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The Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill (CD 2000)

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Track Listing
1. Rhymin' And Stealin'
2. New Style
3. She's Crafty
4. Posse In Effect
5. Slow Ride
6. Girls
7. You Gotta Fight For Your Right (To Party)
8. No Sleep Till Brooklyn
9. Paul Revere
10. Hold It Now Hit It
11. Brass Monkey
12. Slow And Low
13. Time To Get Ill

Details
Number of CDs:	1
Producer:	Beastie Boys, Rick Rubin
Recording Type:	Studio
Distributor:	Universal Music
Recording Mode:	Stereo

Album Notes
The Beastie Boys: Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, Adam "MCA" Yauch, Mike "Mike D" Diamond (rap vocals).Additional personnel includes: Kerry King (guitar).Wholly original, the first and the best rap group to make the genre universally palatable. These Brooklyn boys succeed with a combination of tremendously exciting backgrounds, from straight riff metal (on 'Rhymin' & Stealin'' and 'She's Crafty') to sample ('The New Style'). Having learnt their art by observing rather than participating while at NYU, they sound street-cred, even though some members are positively middle-class. The Volkswagen badge-stealing craze was unknowingly started by the band, who wore the pendant merely in order to mock the hippies who had worn the ban-the-bomb medallion. The rap album for people who think they don't like rap.

Editorial Reviews
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Vibe (12/01/1999)

Bloody Essential - ...There's lots of self-reverential bragging, more tenuous rhymes than are usually permitted by law and, most importantly of all, an unshakably glorious celebration of being alive....A surprisingly enduring classic.
Melody Maker (07/22/1995)

4 Stars - ...LICENSE TO ILL remains the world's only punk rock rap album, arguably superior to NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS...knowing that apathy and slovenliness were just around the corner...
Q (09/01/1994)

Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th CenturyQ (9/94, p.123) - 4 Stars - ...LICENSE TO ILL remains the world's only punk rock rap album, arguably superior to NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS...knowing that apathy and slovenliness were just around the corner...Melody Maker (7/22/95, p.35) - Bloody Essential - ...There's lots of self-reverential bragging, more tenuous rhymes than are usually permitted by law and, most importantly of all, an unshakably glorious celebration of being alive....A surprisingly enduring classic.
Vibe (12/01/1999)

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Licensed to Ill

Review created: 03/03/07

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I bought this because I had a copy on vinyl which was starting to jump. When playing the CD after not heard for years I find myself really enjoying it. It is not too heavy hip-hop, much better than the rap around today. I think this is possible the Beastie Boys at their best - when they were new and exciting.

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