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Written by: Beck Hansen
Produced by: Karl Stephenson
Released: 1993 on Bong Load
Charts: 24 weeks
Top spot: No. 10
In 1992, twenty-two-year-old Beck Hansen was scraping by as a video-store clerk while performing bizarro folk songs at L.A. coffeehouses. After friends from Bong Load Records offered to record some songs, Beck cut "Loser" in his producer's kitchen. Over a vaguely Middle Eastern break beat, Beck got off a series of in-joke rhymes inspired by a friend with a band called Loser. Though the irresistible slacker anthem was a hit in late 1993 as a single-only release, it became the centerpiece of an album (1994's Mellow Gold) that cost only $200 to make.
Appears on: Mellow Gold (Geffen)