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Beck Picks Up The Slack And His Last Name

Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 8 August 1997

YOU KNOW he's not a loser. It haunted him three years ago, but by now Beck figures most people have come to terms with the fact that he's not that self-loathing slacker he wrote about in that hit from nowhere called 'Loser'. It wasn't his signature song. He wasn't a spokesman for his generation. He wasn't even the new Dylan.

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