The joke of Licensed to Ill's cover- that the Beasties could crash their jet into the side of a mountain and keep on tickin'- serves as a good metaphor for a career that even some of their 1986 admirers thought might be over after the one-time-only shock of this full-length debut. That thousands of funk-junkie wannabes have since failed at re-creating its groove, breaking-the-law vibe, and ear-splitting mix of rock and rap is an even better joke. And funniest of all is the record itself, which packs aural puns and lots and lots of yelling into an album that can still be listened to with as much pleasure as it gave in 1986.
1. Rhymin' and stealin' 2. New style 3. She's crafty 4. Posse in effect 5. Slow ride 6. Girls 7. You gotta fight for your right (to party) 8. No sleep till Brooklyn 9. Paul Revere 10. Hold it now hit it 11. Brass monkey 12. Slow and low 13. Time to get ill
After the out-of-nowhere success of Licensed to Ill, the Beasties had to prove they were more than one-album wonders, and they hit it out of the park with this follow-up. The Boys' lyrics are a hysterical deluge of cultural allusion (Ponce De Leon, Japanese baseball legend Sadaharu Oh, and Love Connection's Chuck Woolery all get name-dropped), compressed wordplay, and adenoidal snottiness, but the real stars are the Dust Brothers, whose production is a hip-hop landmark. Their music tracks sound like the history of rock and funk radio boiled down to a pure concentrate- -monster jams built out of thousands of unexpected samples (Johnny Cash! The Sweet!). It's a killer party album, kinetic and dense, and it never slows down.
1. To all the girls 2. Shake your rump 3. Johnny Ryall 4. Egg man 5. High plains drifter 6. Sounds of science 7. Three minute rule 8. Hey ladies 9. Five piece chicken dinner 10. Looking down the barrel of a gun 11. Car thief 12. What comes around 13. Shadrach 14. Ask for Janice 15. B boy bouillabaisse
With their third album, the Beasties transformed themselves from smart-ass punks with hip-hop tones into a playful live funk band with some solid rhymes, assisted by the extraordinary keyboardist "Money" Mark Ramos Nishita. A couple of tracks look back to their old school rap roots,and they still deploy goofy samples like nobody's business, but they're mostly making their own grooves (including some instrumentals worthy of being sampled in their own right). Their universalist world-view results in some excellent, off-the-wall fusions--the metalloid bump that forms the funk pulse of "So What'cha Want", Sly Stone's "Time for Livin'" transformed into a hard-rock bomber--but the Beasties don't have to prove how clever they are any more, and they're stronger and more humane for it.
1. Jimmy James 2. Funky Boss 3. Pass the Mic 4. Gratitude 5. Lighten Up 6. Finger Lickin' Good 7. So What'cha Want 8. Biz Vs. The Nuge 9. Time for Livin' 10. Something's Got to Give 11. Blue Nun 12. Stand Together 13. Pow 14. Maestro 15. Groove Holmes 16. Live at P.J.'s 17. Mark on the Bus 18. Professor Booty 19. In 3's 20. Namasté
By 1994 the Beasties had settled into their cultural role as the grand arbiters of cool, and Ill Communication is pretty much a catalogueof coolness: live funk, a bit of hardcore, ingenious samples of obscure records, keyboards by analogue master Money Mark, guest shots by Q-Tip and Biz Markie, MCA's cop-show metal number "Sabotage" and the inevitable cascade of witty old-school rhymes. But it's also a surprisingly mature record from a band that had, after all, been at it for 12 years already. The original jazz-funk instrumentals hold their own with the group's favourite sample sources. Their voices are modestly buried in the mix, and they've tempered their old snottiness with lyrical compassion: check out "Bodhisattva Vow", a salute to Buddhist spirituality.
1. Sure Shot 2. Tough Guy 3. B-Boys Makin' With the Freak Freak 4. Bobo on the Corner 5. Root Down 6. Sabotage 7. Get It Together 8. Sabrosa 9. Update 10. Futterman's Rule 11. Alright Hear This 12. Eugene's Lament 13. Flute Loop 14. Do It 15. Ricky's Theme 16. Heart Attack Man 17. Scoop 18. Shambala 19. Bodhisattva Vow 20. Transitions
1.Alright Heer this 2.Rhyming and Steeling 3.Sabotage 4.Tough Guy 5.Time for Living 6.The Update 7.Sureshot 8.Shake your Rump 9.Flute Loop 10.Hear Attack man 11.Sabotage (dif.version) 12.The Update (dif.version)
Between the making of Paul's Boutique and Check Your Head, the Beastie Boys checked into a rehearsal space and relearned how to make an album. Their new technique involved lots of extended jamming and experimentation, both of which are evident on the two previously unreleased versions of "Root Down" (and either of which could have substituted for the original version with no loss of quality). The rest of this mini-album was recorded live on an European tour and shows the Boys in fine form, rocking early tracks with a funky new flow ("Time to Get Ill") as well as showing that they could pull off both their back-to-punk guitar-rock and their new-groove funk sounds onstage.
1. Root down (Free Zone Mix) 2. Root down (1) 3. Root down (2) (PP Balloon Mix) 4. Time to get ill 5. Heart attackman 6. Maestro 7. Sabrosa 8. Fluteloop 9. Time for livin' 10. Something's got to give
1. Brand New 2. Real With It 3. Believe Me 4. Nervous Assistant 5. Square Wave in Unison 6. You Catch a Bad One 7. I Can't Think Straight 8. I Want Some
American bands have never got in the habit of their British counterparts, who tend to release lots of extended singles filled out with not-meant-for-prime-time experimentation. If the Beasties had got into that habit, this would be their B-side compendium: a dozen instrumental tracks showing off their groovier side, complete with plenty of wah peddle on the guitar and prominence given to frequent Beastie collaborators "Money" Mark Nishita (keyboards) and Eric Bobo (percussion). It's tough to believe that the same band is responsible for this and the Aglio e Olio EP, but it goes a long way in explaining how they've remained viable for so long.
1. Groove Holmes 2. Sabrosa 3. Namaste 4. Pow 5. Son of Neckbone 6. In 3's 7. Eugene's lament 8. Bobo on the corner 9. Shambala 10. Lighten up 11. Ricky's theme 12. Transition 13. Drinkin' wine
On their previous album, Ill Communication, the Beastie Boys expanded their parameters yet again, melding cutting-edge hip-hop with slinky jazz, butt-wiggling funk, weepy classical, and combustive punk rock. Four years down the line, the group's music isn't nearly as organic. They've all but abandoned the guitars and returned to the kind of old-school beats and rhythms that defined their groundbreaking 1989 disc, Paul's Boutique. But Hello Nasty isn't a regression, and it's anything but a cop-out: in addition to resurrecting the best elements from their past, the Beastie Boys have embraced the dopest high tech gizmos of the computer age. Hello Nasty gurgles like galactic sulfur pools, whizzes like a Sega game, and slurps and thumps like the best backward Hendrix loops. Add in a cavalcade of Latin percussion, calliope keyboards, and exotic samples (Stravinsky, Stephen Sondheim, Jazz Crusaders, Rachmaninoff), and you're left with one of the most creative and jubilant hip-hop records to date, even if you exclude witty lyrics like, "I'm the king of Boggle / There is none higher / I get 11 points off the word quagmire" ("Putting Shame in Your Game"). To paraphrase über-critic Robert Christgau, Paul's Boutique may have been the band's Pet Sounds, but Hello Nasty is the Beasties' Sgt. Pepper's. --Jon Wiederhorn --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
1. Super disco breakin' 2. Move 3. Remote control 4. Song for the man 5. Just a test 6. Body movin' 7. Intergalactic 8. Sneakin' out the hospital 9. Putting shame in your game 10. Flowin' prose 11. And me 12. Three MC's and one DJ 13. Can't won't don't stop 14. Song for Junior 15. I don't know 16. Negotiation limerick file 17. Electrify 18. Picture this 19. Unite 20. Dedication 21. Dr Lee PhD 22. Instant death
In the Jewish religion, it's traditional for males to get Bar Mitzvah-ed--to undergo the ceremony of adulthood-at age 13. Judging them by that standard, for one, the Beastie Boys are ahead of the game; between 1986's Licensed to Ill and 1999's hits package The Sounds of Science, the Beasties have matured from attention-starved brats to insightful, funky trend-setting brats with an ace record collection and top choice in collaborators. And by staying in tune with their inner children, the Boys have also managed to not drop off in fervour as they've continued to push their boundaries: How many other hip-hop/rock groups would be able to put songs as different as the hardcore "Egg Raid on Mojo" and the jazzed-out instrumental "Sabrosa" on the same collection? And a slightly deranged take on Elton John's "Benny & the Jets"? At a hefty 42 tracks, this collection has something for everyone--and manages not to skimp on the hits or pad them with filler. Though it would serve well as an introduction, The Sound of Science is even better as a companion.
CD 1 :
1. Beastie Boys 2. Slow And Low 3. Shake Your Rump 4. Gratitude 5. Skills To Pay The Bills 6. Root Down 7. Believe Me 8. Sure Shot 9. Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim Emix) 10. Boomin' Granny 11. Fight For Your Right 12. Country Mike's Theme 13. Pass The Mic 14. Something 'S Got To Give 15. Bodhisattva Vow 16. Sabrosa 17. Song For The Man 18. Soba Violence 19. Alive 20. Jimmy James (Original Version) 21. Three Mc's And One Dj (Live Video Version)
CD 2 :
1. The Biz Vs The Nuge 2. Sabotage 3. Shadrach 4. Brass Monkey 5. Time For Livin' 6. Dub The Mic 7. Benny And The Jets 8. The Negotiation Limerick File 9. I Want Some 10. She's On It 11. Son Of Neckbone 12. Get It Together 13. Twenty Questions 14. Remote Control 15. Railroad Blues 16. Live Wire 17. So What' Cha Want 18. Netty's Girl 19. Egg Raid On Mojo 20. Hey Ladies 21. Intergalactic
01 - Shadrach (Peanut Butter Wolf Remix) 02 - Shake Your Rump (Madlib Remix) 03 - Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun (Egon & Jon Doe Remix)
Side B
04 - Shadrach (Peanut Butter Wolf Instrumental Remix) 05 - Shake Your Rump (Madlib Instrumental Remix) 06 - Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun (Egon & Jon Doe Instrumental Remix)
Never released commercially! Used by Mixmaster Mike on tour with the Beastie Boys & seen in the movie Scratch. Limited & available for the first time on CD. 39 tracks.
1. Gorilla Beat 2. Mellow Man 3. Green Street Intro - Green St. Beat 4. Mike's Get It Together 5. Nubian Remake 6. Early Jimi 7. Biggie 8. Hindu Love 9. Physical 10. Incarcerated 11. Zulu 12. Ghetto Boys 13. Strictly For The Break Dancers 14. The Bridge 15. The Bridge Horns 16. Beat For Egg Man 17. Cosmic Trance Beat 18. Rob Bass Vs. Brass Monkey 19. Junkyard Band 20. The Bridge Is Over 21. Natural Born Killers 22. Brick House 23. Make The Music 24. Knowledge Me 25. White Lotus 26. Black Cop 27. The Humpty Dance 28. Cold World 29. Plug Tune-In 30. One Love 31. Megatron 32. The Ghetto Boys 33. Danger 34. Do This 35. Go Go Let's Get Small 36. MMM 37. Beat Bop 38. Check Out How We Rock 39. Biz Beat Box
To the 5 Boroughs, the Beastie Boys' first LP in six years, is a thunderous return to form. Dispensing with the electro experimentation of the more challenging Hello Nasty, the boys get back to basics, seeming to sense that the time is exactly right to launch the return of their old-skool sound. Lead single "Ch-Check It Out" blows open the doors, with its booming meaty beats and funky vibes, reminding us just how exciting the rap-rock genre was back in the day when these guys helped pioneer it, before all the whiney "Limp Linkins" came along and commodified it. To the 5 Boroughs captures the sound of the Beasties in their prime, spitting invective (as on the Bush-baiting "That's It That's All") over urgent bass-driven cuts with fortysomething voices that are as fresh as ever. They may be less concerned now with the Party than with a picnic ("grilled cheese", "flapjacks", "matzoh", "cholla", "falafel", "gorgonzola", "spaghetti" and "chicken tikka" all get a shout), but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. With age has come Buddhist-influenced wisdom, and gone are the misogynistic tendencies of old; these days they're more likely to be rapping about "the beach" rather than a bitch. Though these Beasties bring a message of love ("we gotta keep the party goin' on; all lifestyles sizes, shapes and forms") they're tighter and truer than ever.
1. Ch-Check It Out 2. Right Right Now Now 3. 3 The Hard Way 4. Time To Build 5. Rhyme The Rhyme Well 6. Triple Trouble 7. Hey Fuck You 8. Oh Word ? 9. That's It That's All 10. All Life Styles 11. Shazam! 12. An Open Letter To NYC 13. Crawlspace 14. The Brouhaha 15. We Got The 16. Now Get Busy (Bonus)
Artist: Beastie Boys Title Of Album: The Mix Up Year Of Release: June 26, 2007 Genre: Rock, Jazz Funk Quality/Bitrate: MP3 / VBR / 44.1 Khz / Stereo Total Time: 42:31 min Total Size: 80 mb / rar / 3%RecoveryRec.
1. B For My Name 2. 14th St. Break 3. Suco De Tangerina 4. The Gala Event 5. Electric Worm 6. Freaky Hijiki 7. Off The Grid 8. The Rat Cage 9. The Melee 10. Dramastically Different 11. The Cousin Of Death 12. The Kangaroo Rat