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| "Fuckin with My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)" | |
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| Song by Beck | |
| from the album Mellow Gold | |
| Released | March 1, 1994 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 3:41 |
| Label | DGC |
| Songwriter(s) | Beck Hansen |
| Producer(s) |
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| Music video | |
| "Mountain Dew Rock" on YouTube | |
"Fuckin with My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)" is a song by the alternative rock musician Beck. It is the third song on his 1994 first album, Mellow Gold .
The song has many guitars and sounds that are layered together. Due to this, several sounds and influences are evident, including heavy metal, acoustic, psychedelic, funk, folk, boogie and rock. [2]
The song has been performed live 60 times by Beck and was regularly played by him in 1994 but has not been performed live since December 2, 2007, when Beck was the opener for The Police. [3]
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote in a review for the album that the song was "garagey". [1] The website udiscovermusic called the song one of the album's highlights. [4] Stereogum wrote that the song had a lot of "forward momentum". [5]
Mountain Dew, stylized as Mtn Dew in some countries, is a carbonated soft drink brand produced and owned by PepsiCo. The original formula was invented in 1940 by Tennessee beverage bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman. A revised formula was created by Bill Bridgforth in 1958. The rights to this formula were obtained by the Tip Corporation of Marion, Virginia. William H. "Bill" Jones of the Tip Corporation further refined the formula, launching that version of Mountain Dew in 1961. In August 1964, the Mountain Dew brand and production rights were acquired from Tip by the Pepsi-Cola company, and the distribution expanded across the United States and Canada.
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