With a visual style as messy and maddening as the musical foundation, Midnite Vultures is hardly for the faint-hearted or, indeed, anyone seeking consistency within individual songs, never mind an entire album. Beck Hansen snatches up threads from all kinds of directions, with the result that the record tends not to make consistent sense from one minute to the next - "Mixed Bizness" (the subject of a remix contest that left dozens of different versions floating around the Internet) begins with a howl of massed synthesizers over thumping drums straight out of "Honky Tonk Women," blasts through a variety of styles, and finally fizzles in a morass of new-psychedelic twiddling, only to give way to another styistic leap for "Get Real Paid," which then bounces around further. By the time you reach the oddball folk haven of "Debra," with its Tyrannosaurus Rex touches, the effort of staying with the album proves exhausting. It really is the sort of record to take in small doses over a period of time. Lots of good stuff, but it tends to be obscured by the hopscotch style game.
NAMM ShowFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchThe NAMM Show is the largest music products trade show in the world. Held every January in Anaheim, California, USA the show brings together all facets of the music products industry to reveal new musical instruments/products and ideas to help music products retailers and manufacturers become more successful. More than 80,...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_SnowScientific philosophyIn the "Copenhagen Interpretation" above, reference was made to the disagreement regarding Einstein's actual position regarding the quantum theory. The famous quotation "God does not play dice" is often used to support the majority view that he disliked the theory due to its indeterminism.Others make the case for a different view. The...
Midnite Vultures is an alternative rock album by Beck and was released in November 1999. Similar to most of Beck's previous albums in its exploration of widely varying musical styles, Midnite Vultures didn't achieve the same blockbuster success as his breakthrough, Odelay, but it was well-received by his fans and critics. It reached #34 in the US - where it went gold - and also hit #19 in the U...
Nicotine, and Gravy KICKS ASS!Man I still can't get over the fact that Beck is a Scientologist. I thought he'd be smarter than that! However I still love his tunes...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_SnowScientific philosophyIn the "Copenhagen Interpretation" above, reference was made to the disagreement regarding Einstein's actual position regarding the quantum theory. The famous quotation "God does not play dice" is often used to support the majority view that he disliked the theory due to its indeterminism.Others make the case for a different view. The...
Midnite Vultures is an alternative rock album by Beck and was released in November 1999. Similar to most of Beck's previous albums in its exploration of widely varying musical styles, Midnite Vultures didn't achieve the same blockbuster success as his breakthrough, Odelay, but it was well-received by his fans and critics. It reached #34 in the US - where it went gold - and also hit #19 in the U...
NAMM ShowFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchThe NAMM Show is the largest music products trade show in the world. Held every January in Anaheim, California, USA the show brings together all facets of the music products industry to reveal new musical instruments/products and ideas to help music products retailers and manufacturers become more successful. More than 80,...
how could i forget about the funkiest album in my collection? (and my personal favorite of beck's)?!starting off, a sweet song that i happen to know all the words to.
"Oh MOG, why?!", "No, please, no! Make it stop!", "What the F-Word?!", "Aaargh!", "Urgghh?!", "Grrrrr!!", "I want to die!", "I want YOU to die!"... Well, this post had many names before the fury passed on and I regained my conscience and clear thinking. It took me three days. To make the long story short, publishing my first article here on MOG ("When even the dead dance":http://mog.com/Me...
Nicotine, and Gravy KICKS ASS!Man I still can't get over the fact that Beck is a Scientologist. I thought he'd be smarter than that! However I still love his tunes...