Coming around, slowly.

[Kid Presentable]

Not that it should interest anyone, but I am warming up a bit to this shit. Except for The Rat Cage and The Melee.

I think I'm just surprised to be surprised, or something. Not many times I humdalumdadaddum

[Kid Presentable]

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[Kid Presentable]

Nah, sorry for this indulgent thread and shit. Anybody else not really feel it at first?

[gorilla]

The one thing I learned from the TT5B fiasco was not to judge too early.

The cleanliness of the album made it easily digestible yet that same quality led to the album going stale after 4 listens.

The mix up is instrumental, instruments have depth, resonance, they're almost like preservatives so to say. There is definitley a long-term quallity to this album.

[Kid Presentable]

The one thing I learned from the TT5B fiasco was not to judge too early.

The cleanliness of the album made it easily digestible yet that same quality led to the album going stale after 4 listens.

The mix up is instrumental, instruments have depth, resonance, they're almost like preservatives so to say. There is definitley a long-term quallity to this album.
Interesting with the preservatives thing. I see them as coagulants. It's a 50 square-foot block of semi-solid gelatinous goop that I have to really push my way into, until I'm sufficiently immersed.

The initial shock was not hearing the band. I was surprised at how hard that hit over the 12 songs. I dig on Davis or Coltrane and such, but then again I never connected with one of their raps, pointed out a hip-hop flair or laughed out loud at a sample they used. So the challenge is in that, I feel.

Seriously, I was actually pissed off a little upon listening to it at first. But at the end of the day, I've been a fan for just about 17 years, and it's the Beastie Boys. Who wouldn't give it a chance?

It hasn't won me over yet, though.

[RadioPWEi]

I'm sure everyone is going to get up in arms about this, but aside from a few tracks (triple trouble, ch check it out (maybe), An Open Letter To NYC), TT5B was absolutely horrible in my opinion. I used to work with Grand Royal and Capital and on their website, etc. so it takes me a lot to be dissappointed, but I just couldn't listen to it. Shazam! has to be one of the most ridiculously worst tracks ever.

The Mix Up is probably one of the best albums I've heard in years. In my opinion, their best work since Check Your Head. So glad they didn't keep going down the mountain with another rap album with generic beats and no personality to it. I was very skeptical, but pleasently surprised. It will be great to catch them on this (last) tour.

[Kid Presentable]

Yeah Shazam was shit. Thinking about that makes me a little more grateful for this album.

By the way, I'm not proposing that my liking or hating anything makes any difference. I like to use the messageboard to think out loud.

[balohna]

I like Shazam a lot. The lyrics are ridiculous (intentionally, I would assume) but I just like the way it sounds. It's one of my favourite tracks on TT5B.

[Brother McDuff]

yeah shazam, was the first tt5b track i warmed up to. i know the beat's generic and the rhymes ridiculous (over the whole album in fact), but they meant to do this. it's all tongue in cheek, and that's why it's so great. i think people have grown to take the boys' music a little moire seriously than they should since cyh. especially after hello nasty, with songs like "i dont know", "instant death", "and me", etc., many forget that their strongsuit and lifeblood lies in being completely goofy and whimsical. since everything but the comedy was absent on tt5b (and paired with the political tracks), i think many people thought they were being more serious than they really were.


what was it mike said to his wife when he got home from that one tt5b session, "haha, we're making some real juvenile shit".

[checkyourprez]

i like it. its all good i think. but there is a yearn to hear their voices that wont be filled until the next record.

[RadioPWEi]

I hear what you're saying about it all being intentional, but I guess my biggest complaint was that it seemed really poorly produced if nothing else. Most of their lyrics are silly, which is why we like them, but it really seemed (and sounded) like a demo tape than a production level album. Again, I'm a huge fan, always have been, always will be, but TT5B was just too much to even deal with. Although, at the same time, there are parts in that album that are so good that they almost hold the rest of the shit together. Rhyme the Rhyme Well is a track I forgot to mention, but it's almost like there's just enough political shit and crap production in most of the tracks that ruin it. I don't like to sing along to songs about OPEC and shit like that. So even though the album has some value to it, I think it misses the mark on many points. But, Mike D's spout on RTRW is ace.

[gorilla]

there is a mega beat hidden in time to build, the same one that ends the triple trouble video, y'know the one I'm talking about?

I call it moments of genius.... TT5B and Hello Nasty to me, are moments of genius albums.

[Laver1969]

I see them as coagulants. It's a 50 square-foot block of semi-solid gelatinous goop that I have to really push my way into, until I'm sufficiently immersed.


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[pm0ney]

Eh, this is exactly what I thought was going to happen. They put "Off The Grid" on the main page, and it is so much better than everything else on the album. Same EXACT thing happened with TT5B.

I hate to say it, but this album kind of sucks.