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Beck's Track Star* quiz finds a family connection in "The Rose"

A childhood gold record, a Hinds collaboration and an unreleased A$AP Rocky track turn the song test into a musical scrapbook.

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Testing Beck's Music Knowledge

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0:16Beck connects the Velvet Underground to his family's history and his time living on Great Jones Street.
3:32Meeting Hinds at a bar led to their collaboration on "Boom Boom Back."
4:29Beck's father worked on "The Rose," and its gold record hung on the family's stairway.
8:31A Travis Scott and Young Thug track prompts Beck to explain his appreciation of Tyler, the Creator.
9:54Beck says A$AP Rocky has an unreleased collaboration of theirs stored on a hard drive.

Beck knows this one personally. When Jack Coyne plays Bette Midler's "The Rose," he recognizes more than the song: his father worked on it. "He had the gold record on our stairway when I was a kid," Beck recalls.

That is the pleasure of "Testing Beck's Music Knowledge," the most-watched of eight uploads on the Track Star* clips channel this week. On Great Jones Street in New York, the quiz moves from the Velvet Underground to Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel, with the answers opening into memories rather than simply earning a tick. Beck explains how meeting Hinds at a bar led to "Boom Boom Back," then later reveals that A$AP Rocky has an unreleased collaboration of theirs on a hard drive.

The episode has reached about 123,000 views and is the channel's busiest upload right now. Viewers are asking for a longer conversation, discussing Beck's appreciation of Tyler, the Creator, and proposing collaborations of their own. A separate "Beck discovers Travis Scott" clip gives that part of the conversation its own outing.

Elsewhere, the week's posts stretch well beyond the pavement quiz. Ashe plays Jack songs and voice memos from The Girl of Your Dreams during a drive around NYC. Fiona Prine and Kurt Vile revisit John Prine's songwriting and humor, while Kings of Leon's Nashville performance brings seven songs to Track Star Tonight, including "King of the Rodeo" and "Arizona." That newly posted set is already among the channel's busiest videos, alongside the older Daddy Yankee music test.

The audience grew by roughly 2,000 subscribers over the week, although daily views are currently running below half their usual pace. Among nearby music-commentary channels, theneedledrop is seeing brisker-than-usual daily viewing while Mic The Snare is quieter. For Track Star*, Beck's song-by-song detours are supplying the strongest current draw.

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this episode shouldve been 3x longer
@EricGuevaraGarciaSee it on YouTube
"I like banana music" should be the title of Beck's autobiography.
@beecat4183See it on YouTube
Makes total sense that he loves Tyler, he pretty much nailed why I love both Beck and Tyler's music.
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Bring Beck back for a long interview
@Soberdrummer321See it on YouTube
I appreciate artists who appreciate artists
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a Beck & Tyler the creator collab would be amazingggggg
@turtleboypurpSee it on YouTube
Said it once, saying again: my dream duo would be Beck and Jack White. Imagine that album...
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The Rose. The song everyone sang in the talent show back in the day.
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