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Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

5. Beck‘Loser’

This was a fresh take on acoustic pop with some strange twist of self deprecation and ironic nerdy swagger, someone wanting to be seen in a certain ’scene’ so he just decides to create it and insert himself into the middle of it all.

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