Song Reader (3 versions)
Type: Album
 
     
   
 Song Reader is to be released in December 2012.

It consists of 20 full songs, and around 40 other snippets of songs. (And countless song titles with no music.)

It is only available in sheet music form. That is, no recorded music. It is being left up to fans to interpret the songs themselves (and some select musicians for publicity).

Special orders of the first pressing included a special insert, autographed by Beck (and he seems to have not signed them the same way each time, see the pictures below).

A year or two after the book, however, Beck did compile a recorded version of Song Reader, which was released on CD and vinyl. It included people like Laura Marling, Norah Jones and Jack White. Beck did one song himself (apparently, the one nobody else wanted).
 
 
   
Sheet Musics
sheet music version a    
   
 
Title: Song Reader (book)
Release type: Retail
Release date: Unknown date
Format: Sheet Music (x1)
Number pressed: Unknown

1. Don't Act Like Your Heart Isn't Hard 
Written by: Beck Hansen

2. I'm Down 
Written by: Beck Hansen

3. Saint Dude 
Written by: Beck Hansen

4. Do We? We Do 
Written by: Beck Hansen

5. Eyes That Say "I Love You" 
Written by: Beck Hansen

6. Now That Your Dollar Bills Have Sprouted Wings 
Written by: Beck Hansen

7. Please Leave A Light On When You Go 
Written by: Beck Hansen

8. Rough On Rats 
Written by: Beck Hansen

9. Old Shanghai 
Written by: Beck Hansen

10. Sorry 
Written by: Beck Hansen

11. Why Did You Make Me Care? 
Written by: Beck Hansen

12. Heaven's Ladder 
Drums: Josh Adams
Effects: Beck Hansen
Engineer: Cole Marsden Grief-Neill, David Greenbaum, Gus Seyffert, Hugo Nicolson
Guitar: Benji Lysaght
keyboards: Beck Hansen, Jake Blanton
Mix: Hugo Nicolson
Percussion: Beck Hansen
Piano: Nate Walcott
Produced by: Beck Hansen, Gus Seyffert
Vocals: Beck Hansen
Written by: Beck Hansen

13. America, Here's My Boy 
Written by: Beck Hansen

14. Just Noise 
Written by: Beck Hansen

15. We All Wear Cloaks 
Written by: Beck Hansen

16. Mutilation Rag 
Written by: Beck Hansen

17. The Wolf Is On The Hill 
Written by: Beck Hansen

18. Title Of This Song 
Written by: Beck Hansen

19. The Last Polka 
Written by: Beck Hansen

20. Last Night You Were A Dream 
Written by: Beck Hansen

21. Won't You Fondle Me? 
Original Performance: Mme. Galli-Curci
Written by: Beck Hansen

22. Zoological Garden 
Written by: Beck Hansen, Edwin Barnhouse

23. If You're Sorry, Then Why Don't You Look Sorry? 
Written by: Beck Hansen, Lucy Reynell

24. Are You Really? 
Written by: Beck Hansen, Mabel Tanner

25. Stop Being A Baby 
Written by: Amy McMullen, Beck Hansen

26. Don't Apologize 
Written by: A. Gadberry, Beck Hansen

27. The 335 Years' War 
Written by: Beck Hansen, E.N. McNeill

28. (From The Falklands To The Balkans) I've Fought In Every War 
Written by: Beck Hansen, H. Haglund

29. A-M-E-R-I-C-A 
Written by: Beck Hansen, C.A. Hoffman

30. Giddy Up! Giddy Up! We're On Our Way To War 
Written by: Beck Hansen, Gideon Shaffner

31. When A Mother Says Goodbye To Her Boy And Gives Him To Uncle Sam 
Written by: Beck Hansen, Georgia Larson

32. Will The Angels Guard My Daddy Over There? 
Written by: Beck Hansen, N. Barley

33. Why Does A Heart That Longs To Love You Have Two Hands That Won't? 
Written by: Beck Hansen, Scarlett Weiss

34. You Don't Have To Change Your Shoes (To Walk All Over Me) 
Original Performance: Devlin Hogue
Written by: Beck Hansen

35. Ye Midnight Stars 
Written by: Beck Hansen

36. They Didn't Believe I Could Do The Fox Trot 
Written by: Beck Hansen, Howard Staples

37. M-O-N-E-Y Spells Money 
Written by: Beck Hansen, K. Marx

38. It Don't Make No Difference What You Do, Get The Money 
Written by: Axl Greenspan, Beck Hansen

39. Leave Your Razors At The Door 
Written by: B. Schick, Beck Hansen, H. Bic

40. Why 
Written by: Beck Hansen

41. Like I Told You Before, No Means No 
Written by: Beck Hansen

42. Not Yet But Soon 
Written by: Beck Hansen

43. Do You Ever Wonder? No, I Don't 
Written by: Beck Hansen

44. We Did (But We Probably Shouldn't Have) 
Written by: Beck Hansen

45. If You Come To My Garden Of Love (Don't Mind The Weeds) 
Written by: Alton, Beck Hansen, Molloy

46. Apolkalypse 
Written by: Beck Hansen, Nostradamus Jones

47. It's The End Of The World (And I Feel Like Doing The Foxtrot) 
Written by: Beck Hansen, Nostradamus Jones

48. The Final Countdown 
Written by: Beck Hansen, Nostradamus Jones

49. Doomsday Rag 
Written by: Beck Hansen, Nostradamus Jones

50. Is There Room For One More In The Fallout Shelter? 
Written by: Beck Hansen, Nostradamus Jones

51. Judgment Day (Don't Judge Me) 
Written by: Beck Hansen, Nostradamus Jones

52. Fluffy Ruffles 
Written by: Beck Hansen

53. Ziz 
Written by: Beck Hansen

54. Today I Had A Lot Of Things To Do (But I Put Them All On Hold To Follow You) 
Written by: Beck Hansen

55. I Know We Just Met (But I've Been Following You For A While) 
Written by: Beck Hansen

56. Heavy Breathing On The Phone (Is How You'll Know It's Me) 
Written by: Beck Hansen

57. You Can't See Me (But I Can See You) 
Written by: Beck Hansen

58. When You Are Sleeping, You Know I'll Be There (In The Yard) 
Written by: Beck Hansen

59. I Dug Through Your Trash, OK? 
Written by: Beck Hansen

60. Ev'ry Morning I Bring Her Chicken 
Written by: Beck Hansen

 
instrumentals for the end of the world late patriotic song successes You Asked The Questions! Ye Midnight Stars Zoological Gardens You Looked Alright You Dont Have To Change Inescapable Melodies Won't You Fondle Me? The Wolf Is On The Hill Why Does A Heart That Longs To Love You Have Two Hands That Won't? Why Did You Make Me Care? WHY cloaks  
   
sheet music version b    
   
 
Title: Song Reader (book)
Release type: Retail
Release date: Unknown date
Format: Sheet Music (x1)
Number pressed: Unknown
Notes:
A certain number of first pressings were sold as autographed, and included an insert signed by Beck (and no two signings seem to be the same)!
 
 
   
Digital Downloads
digital download version a    
   
 
Title: Song Reader (album)
Release type: Retail
Release date: July 29, 2014
Format: Digital Download (x1)
Number pressed: Unknown
Notes:
The mp3/iTunes version of Beck's Song Reader album.

Due to a quirk in our database, I can only add Beck's song to the tracklist below, so here it is:

Moses Sumney "Title Of This Song"
fun. "Please Leave A Light On When You Go"
Tweedy "The Wolf Is On The Hill"
Norah Jones "Just Noise"
Lord Huron "Last Night You Were A Dream"
Bob Forrest "Saint Dude"
Jack White "I'm Down"
Beck "Heaven's Ladder"
Juanes "Don't Act Like Your Heart Isn't Hard"
Laura Marling "Sorry"
Jarvis Cocker "Eyes That Say 'I Love You'"
David Johansen "Rough On Rats"
Jason Isbell "Now That Your Dollar Bills Have Sprouted Wings"
Marc Ribot "The Last Polka"
Eleanor Friedberger "Old Shanghai"
Sparks "Why Did You Make Me Care?"
Swamp Dogg "America, Here's My Boy"
Jack Black "We All Wear Cloaks"
Loudon Wainwright III "Do We? We Do"
Gabriel Kahane "Mutilation Rag"

1. Heaven's Ladder (sheet music version) 
Written by: Beck Hansen