Micodin
09-23-2005, 07:01 AM
So, the douche bags on Pitchforkmedia.com makes assholes of themselves once again (and I know you snobby fucks are going to read this post).
Check out what they say about Solid Gold Hits.
Beastie Boys Compile Greatest Hits CD/DVD
Kavitha Chekuru reports:
Listen up ya'll: Mike D, MCA, and Adrock are no longer boys, they are now men. (And middle-aged ones at that.) On November 8, The Beastie Boys will celebrate their twenty-fourth (!) anniversary with their first-ever greatest hits disc, Solid Gold Hits, on Capitol Records. (No, 1999's The Sound of Silence doesn't count. It was a collection of singles, mixes, and rarities.) The comp will be available on compact disc, or limited-edition DVD/CD, as is all the rage these days.
The tracklist for the 15-song album hasn't been officially announced yet, but someone claiming to be Adam Yauch posted the following rundown on the Beastie Boys' official website messageboard:
01 So What Cha Want
02 Brass Monkey
03 Ch-Check It Out
04 No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn
05 Hey Ladies
06 Pass the Mic
07 An Open Letter to NYC
08 Root Down
09 Shake Your Rump
10 Intergalactic
11 Sure Shot
12 Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim remix)
13 Triple Trouble
14 Sabotage
15 Fight for Your Right
Feel free to take that with a grain of salt, though. It could be made up by somebody's grandma in North Dakota.
So, yeah. I guess its impossible that it was Yauch on the board the other night. Morons.
But, its just not that pissed me off. Some ass-clown by the name of Tom Breihan reviewed the RUN-DMC reissues and shitted all over them. I'll give you some quotes.
More importantly, the group spent the twilight of its career making embarrassing career move after embarrassing career move: performing at the VMAs with Kid Rock, endorsing Virgin Cola, releasing the god-awful 2001 failed-comeback album Crown Royal (featuring collaborations with douchebags like Fred Durst and the guy from Third Eye Blind), and performing at every college in the country again and again and again even though DMC's voice was clearly gone and Run had to help him with all his lines.
Now that the group's first four albums are being reissued, it makes sense to ask whether they're worth buying, especially since multiple hits collections have already compiled their essential singles. The simple answer is no.
The album, however, has a ton of filler: the goofy human-beatbox jam "Hit It Run", the ridiculously tossed-off dis "Dumb Girl", the utterly blatant Slick Rick bite "Perfection". And "Walk This Way". "Walk This Way" totally fucking sucks, a weak and half-baked novelty-rap jam which got them (and Aerosmith) all over MTV but which sounds no better for having anticipated the commercial possibilities of rap-rock.
By the late 90s, much of the music was flashier and glossier than it ever had been in the Sugar Hill era, and any changes that Run-DMC made were changed themselves to the point of being unrecognizable. And so what we have now are four historical documents, each with at least a handful of thrilling moments. And most of those thrilling moments are on Together Forever or other singles compilations, so unless you're a historian or a rich person, save your money.
It just shows that Pitchfork doesnt repect the roots of hip-hop and feels the need to make them look cooler by dissing one of the best American groups and records of all time 'Raising Hell'. They totally embarrased themselves today and I know the hardcore golden age hip-hop fans on this board will take notice.
I guess the trend nowadays is to be rich, wear girls pants, and diss the Beastie Boys and RUN-DMC. I truely believe the world is going to hell.
Check out what they say about Solid Gold Hits.
Beastie Boys Compile Greatest Hits CD/DVD
Kavitha Chekuru reports:
Listen up ya'll: Mike D, MCA, and Adrock are no longer boys, they are now men. (And middle-aged ones at that.) On November 8, The Beastie Boys will celebrate their twenty-fourth (!) anniversary with their first-ever greatest hits disc, Solid Gold Hits, on Capitol Records. (No, 1999's The Sound of Silence doesn't count. It was a collection of singles, mixes, and rarities.) The comp will be available on compact disc, or limited-edition DVD/CD, as is all the rage these days.
The tracklist for the 15-song album hasn't been officially announced yet, but someone claiming to be Adam Yauch posted the following rundown on the Beastie Boys' official website messageboard:
01 So What Cha Want
02 Brass Monkey
03 Ch-Check It Out
04 No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn
05 Hey Ladies
06 Pass the Mic
07 An Open Letter to NYC
08 Root Down
09 Shake Your Rump
10 Intergalactic
11 Sure Shot
12 Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim remix)
13 Triple Trouble
14 Sabotage
15 Fight for Your Right
Feel free to take that with a grain of salt, though. It could be made up by somebody's grandma in North Dakota.
So, yeah. I guess its impossible that it was Yauch on the board the other night. Morons.
But, its just not that pissed me off. Some ass-clown by the name of Tom Breihan reviewed the RUN-DMC reissues and shitted all over them. I'll give you some quotes.
More importantly, the group spent the twilight of its career making embarrassing career move after embarrassing career move: performing at the VMAs with Kid Rock, endorsing Virgin Cola, releasing the god-awful 2001 failed-comeback album Crown Royal (featuring collaborations with douchebags like Fred Durst and the guy from Third Eye Blind), and performing at every college in the country again and again and again even though DMC's voice was clearly gone and Run had to help him with all his lines.
Now that the group's first four albums are being reissued, it makes sense to ask whether they're worth buying, especially since multiple hits collections have already compiled their essential singles. The simple answer is no.
The album, however, has a ton of filler: the goofy human-beatbox jam "Hit It Run", the ridiculously tossed-off dis "Dumb Girl", the utterly blatant Slick Rick bite "Perfection". And "Walk This Way". "Walk This Way" totally fucking sucks, a weak and half-baked novelty-rap jam which got them (and Aerosmith) all over MTV but which sounds no better for having anticipated the commercial possibilities of rap-rock.
By the late 90s, much of the music was flashier and glossier than it ever had been in the Sugar Hill era, and any changes that Run-DMC made were changed themselves to the point of being unrecognizable. And so what we have now are four historical documents, each with at least a handful of thrilling moments. And most of those thrilling moments are on Together Forever or other singles compilations, so unless you're a historian or a rich person, save your money.
It just shows that Pitchfork doesnt repect the roots of hip-hop and feels the need to make them look cooler by dissing one of the best American groups and records of all time 'Raising Hell'. They totally embarrased themselves today and I know the hardcore golden age hip-hop fans on this board will take notice.
I guess the trend nowadays is to be rich, wear girls pants, and diss the Beastie Boys and RUN-DMC. I truely believe the world is going to hell.