One Foot In The Grave is a taste of what Beck & friends played in the early days before Mellow Gold & Odelay although "Ramshackle" from Odelay could have easily been on One Foot In The Grave. All of the songs arem played with more or less simple instruments, and the lyrics are poetic, intangled and sometimes down right weird. There is also a great change of mood throughout the cd. The song "Burnt Orange Peel" and "Ziplock Bag" are examples of boyish fun and chaos, while "See Water" is most depressing and slow. But Beck also uses music types such as Delta Blues, Appalachian Folk and other old traditionel American music styles and he mixes them with new and fresh lyrics. This cd might not be totally proffesionel and up to trot (in "Outcome" you can hear someone coughning in the background) but it's totally original and enjoyable, it's a cd one can always come back to and listen again and again.