Beck

A party record if there ever was one, Midnite Vultures is great fun to listen to, with the wah-wah Funk of "Mixed Bizness" or the Electro-pop of "Get Real Paid." However, Beck is more in his copy-ist mode, playing the role of G-Funk gangsta, Prince and old school hip-hopper, rather than further eking out his own persona.

Pop culture remembers the 1970s as one big party: a nonstop, funk-pumped round of bong
hits and white lines snorted via $100 bills, a circuit of mirror-balled dance floors and water
beds full of obliging strangers, pre-AIDS and post-Roe vs. Wade. Just forget the recession,
the gasoline shortages, the hostage crisis and the hits by Styx, and, sure, it was all white
bell-bottoms and macksploitation. Beck Hansen, born in 1970, knows we're too s... More >

Does eventually get funky, if anybody cares but me ("Pressure Zone," "Peaches & Cream," "Debra"). (Grade - *)