Beastie Boys: Classic or Dud?

are you serious??????

they don't got no carvel where shakey lives.

He sometimes has arms and legs, but these are just icing decorations, not additional parts.

i'm like proust and his fuckin' cookie when i watch these ads...

if you live in NY and ever go out, you've probably run into Mojo. He's still around, still working the doors, putting on shows and playing records.

um, not sure what ilx3's policy on links to verboten materials are like, but if you search theultimatebootlegexperience blog its quite easy to find. [mods pls delete if this is a problem]

I've lived my whole life in CA guys. Been to NY twice.

yah but you could still know what a cookie puss was!

Thank you Stevie. :)

I never experienced a Cookie Puss while I lived in NYC but I did see the Beasties all the time. Perhaps I should have asked one of them to direct me to a Carvel's.

Carvel sucked, though I always really hated Ice Cream Cakes. Please also note Fudgie the Whale, who shared a mold with Santa, if I remember correctly.

Yeah Carvel is horrible, horrible ice cream.

i love carvel ice cream. i live for flying saucers.

yeah flying saucers are great, and the cakes, with the chocolate crunchies in between the layers. i totally miss carvel. a coworker and i recently tried to get a carvel cake sent to CO, but no dice. wickie the witch for a happy halloween.

so the beasties are obviously megaproud about being from brooklyn in 99% of their lyrics, so why in "shake yr rump" do they say "from downtown, manhattan, the village"

Only MCA is from Brooklyn. Mike D and AdRock are from Manhatten.

that makes sense. mca is the one saying "from downtown".

youre right, i forgot "you're from secausus, im from manhattan" - adrock

So there's a 20th anniversary remaster of Paul's Boutique out; is it any good? Does it just mash the levels up? B-Boy Bouillabaisse is split into 9 tracks at the mastering...

1. It is louder, as you would expect, but not mashed; Audacity shows no plateaus.

2. The bass has definitely been enhanced, but not overly so; much closer to the original vinyl.

3. If you like the album, it has never, ever sounded this good. Still one of the best headphone albums ever.

4. B-Boy Bouillabaisse is split but you don't notice it.

Just been and bought it, following that post, EZ.

Aren't you supposed to be convalescing?

I am, yes, but HMV's not far way and frankly I needed some fresh air. I also got a haircut.

Ah. Carry on - fine movies, neat trim hair, Paul's Boutique through the Grados - good day.

This is fucking awesome.

Told ya!

Really glad you like, to be honest. I always have a hard time repurchasing stuff, but sometimes it's worth it.

Bump, in light of the Check Your Head reissue.

I think CYH is my 2nd favourite Beasties record, definitely. I also think it seems pretty disingenuous to think of them as hip hop. They're just a band who happen to have done a lot of different things including a lot of rapping.

Looks like somebody just posted this on line after 22 years, so what the hell...

http://beatpatrol.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/chuck-eddy-lay-it-down-clowns-the-beastie-boys-take-over-1987/

...and Eloise, an overweight go-go dancer who’s supposed to look “sexy” when she strips down to her black lace, I guess, but mostly just comes off as gruesome.

reads like the 2009 internet xhuxk - consistent style!

MCA undergoing surgery for cancer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7CH3M7cECI

Damn. He sounds pretty hopeful about it at least.

Man, best of luck to him. Also, the new single with Nas works for me: http://www.spinemagazine.com/news_item.php?id=8830

It's a pain in the neck (sorry had to say it)

Huge respect for this comment. Also: 1) fuck cancer, as ever; 2) sincere hopes for a speedy recovery.

What cancer? Cant play youtube here.

Salivary gland and lymph node iirc.

Where is Mike D?

Mike D too scared to be close to him?

anyway, ouch! Lymph node doesn't sound good, but hell what do i know. hope he recovers soon!

Hope he recovers and is at ease.

bummed

Medical info on what's got/will be dealing with.

At what point did Mike D decide he wanted to be old Jewish lady librarian?

http://i31.tinypic.com/6i8nyv.jpg

Did anyone pick up the record store day single? It was "Lee Majors Come Again" and "Here's a Little Somethin' For Ya", both sides sounding like they went through a ridiculous amount of DJ/remix work. Like, there are breaks all over the place, a ton of samples (they seem to be based mostly off "Da Funk" and "The Number Song"), and some very heads-up production. I doubt the full album is gonna be like that, but what if it was?? The single is one of my favorite things they've ever done.

Couldn't listen to them for ages but am really enjoying Ill Communication and Check Your Head right now! Does anyone do anything like classic Beasties these days without embarrassing themselves?

Whatever summer it was when I was young and carefree and Ill Communication and It's Great When You're Straight came out, that was such a great summer. Shame the latter hasn't held up well at all.

Oh I guess they were released a year apart. Hazy days

God yeah..both albums I could spin anytime, anywhere and it just always feels both fresh and familiar.

when they re-released Check Your Head, and I think Paul's Boutique too, last year, they put up a commentary on their website for each of them, where they all sat around and talked about making the albums. Both are definitely A+, many lols, and worth digging up

I'll see if I can find the link

would be curious about the Paul's Boutique one...

dunno if it's still active but here you go

http://paulsboutique.beastieboys.com/content/download-pauls-boutique-audio-commentary
http://checkyourhead.beastieboys.com/content/download-check-your-head-audio-commentary

There's some great stuff on the Paul's Boutique one where they talk about all the clothes they wore in the Hey Ladies video

I'm suprised more albums haven't been released with commentary tracks like on dvds. (Poster Children did it several years ago, but I've not heard of any since then.)

Yeah, I think it's a really cool idea, especially with bands that are fun to listen to, a la Beasties.

I love the sample repository sites that sprang up in my early internet days about "Paul's Boutique" and also Pop Will Eat Itself's "This Is The Day..." album. It was intriguing to see the vatious consensuses especially where I did in fact know the source.