signature pose.

and some solid eps

We covered by the Blood which never loose it's power



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This even rivals Pauls IMO for personal preference.

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America from 9:00 on: https://youtu.be/GUwLCQU10KQ

This album was played a lot while we played video games. The remixes are dope as hell too.

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

I remember seeing them live when I was around 13.....a month before 'Check your head' came out. Firehose and Basehead (unheralded blast from the past) opened for them. I was confused when they started setting up conga drums and Hammond organs....I wasn't even aware a new album was on the way. We were expecting 'slow and low' and 'Hey Ladies'....we got Check your head and it was a friggin revelation for me at the time. The instrumentals and the nods to soul-jazz and psychedelic music had a huge impact on my listening development. Opened up a whole new world for 13 year old me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was Rick Rubin's frat-boy fantasies, "Fight For Your Right to Party" was childish, they "grew" as artists and musicians afterwards. I gives not two fucks. Just about every track on that album is unfuckwitable.

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Checkin' Our Style, Return To Zero:

https://www.mixcloud.com/returntozero/

>Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was Rick Rubin's frat-boy fantasies,
>"Fight For Your Right to Party" was childish, they "grew" as
>artists and musicians afterwards. I gives not two fucks. Just
>about every track on that album is unfuckwitable.

agreed

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

License To Ill > Paul's Boutique


all day too.

Shit ain't even close.


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Like there is stupid, and then there is you, and then there is dead. - VAsBestBBW

R.I.P. Disco D

The first B-Boys album I bought, and the album that really got me INTO the Beasties.

I had heard all of their singles on the radio/tv and liked them but never heard a full album.

I remember in the month leading up to the release MTV had this INSANE Marathon of stuff about them including this dope ass documentary.

Nostalgia aside this joint just hit on so many various layers.

R.I.P. Loud But Wrong Guy
Dec 29th 2009 - Dec 17th 2017

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might like it even more than Paul's Boutique honestly (it's close either way).

I listened to them for the first time in years recently and was please/relieved at how well Check Your Head and Ill Communication have aged. Given how they weren't the most technically proficient rappers/musicians, it's impressive how well these albums hold together.

Man, I listened to Check your Head recently and was shocked at:

1. The music is really creative, a scrappy patchwork of sounds in a good way

2. The rapping is really mediocre.

i'd break their albums down into pairs:


licenses to ill and pauls's = hip hop classics

cyh and ill comm = alternative rock

hello nasty and tt5b = where they kinda fell off imo

mixup and hsc = where they try to revisit their early 90's sound


comparing their first 4 albums can be on some apples and oranges shit

like asking which is better, de la soul is dead or siamese dream

all 4 are classics and about equal in my mind (cyh>ic and pb>lti)

but to rank the bottom 4:


1. hello nasty: ambitious as fuh it's the beastie's use your illusion

2. hsc: sounds like an unreleased 90s beastie album, in a good way

3. tt5b (tie) the mixup : while their most focused albums, both could have used more of that proprietary beastie boy genre mashing

Say Ho