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

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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“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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