The Fascinating Contradictions Of The Beastie Boys

I read the whole thread just now and frankly I can't believe it got to where it did.
Textbook I'm with you on the whole beastie boys coolness appreciation thread, I wanted to open a thread like this my self because I feel the beastie boys are not your ordinary rap group. If there was a progressive rap site, they would be 'genesis'. Not being a hip hop fan at all I always loved their 'Check your head' album and since then I got some more albums and found they are true musicians, with a real passion for music. Just to show you my point, not a lot of people know they have released an all instrumental album, no vocals at all, just bass, drums, guitar and keys.
The beastie boys does not release an album every year, far from it. They certainly take the time to consentrate on their next album, and deliever us with a totally different thing every time.
I like their jazziness their funk, their rock and now I adore their rapping, they are the real deal, and definitely deserves a place in here!!

I would like to hear some thoughts about their music, hope everyone can allow it.

Edited by sagichim - April 13 2012 at 11:29

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Is this it?

^I think it's: Our Swede has rotated.

Guldbamsen wrote: ^I think it's: Our Swede has rotated.

This thread is about everything but the beastie boys. 

Beastie boys.... those are younger boys that have grown body hair like beasts right?

Textbook wrote: npjnpj: I don't think anybody here takes someone who judges music they haven't heard particularly seriously. Also, your complete failure to address anything I said (to make your point valid, you would have to argue that the juxtapositions I attributed to the Beastie Boys are mundane or worthless, which you didn't do and almost certainly aren't going to) shows your post is just a mindless, knee-jerk reaction to the term hip-hop, as it's a core part of your self worth that you proclaim every music form you don't understand or appreciate as trash in order to convince yourself that your ignorance and inability to address this ignorance is a strength. Additionally, genre-rejection is the absolute antithesis of the prog mindset so why on earth are you on this forum? I'm a white middle class guy who finds that one of the best ways to expand my mind is to study art forms alien to my surroundings. This is how I got so seriously into hip-hop and it has opened my head to all kinds of things. You want to sit in your little vacumn sealed world knowing what you like and liking what you know, go ahead, but please please please don't affect superiority because I'll tell you now, your attitude is inferior and that is a fact. Closing your mind off does not lead to richer understanding and more valid opinions. I believe a rare but well deserved "f**k you" has been earned and I declare you officially owned, how you like me now.   The moral of this story is not to mess with a thread started by a former battle rapper.   Anyway, for people who read without making snap judgements and who might be interested in exploring unfamiliar music, beginning across Check Your Head, Ill Communication and Hello Nasty, the B-Boys did actually start to become progressive, at least by hip-hop standards with the introduction of dub, funk, klezmer, Miles Davis references, traditional Buddhist music, psychedelica, electronica, singer-songwriter, chill-out, jazz etc. Songs like Shambala, Something's Gotta Give, I Don't Know and Song For The Man were hugely shocking coming from a band that made its name with Fight For Your Right. And Futterman's Rule is still one of my favourite funk instrumentals. Gotta check Yauch's bass on that track, pity I can't find it on Youtube. Futterman's Rule, look for that. Their second album Paul's Boutique is also generally agreed to have seriously advanced the art of sampling and is still regarded by some as the manual on how to sample.

Np's just jealous it's the Bea-stie boys! 

Yeah, sorry for the derailment earlier (I still believe Swedes need to be rotated though...) I really love The Beastie Boys as well. Especially Paul's Boutique and all of those old school releases. Intergalactic I rather like too, and I caught them at the Roskilde Festival that year. Absolutely insane concert!

hip-hoppers who CAN play instruments. Their late eighties/early nineties records show a high level of open-mindedness (on 'ill communication', you can hear rap, hardcore, funk, jazz), something I wouldn't say of other hip-hop acts.