'93 FEELINGS

Beck has so much goddamn music out there. He was insanely prolific from 1993 to 1998 which always made me crazy when people referred to him as a slacker. He released close to 100 songs as singles, b-sides, outtakes, compilation tracks, remixes, and live on air sessions. That is on top of releasing the following albums: Golden Feelings, A Western Harvest Field By Moonlight, Stereopathetic Soulmanure, Mellow Gold, One Foot In The Grave, Odelay and Mutations. Seven albums, fifteen singles, eight collaborations, twenty seven compilation tracks, remixes of and from various musicians and a bunch of videos. There's also a missing album he recorded with Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion and an album he made that would have been "a more rock-based follow-up to Mellow Gold…an album that sounds like a Pavement, Sebadoh kind of thing”. All of this in a span of 5 years. That's fucking insane.

Anyway, this is the first part of my series of Beck compilations. It is made up of all the singles he released mixed with some live on KCRW sessions. Also, I decided to dissect Beck's album Golden Feelings because it always seemed more like a demo tape to me and a lot of the songs were salvaged for future releases. "Mutherfukka" and "Nighmare Hippy Girl" ended up on Mellow Gold. "Special People" and "Super Golden Black Sunchild" ended up as b-sides on the Beercan single (which is why I included them on the 1994 Beck compilation). "No Money No Honey" ended up on Stereopathetic Soulmanure (although in a pretty different form). And "Totally Confused" ended up on A Western Harvest Field By Moonlight. I added most of the rest of the songs (but not all - there are a couple of stinkers on there) and ended the compilation with "Close To God" which was made by Beck & Calvin Johnson in late 1993.

Tracklisting:
MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack
To See That Woman Of Mine
The Fucked Up Blues
Trouble All My days
Bad Energy
Schmoozer
Heartland Feelings
Put It In Neutral
Whiskey-Faced, Radioactive, Blowdryin' Lady
Soul Sucked Dry
Mexico
Will I Be Ignored By The Lord
Bogus Soul
Death Is Coming To Get You
Head Cut Off
Whimsical Actress
People Gettin' Busy
Close To God

Old man Johnson got his head in his hand
Making his way across state in a fiddling band
With hair all down in his eyes
And the microphone all covered with flies