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Licensed To Ill - 2023 Reissue

    The joke of Licensed to Ill's cover - that the Beasties could crash their jet into the side of a mountain and keep on tickin' - serves as a good metaphor for a career that even some of their 1986 admirers thought might be over after the one-time-only shock of this full-length debut. That thousands of funk-junkie wannabes have since failed at re-creating its groove, breaking-the-law vibe, and ear-splitting mix of rock and rap is an even better joke. And funniest of all is the record itself, which packs dexterous boasts, aural puns, and lots and lots of yelling into a disc that can still be listened to with as much pleasure as it gave in '86.

    TRACK LISTING

    A1. Rhymin’ & Stealin'
    A2. The New Style
    A3. She’s Crafty
    A4. Posse In Effect
    A5. Slow Ride
    A6. Girls
    A7. Fight For Your Right
    B1. No Sleep Till Brooklyn
    B2. Paul Revere
    B3. Hold It Now, Hit It
    B4. Brass Monkey
    B5. Slow And Low
    B6. Time To Get Ill

    Beastie Boys

    Hello Nasty - 25 Anniversary Edition

      Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Beastie Boys’ 3× Platinum album Hello Nasty. This is a limited edition reissue of the rare deluxe 4LP version of the album that was released as an artist store exclusive in 2009. Long out-of-print and sought after by fans/collectors, it features two extra LPs (w/ 21 tracks) of bonus content, including remixes, live versions and B-sides (all of which are available at DSPs).

      The 4 LPs will be pressed on 180 gram vinyl and housed in a quad jacket inside a rigid slipcase. A sew-on patch is also included.

      TRACK LISTING

      Disc 1 - Side A
      Super Disco Breakin'
      The Move
      Remote Control
      Song For The Man
      Just A Test
      Body Movin'
      Disc 1 - Side B
      Intergalactic
      Sneakin' Out The Hospital
      Putting Shame In Your Game
      Flowin' Prose
      And Me
      Three MC's And One DJ
      Disc 2 - Side A
      The Grasshopper Unit (Keep Movin')
      Song For Junior
      I Don't Know
      The Negotiation Limerick File
      Electrify
      Disc 2 - Side B
      Picture This
      Unite
      Dedication
      Dr. Lee, PhD
      Instant Death
      Disc 3 - Side A
      Description Of A Strange Man
      Dirt Dog
      Intergalactic (Colleone Webb Remix)
      DR. Lee Version Dub
      Switched On
      Disc 3 - Side B
      Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim Remix)
      Auntie Jackie Poom Poom Delicious
      Putting Shame In Your Game (Prunes Remix)
      Stink Bug
      Disc 4 - Side A
      Peanut Butter & Jelly
      Piano Jam
      Happy To Be In That Perfect Headspace
      The Negotiation Limerick File (The 41 Small Stars Remix)
      The Drone
      20 Questions Version
      Disc 4 - Side B
      The Bizz Grasshopper Experiment
      Hail Sagan (Special K)
      Body Movin' (Kut Masta Kurt Remix)
      Creepin'
      Learning Remote Control
      Oh My Goodness This Record's Incredible

      Beastie Boys

      Check Your Head - 30th Anniversary

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        To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Beastie Boys’ multi-platinum album Check Your Head, UMC release a limited-edition reissue of the rare 4LP deluxe version of the album, originally released in 2009 as an artist store exclusive. The long out-of-print and much sought-after box set features the 2009 remaster of the original double album, plus two extra LPs of bonus content including remixes, live versions, and B-sides. All four LPs are pressed on 180-gram vinyl and housed in a fabric wrapped, stamped, hardcover case.

        Originally released in April 1992, Check Your Head was a milestone for Beastie Boys on multiple levels: It was their first album to be produced, in its entirety, by Beastie Boys with Mario Caldato Jr. and to feature keyboard player Keyboard Money Mark, as well as the first to be recorded at the band’s own G-Son studios in Atwater Village, CA. Most significantly, however, Check Your Head marked the return of live instrumentation to the forefront and backbone of the Beastie Boys sound, with the bulk of the album featuring Mike D on drums, Adrock on guitar and MCA on bass for the first time since the band’s early 1980s hardcore punk recordings.

        Beastie Boys

        Aglio E Olio - 2022 Repress

          Vinyl reissue with two newly added bonus tracks, “Soba Violence,” and a rare cover of “Light My Fire.” Previously released on clear vinyl for Record Store Day 2021, this is the standard black 180g vinyl format.

          Aimed in tandem with Spike Jonze's critically acclaimed documentary 'Beastie Boys Story' (5 Emmy nominations yo!) and the group’s best seller Beastie Boys Book (available here folks!) comes "Beastie Boys Music", a 20 track collection of their very finest moments. 

          Just check that tracklist!!! All killer, no filler - all hitter, no shitter brilliance spanning the band’s 30+ year career. Sequenced chronologically, the LP works from the in-yer-face excellence of “Fight For Your Right,” “Brass Monkey,” “Paul Revere” and “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” from their Diamond-certified 1986 No. 1 debut Licensed To Ill, through a couple of killers from their 1989 reinvention Paul’s Boutique and “So What’Cha Want” and “Pass The Mic” from 1992’s multi-platinum Check Your Head, which hit Top Ten on the Billboard 200 chart.

          If it finished there, I'd be fully buzzed; but the hits keep on coming as we work our way through the 90s, feeling the force of “Sure Shot” and “Sabotage” from 1994’s Ill Communication, and “Body Movin’” and the universal smash hit “Intergalactic” from their GRAMMY®-winning 1998 No. 1 album Hello Nasty. The New York trio kept things bumping in the new millenium and the set says sayonara with “Ch-Check It Out” from 2004’s To The 5 Boroughs, which marked the band’s third consecutive Billboard No. 1 debut, as well as “Make Some Noise” and “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win” from 2011’s critically acclaimed Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. Frankly, it's as good a greatest hits as you're gonna get.


          TRACK LISTING

          CD
          1. So What’cha Want
          2. Paul Revere
          3. Shake Your Rump
          4. Make Some Noise
          5. Sure Shot
          6. Intergalactic
          7. Ch-Check It Out
          8. FFYR
          9. Pass The Mic
          10. Don’t Play No Game
          11. Body Movin
          12. Sabotage
          13. Hold It Now, Hit It
          14. Shadrach
          15. Root Down
          16. Brass Monkey
          17. Get It Together
          18. Jimmy James
          19. Hey Ladies
          20. No Sleep

          Vinyl LP
          1. Fight For Your Right
          2. Brass Monkey
          3. No Sleep Till Brooklyn
          4. Paul Revere
          5. Hold It Now, Hit It
          6. Shake Your Rump
          7. Shadrach
          8. Hey Ladies
          9. Pass The Mic
          10. So What’Cha Want
          11. Jimmy James
          12. Sure Shot
          13. Root Down
          14. Sabotage
          15. Get It Together
          16. Body Movin’
          17. Intergalactic
          18. Ch-Check It Out
          19. Make Some Noise
          20. Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win

          Double LP gold here, The Beastie Boys finest fifteen tracks throughout their incredible career. This record features some of the best tunes such as ‘Fight For Your Right’ and ‘An Open Letter to NYC’ but is filled to the brim with all the best of beasties. The Beasties consistent 'triple trouble' MC style is the thread that runs through each track here, creating cohesion to this whole LP, which presents us with a great overview of their career so far.

          TRACK LISTING

          A1. So What'Cha Want
          A2. Brass Monkey
          A3. Ch-Check It Out
          A4. No Sleep Till Brooklyn
          B1. Hey Ladies
          B2. Pass The Mic
          B3. An Open Letter To NYC
          C1. Root DowN
          C2. Shake Your Rump
          C3. Intergalactic
          C4. Sure Shot
          D1. Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim Remix)
          D2. Triple Trouble
          D3. Sabotage
          D4. Fight For Your Right

          Beastie Boys

          Hot Sauce Committee Part Two - Vinyl Reissue

          "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" is the eighth and final studio album by the the one and only Beastie Boys, originally released on April 27, 2011. Where 2004's "To The 5 Boroughs" utilised stripped back production and powerful lyricism in a post 9/11 love letter to NYC, Hot Sauce Committee mixes live instrumentation and samples into the kind of soupy production first unleashed on the world with "Pass the Mic" and furthered with songs like "So What'cha Want" and "Sure Shot". These songs are dense with sound effects and heavy on the bottom end, and the vocals are processed with a mixture of distortion and EQ that obscures the details of their rapping and the content of their lyrics but also gives the music a bit of snarl.The release was supported by four singles – "Lee Majors Come Again", "Too Many Rappers" featuring Nas, "Make Some Noise", and "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win" featuring Santigold.

          TRACK LISTING

          A1. Make Some Noise
          A2. Nonstop Disco Powerpack
          A3. Ok
          B1. Too Many Rappers (feat Nas - New Reactionaries Version)
          B2. Say It
          B3. The Bill Harper Collection
          B4. Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (feat Santigold)
          C1. Long Burn The Fire
          C2. Funky Donkey
          C3. The Larry Routine
          C4. Tadlock's Glasses
          C5. Lee Majors Come Again
          D1. Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
          D2. Here's A Little Something For Ya
          D3. Crazy A** S**T
          D4. The Lisa Lisa/Full Force Routine

          Six years after "Hello Nasty", an older, wiser and entirely essential Beastie Boys re-emerged with "To The 5 Boroughs", a passionate love letter to NYC written in the wake of 9/11. As usual they deliver their irrepressible tag team rhymes, mixing up celebrations of their home city with witty put downs of George W and his policies, and of course their usual stoopid bragging, but this time dropping them over stripped down backing tracks, that give a nod to the past (check "Triple Trouble" with its Sugarhill Gang samples), while obviously being influenced by hip hop and R'n'B's more recent electronic styles.  Four singles were released from the album, "Ch-Check It Out", "Triple Trouble", "An Open Letter to NYC", and "Right Right Now Now", but it's very difficult to choose a favourite on this career highpoint.

          TRACK LISTING

          Ch-Check It Out
          Right Right Now Now
          3 The Hard Way
          It Takes Time To Build
          Rhyme The Rhyme Well
          Triple Trouble
          Hey F*?# You
          Oh Word?
          That's It That's All
          All Lifestyles
          Shazam!
          An Open Letter To NYC
          Crawlspace
          The Brouhaha
          We Got The

          Beastie Boys

          The In Sound From Way Out - Vinyl Reissue

            American bands have never gotten in the habit of their British counterparts, who tend to release lots of extended singles filled out with not-meant-for-prime-time experimentations. If the Beasties had gotten into that habit, this would be their B-side compendium. Originally released through the Beastie Boys' French fan club, The In Sound From Way Out! is a collection of the group's funky instrumentals from Check Your Head and Ill Communication, with a couple of new tracks thrown in. The Beasties have a flair for loose, gritty funk and soul-jazz, and the stuttering, greasy keyboards of Money Mark give the music an extra edge - he helps make the music sound as authentic as anything from the early '70s.

            TRACK LISTING

            A1. Ricky's Theme
            A2. Groove Holmes
            A3. Pow
            B1. Son Of Neckbone
            B2. Bobo On The Corner
            B3. In 3's
            B4. Eugene's Lament
            C1. Futterman's Rule
            C2. Shambala
            C3. Transitions
            C4. Sabrosa
            D1. Drinkin' Wine
            D2. Namaste
            D3. Lighten Up

            The joke of Licensed to Ill's cover - that the Beasties could crash their jet into the side of a mountain and keep on tickin' - serves as a good metaphor for a career that even some of their 1986 admirers thought might be over after the one-time-only shock of this full-length debut. That thousands of funk-junkie wannabes have since failed at re-creating its groove, breaking-the-law vibe, and ear-splitting mix of rock and rap is an even better joke. And funniest of all is the record itself, which packs dexterous boasts, aural puns, and lots and lots of yelling into a disc that can still be listened to with as much pleasure as it gave in '86.

            TRACK LISTING

            A1. Rhymin’ & Stealin'
            A2. The New Style
            A3. She’s Crafty
            A4. Posse In Effect
            A5. Slow Ride
            A6. Girls
            A7. Fight For Your Right
            B1. No Sleep Till Brooklyn
            B2. Paul Revere
            B3. Hold It Now, Hit It
            B4. Brass Monkey
            B5. Slow And Low
            B6. Time To Get Ill

            Beastie Boys

            Licenced To Ill

              The joke of Licensed to Ill's cover - that the Beasties could crash their jet into the side of a mountain and keep on tickin' - serves as a good metaphor for a career that even some of their 1986 admirers thought might be over after the one-time-only shock of this full-length debut. That thousands of funk-junkie wannabes have since failed at re-creating its groove, breaking-the-law vibe, and ear-splitting mix of rock and rap is an even better joke. And funniest of all is the record itself, which packs dexterous boasts, aural puns, and lots and lots of yelling into a disc that can still be listened to with as much pleasure as it gave in '86.

              TRACK LISTING

              1 Rhymin & Stealin 4:08
              2 The New Style 4:36
              3 She’s Crafty 3:35
              4 Posse In Effect 2:26
              5 Slow Ride 2:57
              6 Girls 2:14
              7 Fight For Your Right 3:27
              8 No Sleep Till Brooklyn 4:07
              9 Paul Revere 3:41
              10 Hold It Now, Hit It 3:26
              11 Brass Monkey 2:37
              12 Slow And Low 3:38
              13 Time To Get Ill 3:40

              Beastie Boys

              Ill Communication - 180g Vinyl Edition

                "Ill Communication" follows the blueprint of "Check Your Head", accentuating it at some points, deepening it in others, but never expanding it beyond the boundaries of that record. It was the first Beastie Boys album not to delve into new territory, but it's not fair to say that the band were coasting, since much of the album finds the group turning in muscular, vigorous music that fills out the black-and-white sketches that comprised "Check Your Head". Much of the credit has to go to the group's renewed emphasis on their rhyming; there are still instrumentals, but the Beasties do push their words to the forefront, even on dense rockers like the album's signature tune, "Sabotage". But even those rhymes illustrate that the group is in the process of a great settling, relying more on old-school-styled rhyme schemes and word battles than the narratives and surreal fantasies that marked the high points on their first two albums. With this record, the Beasties confirm that there is indeed a signature Beastie Boys aesthetic, with the group sticking to a blend of old school rap, pop culture, lo-fi funk, soulful jazz instrumentals, Latin rhythms, and punk, often seamlessly integrated into a rolling, pan-cultural, multi-cultural groove.

                TRACK LISTING

                Sure Shot
                Tough Guy
                B - Boys Makin' With The Freak Freak
                Bobo On The Corner
                Root Down
                Sabotage
                Get It Together
                Sabrosa
                The Update
                Futterman's Rule
                Alright Hear This
                Eugene's Lament
                Flute Loop
                Do It
                Ricky's Theme
                Heart Attack Man
                The Scoop
                Shambala
                Bodhisattva Vow
                Transitions

                Beastie Boys

                Check Your Head - Remastered Vinyl Edition

                  "Check Your Head" brought the Beastie Boys crashing back into the charts and into public consciousness on its original 1992 release. Following "Paul's Boutique", the Beasties had repositioned themselves as a lo-fi, alt-rock groove band. They had not abandoned rap, but it was no longer the foundation of their music, it was simply the most prominent in a thick pop-culture gumbo where old school rap sat comfortably with soul-jazz, hardcore punk, white-trash metal, arena rock, bossa nova, spacey pop, and hard, dirty funk. On "Check Your Head" turned toward primitive grooves they played themselves, augmented by keyboardist Money Mark and co-producer Mario Caldato Jr. Music was the message, and the rhymes, which had been pushed toward the forefront on both "Licensed To Ill" and "Paul's Boutique", have been considerably de-emphasized (only four songs - "Jimmy James," "Pass the Mic," "Finger Lickin' Good," and "So What'cha Want" - could hold their own lyrically among their previous work). The focus is on the music, mood, and even the newfound neo-hippie political consciousness. As much as "Paul's Boutique", this is a whirlwind tour through the Beasties' pop-culture obsessions, but instead of spinning into Technicolor fantasies, it's earth-bound DIY that makes it all seem equally accessible - which is a big reason why it turned out to be an alt-rock touchstone of the 90s, something that both set trends and predicted them.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  Jimmy James 3:14
                  Funky Boss 1:35
                  Pass The Mic 4:17
                  Gratitude 2:45
                  Lighten Up 2:41
                  Finger Lickin' Good 3:39
                  So What'cha Want 3:37
                  The Biz Vs. The Nuge 0:33
                  Time For Livin' 1:48
                  Something's Gotta Give 3:28
                  The Blue Nun 0:32
                  Stand Together 2:47
                  Pow 2:13
                  The Maestro 2:52
                  Groove Holmes 2:33
                  Live At P.J.'s 3:18
                  Mark On The Bus 1:05
                  Professor Booty 4:13
                  In 3's 2:23
                  Namasté 4:01

                  Beastie Boys

                  Hello Nasty - Remastered Vinyl Edition

                    "Hello Nasty", the Beastie Boys' fifth album, is a head-spinning listen loaded with analogue synthesizers, old drum machines, call-and-response vocals, freestyle rhyming, futuristic sound effects, and virtuoso turntable scratching. The Beasties had long been notorious for their dense, multi-layered explosions, but "Hello Nasty" was their first record to build on the multi-ethnic junk-culture breakthrough of "Check Your Head", instead of merely replicating it. Hiring DJ Mix Master Mike (one of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz) turned out to be a masterstroke; he and the Beasties created a sound that strongly recalls the spare electronic funk of the early 80s, but spiked with the samples and postmodern absurdist wit that have become their trademarks.


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