Midnite Vultures - Beck

many people try to define beck ito certain genre's but he changes from album to album and from song to song. This is what i see as the whole appeal of beck as he's not afraid to try anything. if you listen to mutations you would think that he was a relaxed country guitarist. if you listen to mellow gold you could think he's a rapper at times. both of these are great albums but on midnite vultures and odelay he doe swhat i think is his best work. the songs are funky, rocky, mellow and all ooze brilliance they are all brilliantly original and overall midnite vultures is just a great album overall with becks amazing vocals and the wide ...

Beck's 5th album Midnite Vultures is surely a bit different from the usual Beck stuff. If you don't really know his old stuff just think of "Looser" which everyone knows and "Sexx laws" , first single from Midnite Vultures. There's quite a big gap, don't you think? It nearly seems that they're not even from the same artist. But, knowing Beck the genius of alternative music and his previous album "Mutations" which (as the name says itself) marks a period of change, we could have expected it. An album about sex? Maybe! With lots of important collaborations like Beth Orton, Midnite Vultures is ...

An outburst of lyrical expression with a touch of an ecclectic symbolism that merges into a hysteria of life. Thats what Beck would say about this album....probably. But then you never can tell with Beck. One minute he's spouting utter gibberish, the next he sounds like Stephen Hawkins on speed. (metaphorically of course....He doesnt have one of those computer voices or anything) But then maybe Beck has changed a little. Take "sexx laws" for example, which on the surface appears to be some surreal philosophical view on life, when actually its just a bloody good song. The fact that he harps on about his own sexual prowess is a little strange ...