Beck got it exactly right when he added the Spanish diminutive lito to the title of his remixed version of Guero: Stripped-down and amped-up, Guerolito is like Guero's spazzy, endearing little brother. Most of the remixers — Diplo, Boards of Canada, Adrock of the Beastie Boys and El-P — keep Beck's vocals pretty much intact, making the tracks feel more like mash-ups than reinventions. The best of them — Air's gorgeous take on "Missing," 8-Bit's Gary Numan-style "Hell Yes" — amplify what was great about the originals, using a signature element (in Air's case, a huge analog-synth line) to do the work of all the layers of the richly textured album versions. Turns out Guero is like a burrito: It tastes just as good with different fillings.

“He Will Break Your Heart”

A lightly swinging Latin-influenced, almost cha-cha groove and close harmonies decorated Jerry Butler's early soul hit "He Will Break Your Heart," delivering a stately warning that his rival would never love his girl like he did. The melody came to Butler as he was driving on the highway from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Philadelphia with Curtis Mayfield, and as Butler told Rolling Stone, "I just sang the melody and Curtis put the chords to it." The song's premise, Butler added, "was something that I'd lived ...The lyric was an experience rather than a revelation. Whereas music is usually a revelation."