Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
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Artist: Beastie BoysEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Published: 1992
CD Release Date: 1992-04-21
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Jimmy James
- Funky Boss
- Pass The Mic
- Gratitude
- Lighten Up
- Finger Lickin' Good
- So What'cha Want
- The Biz Vs The Nuge
- Time For Livin'
- Something's Got To Give
- The Blue Nun
- Stand Together
- Pow
- The Maestro
- Groove Holmes
- Live At P.J.'s
- Mark On The Bus
- Professor Booty
- In 3's
- Namaste
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Free Music Review: If only there was more music like this
Hit: 5 Stars
You probally wouldn't expect much from The Beastie Boys after releasing Paul's Boutique. After all, it pretty much was a king of sampling, and there's no real way to top that album, especially since sampling wasn't going too well after the album being released. So instead of panicking, The Beastie Boys decided to employ their own beats more, and add some of their early rock influence, and live funk courtesy of keyboards.
It works, extremely well. Whether Mike D (that's my guess, since he usually played drums) or a sample was backing the beat, I can't help but feel this may be the most organic rap album as far as beats, always heavy, funky, great. Oh, and there's the percussion too. They still sample, but it's not very dominated with samples like Paul's Boutique. Plenty of other stuff, but have a listen for yourself.
They really isn't a bad song on here, nearly all of them rule in different ways. Lighten Up Groove Holmes and Namaste are laid back funk tracks, some of them rock, like Time For Livin'. They still rap and shout over some of the coolest beats made in a rap album, but yeah, there's a lot of variety. There's really not much else to say but to check it out. There's plenty of stuff that would take foerver to describe like this, and I don't feel like doing a track listing because it would be just redundant. Still though, Beastie Boy listeners can't pass this one up. Seriously. Not much else to say anyway.
9.5/10
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With their third album, the Beasties transformed themselves from smart-ass punks with a hip-hop jones into a playful live funk band with some solid rhymes, assisted by the extraordinary keyboardist Mark Ramos Nishita. A couple of tracks look back to their old school rap roots, and they still deploy goofy samples like nobody's business, but they're mostly making their own grooves (including some instrumentals worthy of being sampled in their own right). Their universalist world-view results in some excellent, off-the-wall fusions--the metalloid bump that forms the funk pulse of "So What'cha Want," Sly Stone's "Time for Livin'" transformed into a hard-rock bomber--but they don't have to prove how clever they are any more, and they're stronger and more humane for it. --Douglas WolkAlternative Rock Music CDs
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