Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
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Free Music Review: The Shape of Things To Come.
Hit: 1 Stars
This album is so dated,
Rap is so derivative,
"Fight for your Right" is alright,
but the rest is sedative. ("As Abe Vigoda...!)
Rap will fade,
Rap will wither,
As evidenced by this,
Rappin' time filler.
Sixty years from now,
what music will they play?
In rapper-old-age-homes,
Maybe Ice Ice Babaaay?
Free Music Review: Good old times
Hit: 5 Stars
Licensed To Ill was one of my very first cassette tapes I ever owned. I owned this back in Ames, Iowa when I was about 9 or 10 years old. I remember being very afraid of getting caught listening to this tape because it contained quite a few bad words for its time.
There some absolute classics on this album. This album launched a very successful career for the B-Boys. This is a good-times record. Licensed to Ill is all about fun, and has a great party atmosphere.
Also, it was one of the first albums to blend rock and hip-hop. Groundbreaking for its time, it still rocks today!
Free Music Review: Licensed to Ill by the Beastie Boys
Hit: 5 Stars
Debut (official) album, 1986
Before the Beastie Boys released Licensed to Ill, they were a punk band that made extremely short songs on an album that wasn't picked up by a major record label. However, once a few old members left and new ones entered, the Beastie Boys started focusing more on rap and were signed by Def Jam records and released Licensed to Ill, which became the top-selling hip hop album of the 1980's, especially because of "Fight For Your Right". Now, nearly twenty years later, you can still rediscover the classic that changed hip hop forever.
Licensed to Ill isn't for everyone but it's a great treat for the people it is for. The lyrics have mischievious comments about life in high school and doing lots of drugs, but with their energetic attitude, the Beastie Boys deliver it in a rather funny way. Other topics include going crazy for girls ("She's Crafty", "Girls"), doing anything just to avoid school ("Fight For Your Right"), and even an interesting story ("Paul Revere"). The only song that isn't silly is "Slow and Low", which was originally done by Run DMC. Profanity isn't really a big concern for kids listening to this, but the content is definitely explicit enough that Licensed to Ill would've deserved Parental Advisory if that existed back then, but hey, without the explicitness, this would have never been the classic it is today.
Production can get pretty darn experimental on here. The Beastie Boys are fond of taking a few songs and sampling their elements together to build some of the craziest beats you'll ever hear. Even though the sound isn't really original, it's still an innovative tactic and fits the hilarious lyrics well. The Beastie Boys also include a lot of punk influence in some of the stuff on here, especially in "Fight For Your Right" and "No Sleep Till Brooklyn", which I didn't care for at first but soon found to be a really cool song.
With all things said, Licensed to Ill is perhaps the Beastie Boys' greatest attempt at music, and will likely remain their best album forever. It's true that this was the era when they were the most creative, and that explains why it was a classic. Overall, a great buy if you want to have fun with music.
Free Music Review: NO SLEEP TILL..........
Hit: 5 Stars
(I'm not really a kid)This album is a supurb blend of rock and rap. My fav on this album is Brass Monkey. To know the difference between the Beasties back in the 80's, when this album was released, and the Beasties now, listen to this. Then listen to their most recent album, To the 5 Broughs. They've changed alot, but they're still the same, great rock band/rap group.Free Music Review: the good songs are good, but it hasn't aged that well
Hit: 3 Stars
this is more like 3.5 stars. the beasties were a fun band and this is pretty much a fun album, but I think that the samples don't add that much to the music and honestly, it seems stupid to me oftentimes. when I am feeling strange and funky inside I put this on, but it is not something I come back to often. It is also not very consistent, and varies little from the "yo I'm so bad" format and repeats itself a lot.
that said, songs like "no sleep til Brooklyn" and "girls" are highly enjoyable, and it was songs like those that convinced me to keep this cd. The beastie boys typically have a good amount of filler, but the whole point of the band was to be "terrible, and admit it" which is a fun and self deprecating thing for them. you should check this out sometime if you feel curious, it is kind of a novelty from back in the day.