Beastie Boys' Greatest Hits.

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"Beastie Boys are planning a Greatest Hits compilation before the end of the year.

With a tentative release date of November 7, 'Solid Gold Hits' will feature tracks from their debut album 'Licensed To Ill', through to the singles lifted from last year's long-awaited 'To The 5 Boroughs'."

Do we need this? Ok, It doesn't have Triple Trouble or Check It Out, but let's face it, they're not that essential and as long as I remember they weren't that well received.

What songs that were left off the Antology should make this new compilation?

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Thursday, 22 September 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

the best packaging i ever did see is on that beastie boys last compilation.

how *sad* it is when bands do this, come out with a n other comp after just one flop album has been released since.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 22 September 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

'sounds of science' was kind of definitive wasn't it? i dunno, all their lps are mid price anyway.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 22 September 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

jukebox space

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 22 September 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Mike D needs Botox!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to come out and say that Sounds of Science kind of sucked. When I'm in the mood to hear Beastie Boys I want a bunch of dudes rapping where at the end of every line they all yell together and the rhymes are almost universally dumb. (I get in this mood surprisingly often.) I certainly didn't need fifteen million obscure horrible "punk" cuts thrown in the mix. Did it even have No Sleep Till Brooklyn? Also, I kinda liked Ch-Ch-Check It Out, even with MCA's monstrously decayed growls....

The real question is, will it have "In A World Gone Mad"?

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Desperado???

― PappaWheelie B.C., Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

"Cookie puss" best be on here.

― Ellis, Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Also, they should release an instrumental version of "pauls boutique".

― Ellis, Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Also, they should release an instrumental version of "pauls boutique".

Please don't. Save Hip-Hop instrumental albums for trip-hopping-back-packers rather than tampering with universal classics.

― Mike Don't, Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm Down???

― PappaWheelie B.C., Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

The Sounds of Science is my favorite best-of released by any band ever. It feels just like a regular Beastie Boys album, except the most awesome regular Beastie Boys album humanly possible.

So this is probably going to suck very much.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 22 September 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Fuck that.

I'd rather hear that album in instrumental format than listen to the Beasties nasal voices for 40 minutes or however long the album lasts. The beats are what makes that album a classic. Two or three songs of their voices in a row is all i can listen to these days.

― Ellis, Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Let's reduce Van Halen to just Eddie's solos. Fuck all that song shit.

― Mike Don't, Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Yes, because rap and rock are the same genre and it's not like you ever get instrumentals on, like, rap 12"s or anything like that. Brilliant argument.

I'd like the first Das Efx lp as an instrumental also as the beats still knock but the rapping is an atrocious gimmick.

― Ellis, Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Popular music...

People worship(ed) guitar solos.

People worship beats.

Others like artists and songs.

Brilliant arguement.

Feel free to continue. I'm sure you can work around these staples of the entertainment world and nerdy music fans. But this is my one and only point, so no need for my argument to continue. I would just say the same thing regardless.

― Mike Don't, Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

A few Paul's tracks were released on singles as instrumentals...I dunno, to me they sound like they were designed as backing tracks. Lots of loops that aren't neccesarily fascinating on their own.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure if they release an instrumental version of the album, which you probably wouldn't buy or hear since you're oppossed to instrumental hip hop albums, it will spoil your enjoyment of the original and that album will be forever ruined for you and other people who like artists and songs. That seems totally logical.

Practically every other classic rap album has been released as an instrumental so "paul's boutique" also deserves the instrumental treatment since it's about the only that would sound better sans vocals.

― Ellis, Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

33% god.
nuff said...

― eedd, Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

What's an instromental?

― Pete Dropper (Confounded), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

A few Paul's tracks were released on singles as instrumentals...I dunno, to me they sound like they were designed as backing tracks. Lots of loops that aren't neccesarily fascinating on their own.

I got to see the Dust Bros. perform an instrumental version of Paul's Boutique (on 4 turntables) in LA about 10-12 years ago and it was incredible.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't mind a single disc chronological retrospective (so I'll just make my own).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I got to see the Dust Bros. perform an instrumental version of Paul's Boutique (on 4 turntables) in LA about 10-12 years ago and it was incredible.

-- gygax! (gygax0...), Today 12:31 PM. (gygax!)

whoops forgot to add that I'm not a Beastie Boys fan by any stretch of the imagination.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

I got to see the Dust Bros. perform an instrumental version of Paul's Boutique (on 4 turntables) in LA about 10-12 years ago and it was incredible.

-- gygax!

Wow.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

"33% God" is my favorite Beastie Boys track and I would love an instrumentals disc.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

This might be on soulseek (and just goes to show how bad my memory is):

Sunday August 11, 1996, 12pm-7pm
Santa Fe Loading Docks, downtown Los Angeles

Beck, The Dust Brothers (DJ set), Sukia, Money Mark, Mary Lou Lord, Marty's Sensual Organs, Liquor Cabinet, Abe Lincoln Story, 10 Cent

This benefit was organized to raise funds for three-year-old Banjo Sky Harris, the son of Ross and Terry Harris and godson of Beck, who was diagnosed with autism last year. All proceeds will be split equally between the Banjo Sky Harris Fund and the Los Angeles-based charity, Cure Autism Now. Tickets for the benefit cost $10 and go on sale at Second Time Around Records, No Life Records and Spaceland.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Back whe 50 was called 10.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

He'd only been shot 2 times.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

"Some Dumb Cop Gave Me Two Tickets Already"
"Spam"
"The Knock"
"Rock Hard" (Hey, I can dream can't I?)

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

It'd also be cool to have that 30-second commercial that's at the end of the Root Down EP.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

'Practically every other classic rap album has been released as an instrumental'

even 'stone-cold rhymin''?

― N_RQ, Friday, 23 September 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

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