B Side Collection Stray Blues is an album by Beck released on May 9, 2000. Beck's eight-song B-sides collection Stray Blues is a short but sweet reminder of all the different sounds and styles he's capable of embodying and combining. It's especially refreshing after the somewhat forced, funk-soul-brotha vibe of Midnite Vultures to hear reflective, stoner-folk epics like Totally Confused,Brother, and Feather in Your Cap next to noisy workouts like Lemonade, the deadpan hipster-hop of Clock, and a surprisingly straight mariachi version of Burro. His groovy, Odelay-style pastiche is in full effect on the '60s pop send-up Electric Music and the Summer People and the rambling, ultra psychedelic cover of Skip Spence's Halo of Gold, which originally appeared on the Spence tribute More Oar. Impressively, most of these songs were recorded years apart from each other and with different musicians, but Stray Blues holds together nearly as well as any of Beck's proper albums, proving that he's at his best when he's at his most eclectic. The album's Japanese-only release is frustrating because Stray Blues deserves to be heard by more people than just die-hard fans.Not only is this collection a reminder of Beck's impressive diversity but of how necessary a domestic B-sides collection is to his discography.