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Originally released : 04-21-1992
Release date : 07-31-2003
Album name : Check Your Head
Artist : Beastie Boys
Ripped by : dugbert
Genre : Rap
Label : Grand Royal
Encoding Software : Lame EOS
Quality : --alt-preset standard
Tracks : 20
Size of Files : 68,5 MB
─ Track list ───────────────────────────────────────── ─── ─ ─
01 03:15 Jimmy James
02 01:36 Funky Boss
03 04:17 Pass The Mic
04 02:46 Gratitude
05 02:42 Lighten Up
06 03:40 Finger Lickin' Good
07 03:37 So What'cha Want
08 00:34 The Biz Vs The Nuge
09 01:49 Time For Livin'
10 03:28 Something's Got To Give
11 00:32 The Blue Nun
12 02:48 Stand Together
13 02:14 Pow
14 02:52 The Maestro
15 02:33 Groove Holmes
16 03:18 Live At P.J.'s
17 01:06 Mark On The Bus
18 04:13 Professor Booty
19 02:23 In 3's
20 04:02 NamastΘ
Total time: 53:45 min
─ Release notes ─────────────────────────────────────── ─── ─ ─
Check Your Head brought the Beastie Boys crashing back
into the charts and into public consciousness, but that
was only partially due to the album itself ù much of
its initial success was due to the cult audience that
Paul's Boutique cultivated in the years since its
initial flop release, a group of fans whose minds were
so thoroughly blown by that record, they couldn't wait
to see what came next, and this helped the record debut
in the Top Ten upon its April 1992 release. This
audience, perhaps somewhat unsurprisingly, was a
collegiate Gen-X audience raised on Licensed to Ill and
ready for the Beastie Boys to guide them through
college. As it happened, 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, Bob Dylan, bossa nova, spacy pop,
and hard, dirty funk. What they did abandon was the
psychedelic samples of Paul's Boutique, turning toward
primitive grooves they played themselves, augmented by
keyboardist Money Mark and co-producer Mario Caldato
Jr.. This all means that 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 ù "Jimmy
James," "Pass the Mic," "Finger Lickin' Good," and "So
What'cha Want" ù could hold their own lyrically among
their previous work). This is not a detriment, because
the focus is not on the words, it's on the music, mood,
and even the newfound neo-hippie political
consciousness. And Check Your Head is certainly a
record that's greater than the sum of its parts ù
individually, nearly all the tracks are good (the
instrumentals sound good on their subsequent soul-jazz
collection, The in Sound From Way Out), but it's the
context and variety of styles that give Check Your Head
its identity. It's how the old school raps give way to
fuzz-toned rockers, furious punk, and cheerfully
gritty, jazzy jams. 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 D.I.Y. that makes it all
seem equally accessible ù 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.
─ Contact ───────────────────────────────────────────── ─── ─ ─
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