The "best" Beastie Boys album?

[SD Fixed]

I'm gonna buy a Beastie Boy's CD, and it's only gonna be one. Of their albums, which is best?

[Raiyn]

License to Ill -Classic stuff
Paul's Boutique and Ill Communication are up there too

[OC Roadie]

Paul's Boutique :D

[randya]

First album.

[wrench_meister]

Sorry, buddy. Ya can't just buy one Beastie Boys album.

That's why I like to make compilations from albums I have:

My Beastie Boys compilation album contains the following tracks:
(album in parentheses)

-Brass Monkey (Licensed To Ill)
-You've Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party (Licensed To Ill)
-No Sleep til Brooklyn (Licensed To Ill)
-Paul Revere (Licensed To Ill)
-So Whatcha Want? (Check Your Head)
-Ch-Check It Out (To the 5 Boroughs)
-An Open Letter To NYC (To The 5 Boroughs)
-Super Disco Breakin' (Hello Nasty)
-Sure Shot (Ill Communication)
-Shake Your Rump (Paul's Boutique)
-The Move (Hello Nasty)
-Tough Guy (Ill Communication)
-Johnny Ryall (Paul's Boutique)
-Body Movin' (Hello Nasty)
-The Scenario (non LP, B-Side)
-Sabotage (Ill Communication)
-Intergalactic (Hello Nasty)
-Hey Ladies (Paul's Boutique)


But if you have to get just one, get The Sounds of Science - their two-disc anthology.

Peace. Love. Beer.

[pitboss]

Wow -
Check Your Head for me.

[harlot]

I have to second the Sounds of Silence anthology. If you're just getting one, this runs the whole gamut of Beasties work. Each of their albums is so unique that I don't think you can pick just one. Sounds runs from Bodhisattva Vow to a wicked live track of Benny and the Jets. Plus the booklet that comes with it gives the Beasties' background and perspective of each song so you can tuck away useless Beasties trivia when trying to impress that special someone.

[arboc!]

licence to ill, followed by hello nasty

[slider]

Pauls Boutique - without a doubt.

[KrisPistofferson]

Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head and Ill Communication are the holy trinity. If I had to choose one I'd go with Ill Communication.

[bkrownd]

Anyone who says anything other than Paul's Boutique majorly boggles my mind. That's gotta be one of the 10 best albums of all time.

[CyLowe97]

Paul's Boutique. A complete *Album* more so than the others, which are more collections of cool songs. Paul's Boutique is stripped apart, stirred up, stitched together, and served up as something that burrows deeper into your skull with every listen. This one is almost absorbed more than it is heard. Soak it in....

Check Your Head and Ill Communication. These two are filled with great rhymes and groovy instrumentals. Q-Tip's appearance on "Get It Together" might just be my favorite word-riffing of all time...

Licensed to Ill. A bratty classic. Dismissed by some as such, but it has stood up well. Listen hard for all the cursing that isn't there! How quaint that seems these days. But I'll always think it's 1986/7 when those mix-n-scratch Zep riffs and beats come flying out of a boom box....

So the answer is..... skip a few meals in the next few weeks and buy them all. You'll be hungry for a while, but happy for a longer while.....

[[bEn]]

Hello Nasty.

[Rev.Chuck]

Pauls Boutique, folowed by License to Ill(Esp. if you over thirty)

[nick burns]

']Wow -
Check Your Head for me.

Without a doubt. The Maestro is one of my favorite Beastie cuts.

[KingTermite]

I was never a huge fan of the Beastie Boys, but after last year's album fiasco, I would NEVER buy an album from them.

Read about how they put a virus on their last CD to help defeat people ripping the CD.
http://www.cdr-zone.com/news/beastie_boys_reputedly_infecting_computers_with_a_virus.html

[auk]

A nutter vote for Check Your Head

[KrisPistofferson]

I was never a huge fan of the Beastie Boys, but after last year's album fiasco, I would NEVER buy an album from them.

Read about how they put a virus on their last CD to help defeat people ripping the CD.
http://www.cdr-zone.com/news/beastie_boys_reputedly_infecting_computers_with_a_virus.html
That reads like a bunch of unsubstantiated BS to me.

[jim-bob]

I was never a huge fan of the Beastie Boys, but after last year's album fiasco, I would NEVER buy an album from them.

Read about how they put a virus on their last CD to help defeat people ripping the CD.
http://www.cdr-zone.com/news/beastie_boys_reputedly_infecting_computers_with_a_virus.html

Buy the vinyl, then.

Also : Paul's Boutique. No question about it.

[Serpico]

paul's boutique, produced by the dust brothers

w00t!

[slider]

I was never a huge fan of the Beastie Boys, but after last year's album fiasco, I would NEVER buy an album from them.

Read about how they put a virus on their last CD to help defeat people ripping the CD.
http://www.cdr-zone.com/news/beastie_boys_reputedly_infecting_computers_with_a_virus.html

I suggest you do some research, rather than just posting links to uninformed gossip. It is DRM not a virus and is easily worked around by a simple registry setting that anybody who cares about securing their computer should have done a long time ago. Not really cool in my opinion, but I'm not sure they had much control over the situation.

-s

[Karldar]

Paul's Boutique. Love the flow on that album.

[ch0mb0]

PB was a great album, and it definitely captured the BB spirit back in the day.
but I really like the production on CYH and IC. The sound had reached something different altogether.

That said and in keeping with the spirit of PB, I must also recommend "Some Old Bullsh*t" - cookie puss is one of my all time favorite BB tracks!

[KingTermite]

I suggest you do some research, rather than just posting links to uninformed gossip. It is DRM not a virus and is easily worked around by a simple registry setting that anybody who cares about securing their computer should have done a long time ago. Not really cool in my opinion, but I'm not sure they had much control over the situation.

-s
I did research on it plenty thank you very much....it's just hard finding legit links to an article 6 mo. to a year old. When I first found info on it last year, it was on the big news sites, but couldn't find anything archived on it anymore.

My point was not that it was truly dangerous....it was just the fact that it was done at all. Whether they had control or not can be debated...I have no idea, but if it were the record label doing it, I would think other artist on the same label would have been in news for same thing and I have not seen that.

[skitbraviking]

I would have to say that it was the one they never made. :D