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The Music is Reversible!

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Mellow Gold cover
Released: 03-01-1994
Archive notes: Beck described making the track with Karl Stephenson; the 1994 SPIN profile documents slide guitar recorded into a loop over a hip-hop beat. That production context does not verify every word in this inherited reverse transcription. Capture the suspected vocal fragment separately from the nearby forward film dialogue.
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Beck

Album: Mellow Gold Song: Loser

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Forward:
Just towards the end before the sound byte, "I'm a driver, I'm a winner..."

Alleged backward phrase:
From Head to Toe, I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me