In October 2011, NME placed it at number 76 on its list of 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years. īeck earned the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for the song. In addition, just before the Frogs sample begins, the song incorporates a musical sample from the intro of noted go-go band E.U.'s song "Knock Him Out Sugar Ray".īeck also pays homage to Captain Beefheart by dressing as Captain Beefheart was dressed in the Trout Mask Replica album photo sessions at 1:27 in the video. The song also references Gary Wilson, one of Beck's influences. Other vocal samples incorporated into "Where It's At" come from "Needle to the Groove" by old-school hip hop group Mantronix ("we've got two turntables and a microphone."), as well as The Frogs ("that was a good drum break"). Many of these come from an obscure sex education album titled Sex for Teens: (Where It's At), a subtitle Beck borrowed (see link below). "Where It's At" has a number of spoken samples that Beck and the Dust Brothers incorporated into it.
He has played the song very often since 1995, although he regularly experiments with the music and lyrics. He premiered it at Lollapalooza 1995, in a version very similar to its incarnation on Odelay.
It was released as the first single from his 1996 album Odelay. " Where It's At" is a song by American alternative rock musician Beck.
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