Song · Beck
“Hell Yes” by Beck
From the album Guero (2005)
“Hell Yes” by Beck appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2005 and 2019. It was first released in 2005 on the album Guero. Its best result is #71 on the Y100 Top 150 Songs of 2005. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #518 alternative song of 2005.
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"Hell Yes" was the third and last single cut from Beck's 2005 album Guero, produced by Beck with the Dust Brothers and written with John King and Mike Simpson. It's built on a sample of the Ohio Players' "Far East Mississippi", and the female voice speaking on it belongs to Christina Ricci.
Beck raids the whole toy chest himself, harmonica, celesta, keyboards, guitars, drums and handclaps, with Money Mark on organ, Roger Joseph Manning Jr. on clavinet and Petra Haden adding vocals. Garth Jennings directed the video, starring 4 of Sony's QRIO robots, machines built to mimic human movement down to dance routines, with footage of Beck thrown on the wall behind them; at the time they were the only working QRIOs anywhere. An 8-Bit remix, "Ghettochip Malfunction (Hell Yes)", later surfaced on the Hell Yes EP and Guerolito.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 71 | Y100 Philadelphia, PA | Y100 Top 150 Songs of 2005 | 150 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 901 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2019 | 357 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
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