In The 2011 Beastie Boys Still Fight For Your Right

Here is an Unbelievably badass video with so many damn cameos it will make you pull out your autograph book and get to looking for a pen. With Regards to their New Full Length, In this Blogger's opinion, Dope. Buy it and don't look back.


Beastie Boys Fight For Your Right (Revisited) Full Length. Sit back, relax, and prepare to receive a heavy dose of enjoyment:

        Doin' the Beastie thing.

Phil Andelman

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Full Length Album can be enjoyed via Billboard. Check Funky Donkey, Make Some Noise, and Say It off the get.

Via NPR reviewer Ken Tucker:

The Beastie Boys are all about noise. Their beats are big and booming. Their production style is intentionally fuzzy and frequently distorted. Their lyrics are the dense, articulate yammerings of wiseguys who will not get out of your face.

As has been true since they began as a joyfully crude punk band more than 30 years ago, The Beastie Boys make virtues out of what would be annoyances coming from most other people. The groove they develop in "Funky Donkey," for example, contains one of my favorite couplets on the album: "I don't wear crocs and I don't wear sandals / The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles."

The theme of Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, in case you haven't guessed by now, is aging: These guys embody the phrase "old-school" in a number of ways, and not just because Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz refers to himself as a "grandpa" who's been "rapping since '83." The album has almost no use for hip-hop as it has evolved over the past decade, other than to ask a friend such as the rapper Nas to make a vocal cameo in one track.

Indeed, the Beasties are pre-hip-hop culture: They're rappers. What's the distinction? Their interest, as was true of virtually all first-wave rap from the late '70s and early '80s, is in verbal content set to rhythms filched from R&B, soul, disco and pop records. Their artistic alliances remain with rap performers such as Spoonie G and Grandmaster Flash, as well as with pop-punk-disco acts of an earlier era, such as the "Heart of Glass"-era Debbie Harry/Blondie. For example, the bass- and drum-heavy "Lee Majors Come Again" is a return to their punk-rock roots, with a driving tempo and a chorus that insists over and over that you "take a look around you."

One of the best songs on a generally superb album is "Nonstop Disco Powerpack," whose opening I find touching even as the Boys steamroll over the emotion. It begins with each member asking the other, "How you feelin?'" In context, it's an intro, a way to rev up; on another level, however, I can't help but think it's an implicit checking-in with Adam "MCA" Yauch, about the state of his health after a battle with cancer. Either way, the vibrant life of the music — its "disco powerpack," to use a typically cartoonish Beastie phrase — is exhilarating.

In another track, "Long Burn the Fire," The Beastie Boys speak of an ideal rapper: "not a player, a soothsayer." The music on this album is deceptively off-hand. It's a sustained piece of art-collage with a unifying sensibility, anarchy expressed through technical discipline. As one fan wrote on a Beastie Boys comments board I read online, this stuff is "vintage but new." Long burn their fire, indeed."

And where  youmay be asking is Hot Sauce Committee Pt 1? Well we may just have to wait for that rewrite. 

Via a press release from the good people @ Nasty Little Man,

“(October 25, 2010) — In what can only be described as a bizarre coincidence, following an exhaustive re-sequence marathon, Beastie Boys have verified that their new Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 will be comprised of the same 16 tracks originally slated for inclusion on Hot Sauce Committee Part 1.

The record (part 2 that is) will be released as planned in spring 2011 on Capitol.

The tracks originally recorded for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 (which now are actually back on Part 1) have now apparently been bumped to make room for the former Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 material. Wait, what?

“I know it’s weird and confusing, but at least we can say unequivocally that Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 is coming out on time, which is more than I can say about Part 1, and really is all that matters in the end.” says Adam “MCA” Yauch. “We just kept working and working on various sequences for part 2, and after a year and half of spending days on end in the sequencing room trying out every possible combination, it finally became clear that this was the only way to make it work. Strange but true, the final sequence for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 works best with all its songs replaced by the 16 tracks we originally had lined up in pretty much the same order we had them in for Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. So we’ve come full circle.”

Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 marks Yauch, Mike “Mike D” Diamond, and Adam “Ad Rock” Horovitz’s first full length effort since 2007′s Grammy winning all-instrumental The Mix-Up. 

       And The Original.

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