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Midnite Vultures by: Beck List Price: £9.99 CD-Charts Price: £4.98 You Save: £5.01 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0060694905272 Label: Polydor Group Manufacturer: Polydor Group Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Polydor Group Release Date: December 23, 2002 Running Time: 58 minutes Studio: Polydor Group Sales Rank: 8825 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Beck Hansen's sixth album again demonstrates his unparalleled ability to mix and match genres without overwhelming his essential style. Midnite Vultures is his peculiar tribute to the pre-hip hop American urban music of the Eighties, not a million miles from the peaks of that other wilful eccentric, Prince. "Sexxlaws" is a catchy melange including horns and down-home banjo picking, the inexplicable "Nicotine And Gravy" harks back to George Clinton's early P-funk, while the superlative "Milk And Honey" steals knowingly from Grandmaster Flash's "The Message", alongside electro beats and a huge rock chorus. Throw in pretty country ("Beautiful Way"), nasal G-funk ("Hollywood Freaks"), Tom Waits-style dissonance ("Out of Kontrol", where he asks "Did you ever let a cowboy sit on your lap?") and the relentless funk of "Mixed Business" and you have nothing less than another eclectic masterpiece. --Steve Jelbert Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - fantasticThis, I think, is still Beck's finest musical excursion to date. I've read a lot of the other reviews, and I understand some people's reservations about it, and that they prefer other Beck records, but this one is just a maze of audacious musical twists and turns. The attention to detail is just astounding. A while ago I read that Beck would spend 8 hours making just 16 seconds of the music on this record. It shows. It's so intricate, there are so many sounds and frequencies intertwining yet never getting lost, never growing confused, never sounding out of place that I can't help but be amazed. When I heard comparisons to Prince on it's release I wasn't thrilled. But you don't have to like that style of music to enjoy this record. ... Read More: Rating: - nearly great!not as good as odelay or mutations but still better than most of the crap out there. It can get annoyingly like prince at times and hollywood freaks is pure pretentious lame-rap garbage. however nicotine and gravy is amazing and is worth as much as the whole album. Rating: - nearly greatmidnite vultures has good and bad songs. milk and honey stands out while hollywood freaks is pure pretentious crap. in short a good album but with some setbacks. Rating:  - Shame!The People who say this is better than Mellow Gold obviously don't have a very good ear for music. This is shameful and irritating to listen to. On Mellow Gold it trully was aural gold every single song, but this is the sound of Vultures totally ravaging his creative body at midnight. Mellow Gold is so superior to this its unbeleiable that people say other wise even as a joke. I hope one day Beck returns to form and doesn't record another embarassing stale chunk of nauseaous toss again! I was so embarassed to own this Lp that I couldn't even palm it off to a friend so I realised that the best thing to do with it was to put it in the bin. Rating: - funkyI would recomend to anyone who listens to this album and question Beck's talent to get hold of his "One Foot In the Grave" LP and listen to those two one after the other. From OFitG blues/country and jazz hybrid, showing a definite Captain Beefheart influence, Beck has tried just about every genre under the sun with great success. Still prefer his old stuff though |
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