GamblersGrin Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 i think i may pick it up. im a bit iffy. their last one grew on me. i didnt like it at first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InnerCityRebel Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 1st and yes i will pick it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duh-rye-won Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 can not fucking wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 Originally posted by iquit can not fucking wait. ditto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 i saw the video for their new song the other day. classic beasties. i think it would be a worthwhile purchase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telo Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 please believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T=E=A=S=E Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 yes [] or no [x] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adderall Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 as soon as they drop it on the ftp.. ill "pick it up" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DETO Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 *raises hand* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_dowmagik Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 hell yeah ill snag it. well, ill download it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr430n5_666 Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 I can't wait to hear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justaname Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 pick it up and tell me how it is... if its good i will buy it but the video is :king: :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Europe Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 Hopefully this will the summer-banger of 2004... A summer with a new Beastie album out is always a classic summer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InDY_500 Posted June 3, 2004 Share Posted June 3, 2004 Yeah im gonna go get that....All the guys i go to school with(computer nerds..) say its pretty ok..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azert Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 So anyone who picked this up, how is it? I'm thinking of getting it right now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarzAbove Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 Im not but i do like the chcheck it out song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earmuffs Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 not me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyLazy Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 I can't wait for someone to burn this for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiffer Jet Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 Originally posted by Europe Hopefully this will the summer-banger of 2004... it's rather odd how it doesn't feel like summer for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poop Man Bob Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 This album is fucking great. I had to drive a lot this weekend and had the CD in the car with me, which made time fly by. They don't play with instruments at all as they have on previous albums (punk songs, etc.), so it's all hip hop. Rolling Stone gave it http://i.rollingstone.com/rs/images/ratings/10_small.gif'>. Their review: These are some things that have changed since the Beastie Boys' last studio album, Hello Nasty, was released in 1998: There is no Grand Royal Records; the trio shut down its eccentric custom label in 2001. Adam "MCA" Yauch's deep, rough growl is now an even deeper, stranger weapon of taunt; he now fires boasts and insults like a hip-hop Tom Waits, in a smoker's-cough harangue scoured free of melody. And there is no World Trade Center. This may seem like a weird time -- wartime, everywhere you look -- for Yauch, Adam "AdRock" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond, all on the cusp of forty, to make a record that in its gibes and hyperspeed is the closest they have come to their old-school fight and comedy on 1986's Licensed to Ill. Actually, it is the perfect time. To the 5 Boroughs is an exciting, astonishing balancing act: fast, funny and sobering. "I bring the shit that's beyond bizarre," Horovitz asserts against the quick hop and spears of sampled brass in "Ch-Check It Out." "Like Miss Piggy," he adds, apropos of nothing, to which all three respond in idiot falsetto, "Who moi?" In "Right Right Now Now," the Beasties lament Columbine and call for "more gun controlling" over tense rolls of Muzak harpsichord, then twist the chorus of their biggest hit into a free-speech cheer, retrieving Public Enemy's inversion from 1988: "We're gonna party for the right to fight." The Beasties pour the Pink Champale and Riunite here, but they're not drinking to forget. They turn the dis on "a president we didn't elect" in "It Takes Time to Build": "Is the U.S. gonna keep breaking necks/ Maybe it's time that we impeach Tex." It's risky business -- odd, at first, to hear social protest in Horovitz's cutting nyah-nyah-nyah or, in "All Lifestyles," Diamond's high, shrill yelp: "Walking down the block, you say, 'Yo, D! When you coming out with the new CD that spreads love in society?'" But To the 5 Boroughs is a full-service gas. The Beasties produced the album themselves, spiking stark, muscular beats with incongruous cool, like the Brazilian rain-forest buzz of the berimbau in "Hey Fuck You." You also get an encyclopedic torrent of cheesy-TV citations, as if the Beasties have spent the last six years sucking up nothing but Nick at Nite. And two decades after turning from hardcore punk to homeboy jollies, the Beasties are still the best rap band in the biz -- three voices swinging like a jazz trio, racing like Bad Brains -- and they don't have big patience for the gold-plated phooey currently passing for gangsta. "I know you're sitting pretty in the Hampty-Hamps/Posing like you're rolling with the camp," Yauch croaks in "Shazam!" That photo of P. Diddy on a jet ski, in his polar-bear beach robe, comes to mind. More than anything, To the 5 Boroughs is the Beasties' valentine to the city where they, and rap, were born. It is a brash, passionate toast to what we lost on 9/11 (in the cover illustration, the Twin Towers are still standing) and what survives: in memory, on the ground. The raps are packed with local cuisine (Blimpies, Murray's Cheese Shop on Bleecker Street) and nostalgia (Yauch: "Used to ride the D to beat the morning bell at Edward R. Murrow [High School] out on Avenue L"). And in "An Open Letter to NYC," the Beasties celebrate the city "that blends and mends and tests," mixing prayer and pride with sampled shots of 50 Cent, RZA and Nas over the killer riff from the Dead Boys' "Sonic Reducer." It's a dark whirl, but never maudlin: "2 towers down but you're still in the game," Diamond crows, a line that also has everything to do with the state and fate of the nation. The Beasties are New York from head to heel, but they've made To the 5 Boroughs for the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island in all of us. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00021LRWM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg'> Buy it. Steal it. Download it from me on SoulSeek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doomfarmer Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 i love this shit i havent taken it out of my cd player since i got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarzAbove Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 They call it 5 boros n the cover has Manhattan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr430n5_666 Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 http://www.kak.ru/images/archive/15/cigarlabels/CL047.jpg'> I downloaded it 2 weeks ago. It wasn't as good as I thought it would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AORAone Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 i'll definitly have to check it out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekro Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 I downloaded it on bittorrent before it came out, its awesome. Brooklyn Bronx Queens and Staten/From the battery to the top of Manhattan/Asian Middle Eastern and Latin/Black, White, New York: You make it happen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiSe Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 i got it a couple days ago, and im honestly dissapointed in the quality, the lyrics the rapping is all great (although seems a little stale at times), but there's not much variation, most of the beats are lame, and some of the samples are horrible. but its still better then alot of the stuff thats out there now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamblersGrin Posted June 20, 2004 Author Share Posted June 20, 2004 if i can get a burned copy, it will be added to my collection. i heard that album and it the music sounded cheesy to me. they did all the beats on a computer, just like most kids do these days. the beasties are sposed to pave a way for us and open our ears up. im bout to rub up on some disappointment ointment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
why write? Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 im getting this tommorow...cant wait to hear it :yum: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T=E=A=S=E Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 NOPE. them guys are washed up. i was never into them anyways, but they need to move on already. /100% hater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Peanut Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 i never really got into them but i liked some of the stuff friends have played for me. i'd like to get a burn off of somebody but i'm not gonna go out o my way to buy it. i saw ufo in their video and i thought that was pretty kosher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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