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While similar to most of Beck’s previous albums in its exploration of widely varying styles, it did not achieve the same blockbuster success as his breakthrough album Odelay, but was still critically acclaimed and commercially successful. The album’s sound marked a compositional departure from the psychedelic hip hop, alternative rock, and sample-based music in his previous albums towards a funk rock and R&B style.Table of Contents       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Recording[edit]Influences[edit]Release[edit]Critical reception[edit]Track listing[edit]Personnel[edit]Weekly charts[edit]Year-end charts[edit]Certifications[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Recording[edit]Working titles for the album included Zatyricon (the name of a song released in 2000 as a B-side on the “Nicotine & Gravy” single and later included on the Beck EP) and I Can Smell the V.D. in the Club Tonight (a line from “Milk & Honey”).[4]Influences[edit]Several songs were directly inspired by other songs: “Get Real Paid” features a spiraling sequencer motif reminiscent of Kraftwerk’s “Home Computer”; a synth breakdown in “Milk & Honey” echoes a similar riff in Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message”; “Beautiful Way” came about after listening to The Velvet Underground’s “Countess from Hong Kong”; and “Debra” was inspired by both Prince’s song “Adore” and the David Bowie song “Win”.Release[edit]Midnite Vultures reached number 34 in the US, where it went gold, and also hit number 19 in the UK. As of July 2008, Midnite Vultures has sold 743,000 copies in the United States.[5]The first promotional shows for the album came in late 1999, including a headlining performance at the first Coachella festival on October 9 alongside The Chemical Brothers, Rage Against the Machine and Tool.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Beck had also appeared on the Saturday Night Live episode (dated December 4),[6]The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,[7] and the VH1! Fashion Show.[8]During the following year Beck continued to tour, playing in the U.S., Japan, and at large European festivals such as Bizarre Festival, Reading and Leeds Festival and more, playing about 80 shows from January ’00 until September ’00. The “Vultures” tour was also the last tour featuring DJ Swamp as a part of Beck’s touring band, whom he had been a part of since 1997.The first 500,000 copies came in a digipak.A thirty-second segment of “Beautiful Way” has been bundled with Windows ME as a demo song for Windows Media Player 7, under the name “beck.asf”. The song showcased Media Player’s Internet integration by displaying a clickable image link.Critical reception[edit]Midnite Vultures was praised by most critics, and the album holds a score of 83 at Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, indicating “universal acclaim”.[9]Jon Pareles of Rolling Stone remarked that on Midnite Vultures, Beck “plays the insider, riding the executive plane through the good life with every need fulfilled.”[16] Richard Cromelin of the Los Angeles Times wrote that he gives the album “a cinematic richness, depth and detail with an array of mutations and surprises, from banjo hoedown to electronic effects”.[3] The NME felt that the album, while narrower in scope than Odelay, is “more immediate in impact”.[14]Q praised Midnite Vultures as an often “musically dazzling” album, while noting that “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.”[15] In a mixed review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic states that while the album’s initial songs are “tight, catchy, and memorable, the production dense”, the “awkward, misguided shift in tone” of “Hollywood Freaks” gives the rest of the album the impression that “for all the ingenuity, it’s just a hipster joke.”[10]Robert Christgau of The Village Voice felt that “his problem isn’t that he tries to be funny, but that his jokes are as forced as his horn charts”,[18] later giving it a one-star honorable mention rating and remarking that it “does eventually get funky, if anybody cares but me.”[19]Midnite Vultures was nominated in 2001 for Album of the Year at the 43rd Grammy Awards.In 2006, Midnite Vultures was named the 50th “Worst Album Ever” by Q.[20] Conversely, in 2013, NME ranked the album at number 307 in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[21]Track listing[edit]All tracks are written by Beck Hansen, except where noted.Japanese release bonus trackTitle12.“Arabian Nights” (includes hidden track included on other pressings)5:37Best Buy limited edition bonus discTitle1.“Salt in the Wound”3:242.“This Is My Crew”3:553.“Sexx Laws” (Malibu remix)6:52Personnel[edit]Beck \u2013 vocals, production; keyboards (tracks 1, 6, 7, 10), guitar (tracks 2, 6, 7, 9, 10), synthesizer (track 2, 4, 8), piano (track 2), vocoder (track 3, 8), choir vocals (track 4), bass synthesizer (track 5), backing vocals (tracks 6, 7, 10), handclaps (track 6), marimbas (track 7), harmonica (tracks 7, 9), acoustic guitar (track 8), bass (track 9), programming (tracks 1-4, 6-8, 10), mixing (tracks 1-6, 8), horn arrangements (tracks 1, 3, 6)Justin Meldal-Johnsen \u2013 bass (tracks 1-8, 10), synthesizer (track 2), backing vocals (track 3), shaker (track 3), percussion (tracks 6, 7), handclaps (track 6), guitar (track 8), noise (10), upright bass (track 11)Roger Joseph Manning Jr. \u2013 synthesizer (tracks 1-8, 10), piano (tracks 1, 2, 8, 10), tambourine (tracks 1, 9, 10), shaker (tracks 1, 10), clavinet (tracks 2, 7, 8), vocoder (track 3, 8), backing vocals (track 3, 10), choir vocals (track 4), organ (track 6, 11), percussion (tracks 6, 7), handclaps (track 6), acoustic guitar (track 7), guitar (track 8), electronic drums (track 8), keyboards (track 9), Fender Rhodes electric piano (track 11)Smokey Hormel \u2013 guitar (tracks 1, 3, 8, 11)Joey Waronker \u2013 drums (tracks 3, 7, 8, 10, 11), percussion (track 10)David Arthur Brown \u2013 tenor sax (tracks 1, 2, 3, 6)Jon Birdsong \u2013 trumpet (tracks 1, 2, 3, 6)David Ralicke \u2013 trombone (tracks 1, 2, 3, 6)Tony Hoffer \u2013 co-production (tracks 3, 4, 8, 10), mixing (tracks 3, 4, 8, 10), programming (tracks 3, 4, 5, 8, 10), sound design (4, 10), engineering (track 3, 4, 8, 10), guitar (track 3, 8)David Campbell \u2013 viola (track 2), string arrangements (track 2), string conductor (track 2)Larry Corbett \u2013 cello (track 2)Joel Derouin \u2013 violin (track 2)Brian Gardner \u2013 masteringBernie Grundman \u2013 masteringGreg Leisz \u2013 pedal steel (track 9)Jay Dee Maness \u2013 pedal steel (tracks 1, 9)Johnny Marr \u2013 guitar (track 8)Michael Patterson \u2013 mixing (tracks 1-6, 8, 11)Herb Pedersen \u2013 banjo (tracks 1, 2)Fernando Pullum \u2013 horn (track 11)Joe Turano \u2013 horn (track 11), backing vocals (track 11)Arnold McCuller \u2013 backing vocals (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5)Beth Orton \u2013 backing vocals (track 9)Chris Bellman \u2013 masteringThe Dust Brothers \u2013 production (tracks 5, 11), scratching (track 5), programming (track 5), engineering (track 5)Robert Carranza \u2013 string engineer (track 2)Steve Baxter \u2013 horn (track 11), backing vocals (track 11)Steve Mixdorf \u2013 second engineerValerie Pinkston \u2013 backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 5)Mickey Petralia \u2013 programming (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9), production (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9), engineering (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 9), mixing (track 1, 2, 6-10)Shauna O’Brien \u2013 project managerDJ Swamp \u2013 scratching (track 2)Eve Butler \u2013 violin (track 2)Charlie Gross \u2013 photographyArroyo Bombers \u2013 gang chorus (track 5)Arroyo Tabernacle Men’s Chorale \u2013 choir (track 6)Derek Carlson \u2013 second engineerEye \u2013 artwork, art direction, design, collageGimbop \u2013 layout directionMichel Gondry \u2013 collageSAWeekly charts[edit]Year-end charts[edit]Certifications[edit]References[edit]^ a b DiCrescenzo, Brent (November 25, 1999). “Beck: Midnite Vultures”. Pitchfork. Archived from the original on October 23, 2006. Retrieved September 13, 2012.^ Phipps, Keith (November 23, 1999). “Beck: Midnite Vultures”. The A.V. Club. Retrieved September 13, 2012.^ a b c d Cromelin, Richard (November 21, 1999). “Beck Reaches Deeper but Keeps Party Spirit”. Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on August 28, 2016. Retrieved January 7, 2016.^ “Beck “Milk and Honey” Lyrics”. Whiskyclone.net. Retrieved 24 November 2009.^ “Ask Billboard”. Billboard. 2008-07-18. Archived from the original on 2008-08-01. Retrieved 2008-07-18.^ “Hijacked Flavors – Concert Info – December 4, 1999”. whiskeyclone.net. Retrieved 2022-10-09.^ “Hijacked Flavors – Concert Info – December 10, 1999”. whiskeyclone.net. Retrieved 2022-10-09.^ “Hijacked Flavors – Concert Info – December 5, 1999”. whiskeyclone.net. Retrieved 2022-10-09.^ a b “Reviews for Midnite Vultures by Beck”. Metacritic. Retrieved September 13, 2012.^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. “Midnite Vultures \u2013 Beck”. AllMusic. Retrieved September 13, 2012.^ “Beck: Midnite Vultures”. Alternative Press (137): 81. December 1999.^ Willman, Chris (November 26, 1999). “Midnite Vultures”. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 13, 2012.^ Cox, Tom (November 12, 1999). “Arty like it’s 1999”. The Guardian.^ a b Cameron, Keith (November 17, 1999). “Beck \u2013 Midnite Vultures”. NME. Archived from the original on August 18, 2000. Retrieved September 13, 2012.^ a b Doyle, Tom (December 1999). “Beck: Midnite Vultures”. Q (159): 124\u201325. Archived from the original on January 29, 2000. Retrieved September 2, 2018.^ a b Pareles, Jon (December 9, 1999). “Midnite Vultures”. Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 13, 2012.^ Lowe, Steve (December 1999). “Pretty fly for a white guy”. Select (114): 84\u201385.^ Christgau, Robert (February 22, 2000). “Flak on Both Sides”. The Village Voice. 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Recording Industry Association of Japan. Select 1999\u5e7412\u6708 on the drop-down menu^ “British  album  certifications \u2013 Beck \u2013 Midnite Vultures”. British Phonographic Industry.^ “American  album  certifications \u2013 Beck \u2013 Midnite Vultures”. Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved January 6, 2020.External links[edit]     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki2\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki2\/midnite-vultures-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Midnite Vultures – Wikipedia"}}]}]