Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill

aNiMaL
aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
edited August 2007 in Other Music
What a classic fucking album!!! I remember listening to this album when it first came out when I was still in Junior High School and my friends and I would jam to it in the outside common area of my school.

21 years later I still love listening to this album. But it doesn't stop there...The Beastie Boys were music pioneers for hip hop. They blazed so many trails that have been followed by so many. And they are still doing it even with their last release "To the 5 Burroughs" which is also a great album.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    part of the soundtrack of my junior and senior years in high school......a kickass album by a kickass band.............:D:D
  • BrinkofForever
    BrinkofForever Posts: 373
    Meh... I think it's possibly their weakest album. Paul's Boutique and Ill Communications are bombastic.
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  • Shawn Smith Collective
    Shawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    Brink wrote:
    Meh... I think it's possibly their weakest album. Paul's Boutique and Ill Communications are bombastic.

    It's their weakest in the sense that it was their least experimental and artistic and they were following in the footsteps of Run DMC (who contributed to the album), but it's still a GREAT album!

    Paul's Boutique, on the other hand, is a masterpiece.
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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    While Pauls Boutique was ahead of its time for samples and such, it is not nearly as catchy as the rest of their music.
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  • otis mcfluster
    otis mcfluster Posts: 536
    I was able to catch the Beastie Boys concert/documentory "I F#&%ing Shot That" last weekend. It was great.

    I recomend it to anyone who is a fan.

    I heard there new album is supposed to feature the boys on there instruments quite a bit more than in the past. Definitely looking forward to it. There instrumental pieces from Check Your Head and Ill Communication are some of my favorites.
  • Blind Melon
    Blind Melon Posts: 911
    Yeah, actually, my brother said they have two albums coming out... one is just all instrumental shit, then another is like an actual album with them rapping and instrumental shit.... I love Ill Communication, Check Your Head, Paul's Boutique... eff man. Even the newer record (To the 5 Boroughs) was sweet... just straight up old school rap with sampling. I didn't think they'd still have this energy in 'em.
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  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    Blind Melon wrote:
    Yeah, actually, my brother said they have two albums coming out... one is just all instrumental shit, then another is like an actual album with them rapping and instrumental shit.... I love Ill Communication, Check Your Head, Paul's Boutique... eff man. Even the newer record (To the 5 Boroughs) was sweet... just straight up old school rap with sampling. I didn't think they'd still have this energy in 'em.
    That sounds really cool. I am excited to hear then play instruments.
  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    cutback wrote:
    part of the soundtrack of my junior and senior years in high school
    same here, we must be the same age! :D can't tell you how many friday and saturday nights i spent running around wreaking havoc with that cassette on full blast

    absolutely, beasties are kickass! lookin forward to the new stuff
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    chiquimonkey wrote:
    same here, we must be the same age! :D can't tell you how many friday and saturday nights i spent running around wreaking havoc with that cassette on full blast

    absolutely, beasties are kickass! lookin forward to the new stuff
    Hell yeah!!!

    Bump for this great album!
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,335
    Paul's Boutique is by far their best.

    I also really like their new one. Great album to listen to in the car...very chill.
  • xavier mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,442
    otis mcfluster wrote:
    I was able to catch the Beastie Boys concert/documentory "I F#&%ing Shot That" last weekend. It was great.

    I recomend it to anyone who is a fan.

    I heard there new album is supposed to feature the boys on there instruments quite a bit more than in the past. Definitely looking forward to it. There instrumental pieces from Check Your Head and Ill Communication are some of my favorites.

    I was at that show. It was a good dvd except i couldn't find myself in the background...
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  • NoCode_inMT
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    Top 3 greatest rap/hip-hop albums of all time.
    I mean come on; they sample Zep, Dylan, and others on that album...
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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    LICENSED TO ILL
    To the 5 Boroughs
    Hello Nasty
    Ill Communication
    Paul's Boutique
    Check Your Head
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    Maybe my next one can have a PJ reference and I'll post it in the main art thread. 

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    Sweet design!
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    genius!
    If I had known then what I know now...

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    Thanks, guys!  
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