>In the Beastie Boys book they go into it...
>Without giving it all away, they had a rough time recording it
>and mixing it and thought it came out shitty compared to the
>original demos from the Dust Brothers' apartment. Mike D
>especially doesn't care for it. Adrock says it takes him back
>to a bad period in his life where he was struggling with
>substance abuse.
>
>On top of that, nobody thought it was great (except us
>weirdos) when it was released and they got laughed at and
>written off as has beens.
>
>I think it's a masterpiece and according to them it's the
>album they get the most street love for.

that doesn't mean they hate the album. In fact when they did their live book shows the segments dealing with pauls boutique they talk about how much fun they had making the album, hanging out, doing the L.A. thing.

what you're talking about is the actual sound they were disappointed in. Mike D. talks about struggling to get that original sound not hating the album.

Also Adrock doesn't talk about ever having substance abuse problems in the book or ever.