MIDNITE VULTURES
| Beck
MIDNITE VULTURES
Midnite Vultures is the fourth official studio album and seventh overall by American alternative rock artist Beck, released in November 1999 by DGC Records. While similar to most of Beck's previous albums in its exploration of widely varying musical styles, Midnite Vultures did not achieve the same blockbuster success as his breakthrough album Odelay, but was still critically acclaimed and commercially successful.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
This time he plays the insider, riding the executive plane through the good life with every need fulfilled. “Satin sheets, tropical oils/Turn up the heat till the swimming pool boils,” he raps.
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Diffuser
So no, ‘Midnite Vultures’ is not Beck’s most “serious” album. But it’s a more diverse, musically accomplished affair than it’s generally remembered as. And you have to admit: Some of those faux-Prince moments are pretty fantastic.
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AV Club
Midnite Vultures pairs Beck's R&B love-man shtick (so over-the-top as to be almost cereberal) with a full-band sound, layering its beats with everything from pounding bass to new-wave keyboards to Johnny Marr's guitar to, on more than one occasion, a banjo
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NME
Beck has always kept ahead of this game, but ‘Midnite Vultures’ is audacious even by his standards.
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All Music
Musically, Midnite Vultures is filled with wonderful little quirks, but these are undercut by the sneaking suspicion that for all the ingenuity, it's just a hipster joke.
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BBC
It's a feisty and fun jaunt
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Exclaim!
It is either pathetic, exhilarating or just plain silly fun it's hard to tell, but it's undeniably entertaining.
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Sputnik Music
highly entertaining because it's simply Beck doing what he does best- altering the norms of musical orchestration while blending several different musical elements to create a truly captivating musical experience.
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Pitchfork
There are highs and lows behind a veil of aloof eclectic genius. It all feels like a Kaufmanesque manipulation. Stereopathic Soul Manure was a low. Midnite Vultures is a high.
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Music Times
It is Beck's most fun album and arguably his best
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Culture Vulture
Midnite Vultures is his most soulful, sex-obsessed and dance-ready disc to date
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The Quietus
Midnite Vultures is a very fun, almost silly album
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Saving Country Music
That’s right. If you were looking for the perfect parody album of what you hear coming out of your country radio today, this would be it.
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Album of the Year
When you can't get pulled into an atmosphere where the music is purposefully ridiculous, it becomes an absolute mess and really tedious to sit through. I can see appeal, but it isn't built on enough to encapture me.
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The Shrubbery
Beck subjects us to an all out postmodern musical frenzy that’s harder to stop than an oncoming train.
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The Harvard Crimsom
Vultures: The Best of What Beck Does Best
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Mr Hipster
I enjoyed the album on the first listen just because it was so bizarre, but it gets more and more annoying with every spin.
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IGN
the album just feels unfocused and erratic
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Stereogum
I'm still not sold on the idea that Midnite Vultures is the all-time great Beck album, but I think it's fair enough to say it belongs in the conversation.
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NY Times
the album has sonic depth; with its samples and background vocals and overlaid rhythms, it approximates the experience of gazing at a stained-glass window.
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Almost Cool
There are catchy moments and lyrics that crack me up every time, but there just doesn't seem to be any substance that sticks inside my head like there were with Odelay.
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claus.com
This is a good collection of songs. ... Invest in it, I say!
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