 | Lost CauseBeck |
Writer(s): Beck Hansen (see lyrics here) First Charted: December 15, 2002 Peak: 3 AA, 36 MR, 41 UK, 1 DF (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 8.90 video, 39.26 streaming |
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About the Song:The singer/songwriter known as Beck was born Bek David Campbell in 1970 in Los Angeles. In his teens he started performing a blend of hip hop and folk music at coffeehouses and clubs. In 1989, he moved to New York City but he returned to Los Angeles in the early ‘90s. He had his commercial breakthrough in 1993 with “Loser,” a top-ten Billboard hit from his third album, Mellow Gold. His 1996 album Odelay went double platinum and became one of the most critically acclaimed album of all time, ranking as one of the top 100 albums of all time according to Dave’s Music Database. He gained a reputation as a chameleonic musician, following the “ironic funk-disco of [1999]s] Midnite Vultures” AS with the folk-rock Sea Change in 2002. The album “resulted from the bleakness Beck felt following the end of his nine-year relationship with Leigh Limon.” ASIt was Beck’s first top-ten album and was named album of the year by Rolling Stone. AmericanSongwriter.com called it “a heartbreaking masterpiece.” AS It featured the promo-only singles “Guess I’m Doing Fine” and “Lost Cause.” MTV.com described the latter as “driven by a folksy guitar passage and soft, sedated vocals and embellished with soft brush drumming.” WK The “minimalist folk” AS style of the song matches its melancholic exploration of a man left devastated by a failed a relationship, “starting at the world around him in utter futility.” AS “The saddest part of ‘Lost Cause’ isn’t its gloom, it’s the resignation.” AS Author Dave Thompson said it “might well be the cruelest kiss off ever set to music.” DT Resources:
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First posted 11/22/2025. |
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