• Band Name: Beck
  • Record Label: DGC
  • Release Date: Nov 16, 1999
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Universal acclaim - based on 19 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 26 Ratings

  • 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.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 19
  2. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. 100
    Beck's best when he's tweaking music he has a genuine interest in, giving new humor and affection to his nasty grooves.
  2. Midnite Vultures is the album of a great entertainer, not a great artist.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. 10
    This album is full of ..... awesomeness
  2. the 3 modern albums that really do it for me: Radiohead-Kid A Mr. Bungle-California Beck-Midnight Vultures
    Seriously, it doesn't get much better than this.
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  3. beckrules
    10
    genius
  4. j30
    8
    Midnight Vultures is probably Beck's most diverse set to date, but sometimes diversity doesn't always feel rewarding. However, in this album's case the rewards come from repeated listens. Expand

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