Beck - Feel Good Time - Non-Album Tracks (2002-2004)

Beck did a lot of interesting things in the early 2000s that didn't make it onto any of his official albums. Unfortunately, not all of that sounds like excellently recorded studio material. So I'm dividing his stray tracks from this time into two categories: studio (or studio sounding) songs, and live songs, with audience noise and warts and all.

I've already released one album of studio sounding material covering 2000 and 2001. This continues that, covering 2002 to 2004. Following this album, I'll post another album of live songs covering 2001 to 2005.

This album contains a song that should have been a big hit for Beck: "Feel Good Time." This song was co-written by Beck, but it heavily samples the song "Fresh Garbage" by Spirit. Beck recorded it and was going to release it, but Pink heart of it somehow, and Beck gave the song to her, for some reason. His vocals were wiped and replaced by hers. She went on to have a number three hit with it in Britain. The Beck version still remains unreleased, but was posted on the producer's website at one point.

That song sounds like the sort of thing you'd hear on a pop station in 2003. But the rest of this album is far different. Most of them have an acoustic and/or country sound. The vast majority also are cover versions, from 2002 ("Do You Realize") all the way back to 1931 ("I'm So Glad"). As far as I can tell, there are only two other Beck originals, "Rosalie" and "Killing Kindness."

But still, it's a really good album, with most of the covers being interesting and unusual choices. Also, the sound is excellent. A few of the songs do come from concert bootlegs, but they are taken from pristine soundboards and the audience noise is removed, so they sound just like studio tracks.

01 Do You Realize (Beck)
02 Rosalie (Beck)
03 Beechwood Park (Beck)
04 Feel Good Time [Fresh Garbage] (Beck)
05 Kangaroo (Beck)
06 I'm So Glad (Beck)
07 Killing Kindness (Beck)
08 She Thinks I Still Care (Beck)
09 Magnolia (Beck)
10 Sleepless Nights (Beck)
11 True Love Will Find You in the End (Beck)
12 Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime (Beck)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15127174/BeckH_2002-2004_FeelGoodTme_atse.zip.html

I took the cover art from a Beck remix version of "Feel Good Time." I don't know where it comes from, but I really like it. All I did was add the words "Feel Good Time."