Beastie Boys- Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

On their latest album, the Beastie Boys still sound like they’re at the top of their game–which is fantastic considering their age. There’s a kinetic energy between the three of them that’s difficult to explain. I know these guys aren’t for everybody, but there’s something about their collective enthusiasm that’s charmed me into loving their [...]

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On their latest album, the Beastie Boys still sound like they’re at the top of their game–which is fantastic considering their age. There’s a kinetic energy between the three of them that’s difficult to explain. I know these guys aren’t for everybody, but there’s something about their collective enthusiasm that’s charmed me into loving their music.

The rhymes here aren’t anything out of the ordinary for the band. This LP is loaded with jokes, obscure references, non-sequiturs, and cunning wordplay. It doesn’t have the storytelling I usually love in my hip hop, but this LP is more about living in the moment than it is chewing things over.

But the absolute cherry on top of this album is the production. It’s thick, heavy, textured, noisy, psychedelic, and fantastic. It’s absolutely exciting to hear the Beasties advancing their sound this late in their career. It’s like they took the electronic hip hop fusions on Hello Nasty and turned them into an unstoppable monster, which is now destroying the city.

Needless to say, I’ve enjoyed the hell out of this album.

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  • http://twitter.com/ahpook ahpook

    Wow, I thought the album was unlistenable crap. Phoning it in.

    But I only made it through five tracks then threw Check Your Head back on.

  • thenewagewolfman

    this is one of those records that i found myself trying to find the Pauls Boutique and Ill Communication aspects of the Beastie Boys. I found myself overlooking the fact that i was on the wrong album(s). This not only brings the life back but also promotes a great new sound. Although I would like to hear some of those insane sampleing and the yell rapping that I hear alot of in Pauls Botique. I think if they did that they would get a lot of new and old listeners that want to hear that sort of experimental rapping.