Beck B-Sides & Non-Album Tracks

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here's a nice bunch from Nate from a while ago...
anybody else got some suggestions?

The Rough Guide to Beck B-Sides 1994-1998

1. Got No Mind (4:20)
2. Fume (1994 version) (4:30)
3. Corvette Bummer (4:55)
4. Spanking Room (5:21)
5. Soul Suckin' Jerk (Reject) (6:09)
6. MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack (lounge version) (3:29)
7. Clock (3:19)
8. Devil Got My Woman (4:36)
9. Lemonade (2:22)
10. Diskobox (3:33)
11. Thunder Peel (1997 version) (2:41)
12. One of These Days (4:49)
13. Runners Dial Zero (4:03)
14. Erase the Sun (3:20)
15. Diamond in the Sleaze (4:06)
16. Electric Music and the Summer People (1998 version) (3:37)

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

also covers & collaborations... that song "Blue Cross" on the Geraldine Fibbers record is great.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The "Steve Threw Up" 7" is one of the best things he ever did.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Feather in Your Cap & Whiskey Can Can

from the K records All In My Mind 7"

― ddb, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone basically did that compilation for me, though I didn't get Thunderpeel. I have 3 burnt CDs worth of Beck b-sides/non-album tracks actually, I'll maybe post up the one I have with me right now.

BTW, 'In A Cold-Ass Fashion', Salt In The Wound and 'The Little Drum Machine Boy' - all pretty cool.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

mixed bizness (les rhythmes digitales remix)

― tricky disco, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

also the cornelius remix of mb

― tricky disco, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

'Diskobox' got tacked onto Odelay in Europe.

'Boys' from Grand Royal's At Home With The Groovebox comp - not too bad.

Are remixes included here?

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

& which released songs have demo versions floating around? i've heard some nice acoustic ones of odelay songs without all the hipster fucking about

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hipster"

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, was that a bad thing to say?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate Beck but his cover from Eternal Sunshine and his song with Air are both enjoyable.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

You need "Mexico" and "Dirty Dirty" up in there two, those are two of my favorite Beck songs ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"up in there two" should be "up in there TOO" obv

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, also "Alcohol" from the Loser single.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Most importantly though is "Little Drum Machine Boy", like the bestestest thing he ever did and ever will do.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I've said it many a-time, but a Beck b-sides comp would be his best album of all.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a Beck b-sides/weird-stuff comp somewhere with the "I know you are, but what am I?" Pee-Wee Herman/Francis exchange from ...Big Adventure ending in "I don't make monkeys, I just train 'em!" -> "Fume" as the penultimate climactic second-to-last track, and then "Runners Dial Zero" as the closer. I wish I could find it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno, Nick, I'm struggling wih the three I got in 2000!

Fritz, I'm not sure how anyone can make a case for the Dust Bros being hipsters, but yer welcome to try.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a really good solo acoustic one, the name of which I can't remember (maybe Nate knows), it's got a lyric that's like "amplified dishwashers exploring the boring", it's very Dylan-esque, only way more funnier.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I've said it many a-time, but a Beck b-sides comp would be his best album of all.

Sorta like Pavement.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i like "this is my crew"

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

OH SHIT YEAH. I can't believe I forgot that one. It's got great goofy slap bass shit.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

THIS IS MY CREW crew crew...
TAKE TEN PACES BACK back back...
NOW YOU'RE IN THE DANGER ZONE zone zone...
YELLOW TURNS TO BLACK black...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

'Diamond In The Sleaze' is THE FUCKING BEST EVER.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The first time I heard "Special People" I laughed so much I thought I was gonna be sick.

I was really stoned, though.

Still I'd love to have a copy of that song. Hopefully it'll turn up some on cash-in compilation sometime.

― Reed Richards, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Beck: Cashing In (B-sides & Rarities) is set for release in 2008 after the release of his autobiography Inventing The Hipsters in 2007.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

jeez that hipsters comment really stuck in yer craw, sorry i didn't mean anything really

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Fritz, it's OK! Now I'm just messing about. Peace.

(I don't really perceive Odelay to be 'hipster' as such, just Beck - hence '(re)inventing' hipsters

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Hell yeah, "This is My Crew". You NEED that. Some really insane nonsense lyrics in that one.

I did a similar CDr last year. There's a good mariachi version of "Jackass" out there too.

― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Burro"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

'Arabian Nights'
'Midnite Vultures'

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got an acoustic track called "Totally Confused" on a 3-track cd with "Little Drum Machine Boy" and something else on it. "Clock" I think.

Also, is "Devil Got My Woman" the Skip James song? If so, I need to hear that.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is the girl singing on "Totally COnfused"? That's a good one; it really mellowed me out something perfect once while I was on a rough acid trip.

I think "Arabian Nights" may be one of my favorite of his songs ever. It's so obviously him playing drums in the outro though; nobody does not-too-sloppy-but-just-right sloppy drum fills like Beck.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

No idea Nick.

Noodle, everyone (me included) has probably had that Select mag Beck CD at one stage in their lives.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

the girl singing on "Totally Kunfused" is Petra Haden from That Dog fame.

― kevin m (suemejack), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Barima, I couldn't be arsed to go and see what magazine it was from.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

You welcome.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

oh man, I will have to get back to you folx

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

the girl singing on "Totally Kunfused" is Petra Haden from That Dog fame.
It's actually all three girls from that dog., petra, rachel and anna.

nickalicious, the song you're thinking of with the "amplified dishwashers exploring the boring" is one of his best ever (called "bogusflow") - i love how it sounds like he's cracking a smile while singing the whole thing, then he actually breaks out in a laugh in the middle. wonderfully poetic.

there's "whiskeyfaced radioactive blowdryin lady" too, but it's honestly not one of his best. it's also from before the 94-98 time period mentioned in the "rough guide" but i don't know if this matters to the original poster, or anyone reading. there's so much great stuff from the early days - "let's go moon some cars", "supergolden sunchild" and "heartland feeling" are some of my faves ever, by anyone.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

a lot of these tracks (clock, burro, the skip james cover etc) were all featured as a bonus disc that came with the australasian tour version of odelay - its reaaaall common round here and a pretty nice bonus to (in my opinion) already a great album. i reckon the mellow gold to odelay era b-sides are better than any of his recorded albums..
oh and does anyone actually own a first generation copy of the pre-mellow gold tapes?

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, here's a few that I haven't mentioned in that Rough Guide.

"Tough Fuckin' Shit": Beck does an acoustic delta-style blues version of a GG Allin song. From a 1992 demo commonly known as Buck Fuck Iowa. This demo also features a retort to King Missile called "Satan Was Way Cool" which is possibly the single most nickalicious-friendly song ever.

"Will I Be Ignored By the Lord": From Golden Feelings. Completely accapella, with some inspired bastardizations of various folk music themes ("so I came into the world with my hands in my jacket/made a whole lotta racket/couldn't speak but I could beat on a stick").

"Slimy Power Chick": From Golden Leftovers. Includes a super-shiny weird-ass intro that, like a lot of his early '90s stuff, probably was inspired by the lunatic motivational arglebargle of weekend afternoon infomercials ("Sparkly fog of connections, relations in everything that happens...It's all ambiguous, you can't get to the end of anything"). Then it gets to the song proper and it is fuzzed out as fuck, really scary and sleazy, with some of my favorite that-woman's-crazy lyrics ever ("Go to dinner, chicken salad sandwich/She gets bitchy and I can’t make the grade/I’m sucked in, I’m weak in the knees/I got lo-fat chicken disease/She senses fear like a wanderin' Jew/She runs free as a shrink in judgment"). Makes "Motherfucker" sound like a Sea Change b-side.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I got almost everything he did pre-Mellow Gold on MP3 somewheres. It's fascinating in that I can listen to it and not only wonder how he wound up writing stuff like "The Golden Age", but wonder how he even managed to get signed to a ginormous major label in the first place. Thank you post-Nirvana alt-bonanza jerkoff record company shenanigans!

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

(I forgot to mention that "Slimy Power Chick" has THE MOST FUCKED UP HARMONICA SOLO IN THE HISTORY OF MAN)

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

LEAVE MEEEE
ON THE MOOOOON

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"BOGUSFLOW"! That's the one. He sounds like he's making it up as he's going along (as he does on many of those).

The story he tells in "Mexico" is one of my favorite stories-as-song ever. The "gimme all yer money and 3 big macs to go" bit will forever be etched in my memory.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Did anyone mention the Timbaland produced 'Diamond Dogs' cover?

― TomB (TomB), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, here's a list I found online of this kind of stuff, if anybody can give me a little description of any of these that you've heard, I'd appreciate it

put it in neutral
I'm so glad
totally confused
halo of gold (skip spence cover)
brother
lemonade
electric music & the summer people
clock
feather in your cap
one of these days
diamond in the sleaze
erase the sun
deadweight
strange invitation
devil got my woman (skip james cover)
000.000
stagolee (john hurt cover)
the vagabond
whimsical actress

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Lampshade"--my favorite of Beck's sad bastard blues songs
"some things last a long time" (daniel johnson cover)
"go easy" (john martyn cover, better than all of sea change)
also i quite enjoy his covers of "beechwood park" and "kangaroo"

― naturemorte, Friday, 14 May 2004 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

fritz, all of those tracks are must-hear except 000.000, stagolee (just a pale version of hurt's original) and maybe "put it in neutral"...the skip spence cover is tremendous, strange invitation (an orchestral version of jackass) maybe trumps the album version, and both "one of these days" and "diamond in the sleaze" are as good as anything he's done. "clock" is line with the rougher material from "odelay". "vagabond' is a decent track with air, not too impressive but pleasant.

i checked again and no one mentioned "salt in the wound"--one of the very best b-sides! better than half of midnite vultures. such a good track!!!!

― naturemorte, Friday, 14 May 2004 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

nevermind, "salt in the wound" was indeed mentioned. but three cheers for it!

― naturemorte, Friday, 14 May 2004 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess "Deadweight" isn't an obvious choice for a non-album track, since it has a video and everything, and will probably be one of the few of these included on his greatest hits record. But still, I'm surprised it took so long to be mentioned.

― billstevejim, Friday, 14 May 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks, all! i'm going to have to track some of these down

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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