Rare on Air, Vol. 4 (1998)

About this title: Here's one of those compilations that feature unreleased live performances by some of your favorites, but not all of them. And the question is, do you buy the disc for those one or two essential tracks or bypass the whole deal because you don't want to have to get up and skip some of the tracks you know you'll end up hating? Well, if you like one of these performers, recorded in on-air performances for KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic show in Santa Monica, CA, you'll like the lion's share of the batch. Soul Coughing lays down a relaxed but groovy "Disseminated," and Randy Newman is resplendent ... read more

Tracks:

1. Cut Chemist Suite [Chali Twona/Wil-Dog]
2. Gravel [DiFranco]
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien [Greenwood/Greenwood]
4. Only Talking Sense [Finn/Finn]
5. Blue Mug [Gus Gus]
6. Disseminated [Soul Coughing/Scott]
7. Flowers in December [Sandoval/Roback]
8. Sex and Candy [Wozniak]
9. El Fin de la Infancia [Cafe Tacuba]
10. St. Teresa [Osborne/Bazilian/Hy]
11. Louisiana 1927 [Newman]
12. New World [Yusuf/U Roy/Daulne]
13. So Real [Buckley/Tighe]
14. Good Enough [McLachlan]
15. The Fall of Troy [Brennan/Waits]

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