haha they're so good.




anyway, if this thread dies that's fine. it needed to be made though

favorite album: Hello Nasty. people say Paul's Boutique was really advanced. and it was. but they took it far deeper on this release and a few previous. seems very underrated to me. very!

Paul's Boutique > Check Your Head > Hello Nasty > Ill Communication

Agree with you on Hello Nasty. great songs all over that record. Boutique is basically a 10 for me, though.

Licensed to Ill - 4 stars
Paul's Boutique - 5 stars
Check Your Head - 5 stars
Ill Communication - 4 stars
Hello Nasty - 5 stars
To the 5 Boroughs - 4 stars

3 classics. 3 merely great. All should be owned

^yeah that's pretty right on, esp. in the 3 + 3. also put me in the chorus of hello nasty love. either my favorite or 2nd favorite disc of theirs.

i heartily recommend and endorse this thread.

picking a favourite is tough. i really don't know. the first i heard of them was check your head, i think, but hello nasty was so much fun. paul's boutique is fantastic, and ill communication is also tops.

what a group they've been. amazing live too.

Put them in the category of bands I wish I liked but I didn't. I've only heard the most popular stuff though, and only 'Licensed To Ill' in full, so maybe I should give them another chance. It just seemed so goofy and ridiculous to me, and in a cringe way not a good way. As someone who wasn't really around at the time I think they've aged badly.

Listen to Check Your Head Coma. That one has aged beautifully imo. I bet you'd dig it.

Glad to see Hello Nasty love. That might stand up over time as their ultimate statement. Such a dense, diverse record that really got overlooked a bit. Paul's is a masterpiece, but Nasty took that spirit into using instruments. There's just some really crazy music on there, unlike anything people have done before or since.

Those two records are also the ones where the BBoys swap mic from line to line, or phrase to phrase in some cases, whereas Head and Communication see more often them changing verse-to-verse. A subtle difference, but I think they're at their best when more aggressively weaving their rhymes.

Cheers for the recommendation, will spin it this afternoon.

Ah man, me and three of my best friends (one of whom is in town from Korea after 2+ years) got drunk, played pool, and rocked this jukebox in a dive bar last night. We kept putting on Beasties and singing every word to every song. Great stuff.

We discussed last night and two of us (me included) rated Check Your Head the highest and the other two rated Ill Communication the highest. But I do really like all their records.

check your head
paul's boutique
licensed to ill
ill communication
hello nasty
5 boroughs

First two are perfect. Second two very nearly so. Hello Nasty wore thin quick, need to hear it again. Last one, I'm indifferent.

i could get behind this statement if finger lickin good wasn't on check your head. only song on the album i have always walked out on.

pretty sure b boys makin with the freak freak and something's got to give are my favorite beastie joints.

Intriguing. I almost feel that about "Car Thief" on Paul's. It doesn't kill the record, but it's not like I look forward to it, either.

I think I'm in the minority here, since I don't really like Hello Nasty all that much. It's okay, but kinda boring.

For me...

Paul's Btq>Check Yr Head>Ill Comm.>Hello Nasty

Licensed To Ill is their best, most potent record.

Sure, the others are more innovative and stylistically varied, but Licensed just drips with attitude and frankly scared me a little as a kid.

my favorite is Hello Nasty.

cause i got more hits than sadaharu oh

Agreed about Licensed to Ill being their best. I wouldn't really call their other stuff "innovative," but I'm pretty sure I'm in in the minority there.

New album out April 19, it seems. That's coming from the band and their "people."

gonna have to throw on awesome i fucking shot that very soon-ish.

I went to a classmate's birthday party when I was about 7 or 8. The big present he got and freaked out over was his parents getting him Licensed to Ill (on cassette!). All the other kids were like "yeah!" and his parents let us listen to it on the way to Chuck E. Cheese. I felt left out as the other kids already had the tape and were singing along to "Brass Monkey" and "Girls". My parents were not strict at all growing up and they never prevented me from seeing TV/movies/music videos or anything like that, but I do remember feeling like "wait, we're allowed to listen to this???"

Definitely seemed like forbidden fruit...and I was 12 or 13 at the time. Maybe that's why I'm intensely bonded with it, although I have great memories associated with Paul's Boutique and Check Your Head as well.

anybody else still have any beastie's on cassette?
used to have licensed to ill but it has disappeared over the years. paul's boutique...still got it.

i have a blue Paul's. still listen to it here and there, despite having it three other ways.

I'm pretty sure I still have Cookie Puss on cassette.

I got Licensed to Ill on vinyl at the time and I bought Paul's Boutique on cassette the day it came out. It had that super-huge foldout.

spinning Check Your Head after the new Radiohead 6X or so.

refreshing. felt like the first breathe of air I'd had all day.

yea i pop it in now and then as well. mine's yellow.

it's funny, I had that cassette for about 18 years before realizing there were different colors.

anyway, here's the podcast with info on the new album, movie, video:

http://thebrouhaha.podbean.com/2011/02/16/...saw-that-ep-15/

the guy who hosts it is unbearable as hell, mugging too hard to be a "radio guy," but he's the one who got the album release date from the band.

May 3rd. It's finally coming.



1. Make Some Noise
2. Nonstop Disco Powerpack
3. OK
4. Too Many Rappers [new reactionaries version] (featuring NAS)
5. Say It
6. The Bill Harper Collection
7. Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (featuring Santigold)
8. Long Burn the Fire
9. Funky Donkey
10. The Larry Routine
11. Tadlock's Glasses
12. Lee Majors Come Again
13. Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
14. Here's a Little Something for Ya 15. Crazy Ass Shit
16. The Lisa Lisa/Full Force Routine

It's here. And it rules.

http://pitchfork.com/news/42128-new-beasti...ake-some-noise/

^^^

this does rule.

I want to love this, but...

love it.

V. nice.

jazzed for the album. happy birthday to me it will be.

Love the Beastie Boys but haven't heard anything since Hello Nasty. What's the consensus on 5 Boroughs? On par with the previous five?

nope.

4-5 pretty sweet songs, but my least favorite proper album of theirs.

meh.

Flat, IMHO.

OMG. This looks so fantastic.

I can't wait, how are they going to release it? MTV? Website?

I see it comes with the deluxe package of the new cd, but besides that, I don't know. Wish it was something I could see on a bigger screen.

New track "Say It" is great, one of the heaviest things they've ever done.

http://www.somekindofawesome.com/journal/2...oys-say-it.html

Stream the record here:

http://www.livestream.com/beastieboys/vide...80-054c1e617cda

"Mike D, the Jewish Brad Pitt."

update: leaked.

So excited. Downloading now.

Even Kid Rock figured out not to be a white rapper over 40.

Weak comparison. As usual.

what does being white have to do with it? Why are you even in this thread?

anyway, the rapping on this record is some of their best ever. "nonstop disco powerpack" is fantastic. Reminds me of the Treacherous 3.