When will Beastie Boys release a new album??

What about the Latch Brothers?

And has anyone SEEN Mike D nowadays? Dude looks fucking scary! All gaunt and raspy...

Amen. Not only is this practice indefensible, but "Liscensed to Ill" is a fantastic record.

I would rate the albums: Licensed to Ill (great - this record is on a par with anything else Def Jam was putting out at the time, and is classic old school shit), Paul's Boutique (their masterpiece), Check Your Head (great - totally came out of left field), Ill Communication (more of Check Your Head and thus way more boring), and Hello Nasty (blah - a last ditch grasping for credibility). In between there were totally pointless "hardcore" records, ill-advised remixes and reissues, and silly side-projects. They've blown it. I think they've lost their focus (and relevance) entirely...

That's harsh ... I never heard Paul's Boutique so I can't comment. "Check your Head" was excellent. I agree about "Ill Communication". "Hello Nasty" has brilliant material. Intergalactic, Remote Control etc. rock. I say it's the best Big Beat album of the late 90s. Also I like when they get all Buddhist and write bossa nova songs. I think a non-hip-hop Beastie's album would be really interesting. What they could do with is either writing more interesting raps, or doing more instrumentals. The old skool lyrics have been wheeled out once too often. But they have it in them to surprise us all again.

what i trooly rooly think: beastie boys should only be allowed to release singles from now on. hopefully they can drop all the 'uplifting' nonsense that made 'alive' so boring, and be returned to their witty nasty selves. but i'm afraid they might just be getting too old and mellow. why did they call their last album 'hello nasty'? it should have been called 'goodbye nasty' because it was very nice.

The Beasties were just on Charlie Rose a couple of nights back -- Pretty boring stuff from both sides of the table. Thing is, if Rose would have had some more informed questions it could have been a really interesting interview.

paul revere >>>> everything else

Yes, because "Fat Lip" = "Integalactic". Pft, jeez.

-- Nate Patrin, Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:00 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

fat lip >>>> intergalactic

They were kind of lame on Terry Gross when I heard them -- not completely dull, but disappointingly childish and embarrassed about their backgrounds (one of them being the son of a big art dealer, another of a famous playwrite). They did say some pretty funny stuff about their unexpected transition from being sort of a hip-hop novelty to becoming frat-boy heroes.

I heard the new instrumental disc - it's aight.

> their unexpected transition from being sort of a hip-hop novelty to becoming frat-boy heroes.

Exactly when were they NOT fratboy heroes, post "Fight for Your Right To Party" at least?

Cookie Puss = hip hop novelty

I think there was a good bit of time before Licensed to Ill came out that Beasties were signed with Def Jam and getting put on hip-hop bills. Not that I actually remember - I was like five years old.

Yes. Their only hip hop records pre-LTI were Cookie Puss (put out on Rat Cage) and the She's On It 12" put out by Def Jam. They did tour with Public Enemy and some other hip hop artists (and Madonna) before LTI was released.

Although I was only 11-13 at this time, I was following them and do remember. :)

Also Ethan, PR is one of only a handful of songs that all three aren't credited with writing. Are you saying their music is much worse when all of them have a hand in it?

The Beastie Boys are usually a bad interview, Mike D (sometimes) excepted.

Back in the day they weren't. Over the years I have lost my VHS recording of them on the Joan Rivers . Haven't been able to find it on the internets either. It was hilarious.

i was just thinking about waynes freestyle on it from the first sqad up mixtape

this cd is aite tho
http://www.tapekingz.com/images/greenlantern_beastieboys.gif

makes me wish pauls boutique had been like producers album with every famous '88 rapper on it instead of a beasties joint

15. Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun f. The Notorious B.I.G.

^^^^

I love "NY State of Mind". Still listen to it regularly.

It was the soundtrack for my and my brother's 18-hour straight drive to see them in Detroit on the last tour. Perfect.

i just learned recently what a cookie puss is.

i just learned recently what a cookie puss is.

If you grew up in the NY/NJ/PA area, you remember these ads...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3urwTGqxwZ0

1. To All the Girls
2. Tone Loc - Shake Your Rump
3. Kool Moe Dee - Johnny Ryall
4. Jungle Brothers, Monie Love & De La Soul - Eggman
5. Kool Moe Dee & Craig G - High Plains Drifter
6. EPMD - The Sounds of Science
7. Audio Two & LL Cool J - 3-Minute Rule
8. Shock G, Masta Ace & Doug E Fresh - Hey Ladies
9. 5-Piece Chicken Dinner
10. Kool G Rap - Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
11. Heavy D & Big Daddy Kane - Car Thief
12. KRS-One - What Goes Around
13. Slick Rick & Biz Markie - Shadrach
14. Ask for Janice
15. Ice-T, MC Ren, Oaktown's 3-5-7, Digital Underground, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, J.J. Fad, King Tee, MC Hammer, Def Jef, MC Ren, Michel'Le, Above The Law, Tone Loc, Young MC (West Coast Rap Allstars) - B-Boy Boullibaisee

These pussy crumbs are making me itch. . .

Ethan do you know who is talking on that bit where the guy asks "Who the fuck are the uh Beastie Boys?" I searched long and hard to ID that with no luck.

I guess I need that Green Lantern thing.

i wish instead of putting the black album over weezer joints some nerd-rap mash-up cat would put all those rappers on all those pb cuts

actually hold up is there an instrumental pauls boutique??

ETHAN WHAT IF JIMI HENDRIX WAS ON LED ZEP IV you dick?!?!!

I played Check Your Head last Thursday and realized I was no longer 24.

Austin, I can send it to you. Email and remind me if I don't do it tonight.

actually hold up is there an instrumental pauls boutique??

I have a bootleg/demo that has some tracks which were cut from PB but I don't remember about instrumentals. There are instrumentals of a couple of tracks on the Love American Style EP that came out before PB.

I have a CD somewhere I bought off a DJ which was their backing track for one of their tours era '92. Not all PB but there were a few on there.

Never seen an entire instrumental of the album but I'm not a super-huge collector nerd.

steve shasta went to a backyard party and the dust bros performed instrumental pb in full. there are copies out there somewhere.

"actually hold up is there an instrumental pauls boutique??"

i just asked this question on the noize board. someone put up a link to an ultra-pricey promo tape that actually exists of the whole album.

I should find that demo I got years ago. It could be all instrumental and I just forgot. This was well before The Grey Album so I doubt such a thing would've made much of an impression on me.

You're a gentleman and a scholar, Sam.

Although if that isn't the named rappers on the Boutiqque Beats, what is it? Beasties on other artists beats? That still sounds cool.

It's all other rappers on Beastie beats.

dude i just made up that tracklist

I didn't read ethan's tracklist. Nor the following Wikipedia one very carefully so caveats apply:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_of_Mind_(album)

also check for cory mo freestyle on 'slow & low'