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Even the Beasties themselves would agree they don’t figure in the upper echelons of the pantheon of great rappers, though several of their LPs – specifically 1989’s Paul’s Boutique, 1992’s Check Your Head and 1994’s Ill Communication – remain epochal joints, especially to "heads" of a certain age. The Beasties’ genius lies in compensating for their less-than-finessed flows by juggling an ineffable sense of cool that makes a virtue of their terminally-uncool nerdiness, their samples and references and goofy jokes cooking up a world of their own any dweeb would love to dwell in.
Beasties albums, at their best, are immense amounts of fun. Sometimes they’re more than that – MCA’s autobiographical Bodhisattva Vow from Ill Communication proving that the trio shouldn’t shy away from getting serious. Sometimes they fail at fun: hello, 2004’s arid To the 5 Boroughs. Their seventh full-length-proper, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, is scads of fun, its first half especially so. Their wizard blend of goofy creativity and deft discipline ensures that the best tracks here are simultaneously scattershot and focussed – like the way Too Many Rappers cooks up mean funk from Space Invaders noise and cranium-crushing low-end (and throws in a guesting Nas), or how Say It pulls nagging hooks from abstract feedback drones and then welds them to subterranean bass grooves that could level mountains, before collapsing into stoned synth doodles that’ll amuse all but the terminally dreary. On paper, both are messes; but on record they make canny sense.
The sound of the Beasties here is catnip for those who still revere their late 80s/early 90s output: vocals are drenched in reverb like a hippie dabs patchouli, while the tracks fuse live instrumentation and samples with a simpatico they’ve perfected since Check Your Head, delivering tracks alive with ideas and chaos and funk and noise and groove, dense enough to get lost in for at least a summer. They don’t shy away from pop moments, though: OK has a dippy new wave catchiness evoking Ad-Rock’s BS 2000 side-project – it’s as infectious as crabs – while the dub-a-delic Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win has Santigold playing straight-woman to their Marx-Brothers-of-Rap lunacy with an aplomb that could own the charts if the weather stays balmy.
The second half wanes, but only slightly: Lee Majors Come Again reminds us that the Beasties earned their punk cred ages ago and can leave it alone now, please; but instrumental Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament gets colossal with an ear for detail akin to the best dub, while Crazy Ass Shit closes the album on a seemingly-throwaway note. Truth is, to cook up such joyful nonsense probably takes a helluva lot of effort, but it’s the Beasties’ gift to make this seem easier than falling off a mountain bike, and an infinite amount more fun.
--Stevie Chick
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Long awaited 8th studio album from 'Mike D, MCA & Adrock', features 'Make Some Noise'
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The Beastie Boys return with album number eight, their first in four years since the under rated instrumental only album "The Mix-Up", so this is their first material with vocals since 2004's "To The Five Boroughs". I'm Glad to say it's vintage Beasties featuring all the trademarks of what makes them great. "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" which is really part one!(If you know how The Beastie Boys like to wind up the press you'll understand) was supposed to be released in 2009 until MCA(adam yauch/Nathanial Hörnblowér)was diagnosed with cancer of the parotid gland so of course it was understandable to put the album on hold till he made a recovery.
"Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" is full of classic Beastie Boys tunes, from opening track "Make Some Noise" which is vintage Beastie Boys as the three MC's Rap and rhyme over some beats. It's an early calling card to say they are back! The track "Ok" is a funk filled track that is as catchy as anything they have done. There is reggae on the track "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win" which features American singer Santigold who's performed with a who's who of acts recently from David Byrne to M.I.A. Speaking of collaborations rapper Nas features on the track "Too Many Rappers" it might not be as good as their collaboration with Q-Tip("Get It Together") on "Ill Communication" but's it's still a great collaboration as they rap over a big beat, and is better than the original version they released back in 2009..
The Beastie Boys best albums always had a healthy mix of everything from Rap/punk/rock/hip hop and that's evident here on the the brilliant "Lee Majors Come Again" which was released back in 2009, think of a punkier version of "Remote Control" from "Hello Nasty" or indeed "Heart Attack Man" and "Tough Guy" both from "Ill Communication". "Here's a Little Something for Ya" has alot of things going on at once and is all the better for it. "Say It" is funk filled and is like "Check Your Head" revisited. Mix Master Mike who joined in 1998 for "Hello Nasty" is still great on the turntables as is Money Mark on the Keyboards, sometimes these guy's contribution to the Beastie Boys sound is forgotten about.
With "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" it's like the Beastie Boys have turned the clock back and taken all their best idea's and mixed them up. With 30 years in the business and all members(ad-rock, Mike D and mca) on the wrong side of 40 you could forgive Them if they rested on their laurels and their great back catalogue, far from it all three MC's prove they can still hang with the best of them and show no signs of letting up.
"Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" is full of classic Beastie Boys tunes, from opening track "Make Some Noise" which is vintage Beastie Boys as the three MC's Rap and rhyme over some beats. It's an early calling card to say they are back! The track "Ok" is a funk filled track that is as catchy as anything they have done. There is reggae on the track "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win" which features American singer Santigold who's performed with a who's who of acts recently from David Byrne to M.I.A. Speaking of collaborations rapper Nas features on the track "Too Many Rappers" it might not be as good as their collaboration with Q-Tip("Get It Together") on "Ill Communication" but's it's still a great collaboration as they rap over a big beat, and is better than the original version they released back in 2009..
The Beastie Boys best albums always had a healthy mix of everything from Rap/punk/rock/hip hop and that's evident here on the the brilliant "Lee Majors Come Again" which was released back in 2009, think of a punkier version of "Remote Control" from "Hello Nasty" or indeed "Heart Attack Man" and "Tough Guy" both from "Ill Communication". "Here's a Little Something for Ya" has alot of things going on at once and is all the better for it. "Say It" is funk filled and is like "Check Your Head" revisited. Mix Master Mike who joined in 1998 for "Hello Nasty" is still great on the turntables as is Money Mark on the Keyboards, sometimes these guy's contribution to the Beastie Boys sound is forgotten about.
With "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" it's like the Beastie Boys have turned the clock back and taken all their best idea's and mixed them up. With 30 years in the business and all members(ad-rock, Mike D and mca) on the wrong side of 40 you could forgive Them if they rested on their laurels and their great back catalogue, far from it all three MC's prove they can still hang with the best of them and show no signs of letting up.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Like all other fans, I waited a long time for this and was really excited. Upon the first few hearings, it sounded rather samey - mostly another collection of fairly disjointed rhyming couplets. Some of these really made me smile ("The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding's in my pants/you heard me rap, now watch me dance"). Others are not so good (I do some balancing for ya'll/And if you're feeling chilly I'ma get you a shawl") and some rhymes are lost on me enitrely, drenched in a delicious retro noise, reverb and bass, which certainly gave my speakers a run for their money. Drenched, in fact, to the point of drowning.
"Oh my god, just look at me / Grandpa's been rapping since '83!" acknowledges Ad.Rock, and here we have another collection of cultural references and name drops. But perhaps it's because the rhymes offer nothng really new or engaging that the album sounds samey. Telling, perhaps, that the track many cite as the best track on here is an instrumental - "Multi-lateral Nuclear Disaramanet" is an electro-space-funk masterpiece which I found myself playing again and again.
Trouble is, I find myself missing the story-telling fun of "She's Crafty", or the variety and musicality of the "Check Your Head" album, or the sheer inventiveness still found on "Paul's Boutique". Maybe it's my age, I don't know. But I hoped for something more engaging than this. I am still enjoying what this album has to offer, but I can sense already that it may slip from my regular playlist before long, to be replaced once more by Check Your Head and Paul's Boutique.
"Oh my god, just look at me / Grandpa's been rapping since '83!" acknowledges Ad.Rock, and here we have another collection of cultural references and name drops. But perhaps it's because the rhymes offer nothng really new or engaging that the album sounds samey. Telling, perhaps, that the track many cite as the best track on here is an instrumental - "Multi-lateral Nuclear Disaramanet" is an electro-space-funk masterpiece which I found myself playing again and again.
Trouble is, I find myself missing the story-telling fun of "She's Crafty", or the variety and musicality of the "Check Your Head" album, or the sheer inventiveness still found on "Paul's Boutique". Maybe it's my age, I don't know. But I hoped for something more engaging than this. I am still enjoying what this album has to offer, but I can sense already that it may slip from my regular playlist before long, to be replaced once more by Check Your Head and Paul's Boutique.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Well, i don't know what else i can say, that has not been said in previous reviews.
This album is excellent, if you like the Beasties, you will really like this.
I love the way some of the music samples have been distorted, cut, transformed and altered as you can tell the Boys have been experimenting with sound, This fits in perfectly into the old school funky grooves. I personally have not heard stuff like this since maybe early Beck - Odelay springs to mind ,(another ground breaking album) yet it remains different and fresh sounding, when i first of all heard the intro's to "Too many rappers" and "Say it", i was blown away!
Some people moan that the Boys have distorted the sound and pitch of their voices on some tracks, I don't mind this as it creates an old Electro feel.
Just get out there and buy it !!!
This album is excellent, if you like the Beasties, you will really like this.
I love the way some of the music samples have been distorted, cut, transformed and altered as you can tell the Boys have been experimenting with sound, This fits in perfectly into the old school funky grooves. I personally have not heard stuff like this since maybe early Beck - Odelay springs to mind ,(another ground breaking album) yet it remains different and fresh sounding, when i first of all heard the intro's to "Too many rappers" and "Say it", i was blown away!
Some people moan that the Boys have distorted the sound and pitch of their voices on some tracks, I don't mind this as it creates an old Electro feel.
Just get out there and buy it !!!
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A generous 3/5 . A let down...
I haven't been able to write review for this for months, I felt so distraught! No surprise the fanboys raced in with some 5/5 reviews but after giving this many listens in the... Read more
Published 10 months ago by nep1363
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Buy this album it has an old school sound to it although it has no stand out tracks you can listen to it all the way through so no filler.
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return to form
It's really good, I like it a lot. If you like beastie boys then you probably will too.
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Does anyone actually read this stuff?
Published 10 months ago by mynamewontfi
Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
The Beastie Boys are back, after a while, promoting it with a great short film and " rapping since '83 "
Published 11 months ago by Jim Norton
Fun and funky
The new Beastie Boys CD is not going to push any boundaries. Its not going to be named as one of their best. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Syriat
Back to their best!
The 3 boyz from New York City are back with a bang! LOVE this album. Album packaging is great, some funky artwork inside, and the opening few seconds just make you want to dance... Read more
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