Stereopathic Soulmanure
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| Studio album by Beck | ||||
| Released | 22 February 1994 | |||
| Recorded | 1992–93 | |||
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| Length | 64:35 | |||
| Label | Flipside | |||
| Producer | Tom Grimley, Beck Hansen, Gus Hudson | |||
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| Robert Christgau | B+ |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  |
Stereopathetic Soulmanure is the second independent studio album by American alternative rock musician Beck, released on Flipside in 1994, a week before the appearance of his Geffen debut Mellow Gold. The album shows a strong folk influence, consisting of home recordings, studio recordings, live performances, field recordings, sound collages, and abstract noise experiments. A lo-fi recording of largely anti-commercial nature, Stereopathetic Soulmanure is Beck's third official recording, the first two being Golden Feelings and A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight. Beck would soon return with another independent release, the plaintive and mostly acoustic One Foot in the Grave—his third album of 1994—before recording his major label follow-up Odelay (1996).
Johnny Cash would cover the track "Rowboat" on his 1996 album Unchained.
As of July 2008, Stereopathetic Soulmanure has sold 146,000 copies in the United States.
All songs were written by Beck, except where noted.
"Bonus Noise" is included on most discs, but not all. This track is also "locked". Similar to an LP with a "locked groove", the CD track ends abruptly, and the end of the physical track does not allow the lens of the player to bypass it, which repeats the last part of the track in an infinite loop.
There was a rerelease of the album by Revolver USA on September 25, 2000. This pressing separates "No Money No Honey" over tracks 7 and 8 and breaks parts of "One Foot in the Grave" and "Aphid Manure Heist" over tracks 12, 13 and 14; this caused all tracks after "Crystal Clear (Beer)" to be off from the track listing on the back cover. This pressing also omits the short snippet of dialog called "Ken", yet keeps "Bonus Noise" on the same track as "Modesto". This pressing causes some online track listings, such as the one at Allmusic, to be incorrect. The actual track listing of this pressing is as follows:
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