild" is listed as track
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solo. According to an interpretation by Whiskeyclone.net, the song's lyrical content explores Beck's attitudes towards the music industry. The first verse describes a city, which, despite being decrepit and dirty, is filled with shopping malls. In the second verse, Beck expresses resentment towards
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what he sees as the commercialism of major record labels focused on record sales and money, rather than artistic creativity. In the third verse, he concludes that, despite his negative stance, he is looking for a change, which getting signed would provide.
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First known to be played live in 1993, "Pay No Mind" is still a fan-favorite and a staple of Beck's live shows. Beck is known for radically re-working the lyrics of the song while on stage to include commentary on things as diverse as
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version. "Got No Mind", a re-recorded, electric full-band arrangement of "Pay No Mind", features three of the seven verses of "Pay No Mind" that were cut on
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vinyl albums, one can hear a version with an added stanza, which is inserted between the first and second verses of the standard
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has recorded the song for Japanese and Brazilian version of their 2009 album
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Single
Beck
Mellow Gold
Genre
Alternative rock
anti-folk
Label
Geffen
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Rob Schnapf
Tom Rothrock
Beck
Loser
Beercan
"Pay No Mind (Snoozer)"
YouTube
Beck
Mellow Gold
Mellow Gold
12"
Beercan
folk rock
harmonica
Tom Petty
99 cent stores
Beavis and Butt-Head
ARIA
alternative rock

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