Beck’s single, “Gamma Ray”, from his album, Modern Guilt, has been interpreted in music video form by his photographer Autumn de Wilde, providing a music video by Beck performing with Autumn and the two producers as extras. Hair styles, psychedelic effects and black and white treatments provide a 1960s feel for the bleak pop sound Beck seems to have mastered.
Beck Gamma Ray Credits
Filming was shot by director Autumn de Wilde, producer Sarah Gersbach and Meghan Gallagher.
Lyrics for Beck Gamma Ray
Trying to hold
Hold out for now
With these ice caps
Melting down
With the transistor sound
And my Chevrolet terraplane
Going round, round, round
Come a little gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
Your brains are bored
Like a refugee
From the houses burning
And the heat wave’s
Calling your name
She’s got
On a cactus crown
With a dot, dot, dot
On her brow
And she speaks
Inside crowd
With the cavalry
Turning around
Hit me like a gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
And I’m pulling
Out thorns
Smokestack lightning
Out my window
I want to know
What I’ve lost today
Come a little gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
When your body’s bored
Like a refugee
From the houses burning
And the backbiters
Calling your name