Where It's At

Where It's At

Infobox Single
Name = Where It's At


Artist = Beck
from Album = Odelay
B-side =
Released = 1996
Format = 12", 4 CDs
Recorded = 1996
Genre = Rock, Funk
Length = 10 min 49 sec
Label = DGC/Bong Load
Writer =
Producer = Beck, The Dust Brothers
Certification =
Chart position =
* #5 (US Modern Rock)
* #61 (US Hot 100)
Last single = "It's All in Your Mind"
(1995)
This single = "Where It's At"
(1996)
Next single = "Devils Haircut"
(1996)
Misc =

"Where It's At" is the first single from Beck's 1996 album, "Odelay". Manywho?|date=September 2007 have commented that the strength of both "Where It's At" and "Odelay" confirmed that Beck was not a novelty act or one-hit wonder.

Composition

A looped keyboard riff and Beck's intricate lyrics dominate the song. In the first verse, Beck develops the scene: there is a party taking place "up the road from the habitations and the towns we know", where one can experience "the jigsaw jazz and the get-fresh flow". The second verse is a surreal description of those attending the party.

Beck wrote "Where It's At" in 1995. He premiered it at Lollapalooza 1995, in a version very similar to its incarnation on "Odelay". He has played the song very often since 1995, although he regularly experiments with the music and lyrics.

"Where It's At" is notable for the number of odd spoken samples that Beck and the Dust Brothers incorporated into it. Many of these come from an obscure sex education album titled "Sex for Teens: (Where It's At)", whose subtitle Beck borrowed (see link below). Other vocal samples incorporated into "Where It's At" come from "Needle to the Groove" by old school rap group Mantronix ("we've got two turntables and a microphone..."), as well as The Frogs ("that was a good drum break"). The song also references Gary Wilson, one of Beck's influences.

"Where It's At" was the first music video to be broadcast on the television channel MTV2. The video features a parody of William Shatner's video of "Rocket Man".

Track listings

USA (12")
# Where It's At (Edit)
# Make Out City
# Where It's At (remix by Mario C and Mickey P)
# Where It's At (remix by John King)
# Bonus Beats

UK #1
#Where It's At (Edit)
#Where It's At (remix by Mario C and Mickey P)
#Bonus Beats
#Where It's At (remix by U.N.K.L.E)

UK #2
#Where It's At (Edit)
#Where It's At (remix by Mario C and Mickey P)
#Bonus Beats

Australia
#Where It's At (Edit)
#Where It's At (remix by Mario C and Mickey P)
#Bonus Beats

Japan
# Where It's At (Edit)
# Where It's At (remix by John King)
# Lloyd Price Express (remix by John King)
# Dark and Lovely (remix by the Dust Brothers)
# American Wasteland
# Clock

External links

* [http://whiskeyclone.net/ghost/songinfo.php?songID=321 Whiskeyclone listing for "Where It's At"]
* [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/06/365_days_167_st.html Stanley Z. Adams, MD: "Sex For Teens (Where's It At") on WFMU's Beware of the Blog]


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