Friday, September 1, 2006

Beck – Sea Change

Details: Released - 9.23.02, 1 Disc/12 Tracks ~52:26
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Tracks:
1. The Golden Age 4:35
2. Paper Tiger 4:36
3. Guess I'm Doing Fine 4:49
4. Lonesome Tears 5:38
5. Lost Cause 3:47
6. End of the Day 5:03 (originally titled "Nothing I Haven't Seen")
7. It's All In Your Mind 3:06
8. Round the Bend 5:15
9. Already Dead 2:59
10. Sunday Sun 4:45
11. Little One 4:27
12. Side of the Road 3:23

Non-US Bonus Tracks, Singles, B-Sides & Rarities:
1. Ship in a Bottle 3:11

2. Diamond Dogs 4:34 ('01's Moulin Rouge! Soundtrack)
3. He's a Mighty Good Leader ('03's Holes Soundtrack)
4. Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime ('04's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Soundtrack)
5. Evil Things (Recorded for album but unreleased)
6. Rosalie (Recorded for album but unreleased)
7. Sorrow (Beck.com release)
8. Premonition (Beck.com release)
9. Day for Night (Beck.com release)
10. Untitled Song 2 (Beck.com release)
11. Which Will (Beck.com release)

12. Parasite (Beck.com release)
13. Pink Moon (Beck.com release)
14. Acropolis Now (Beck.com release)
15. Christian Dior Theme (Beck.com release)
16. Sex With Strangers 4:13 ('02's Marianne Faithfull-Kissin Time) _
17. Beechwood Park (Zombies Cover, Live 2002) _
18. Cypress Grove Blues (Skip James Cover, '02) _
19. I'm So Glad (Skip James Cover, The Soul of a Man Soundtrack, '02) _
20. Alameda (Elliott Smith Cover, 11.3.03) _
21. Ballad of Big Nothing (Elliott Smith Cover, 11.3.03) _
22. Clementine (Elliott Smith Cover, 11.3.03) _

Factoids, Extras & Eggs:
1. Sea Change was conceptualized as an album with one unifying theme—the stages following the end of a relationship. The album also featured string arrangements by Beck's father David Campbell, and collaborated with producer Nigel Godrich. Although some radio singles were released, no commercial singles were made available to the public.
2. Released with four different album covers, each version containing distinct artwork on the CD and the booklet. There are also different hidden messages written under each version's CD tray.
3. Though not an album, these tracks were released as free mp3's on Beck's website throughout 2005. I think that even though they were treleased throughout 2005, they seem to fit with this album better.

4. This album just screams for a Deluxe release.