Lyrics:

The Song:

Beck recorded "Your Love Is Weird" initially for Golden Feelings. It has a catchy enough melody, but Beck's heart doesn't really seem into the performance. And in the end, he left the song off that tape, though it did surface on a bootleg of Golden Feelings outtakes.

(This version was then also later found on a second version of Don't Get Bent Out Of Shape, and was likely on the unknown We Like Folk tape too. Beck liked it enough to use it over and over!)

Beck also apparently recorded four versions of it for One Foot in the Grave, as Calvin Johnson recalled in a zine interview in 1996. Calvin liked the song the best, but he says Beck grew tired of it and moved on before they could put it out.

It is a fairly forgettable folk song, really, the lyrics read young and fairly uninteresting. "Your love is weird" is a cool and original enough idea itself, but the song hardly explores it at any way, instead consisting mainly of quick and easy rhymes ("down / around / town / frown," etc.). It kind of leaves me longing for the song to be more, well, weird.

Then years later, when Beck put together the Deluxe version of One Foot In The Grave in 2009, one of the bonus tracks turned out to be the studio version of "Your Love Is Weird"! (Probably the one Calvin Johnson liked so much.).I like this solo acoustic outtake much more, it has a sort of sleepy dynamic to it. (Or stoned, I guess.)

Live:

Played live once:
January 26, 1994

Beck and that dog played this song on the radio in Olympia, WA, on January 26, 1994. This was probably around the time Beck was finishing up One Foot In The Grave in Olympia, so it should not have been a surprise when he released the One Foot outtakes and included 'Weird.' (And the outtake's lyrics match this live versions'.)

Beck and that dog teaming up is always a joy. Their voices work well together, and it is especially fun hearing them live on this show. During the chorus that follows, Beck sang "'Cause your mother's queer" a few times!

This is the only live version we know about, unfortunately.