Beastie Boys

Japanese edition of their top 10 1992 album featuring the the hits 'Pass The Mic' & 'So What'cha Want', plus four bonus tracks 'Dub The Mic' (Instrumental), 'Drunken Praying Mantis Style', 'Pass The Mic (Pt.2, Skills To Pay The Bills)' and 'Netty's Girl'. 24 tracks total. A Capitol release.

Check Your Head

Jimmy James (Remastered 2009)

Funky Boss (Explicit)

Pass The Mic (Remastered 2009)

Gratitude

Lighten Up

Finger Lickin' Good (Explicit)

So What'Cha Want (Explicit)

Biz Markie

The Biz Vs. The Nuge

Time For Livin' (Remastered 2009)

Something's Got To Give (Remastered 2009)

The Blue Nun

Stand Together (Explicit)

The Maestro (Explicit)

Groove Holmes (Remastered 2009)

Live At P.J.'s (Explicit)

Mark On The Bus (Remastered 2009)

Professor Booty (Explicit)

In 3's

Namaste

Slow And Low

An Open Letter To NYC

Tokyo Drift (Live 1995) (Explicit)

In the hilarious liner note/photo package with the disc is an indignant letter from a punk fan in about 1982 or so complaining bitterly about the Beastie Boys as being little more than "a pathetic, feeble imitation of Minor Threat." The thing is, that's fairly accurate. Collecting some of the long out-of-print/hard-to-find early releases by the band — the Polly Wog Stew EP and the Cookie Puss single, mainly — Some Old Bullshit is mostly that, if an entertaining enough variety. The eight Polly Wog Stew tracks are brattish hardcore and not much more, mainly interesting to hear Mike D's lead snotty whine and sometimes amusing lyrics ("Egg Raid on Mojo" is about carrying out such an assault on the doorman of a Manhattan club). "Jimi" is the best of the bunch because it isn't anything like hardcore, but more an attempt at noisy psychedelia that sounds like a sweeter, younger version of the Butthole Surfers. There's one other reason to at least give the album an initial ear: the drummer at this point was Kate Schellenbach, eventual founding member of Luscious Jackson a decade later. The Cookie Puss tracks signal the initial transmogrification of the Beasties into the hip-hop monsters of the later '80s, if a bit hamhandedly. There's old-school synth beats and bass, some minimal scratching, and vocals that in retrospec

Some Old Bullshit

Kawasaki 1992 (live)

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Check Your Head

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Check Your Head

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