October 5, 2006

Awesome...they...shot that...

The Beastie Boys dropped onto the scene when I was in seventh grade with just about the dumbest hits of the mid 80's - the kind of stuff that should have put them solidly on the career path to frat boy drunkenness and one-hit wonder status. Even the concert reviews from their first tour don't exactly suggest any sort of future career for the Boys.

Today I offer you a bit of a video tour of the Boys's career...

From their debut License to Ill album:Sample-heavy Paul's Boutique was a massive step forward and one of the first great albums of the 90's:The Boys switched direction a bit on Check Your Head...By the time that Ill Communication dropped in 199, the Beasties pretty much ruled the world, with their last two albums debuting at #1 on the charts...Four years later we got the most eclectic Beasties yet with Hello Nasty with a number of world music samples and influences and - luckily - some good old school Beasties rapping...To hold us over, the Beasties let out Sounds of Sience which had a few new songs but was mostly a greatest hits and rarities collection...We had six long years before they dropped To the 5 Boroughs, and they were bringing some angry, politically angry words on this one...And a few odds and sods from other projects that the Boys have been a part of...So, bow down

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