| Morning Better Last! | ||||
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| Released | 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 2001-2002 | |||
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| Length | 53:36 | |||
| Label | States Rights | |||
| Producer | David Longstreth | |||
| Dirty Projectors chronology | ||||
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Morning Better Last! is a compilation album released in September 2003.[1] It brings together three tapes recorded by David Longstreth in the period 2001 to 2002.[2] A year later they were compiled and released by States Rights Records on CD-R and as a digital download from iTunes.[3] The album features guest appearances by Hank Miller, Liz Tung and Lucy Greene.[3]
Both "After Santa Monica Boulevard" and "Dahlonegabhama" were reused for the song "Tour Along The Potomac" on The Getty Address, while "Here Comes The Summer King" is an up-tempo version of "Three Brown Finches" on The Glad Fact. In 2006, Longstreth commented on the material, explaining that the record "is like 1/40th of a whole bunch of four track recordings I made in 2002".[2]
Track listing
All tracks are written by David Longstreth
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Softer Shell" | 4:33 |
| 2. | "Brother Had a Birthday" | 1:49 |
| 3. | "The Enterprising Catalyst" | 2:15 |
| 4. | "Grandfather's Jacket" | 2:06 |
| 5. | "After Santa Monica Boulevard" | 1:54 |
| 6. | "Dahlonegabhama" | 1:44 |
| 7. | "Further On Down the Strip" | 1:21 |
| 8. | "Katydids Calling" | 2:10 |
| 9. | "Twenty-Foot Stalks (exit 14)" | 1:34 |
| 10. | "We Could Cling" | 2:25 |
| 11. | "The Love-Prayer Book" | 0:37 |
| 12. | "To Give It Weight (Then He Gave It Cartilage)" | 2:34 |
| 13. | "Here Comes The Summer King" | 2:22 |
| 14. | "Her Freezing and Thawings" | 3:38 |
| 15. | "Hildegarde vs. Beach Boys" | 1:33 |
| 16. | "We Two Feared the Storm" | 2:33 |
| 17. | "How Does My Mind Work?" | 3:50 |
| 18. | "I Am Going to See It" | 2:31 |
| 19. | "Fake Folks" | 2:50 |
| 20. | "The Disordered Sprawl" | 1:44 |
| 21. | "Like Once Heated Milk" | 5:04 |
| 22. | "O! You Hungering Infants" | 1:21 |
| 23. | "Morning Had Better Last!" | 0:59 |
| Total length: | 53:36 | |
References
- 1 2 "Morning Better Last! – Dirty Projectors". AllMusic. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- 1 2 Sawada, Stephen (October 2006). "Dirty Projectors and Mariah Carey?". lineout.thestranger.com. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
- 1 2 "Dirty Projectors - Morning Better Last". Discogs. September 2003. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
