Beckology (1991)

About this title: This triple-CD set -- obviously modeled after the four-CD Eric Clapton Crossroads box -- was the first attempt to survey Jeff Beck's entire career. In actual fact, that would be a hopeless task, given the amount of anonymous session work that the guitarist did circa 1964-1966, but Beckology still manages to touch a few unexpected bases, even as it strings together all of the obvious and most of the important sides in Beck's output. Disc one opens with the most alluring part of the entire set, three demo tracks left behind by Beck's 1963-1965 group, the Tridents; the first official releases by ... read more

Tracks:

1. Trouble in Mind [Jones]
2. Nursery Rhyme [Live] [Diddley]
3. Wandering Man Blues [Beck/Cook/Lucas/Luc]
4. Steeled Blues [Beck/Relf]
5. Heart Full of Soul [Gouldman]
6. I'm Not Talking [Allison]
7. I Ain't Done Wrong [Relf]
8. The Train Kept A Rollin' [Bradshaw/Kay/Mann]
9. I'm a Man [Diddley]
10. Shapes of Things [Dreja/McCarty/Relf/]
11. Over, Under, Sideways, Down [Beck/Dreja/McCarty/]
12. Happenings Ten Years Time Ago [Beck/McCarthy/Page/]
13. Hot House of Omagarashid [Beck/Dreja/McCarty/]
14. Lost Woman [Beck/Dreja/McCarty/]
15. Rack My Mind [Beck/Dreja/McCarty/]
16. The Nazz Are Blue [Beck]
17. Psycho Daisies [Beck/Dreja/McCarty/]
18. Jeff's Boogie [Beck]
19. Too Much Monkey Business [Live] [Berry]
20. The Sun Is Shining [Live] [James]
21. Mister, You're a Better Man Than I [Live] [Hugg/Hugg]
22. Love Me Like I Love You [Live] [Beck/Dreja/McCarty/]
23. Hi-Ho Silver Lining [English/Weiss]
24. Tallyman [Gouldman]
25. Beck's Bolero [Page]
26. Shapes of Things [Dreja/McCarty/Relf/]
27. I Ain't Superstitious [Dixon]
28. Rock My Plimsoul [Jeffrey]
29. Jailhouse Rock [Leiber/Stoller]
30. Plynth (Water Down the Drain) [Hopkins/Stewart/Woo]
31. I've Been Drinking [Mercer/Tauber]
32. Definitely Maybe [Beck]
33. New Ways Train Train [Beck]
34. Going Down [Nix]
35. I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You [Ashford/Holland/Sim]
36. Superstition [Wonder]
37. Black Cat Moan [Live] [Nix]
38. Blues Deluxe/Bba Boogie [Live]
39. Jizz Whizz [Appice/Beck/Bogert]
40. Cause We've Ended as Lovers [Wonder]
41. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat [Mingus]
42. Love Is Green [Walden]
43. Diamond Dust [Holland]
44. Freeway Jam [Live] [Middleton]
45. The Pump [Hymas/Phillips]
46. People Get Ready [Mayfield]
47. Escape [Hammer]
48. Gets Us All in the End [B./Baker]
49. Back on the Streets [Beck]
50. Wild Thing [Taylor]
51. The Train Kept A Rollin' [Bradshaw/Kay/Mann]
52. Sleepwalk [Farina/Farina/Farin]
53. The Stumble [King/Thompson]
54. Big Block [Beck/Bozzio/Hymas]
55. Where Were You [Beck/Bozzio/Hymas]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.