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Midnite Vultures
Universal acclaim
Based on 19 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 17 votes
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Album Info
Label: DGC
Release Date: 16 November 1999
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Alternative, Rock, Electronic
Summary
Beck's "official" follow-up to 'Odelay' is an even more eclectic mix of soul, electro, funk, folk, rock, and hip-hop, including more than one song that sounds an awful lot like Prince.
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What The Critics Said
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E! Online
Beck's best when he's tweaking music he has a genuine interest in, giving new humor and affection to his nasty grooves.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly
He's given us the year's most relentless gas--laughing or otherwise--of a party album.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
An entertainingly excessive album, its libidinous funk mosaic finds Beck coming on like a master of ceremonies overseeing a sci-fi orgy.
Read Full Review >Armchair DJ
From start to finish, "Midnite Vultures" is a total party romp of an album.
Read Full Review >Sonicnet
Midnite Vultures is the album of a great entertainer, not a great artist.
Read Full Review >Dot Music
The startling musical variety amplifies the fact that no matter how aloof, how diffident, how cartoon Beck might be, he's so extravagantly talented that he's already lapped everyone else on that strength alone.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
For all Beck lifts from the Seventies, the album never sounds like a period piece; there's always something extra in the mix, stray elements that are both goofy and strangely apropos.
Read Full Review >Village Voice
It's a pastiche festival that works in the interest of groove every bit as hard as it does for knowingness and yuks.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
Narrower in scope than 'Odelay' but more immediate in impact, it's clearly been conceived as an accompaniment to our hedonistic habit of choice, the last great party album of the millennium.
Read Full Review >CDNow
Unlike Odelay, the mix-and-match pastiche of Midnite Vultures doesn't show its seams.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
As musically dazzling as Midnite Vultures often is, the one criticism that can be still levelled at Beck is that his songs remain strangely soulless, failing to ever really grip the emotions or stir the soul.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle
After the acerbic, introspective detour of Mutations, Mr. Hansen has decided it's time to get his freak on.
Read Full Review >Almost Cool
Midnite Vultues kind of sounds like an album Prince would have made if he were more interested in being a geek than carressing his own ego.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.1 (out of 10) based on 17 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
beck rules gave it a10:
genius
Beagen D gave it an8:
Plenty of good listening here, but just below these twin towers of Beck's catlog to date: Odelay for its grab-bag funk and Mutations for its cerebral acoustic seduction.
Jonathan H gave it a 10:
My second favorite Beck album, just barely below Odelay, amazingly fun album to listen to.
ashley b gave it a 10:
it was a long shot and i didnt think id like it but wow. its like a bomb.
[Anonymous] gave it a 9:
about as good a party record as you can find...the R&B community only wishs they could produce tracks like these.
