...What's that noise?
Aw, mom you're just jealous it's the Beastie Boys!
And, oh, how they've grown. Their latest album, "The Mix-Up" dropped today, and, as you've probably heard, it's a long way from anything on "Licensed to Ill." In fact, it barely sounds like a Beastie Boys album. The concept is, the boys go instrumental, playing licks similar to those they would have sampled back in the day.
And it's groovy little background music. It wouldn't be out of place (or offensive to the moms) in a Pottery Barn. But that's really all it is. Metacritic gives the album an average of 55 out of 100. My favorite quote comes from the Entertainment Weekly review: "Who'd have guessed that a Beastie Boys record could be too subtle?"
Beastie Boys - The Gala Event
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Comments (1)
so they put out an amateurish garage-funk album(nate chinen of ny times- "For rappers, these guys can sort of play", and this line is really funny: "you could call them the Uncredible Bongo Band".
btw, here's a rhetorical q.- who are all those people who rushed to get those Beastie Boys tickets?