Beck's latest is lyrical and funky

When the more elitist critics of the music world put together their lists of the best music of 1999, there were three works on most of their lists: Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile, Rage Against the Machine's The Battle of Los Angeles, and Beck's Midnite Vultures. While Trent Reznor, Zack de la Rocha, and Beck Hansen were certainly each born with musical ability, it seems that only Beck has an innate ability to not take himself so seriously.