Beck Album Gets Reissued

Beck's One Foot In The Grave, the collection of folky tunes he put out just after his 1994 Mellow Gold debut, will be reissued on May 19 by Universal Music.

Calvin Johnson recorded One Foot In The Grave in 1993 at his Olympia, Wash. basement studio on reel-to-reel eight-track tapes. Beck is backed by members of Built To Spill, Spinanes and Love As Laughter. The album was released on K Records just over three months after Mellow Gold.

"I'd never worked with anyone so focused, or whose creativity flowed so freely," Johnson says. "Songs altered structure and lyrics take to take, a fascinating process to witness."

The reissue will include an additional disc with 13 previously unreleased tracks from the One Foot In The Grave sessions and three songs from an out-of-print seven-inch single. One is an early version of "It's All In Your Mind," which was later included on 2002's Sea Change.

You can buy One Foot In The Grave as a double CD, on two 180-gram vinyl LPs or as a digital download. The One Foot In The Grave "complete package" can be purchased on Beck's website for $105 U.S. (about $129 Canadian). It includes all the above along with a signed poster, collectible tote bag and limited-edition T-shirt.

Here are the songs on One Foot In The Grave:

"He's A Mighty Good Leader"
"Sleeping Bag"
"I Get Lonesome"
"Burnt Orange Peel"
"Cyanide Breath Mint"
"See Water"
"Ziplock Bag"
"Hollow Log"
"Forcefield"
"Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods"
"Asshole"
"I've Seen The Land Beyond"
"Outcome"
"Girl Dreams"
"Painted Eyelids"
"Atmospheric Conditions"

Here are the songs on the One Foot In The Grave reissue bonus disc:

"It's All In Your Mind" (K Records seven-inch)
"Whiskey Can Can" (K Records seven-inch)
"Mattress" (unreleased)
"Woe On Me" (unreleased)
"Teenage Wastebasket" (unreleased)
"Your Love Is Weird" (unreleased)
"Favorite Nerve" (unreleased)
"Piss On The Door" (unreleased)
"Close To God" (unreleased)
"Sweet Satan" (unreleased)
"Burning Boyfriend" (unreleased)
"Black Lake Morning" (unreleased)
"Feather In Your Cap" (K Records seven-inch)
"One Foot In The Grave" (unreleased)
"Teenage Wastebasket" (unreleased)
"I Get Lonesome" (unreleased)