OMG that track with Nas above reminds me of the video of Oprah interviewing Cormac Mccarthy.
I'm Strawberry Letter 23 like Shuggie - what the hell does that even mean? Is it enough to just reference a conspicuously hip (by Starbucks standards) LP without any context whatsoever? Actually, I guess that's sorta what they've been doing all along.
God I HATE this fucking band.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
If you're looking for meaning in every lyric, you've come to the wrong band.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
If I'm looking for meaning substance in every lyric even occasionally, I've come to the wrong band.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 14 March 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
assholes uptight, like stevie wonder amirite
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Are there any supporters for 5 boroughs?
obviously it's in the lower echelons of these guys' catalog, but i do like it :/
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I popped it in to 'revisit' it a few weeks ago and was surprised by how good it sounded. I think most of the disappointment is because it's not really as clever musically or lyrically as they're known for but the beats are pretty good. The leadoff single is great but not too much else is memorable; still sounds nice while it's on.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"sounds nice while it's on" is pretty much otm
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Actual unprompted quote from my 3.5 year old in the back seat, when "Sure Shot" came on the radio and I turned it up (since it'd been a while):
"This boy can't sing, but he can rhyme."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 April 2011 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
man, that nas thing. oof. not nas, he's okay, but those senior citizens he is rapping with. so clunky.
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 April 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
you'd think they would have perfected their 1985 style by now.
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 April 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN841FXtz08
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
Where did they find an analog synth with a "Jew's harp" setting?
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
this is actually not bad ... but, still with the distortion pedal vocals? really guys?
nice cowbell breakdown tho
― in my world of loose geirs (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
I really like the backing track. But then they kinda ruin it by rapping poorly over top.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
but, still with the distortion pedal vocals? really guys?
That's almost like saying "Still with the harmonica? Really, Dylan?"
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
reissued instrumental version of paul's boutique would pretty much be the only way to get me to buy beastie boys product in 2011.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
seriously, though, dylan should have cooled it with the fucking harmonica years ago.
lol
― in my world of loose geirs (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
the difference is the harmonica is an instrument, one that sounds nice
the distortion pedal vocals thing is a one-trick pony that SOUNDS SHITTY
Eh, their penchant for distorted vocals has never bothered me at all I guess. Sometimes they use that trick, sometimes they don't. I've never heard them use it when it made absolutely no sense to do it.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
am i hearing this right? 30 seconds in and they've rhymed "this" with "this"?
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
i just don't understand why aging, past-prime rappers are so obsessed with rapping about how they're knocking all the other rappers out. there are so many subjects they could tackle, and instead it's just "woo! we just slayed all the wack competition!" and no you fucking didn't.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
I'M TAKING MCS DOWN WITH LETHAL RAP INJECTIONS!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
i just don't understand why aging, past-prime rappers are so obsessed with rapping about how they're knocking all the other rappers out
uh this is what hip hop is about...? do you ask yourself why young, shitty rappers are so obsessed with rapping about this very same thing?
― in my world of loose geirs (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, I feel like the old guys go off more on this than the young guys, who have materialism and sexual violence to entertain themselves with as well
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
also the drug trade
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, the beastie boys should really go back to rapping about penetrating girls with wiffle ball bats, good call, anthony
― billy childish gambino (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
do you even believe yourself when you write stuff like that?
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
do you believe it when you write stuff like that to noz?
smdh
― in my world of loose geirs (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
sorry if I was being a little too tongue-in-cheek there, but I didn't mean to suggest that the Beasties had to go back to the PBR, just that allegedly enlightened codgers going on about how they're blowing the competition away cracks me up
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
man when will don rickles stop insulting ppl
― sorry ozzy but your dope is in another castle (Edward III), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
really sorry you guys are offended by my irreverence towards their lyrical bankruptcy, guys
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, because everyone loves it when they talk about THE ISSUES, MAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfpgK2V1k4g
― billy childish gambino (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man, I'd forgotten all about that.
No thanks for reminding me.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
i refuse this false binary and continue to say this new song sucks
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
they just suck in general kinda.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
this isn't a new thing.
I wish Yauch would direct videos for other people, Horowitz would produce music for other people and Diamond would judge a competition show or find hip-hop scenes in other nations for the Travel Channel or something
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
diamond still look like skeletor? frightening.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
it's not hurting Steven Tyler's TV career any
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
kinda OTM, but Yauch is making docos and producing films for other people (or was until, you know, cancer). actually when was the last time Adrock produced a half-decent record? I would have bought ten more albums like the first BS2000, but the shitty twee-synth-pop of the second was a jawdropper, and the Latch Brothers remixes I've heard all suck.
― Ita Buttrock (sic), Thursday, 7 April 2011 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
+1 for Diamond aping the Skeletor vibe
I don't think the new single is bad at all. Could almost imagine making some noise if surrounded by sea of bodies at Roseland.
On their side in general, but that's probably because Licensed to Ill was one of the first cassettes I ever bought, back in '87 (along with No Jacket Required and The Joshua Tree, shudder). And hell there aren't a lot of bands from that era that are still around and least trying to make music. So Beastie it up.
― calstars, Thursday, 7 April 2011 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
there are WAY too many bands from that era still around making music. every metal band and every punk band that ever put out a single or an album in the 80's is right now on tour. hey we all have to pass the time somehow. god bless them.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 April 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
This is funny, but also nsfw if your workplace is weird about dirty words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBa5qp9sUOY
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 April 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/beastieboys/say-it
^ this is THE SHIT!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 22 April 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
as usual it would be better if they werent on there
― the felonious against the corrective (Hunt3r), Friday, 22 April 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
Watched the new video the other night. Mostly reinforced how much I fucking hate Danny McBride.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Friday, 22 April 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
agh I posted it in the wrong thread...full Fight For Your Right revisited:
http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/beastie-boyss-fight-for-your-right-revisited-full
Really super psyched for the new album based on what I've heard.
― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, 22 April 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
Gonna try to watch the full thing tonight.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 22 April 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
"nonstop disco paperwork" is a better, a more beasties title than the real one: "nonstop disco powerpack"
― brio, Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
I'm probably crazy but somewhere around "Funky Donkey" and for the next few tracks this thing seems to me to be channeling Cabaret Voltaire (something from the early part of the mid period).
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
It's weird, it's casual, it's short, it's fun. I dig it, and I don't have to think too much about it and, you know, that's okay.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 5 May 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
The "Lee Majors" joint is p killer imo
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 5 May 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Probably not giving this enough love because I copped DJ Quik and Battles at the same time and have enjoyed them more. That said, 'Make Some Noise' 'Don't Play No Game..''Here's A Little Something' 'OK' and 'Lee Majors' are all pretty great imo.
― pandemic, Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
The only one I dont like is "Tadlock's Glasses"...the effects on it make me queasy? But everything else is good to fantastic so far. Wonder how well MCA is, if there will be much touring
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 5 May 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
there won't be any touring IIRC
the album version of Lee Majors is exactly the same as the single, isn't it? I've only heard the MSG stream
― I have some kind of staph infection, and the only prescription is IALEX (sic), Thursday, 5 May 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
goddamn on first listen I love this more than any post Ill Communication release. so much fun.
― BIG YNGWIE aka the malmsteendriver (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 May 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
mca is still undergoing treatment but "doing well". so fuck knows. hope he pulls through. coming up to two years from the diagnosis (?)
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Friday, 6 May 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of impressed that he could lay down vocals even. Do we know how much stuff he added to Pt2 vs what was already on Pt1?
― VegemiteGrrl, Saturday, 7 May 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
Changed a line about death in Too Many Rappers, I think that's all
― I have some kind of staph infection, and the only prescription is IALEX (sic), Saturday, 7 May 2011 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
It's fucking awful. the beats are rude electronic samples with no depth. squiggly electro that only exists for this kind of project. it should embarrass us all. what corny version of "old school" (how do you even type that?) "hip hop" is this? late 90s frat music can fuck off.
― paulhw, Saturday, 7 May 2011 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
ok, finished?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 May 2011 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
shouldn't there be something about wheelchairs and irrelevancy...feel like we're missing some key bullet points
― VegemiteGrrl, Saturday, 7 May 2011 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
paulhw, eat a bag of dicks dipped in cocoa butter...k thx
― BIG YNGWIE aka the malmsteendriver (Neanderthal), Saturday, 7 May 2011 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
paulhw way off the money, this is surprisingly good and I'm finding I like it a little more with each listen. I mean, yeah, we can talk a little bit about the lyrics being corny and lots OF shouting EVERY other WORD but, c'mon, thats been the case for a long time now.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 7 May 2011 04:44 (twelve years ago) link
yea that's kinda like criticizing Prince for squealing, I mean, it's been the Beasties' MO since they went from hardcore to hip hop.
― BIG YNGWIE aka the malmsteendriver (Neanderthal), Saturday, 7 May 2011 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
and personally I adore the Beasties goofiness
i was one of the few who liked To the Five Boroughs, but it was clearly still a low point in their catalog. this is soooooo refreshing.
― BIG YNGWIE aka the malmsteendriver (Neanderthal), Saturday, 7 May 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to the full album and my enjoyment is kinda dependent on how long I can go without focusing on the lyrics (did you know these guys are crushing the competition?). Music's fun when it doesn't get too trudgy - def feels like a step up from 5 Boroughs.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
This is a pretty good record, you know?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 7 May 2012 08:46 (eleven years ago) link
Way more interesting musically and with much better tunes than 5 Burroughs.
Totally in agreement. I ended up listening to it a lot over the course of 2011, and again over the last few days.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 May 2012 09:19 (eleven years ago) link
same here. The highlight is the 1:56 "Funky Donkey."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 12:25 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, it's not amazing but it's a solid album. glad that to the 5 boroughs was not their swansong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnYzIxQUWE
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
exactly, but outside of a few tracks not much I'd want to hear again
― guess it's Honker Burger tonight...#fml (frogbs), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
Lee Majors Come Again is killer
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
yeah - that + "Too Many Rappers" were my favorites
― guess it's Honker Burger tonight...#fml (frogbs), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
it disappointed me b/c I heard the awesome record store day single with those DJ Hero mixes with DJ Shadow and the Daft Punk samples and it briefly made me wonder if the new album was going to be a cut-n-scratch DJ thing, like a new Paul's Boutique
― guess it's Honker Burger tonight...#fml (frogbs), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link