First of all, this album came with an awesome sheet of stickers, so you can design your own album cover art. There’s horses having sex, rainbows, robots, you name it. Evidently, this album is disqualified from the pop charts in England because the stickers constitute a competitive advantage over everyone else’s albums. Totally justified. It sounds ludicrous, but I would have paid $15 for the stickers alone. That said, I have yet to remove a sticker from the sheet and apply it to the cover. That says a lot about me, I think. Once I decorate the cover, I’ll be disappointed that I can’t redo it a different way. Trying to keep all my options open, I wind up choosing nothing.
The music is considerably less awesome. Don’t get me wrong. I really like Beck, and there is nothing wrong with this record. There isn’t a bad song. It just isn’t all that interesting. It doesn’t jump at me and demand attention. It’s background music. Very hip, esoteric background music. Maybe the problem is that Beck has made such good albums in the past, and it’s unfair to compare every album he makes to Midnite Vultures (my fave). But I got this album at the same time as Air’s Moon Safari, and Air just blew Beck away. No contest.
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I bought online, so I didn't get the stickers, but it did come with a complement of fairly psychedelic videos.
This is a great album, as long as you stop listening after track 5. I challenge you to listen through "Cellphone's Dead" without a pelvic thrust or air punch. But what did I put on at my party on Friday? Midnite Vultures.
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