Thursday, April 26, 2018

Beck - Arabian Nights - Non-Album Tracks (1999-2000)

Here's another Beck album. Easily more than half of the Beck music I listen to isn't on any of his official albums, so I'll be posting lots more of his stuff in the future.

This covers the "Midnite Vultures" era. Like that album, this is upbeat party music.

Note that the song here entitled "Midnite Vultures" isn't actually on the Midnite Vultures album. Beck later explained that he finished off a song that was mostly instrumental after the album came out and couldn't think of a title for it, so he named it after the album.

A couple of songs here ("Bloodless" and "California Radio") are studio tracks yet extremely rare. Apparently they only got played once on a radio show a few years later. The sound of "Let the Doctor Rock You" is less than great, since it comes from an audience concert recording. But that's the only known version of the song.

"Diamond Dogs" really is from 2001, but I put it here because it fits in better with this bunch of songs.

01 This Is My Crew (Beck)
02 Salt in the Wound (Beck)
03 Let the Doctor Rock You [Live] (Beck)
04 Arabian Nights (Beck)
05 Dirty, Dirty (Beck)
06 California Rodeo (Beck & Kool Keith)
07 Midnite Vultures (Beck)
08 Bra (Ozomatli & Beck)
09 Bloodless (Beck with Cornelius)
10 Diamond Dogs (Beck)

Jet Engine (Forest for the Trees with Beck)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15126536/BeckH_1999-2000_ArabianNghts_atse.zip.html

I can't possibly imitate the wild and weird album covers Beck chooses. So I'm going to stick with using the covers of his singles as often as possible. This is the cover of the "Mixed Bizness" single, with only the words changed.

1 comment:

  1. If you could post a download for all of the Forest For the Trees material out there (the self titled album, the Wet Paint E.P., maybe this if you could find it : https://www.discogs.com/Forest-For-The-Trees-Dream/release/1174290 , and Jellyfish from https://www.discogs.com/Various-Dreamworks-Fall-2000-Sampler/release/6016139 and https://www.discogs.com/Various-Think-Dreamworks/release/14877714), I'd be in your debt forever.

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