Written by: Beck Hansen
Versions:
- Spanking Room (9:07)
Available on Beercan.
CreditsBeck Hansen: Guitar (Electric), Producer, Vocals
Tom Grimley: Producer
Lyrics:
Spanking Room [Version (a)]:
Mama don't take me
Down to the ??
Demeaning with yourself
With a wet cigarette
Pull back the drapes
Spank my ass
Your ass is getting tired
He's getting glad
The people are let down
?? at the town
Scream like ??
They don't love you
Pull back the drapes
Spreading my legs
Your ass is tired
You ??
Tell your parents and your teacher when something strange happens to you
Tell your parents and your teacher when something strange happens to you
Tell your parents and your teacher when something strange happens to you
Tell your parents and your teacher when something strange happens to you
Tell your parents and your teacher when something strange happens to you
Tell your parents and your teacher when something strange happens to you
Nobody loves me
Nobody loves me
Mama don't take me
Down to the ??
Demeaning with yourself
With a wet cigarette
Pull back the drapes
Spank my ass
Your ass is getting tired
He's getting glad
The people are let down
?? at the town
Scream like ??
They don't love you
Pull back the drapes
Spreading my legs
Your ass is tired
You ??
Tell your parents and your teacher when something strange happens to you
Tell your parents and your teacher when something strange happens to you
Tell your parents and your teacher when something strange happens to you
Tell your parents and your teacher when something strange happens to you
Tell your parents and your teacher when something strange happens to you
Tell your parents and your teacher when something strange happens to you
Nobody loves me
Nobody loves me
The Song:
"Spanking Room" begins harshly, cutting in on a some screeching distortion and drums. The song continues with completely undecipherable vocals, Beck shouting at the top of his lungs and backed by some very heavy electric guitar. After a bit, this flows into some distorted, dirty guitar noise for a few minutes. Beck finally joins back in, muttering some creepy lines about parents and teachers, over more noisy distortion. Yet even more guitar screeches and heavy breathing end the song. The microphone gets tossed to the ground.
I mean, this is an obscure b-side, but wow, it still amazes me 20+ years later that this is a direction Beck took. It definitely feels like a total outlier, and for that at least, it's awesome.
After a 20-second pause in the track some mysterious bonus noise follows. It is a guitar jamming the riff of "Loser" over what is probably a drum machine or tape. It is heavily distorted with an odd underwater sound, and actually quite entertaining. There is also some crowd noise, and Beck announces at the end, "Sorry, our drummer got food poisoning," so it is apparently a live recording from somewhere, sometime. It's not credited anywhere.
SPANKING ROOM!
"Spanking Room" begins harshly, cutting in on a some screeching distortion and drums. The song continues with completely undecipherable vocals, Beck shouting at the top of his lungs and backed by some very heavy electric guitar. After a bit, this flows into some distorted, dirty guitar noise for a few minutes. Beck finally joins back in, muttering some creepy lines about parents and teachers, over more noisy distortion. Yet even more guitar screeches and heavy breathing end the song. The microphone gets tossed to the ground.
I mean, this is an obscure b-side, but wow, it still amazes me 20+ years later that this is a direction Beck took. It definitely feels like a total outlier, and for that at least, it's awesome.
After a 20-second pause in the track some mysterious bonus noise follows. It is a guitar jamming the riff of "Loser" over what is probably a drum machine or tape. It is heavily distorted with an odd underwater sound, and actually quite entertaining. There is also some crowd noise, and Beck announces at the end, "Sorry, our drummer got food poisoning," so it is apparently a live recording from somewhere, sometime. It's not credited anywhere.
SPANKING ROOM!
Live:
Played live 5 times:
Earliest known live version: June 17, 1994
Latest known live version: September 1, 1994
On a couple of early boots from the Mellow Gold tour, the band segued directly from "Blackhole" into "Spanking Room." (Seems an odd combo, but live, "Blackhole" was just as dirty and nasty as "Spanking Room.") The song was performed quite faithfully to the original, though Beck did not seem to sing quite as many lyrics (though all sections are there). Since the two known live versions of this are from the same week, I'll assume Beck played this throughout the early months of his touring.
Played live 5 times:
Earliest known live version: June 17, 1994
Latest known live version: September 1, 1994
On a couple of early boots from the Mellow Gold tour, the band segued directly from "Blackhole" into "Spanking Room." (Seems an odd combo, but live, "Blackhole" was just as dirty and nasty as "Spanking Room.") The song was performed quite faithfully to the original, though Beck did not seem to sing quite as many lyrics (though all sections are there). Since the two known live versions of this are from the same week, I'll assume Beck played this throughout the early months of his touring.