The Independent - London, December 8th, 1996
ROCK & POP 1
NICHOLAS BARBER
The Beatles: Anthology 3 (Apple). This final scrapbook is the one that justifies the whole Anthology undertaking, in that it is the only volume on which most of the versions differ radically from the songs we know already. Fifty tracks is far too many, but the best of the strummed demos make up an indispensable Beatles Unplugged. Beck: Odelay (Geffen). Forget the slacker label. Beck Hansen is much less idle than 95 per cent of his contemporaries in American rock, hip- hop and blues (he collapses all three genres, and a dozen more). Yet his gift is to make a sophi...
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