Beck - Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW Studios, Santa Monica, CA, 11-24-1998

Now that I've all caught up with stray tracks albums from Beck, I have some other albums from him I'd like to post. This is a great album for anyone who likes his 1998 album "Mutations." That's probably my favorite album from him. He performed most of the album for a radio station, so the sound quality is excellent and there is no crowd noise.

Beck has had a long relationship with the radio station KCRW in Santa Monica, California. That had him perform live on air back in 1993, before he hit it big with the single "Loser" in 1994. Since then, he's often returned for more in person performances at the station. He doesn't do it every single year, but he at least performs there once every few years.

I've posted some of his KCRW performances on albums with other sources too, such as my two volumes of Beck's "Rare Acoustic Performances." Those were relatively short solo acoustic performances. But as he got more famous, his KCRW shows got longer, and usually included a band. That's the case here.

There was a lot of the typical radio interview banter between songs. I cut the vast majority of that out, because I don't think it has much relisten value. However, I did keep the brief comments he made to introduce each of the songs.

He played seven of the 12 songs from "Mutations." Only the last one, "Debra," is not from that album. Instead, that song would appear on his 1999 album "Midnite Vultures."

This album is 38 minutes long.

01 Cold Brains (Beck)
02 talk (Beck)
03 Bottle of Blues (Beck)
04 talk (Beck)
05 Sing It Again (Beck)
06 talk (Beck)
07 O Maria (Beck)
08 talk (Beck)
09 Dead Melodies (Beck)
10 talk (Beck)
11 Nobody's Fault but My Own (Beck)
12 talk (Beck)
13 Tropicalia (Beck)
14 talk (Beck)
15 Debra (Beck)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15288874/BeckH_1998c_MornngBcomesEclectcKCRStdiosSntaMonicaCA__11-24-1998_atse.zip.html

The cover shows Beck in concert in Wigan, Britain, in May 1998.