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Music : Ill Communication
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- The Boys grow up!
The Beastie boys have changed a lot since License To Ill first came out, by ways of lyrics attitude and musical direction, this is either a good or bad thing for many fans. The change as you know was brought on my Adam Yauch's "Budhisattva vow". The new direction was touched on briefly in parts of Check your Head and was a welcome change because most bands in the 90s seem to want to say something and bring more elements to their music. Another part of their new direction was them picking up their intruments and playing them which happened in Check your Head. On Check your head their sound was more gritty and slightly Lo-fi compared to work such as Pauls Boutique, the rap element was kinda not what was the power behind the album it was the Rock/punk and close attention to intrumentals.THe album was going back to their old punk days, remembering tracks like Egg Raid on Mojo or Riot Fight for short fast punk songs. Ill communication expands on this album, with a more polished sound, excellent recording and mixing. The only thing is that this album lost its gritty feel to it, even songs like Sabotage seem a bit to perfect and only get a gritty appeal when its played live. Another thing to talk about is the mixing of the album which is totally different from the rest of their albums, the Beasties voices are kinda mixed in to the background(in style of L.A rap recordings) a bit and at times really distorted which is one of the best elements to this album, and their lyrics have become more p.c and moving, they rap about the mother earth being disrespected and tibet and becoming enlightened by the buddhas. They have also stopped joking around in their raps and have become more serious. This serious side shines through in their intrumental works on this album , tracks like Sabrosa are excellent to wind down and mellow out to at night, also Ricky's Theme and the very sureal Eugene's Lament (a track probably skip by most fans and very uderrated) its a track that on its own would be silly but fits in well with this album for some reason. Transitions is a great end to this album and is what i think the Boys are doing here is making a big transition from joke white rap group to serious artists. The Boys have growin up, but will sill be in our hearts and culture as being the first white rap to make it big and stay around as long as they did and get to do exactly what they want in their music and push the boundries of hiphop forever.
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- What an awful pick for #1
Any true Beasties fan will tell you that Paul's Boutique is their best album. Check Your Head is better if you want to hear the Beasties' musicianship. This album is a weak watered-down version of the former Beasties. Don't believe the hype. How anyone could pick this as the best album of the nineties is beyond me. I wouldn't even put it in my top 25, and I love the B-Boys!
Rating: - amazon editors
you meant to pick pauls boutique right? you probably didn't pick pauls boutique because it came out in the late 1980s, right? ill communications, was picked because you wanted to meet the beastie boys, right?
i would only recommend ill communications to beastie boys fanatics. after they have the nwe styles of beyond, ans slim shadey, and doctor octogon, and etc.
to set the record straight, the real most influential album of the 90s was timeless by goldie. jungle/drum and bass etc is a purely 90s musical phenomena. probly the only genre the developed almost exclusively in the 90s. and if youve been listening to drum and bass since the early 90s like i have, you will know that no cd effected the genre as profoundly as timeless. he basically wrote the book. kids listening to it now will notice that its killer compared to the post roni size dumbing down of the genre. but you will have no clue how shocking it was to hear the cd when it first came out.
ill communications didnt invent a genre. ill communications didnt really even add much to the beastie niche market.
Rating: - Another great from the B-Boys
The Beasties have done it once more. This is one of my absolute favorite albums that they have made. It is filled with loads of good songs-I really like Sure Shot and Get It Together. But for all time fun, it has to be SABOTAGE!!!!!! Two words:BUY THIS!
Rating:
- Another good hit from the B-boys...
It's true. This release can't compete with an album like "paul's boutique" but still this is a very good album. "sure shot" hits straight the point and there are only few track you can actually define as "boring". Maybe this time the b-boys didn't managed to innovate themselves... but their half work is still more than enough to dig the grave to many "complete" releases from many other groups.
- The Boys grow up!The Beastie boys have changed a lot since License To Ill first came out, by ways of lyrics attitude and musical direction, this is either a good or bad thing for many fans. The change as you know was brought on my Adam Yauch's "Budhisattva vow". The new direction was touched on briefly in parts of Check your Head and was a welcome change because most bands in the 90s seem to want to say something and bring more elements to their music. Another part of their new direction was them picking up their intruments and playing them which happened in Check your Head. On Check your head their sound was more gritty and slightly Lo-fi compared to work such as Pauls Boutique, the rap element was kinda not what was the power behind the album it was the Rock/punk and close attention to intrumentals.THe album was going back to their old punk days, remembering tracks like Egg Raid on Mojo or Riot Fight for short fast punk songs. Ill communication expands on this album, with a more polished sound, excellent recording and mixing. The only thing is that this album lost its gritty feel to it, even songs like Sabotage seem a bit to perfect and only get a gritty appeal when its played live. Another thing to talk about is the mixing of the album which is totally different from the rest of their albums, the Beasties voices are kinda mixed in to the background(in style of L.A rap recordings) a bit and at times really distorted which is one of the best elements to this album, and their lyrics have become more p.c and moving, they rap about the mother earth being disrespected and tibet and becoming enlightened by the buddhas. They have also stopped joking around in their raps and have become more serious. This serious side shines through in their intrumental works on this album , tracks like Sabrosa are excellent to wind down and mellow out to at night, also Ricky's Theme and the very sureal Eugene's Lament (a track probably skip by most fans and very uderrated) its a track that on its own would be silly but fits in well with this album for some reason. Transitions is a great end to this album and is what i think the Boys are doing here is making a big transition from joke white rap group to serious artists. The Boys have growin up, but will sill be in our hearts and culture as being the first white rap to make it big and stay around as long as they did and get to do exactly what they want in their music and push the boundries of hiphop forever.
Rating:
- What an awful pick for #1Any true Beasties fan will tell you that Paul's Boutique is their best album. Check Your Head is better if you want to hear the Beasties' musicianship. This album is a weak watered-down version of the former Beasties. Don't believe the hype. How anyone could pick this as the best album of the nineties is beyond me. I wouldn't even put it in my top 25, and I love the B-Boys!
Rating:
- amazon editorsyou meant to pick pauls boutique right? you probably didn't pick pauls boutique because it came out in the late 1980s, right? ill communications, was picked because you wanted to meet the beastie boys, right?
i would only recommend ill communications to beastie boys fanatics. after they have the nwe styles of beyond, ans slim shadey, and doctor octogon, and etc.
to set the record straight, the real most influential album of the 90s was timeless by goldie. jungle/drum and bass etc is a purely 90s musical phenomena. probly the only genre the developed almost exclusively in the 90s. and if youve been listening to drum and bass since the early 90s like i have, you will know that no cd effected the genre as profoundly as timeless. he basically wrote the book. kids listening to it now will notice that its killer compared to the post roni size dumbing down of the genre. but you will have no clue how shocking it was to hear the cd when it first came out.
ill communications didnt invent a genre. ill communications didnt really even add much to the beastie niche market.
Rating:
- Another great from the B-BoysThe Beasties have done it once more. This is one of my absolute favorite albums that they have made. It is filled with loads of good songs-I really like Sure Shot and Get It Together. But for all time fun, it has to be SABOTAGE!!!!!! Two words:BUY THIS!
Rating:
- Another good hit from the B-boys...It's true. This release can't compete with an album like "paul's boutique" but still this is a very good album. "sure shot" hits straight the point and there are only few track you can actually define as "boring". Maybe this time the b-boys didn't managed to innovate themselves... but their half work is still more than enough to dig the grave to many "complete" releases from many other groups.