ok, so in seventeen years worth of listening to music,
i've found the 4th song to make me cry like a child...

absolutely amazing song. it's like someone takes some
of your most hurtful memories and projects them onto a
big screen n says "here, deal with it, start to heal".



i've always loved Beck's music, but somehow missed out
on this track (it appears to be a mutations bonus cut)

but now Beck has risen to the heights of Prince for me

I don't have this one.

minneapolisgenius said:

me either

endorphin74 said:

And now I want it because I love Beck. If it sounds anything like something from Sea Change, then I'd be in heaven.

Paging sdldawn....


What album or Beck era is this from?

Several years ago I was burning down an orange glow to this track and others on Mutations, regularly... these days I've stopped that habit, but this track is just another testament to the great talent Beck can conjure at times.


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So I found out this song is on the 1999 import version of Mutations

CinisterCee said:

it is. it's a bonus track. there were 3 different bonus
tracks on various versions if i recall correct. some of
them had 2 tracks and other 1 or all 3.

CinisterCee said:

Mutations.. I believe it can be found on uk versions of the album..


and p2p file sharing

pretty easy to find if u look.

I also believe Electric music and the summer people can be found from this era too..

think its on that stray blues album as well

Also.. some other songs to consider checking out.


Strange Invitations (Mutations era.. beautiful song)
Ship In The Bottle (Sea Change Japanese bonus track)
This Is My Crew (Midnight Vultures outtake..funkay)
Salt In The Wound (Midnight Vultures b side)
Midnight Vultures (7 minutes of jam session)
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (Soundtrack to Eternal Sunshine)
Funky Lil Song (Track for Dimension 5 Records for Children)
Dirty Dirty (B side midnight vultures)
Arabian Nights (B side to midnight vultures)
Feel Good Time (Midnight Vultures Outtake.. yes, the one pink sang)

Mutations is my favorite album of Beck.

My copy is sadly quite skippy so I might do well to track down the import edition.

Sdldawn said:

Gold. sdl, you're awesome.

CinisterCee said:

No problem.. beck rocks

Sdldawn said:

These are some other great ones from this era:

One Of These Days
Diamond In The Sleaze

(both Mutations b-sides)

Doesn't do that much for me.

Beck is great musically but I have problem with his Scientology (we are all basically a multitude of alien souls attached to human bodies called thetans and yet we must rid ourselves of these thetans?) belief.

One afternoon I layed down for a little sleep. Put on Mutations and let it run. Little did I know that I'd wake up in time for 'Runners dial zero' and would think that I'd died or something. Seriously, that was the first time I ever really heard that song and together with the golden autumn light that came through my window and being sleepy, it scared the living daylights out of me.
Has to be the most depressing sounding song I know, besides Bowie's 'Heathen' (the title track).

IstenSzek said:

Which are the other 3 songs? I think I remember you writing about "Die Flut" back then...

On most versions of Mutations, "Diamond Bollocks", the song before "Runners Dial Zero", signifies the new direction Beck will lead us in with his next album, Midnite Vultures.

But "Runners Dial Zero" is apparently a bookend to all that came before; at least partly a comment on some of the darker aspects of the grunge era:

"By the dried up stream, we slit our throats and dreamed..."

His future Midnite Vultures was mostly brightly contrasting funk and collage in comparison... distinctly opposed to the Beck of old and the angstier tendencies of 90s rock and the low-key elements of Mutations.

One album later though and he was upset again on Sea Change... just shows how varied Beck's work is. I think he is one of the two most important artists of his generation, the other being Kurt Cobain.

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calldapplwondery83 said:

i'm not telling

Just listened to it. Very nice indeed.

Ship in The Bottle


When I called you in the morning
You were struggling for sense
You were journeying through memories so vicious
You made all your dying wishes
Come true

But I know you're gonna try
To live without love by and by
But that's not living
That's just time going by
Going by, my love

Another ship in the bottle
Has got no place to sail
To see the waves getting darker every hour
The stars have lost their power
In the sky

But I know you're gonna try
To live without love by and by
But that's not livin'
That's just time going by
Going by, my love



i love those lyrics. i have to hear this song.

IstenSzek said:

Man it is really a beautiful song.. if you liked Sea Change you'll love it!

JPW said:

I adore Sea Change, it's one of my all time fav albums by any artist

damnit, I want that bonus track

you can find it on p2p's...


its essential to the disk imo.. fits perfectly as an ending to the album...

JPW said:

Yeah, One of These Days is really good too...