| Beck | Primary Artist, Synthesizer, Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Vocals, Choir, Chorus, Vocoder |
| David Brown | Tenor Saxophone |
| David Campbell | Viola |
| Larry Corbett | Cello |
| Joel Derouin | Violin |
| Greg Leisz | Pedal Steel Guitar |
| Jay Dee Maness | Pedal Steel Guitar |
| Johnny Marr | Electric Guitar |
| Herb Pedersen | Banjo |
| Fernando Pullum | Horn |
| David Ralicke | Trombone |
| Joe Turano | Horn, Background Vocals |
| Arnold McCuller | Background Vocals |
| Smokey Hormel | Guitar |
| Joey Waronker | Percussion, Drums |
| Beth Orton | Background Vocals |
| The Dust Brothers | scratching |
| Steve Baxter | Horn, Background Vocals |
| Justin Meldal-Johnsen | Synthesizer, Bass, Guitar, Percussion, Background Vocals, Hand Clapping, Shaker, Upright Bass |
| Valerie Pinkston | Background Vocals |
| Roger Manning | Organ, Synthesizer, Piano, Tambourine, Background Vocals, Choir, Chorus, Clavinet, Percus, Shaker, Vocoder |
| DJ Swamp | scratching |
| Eve Butler | Violin |
| Arroyo Bombers | Choir, Chorus |
| Arroyo Tabernacle Mens Chorale | Choir, Chorus |
| Jon Birdsong | Trumpet |
| Tony Hoffer | Guitar, wah wah guitar |
| Beck | Programming, Producer, Horn Arrangements |
| David Campbell | String Arrangements, String Conductor |
| Brian Gardner | Mastering |
| Bernie Grundman | Mastering |
| Chris Bellman | Mastering |
| The Dust Brothers | Programming, Producer, Engineer |
| Mickey Petralia | Programming, Producer, Engineer |
| The Eye | Artwork, Art Direction, Collage |
| Gimbop | Layout Direction |
| Michel Gondry | Collage |
| Tony Hoffer | Programming, Producer, Engineer, Sound Design |
Anonymous
Posted October 1, 2010
The disco-funk, the grooves, the country twangs, the hip-hop beats - it's all one big happy family on this album! The lyrics are both rediculous and genius. Beck belts out the soul on such tracks as Sexx Laws, Hollywood Freaks, and the spectacular groovieness of Debra. One of the best albums of the 90s!
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Posted October 1, 2010
beck surely is a genius....is album is probably his best yet. it's a party in a jewel case. the horns are great. though you can hear roots from classic rock funk and soul you can also hear some from free form jazz. beck has a great voice does an amazing falsetto....(i hope his voice recovers after the tour he's just been singing so high day in and out!) this album is bulgeing w/ soul. i love it (as if you couldn't tell) i also saw him in concert for the midnite vultures tour, it was great it was a party everyone was singing and danceing. beck puts so much passion into his music.
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Posted October 1, 2010
I loved this album! It is crammed with every musical influence of the last 30 years. My husband and I listened to and we heard: Sly Stone, Dylan, Prince, B52s and intertwined into original Beck tunes. It allows you to see that he can do it all. I haven't listened to an album for a week solid since I was a teenager. I dare anyone not to crank this disc in their car!!! fun fun fun fun fun!!!! What can't this guy do?
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Posted October 1, 2010
Beck smashed music boundaries in the mid 90's with Odelay. Then he had a more folky Mutations. Now he is back with a funkalicious Midnite Vultures. At first I wasn't sure what to make of his latest album, but once I heard some tracks I was hooked. If you liked Odelay, definitly check this funky, R&B influenced album. You won't regret it. PS: I enjoy hearing comments about my reviews so feel free to send me E-Mails.
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Posted November 22, 2009
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Editorial Reviews
Barnes & Noble - Jon Dolan
From the tips of his folkie fingers to the bottom of his burrito soul, Beck Hansen is a rock-'n'-roll utopian. It's just that his version of Eden is a never-ending block party barbecue on the shuffleboard deck of the Love Boat. As alt-rock's unlikely hero of pleasure-friendly irony and love-man fronting, Beck has put a sheepish smile on the often-anonymous face of late-'90s sample-pop culture, reinventing the Beastie Boys' thrift-store aesthetics as some mutant spawn of Bob Dylan and Tom Jones might have it. In this fine tradition, MIDNITE VULTURES picks up where 1996's shake-'n'-bake classic, ODELAY, left off, goosing Beck's standard art-hop boogie with metal riffs on ...