Morning Better Last!

Morning Better Last!
Studio album by Dirty Projectors
Released 2003
Recorded 2001-2002
Genre Indie rock
Length 53:36
Label States Rights
Producer Dave Longstreth
Dirty Projectors chronology

The Glad Fact
(2003)		 Morning Better Last!
(2003)		 Slaves' Graves and Ballads
(2004)
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Morning Better Last! is an album by American experimental rock band Dirty Projectors. It is a compilation of three tapes recorded by Dave Longstreth that were given to friends of his. These tapes were:

"Nile Yessum" / "Picknum Deduns" / "Pickenham Dedonshire"
"Brother Had A Birthday" / "Live At Sam's" / "The Glad Fact Testimonial"
"Three Brown Finches" / "Obscure Wisdom EP" / "Seven Songs That Owe A Lot To Zep III".

These were recorded and distributed in 2001 and 2002. The songs vary exceedingly, unlike the songs on then-unreleased concept album The Getty Address. In 2003, Morning Better Last! was released by States Rights Records on CD-R and as a digital download from iTunes.

Track listing

All songs written by Dave Longstreth.

  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. "Ghanabama" - 1:44 (called "Dahlonegabhama" on the insert)
  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. "D and 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

"After Santa Monica Boulevard" and "Ghanabama" were sampled later on the song "Tour Along The Potomac" on The Getty Address.

"Here Comes The Summer King" is a faster, more rock-oriented version of the song "Three Brown Finches" on The Glad Fact.