Beck - Heartland Feeling - Non-Album Tracks (1992-1993)

I want to move on to posting Beck's great stray tracks from the 2000s to today. However, I still have more from the 1990s to cover.

Beck started writing songs in the late 1980s and recording then in a non-professional way on cassettes.  There are lots of these early cassettes floating around, most from the 1990s. To be honest, there was a learning curve and most of his early songs just aren't that good. A lot of them are experimental and/or novelty songs.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of his early efforts. Luckily, his songwriting improved dramatically around 1993. So even though I've listened to dozens of his songs from 1988 to 1993 (before his big "Mellow Gold" breakthrough in 1994), all the songs here are from 1992 or 1993, thanks to that improvement in his songwriting. This is a really boiled down "greatest hits" from his early years. I probably could have posted four of five albums' worth of songs if I was being thorough, but instead it's just one album of about 50 minutes of music.

Note that I have two versions of the song "MTY Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack." I think it's hilarious, and one of his best early songs. The version that starts this album is the one released as a single. The one that ends the album was played on a radio show, and I like it even better. He mocks his own song and performs a swinging lounge version of it.

I've included a couple of songs from a radio show that was actually in early 1994, even though this album focuses on 1992 and 1993. That's because one 1993 song, "Heartland Feeling," has some great dialogue about the heartland music concept. Then, as an introduction to one of the 1994 radio performances ("It's All Gonna Come to Be"), he makes reference to some of that dialogue. So I thought those two belonged on the same album.

01 MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack (Beck)
02 To See that Woman of Mine (Beck)
03 Mexico (Beck)
04 Heartland Feeling (Beck)
05 Super Golden Black Sunchild (Beck)
06 Gettin' Home (Beck)
07 Whimsical Actress (Beck)
08 Deep Fried Love (Beck)
09 Steve Threw Up (Beck)
10 Death Is Coming to Get You (Beck)
11 Whiskeyfaced, Radioactive, Blowdryin' Lady (Beck)
12 Dead Man with No Heart (Beck)
13 Its All Gonna Come to Be (Beck)
14 MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack [Lounge Version]  [Live Vocals Over Instrumental Recording] (Beck)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15124583/BeckH_1992-1993_HeartlndFeeling_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I used the cover of a remix single and change the text.