Moments of Brilliance on TT5B

[Rich Cheney]

If you think the whole album is brilliant then move on.

Although, if you think there are moments where the Beasties touch on their past genius - post em here.

For example, Adrock's "Bank Cashier, Engineer" rhyme.
The music portion of time to build sans the lyrics.
I'll give "Oh Word" a full song prop.
Yauch's I'm a craftsman your a draftsman.
The brazilian instrument on hey fuck a'you.
Sampling the Half Life alarm in All Lifestyles.
The samples in Right Right Now Now.

[SuckerMC]

all this cheese gonna make me cry

[minorthreat]

all this cheese gonna make me cry

i hear that

[Junker]

The brazilian instrument on hey fuck a'you.

This instrument is from "Capoeira" and its called "Berimbau"

Ahhhh!!!!! Btw I disagree with you. I think the whole album is good. Not brilliant. But very good.

[cj hood]

here's the trax that are beastie gold:

1. check it out - typical fly single
2. right right now now - the politics should of stopped here...they made
their point in a funky way!
3. 3 the hard way - typical beastie track
4. rhyme the rhyme well - this the beasties at their best!!!
5. triple trouble - they haven't lifted a song like this since Rock Hard!!!
6. shazam - this is new style beasties that is incredible!
7. open letter - moe dee would of gived it an A for stickin to themes

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Time to Build, All Lifestyle, We got the are all the same song and they already said this stuff on RRNN...

Oh Word, Brouhaha, Crawl Space are all also the same track....generic rhymes over different beats...

Hey Fuck You is a weak attempt to seem hard...

That's It, That's All has potential....i just got sick of it from the shows they did it at a year before the album dropped...even though the lyrics were changed...

[Laver1969]

RTRW, Brouhaha, Oh Word, and That's It That's All are my favorites!

[Kid Presentable]

MMM using samples from Slow n low (RRNN) and The New Style (TTHW) because they are my favourite LTI tracks.

Although I love the album.

And big up hood for recognizing on Shazam!

Crawlspace is dope too, no Prof Booty, but then what is?

That's it that's all has a real Neptunes thing, between Good Stuff (Kelis) and Lapdance (NERD).

All lifestyles is the most organic song on there, I dig it, because it's real, for once...Same with Time to Build...

Che check it out is better than 90% of hip-hop singles ever...

Open Letter is the 'Big Song' too, so there's no excuse.

I hadn't listened to the album for bout a month, till today, it's dope!

[PaddyBoy]

I think:

- Rhyme the Rhyme Well is the best song on the album. Mike D's best verse, classic Chuck D sample .."Weeeeeeelllll"
- Ch-Check It Out & RRNN were excellent singles, but lack the punch of Intergalactic.
- I like Oh Word, Time to Build and Open Letter for the excellent music, though the lyrics weren't great
- The other songs were all above average to good, nothing more.
- All Lifestyles is terrible.

[Damn Sucka]

here's the trax that are beastie gold:

1. check it out - typical fly single
2. right right now now - the politics should of stopped here...they made
their point in a funky way!
3. 3 the hard way - typical beastie track
4. rhyme the rhyme well - this the beasties at their best!!!
5. triple trouble - they haven't lifted a song like this since Rock Hard!!!
6. shazam - this is new style beasties that is incredible!
7. open letter - moe dee would of gived it an A for stickin to themes

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Time to Build, All Lifestyle, We got the are all the same song and they already said this stuff on RRNN...

Oh Word, Brouhaha, Crawl Space are all also the same track....generic rhymes over different beats...

Hey Fuck You is a weak attempt to seem hard...

That's It, That's All has potential....i just got sick of it from the shows they did it at a year before the album dropped...even though the lyrics were changed...I dont think the b-boys were trying to be hard at all when they wrote Hey Fuck You."I dont think im slick nor do i play like im hard"-Get it Together

[Elusive]

i think shazam is real awesome, it's one of those ones you
can hear the beat differently if you want, along the same lines of
get it together and makin with the freak freak

I was a bit dissapointed in the bassline for ryme the ryme well, but
the drums kicked...and I warmed up to it. also, the snow video was a cool
quick thing.

[Mr Films]

-the bridge on Time to Build
-Oh Word as a whole song
-Adrock's first verse on Shazam

[midzi]

I see that a lot of people like Oh Word and Rhyme the Rhyme Well like me.

Why didn't they play them live?

I'd love to hear live versions.

[n1keman]

One of the best lines from TT5B -

Adam Yauch -

"On the Court I go by the name Pray Mantis,
Got the edge and I got the advantage."

"If you could see things from my vantage,
Point then you could better understand this "

.....great

[b_notes]

rhyme the rhyme well is the best song on the album, a particularly outstanding performance by mike d, one of his best ever.

[rlwelch]

There are some great parts on RRNN where the beat and lyrics match up really superbly and give great emphasis to each other.

We're international like Matt Tekei
Rock the mic from Munich out to Taipei
Still around the way
Is where we stay
Say what we mean, mean what we say
...
I went to get a loan and they asked my race
I wrote down human inside the space
It's a disgrace how they try to debase
It ain't the bank's damn business how my lineage trace


Also, the beats for Oh Word? are to die for. They are the thickest, funkiest and most rump-shakin' on the album. The Beastie Boys really succeded in bringing the old-school vibe to the 21st century.

[Justin]

Time to get stupid ya'll!

Lots of people say TT5B is not brilliant (and it may be and it may not) but honestly, what would the beasties have to come up with for some of you to classify it as "brilliant"? Would it have to be something no one else had done before? or would they have to do something like on the previous records for you to think of the new album as "brilliant"? Just wondering... I also dont think they have anything to prove to anyone, and I believe TT5B is better than most rap albums coming out, even today.

Now speaking specifically, the first thing that comes to mind is the media reviews of the album, some that were saying "mca's voice was to rasping, way to low", and i thought ..hey the rasperer and lower the Better!

Things i think of about the album are: adrocks lines in ch check it out...and his stance in the video when he raps 'whats up with that!" I also think rhyme the rhyme well is a great great song, sorta reminds me of pass the mic, but with the chorus. Adrock has so many great lines, i dont have time to list them all, besides the ch check it out verse, you got the triple trouble...aka rhyme, you know my rhymes are better? Every verse of his in Oh word, love it when he says NEW Yawwwwk. The dance contest verses of mike d in thats it thats all is great. Shazam!? Goodness gracious golly gee! All 3 have great rhymes in open letter to nyc. When i think of crawlspace i think of MCA, that coulda went down as a solo for mca. Mike D's lines at the end of the brouhaha and I think "we got the" is a good song, HATE the chorus though, cut the chorus, great song. Love mca when he's speaking, what french? in 3 the hard way?

I would classify To the 5 Boroughs as a charismatic album. I get happy when listening to it

[Laver1969]

This one of my favorites:

There's a commotion that's goin' down
I talk more shit then drown the clown
I'm like that freak from Cirque de Soleil
With my leg behind my head and a rhyme to say

It makes me smile. :)

[canucklehead200]

This one of my favorites:

There's a commotion that's goin' down
I talk more shit then drown the clown
I'm like that freak from Cirque de Soleil
With my leg behind my head and a rhyme to say

It makes me smile. :)

possibly the rhyme on that sounds "the most right" on the album, like it's perfectly timed, it sounds just right, in place

[P.T.B.A.I.]

- The sound of Mike D's vocals in the Ch-Check It Out chorus
- "I'm beautiful, you can't touch me, if you pick a rose you might just bleed!"
- "You look a little chilly, can I get you a shawl?"
- "You look a little hungry, it must be snack time."
- "Get that poor chicken up off the fork, the name is Mike D made in New York."

[Fade2White]

Rhyme the Rhyme Well, Check It Out, and Hey Fuck You are songs I could listen to all day. The rest are all really good. I don't really like Triple Trouble...i can't really explain why but i just don't.

[dave790]

The whole thing's fucking genius (y)

I don't feel all of TT5B 100% of the time, as with any album, but sometimes you know...you just get it on the headphones and it'slike nothing else. The production is amazing, it seems rea;;y straight forward and simple on the outset, but I'm always noticing like little echoes on particular beats or some weird jazzy sound each listen.

A year on and I still love that record, and it just further proves that the boys are incapable of producing anything bad.

In this 'computer age', with the computer type beats...well at first i thought they'd lost something, the sort of raw, hip hop feel you get in something like Root Down, but now I totally embrace it...Imean what other record, yet alone hip hop, sounds like TT5B? That, and Oh Word? on full blast, is one of the many reasons why TT5B is brilliance.

dave

[Nerd Fight]

went to the top and never went pop and
came back down and still not stoppin

for me rhyme the rhyme well was a moment of brilliance and the best song on the album...mike d's verse was a moment of brilliant brilliance.

everything else...so-so.