early "stoopid" beastie boys: C/D?

better than the later "smart" beastie boys.

They were certainly more interesting/fun back then.

Everything after Paul's Boutique is shit - I thought this was global consensus.

nah, nerds love lots of stuff after that. it's where the indie rocker love starts.

What's a jape? All I can think of is those little round things you put on bagels...

they look really weird these days -- middle aged b-boys in designer suits.

I don't like anything they've done since Licensed to Ill. they mean well but those voices. argh.

'rock hard', the AC/DC-sampling one, is mega-classic.

i still want an instrumental version of paul's boutique.

i recently sold a copy of cookie puss on ebay (picture sleeve! with insert! VG+++!) and it sounded great to me. i hadn't heard it in years. i love all that stuff. egg raid on mojo will always be on my hit parade. and rock hard. and she's on it.

i saw them play in like 83 or so as a hardcore band but memories are vague. I wasn't straight edge then...

not that i hate everything after paul's boutique. i liked sabatoge. and intergalactic. and stuff on check your head. i like so what'cha want. my brother loves that stuff. my brother is a big beasties fan boy. true story!

i saw them at the ritz at the start of the big tour for the big album. it was awesome. murphy's law opened. just complete insanity. i was bruised fromn head to toe. newsweek did a story and i was in the crowd shot! i thought that was awesome.

xp How much are the "Rock Hard" and "Cookie Puss" 12-inches worth these days? I still have mine (no pic sleeves, though.) Stupidly got rid of "She's On It" years ago, though. Never liked their hardcore stuff.

Also wouldn't mind getting ahold of the VHS tape with them breaking into my hotel room that one time.

For reference:

http://www.creemmagazine.com/_site/BeatGoesOn/BeastieBoys/LayItDownClowns001.html

i really was a big fan of that album. i thought it was amazing. i had no idea that i would hear it at every party i went to in suburbia for the next ten years.

"How much are the "Rock Hard" and "Cookie Puss" 12-inches worth these days?"

not that much. if mine had been a generic 12-inch version i wouldn't have even put it up for sale.

the big ebay beasties thing is the, um, vinyl box, whatchamacallit...

sounds of science! the 4-lp thing. although even that doesn't go for insane money. like a hundred buxx. pollywog stew goes for, like, 50 buxx.

this goes for a lot:

http://popsike.com/pix/20040919/4038663500.jpg

but, again, A LOT is like a hundred bucks.

paul's boutique vinyl goes for a bunch and i remember when strawberry's in philly had, like, 50 copies in the dollar bin. i missed my chance! they couldn't give it away. cool jacket too cuz it created a nice cityscape diorama when you set it up on the floor. i did buy one copy for fun. shoulda bought 20.

i was hating on the license to ill shit for a couple years after it had been one of my all time favorites since i got it when i was 6, but suddenly a couple months ago it started sounding good again. now i love it again! weird. beasties were basically excellent up to and including ill communication. after that is when it went all wrong!

I listened to License To Ill in its entirety yesterday actually, and found the experience pretty painful. Some tracks still sound great, but most of it was bummin me out.

But I love some of those early singles. Check out the "MCA and Burzootie" one if you ever get a chance.

I sold "PWStew" Wayyyyy back (i.e. before ebay and internets), for £40 or so. 7" single version etc..

went terminally downhill with the start of the second side of 'ill communication'. i wouldn't call 'check your head' un-stoopid: it's just that because alt.rock people jumped on at that point, it's now tiresomely de rigeur to slag it off.

My main problem with the Besties has always been that two out of the three of them have really irritating vocal styles. A high, screechy voice combined with a shouty flow doesn't sound good to me. That one guy especially sounds like the singer from AC/DC. The only one I can tolerate is the third dude, who has a lower voice and also seems to shout a bit less.

I like all incarnations of the Beastie Boys up to and including Hello Nasty. The album after that was pretty shit though. Haven't heard the new instrumental one.

Classic

my copy of paul's boutique fell prey to one of my college "interior design" brainstorms -- in which i DUCT-TAPED the sleeve to the wall!! (??) and if i remember correctly, after i took it down and moved, the left-over duct-tape gunk "infected" every other record that came into contact with paul's boutique; i had about 40 records with vague nameless stickiness on one or both sides of their sleeves

it had been one of my all time favorites since i got it when i was 6,

Christ. I was fuckin' twenty when this record came out.

I was, um, older than that.

When I looked for it on my LP shelves last night, I remembered that my vinyl copy of Paul's Boutique apparently succumbed to some cranky (though not necessarily innacurate) early/mid '90s determination that the only tracks I really liked a lot were "Hey Ladies," "Shake Your Rump," and "A Year And A Day." Fuck if I can understand why I thought that was a reason to get rid of the thing, but I apparently did. (And the rest really wasn't that bad -- jeez.)

'a year and a day' is totally mind-blowing tho

"Christ. I was fuckin' twenty when this record came out.

-- Alex in NYC"

well you're old and probably gonna die soon ;)

my cassette tape still has my name written on it by my mom so that i could take it to school without fear of someone trying to take it and say it was theirs. my mom even knows (maybe knew, its been a while) many lyrics to that album from me playing it all the time!

anyone who says dud should be banned.

http://wayneandwax.com/?p=7774

There’s been a lot of news in the past week about the legal kerfuffle between the Beastie Boys and a company called GoldieBlox, which markets science/engineering toys aimed at girls (and their parents) seeking something beyond the standard pink princess fare.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/11/26/goldieblox-fair-use-and-the-cult-of-disruption/

Another take on this satirical use of the song "Girls"