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Check Your Head [CD]

Beastie Boys Audio CD
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Who would have thought that a punk band thrown together for its bass player's 17th birthday party would evolve into one of the most influential and groundbreaking successes of its time? Certainly not the then-teenage Beastie Boys, yet the band's 25 year career has logged 40 million in sales, two Grammy awards, the MTV Video Vanguard Lifetime Achievement award, four #1 albums--including the first… Read more in Amazon's Beastie Boys Store

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  • Audio CD (21 April 1992)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Capitol
  • ASIN: B000002V1I
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  Mini-Disc  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,664 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Jimmy James 3:14£0.89
Listen  2. Funky Boss [Explicit] 1:35£0.89
Listen  3. Pass The Mic 4:17£0.89
Listen  4. Gratitude 2:45£0.89
Listen  5. Lighten Up 2:41£0.89
Listen  6. Finger Lickin' Good [Explicit] 3:39£0.89
Listen  7. So What'Cha Want [Explicit] 3:37£0.89
Listen  8. The Biz Vs. The Nuge0:33£0.89
Listen  9. Time For Livin' 1:48£0.89
Listen10. Something's Got To Give 3:28£0.89
Listen11. The Blue Nun0:32£0.89
Listen12. Stand Together [Explicit] 2:47£0.89
Listen13. Pow 2:13£0.89
Listen14. The Maestro [Explicit] 2:52£0.89
Listen15. Groove Holmes 2:33£0.89
Listen16. Live At P.J.'s [Explicit] 3:18£0.89
Listen17. Mark On The Bus 1:05£0.89
Listen18. Professor Booty [Explicit] 4:13£0.89
Listen19. In 3's 2:23£0.89
Listen20. Namaste 4:01£0.89


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With their third album, the Beasties transformed themselves from smart-ass punks with hip-hop tones into a playful live funk band with some solid rhymes, assisted by the extraordinary keyboardist "Money" 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 the Beasties don't have to prove how clever they are any more, and they're stronger and more humane for it. --Douglas Wolk

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CLASSIC HIP HOP BEATZ FROM THE BOYS!!! This is one hip hop album for your collection, when it comes to old skool beatz and rock fused lyrics then there's no one better than the beastie boys. Dope!

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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An amazingly eclectic collection of tunes that range from punk, hip hop, jazz and everything else thats good with music. It may sound like a mess at first, but with a few listens it becomes apparent how good an album this is. There is something for everybody, and its one of the few COMPLETELY original albums that you will ever hear. It's as funky as hell, yet it rocks like a violent beast. I have no idea what the Beasties were on when they created this masterpiece BUT I WANT SOME!!!!!!
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God, this CD is awesome. The first time I heard it, I thought it was awful. Then I heard "So What'cha Want" on a stereo in Camden Market three years later, and the full genius of 'Check Your Head' became apparent.

"Gratitude", "Time for Livin'" and "So What'cha Want" just totally rock, 100% full of punk attitude, while "Pow", "In 3's" and "Namasté" (which all made it onto the later chill-out BB bits-and-pieces album "The In Sound From Way Out") show how competent these guys had become, even in 1992.

Which isn't to say "Paul's Boutique", "Ill Communication" or "Hello Nasty" are lesser works - they're extremely accomplished too.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
AMAZING!!! 24 July 2004
Format:Audio CD
Let me put it simply: THIS IS THE BEST RECORD THE BEASTIES HAVE EVER DONE.
Unbeatable, unforgettable, unputdownable!
This is the bomb, buy this album right now and forever live knowing you bought one of the greatest albums of all time.
From the opening 'Jimmy James' (dedicated to Hendrix) to the closing mysterious and inventive 'Namasté', this album is a masterpiece.
The best tracks undoubtably are 'So What'cha Want', 'Gratitude' and 'Something's Got to Give', but all the songs are top notch.
I love the way the cover has the boys doing the See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil thing. Its the coolest album cover I've ever seen.
'So What'cha Want' is my second favourite Beastie Boys song (just behind 'Intergalactic'). Buy this album now.

P.S. Please visit www.communigate.co.uk/chesh/egg for some great music. Keep rockin with the sure shot yall!

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