Beck Reveals Some "Modern Guilt" at Secret L.A. Show

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As is tradition in the days before he releases a new album, Beck played a secret show last night at the Echo in Los Angeles. In addition to a set list full of the singer's greatest hits (sans "Loser"), Beck also used the evening to reveal five songs off his could-be-released-any-day-now new album Modern Guilt, including the album's title track, which you can watch in the video above. For more info on the album, click here.

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“Karma Chameleon”

Culture Club | 1983

Boy George has said this song was about standing by what you believe in. However, at the time, he was involved in a secret affair with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss. "Now people can understand the songs better," he said. "They were written about my relationship with Jon, and they were also written about being a gay man in a homophobic world." The lines "If I listen to your lies, would you say/I'm a man without conviction/I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction," described his life at the time, he said. "I was selling this big lie."

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