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"Jack-Ass" is a single by
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, taken from the album ''
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''. The song is based on a sample of "
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and featured on his '' Bringing It All Back Home'' album, released on March 22, 1965, by Columbia Records. The song was recorded on January 15, 1965, with Dylan's acous ...
", performed by
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, from their 1966 album ''
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''. The B-side, "Strange Invitation", is a re-recorded version of "Jack-Ass", played on acoustic guitar and strings and forecasts the style Beck would later use on '' Sea Change'' in 2002.


Legacy

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sampled this song for their 1999 single " Another Love Song", from their album ''
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'', but the sample was cleared with
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, the writer of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", rather than Beck. The track is used in an episode of the Chris Morris radio show
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.


Track listing


Original pressing

# "Jack-Ass" (
Butch Vig Bryan David "Butch" Vig (born August 2, 1955) is an American musician, record producer, and songwriter who is the drummer and co-producer of the rock band Garbage. Producer of the diamond selling Nirvana album ''Nevermind'' (1991), Vig also pro ...
Mix) - 3:25 # "Feather in Your Cap" - 3:47 # "Lemonade" - 2:23 # "Jack-Ass" (Edit Version) - 3:24


Alternate pressing

# "Jack-Ass" (Butch Vig Mix) - 3:23 # "Jack-Ass" (Butch Vig Lowrider Mix) - 4:11 # "Burro" - 3:11 # "Strange Invitation" - 4:05 # "Devil Got My Woman" - 4:34 # "Brother" - 4:45


Personnel

*Beck Hansen: Vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, electric piano, harmonica, xylophone *Written by: Beck/The Dust Brothers *Programmed by: Beck/The Dust Brothers


Music video

The
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for the single was directed by
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, and features the Butch Vig mix included on the single rather than the album version. In it, Beck and several other miners are in a black-and-white coal mine.
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appears with a dog in a passing mine cart. Later, Beck's character sees a show girl atop a pile of coal that turns into a peacock. At the end of the work shift, the miners emerge into a fully colored world. A fully suited beekeeper waves at the passers-by. It first aired in July 1997.


Charts


Burro

"Burro" is the Spanish version of "Jack-Ass". It was released on the 2000 album '' Stray Blues''. Heather Phares of
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called "Burro" "surprisingly straight
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".


References

1997 singles Beck songs Songs written by Beck Song recordings produced by Dust Brothers 1997 songs Songs written by John King (record producer) Songs written by Michael Simpson (producer) {{1990s-rock-song-stub