Discography - Beastie Boys : Beastie Boys

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"Paul Revere" and "The New Style" had been released as singles. Both did well; they built on the success of "Hold It Now, Hit It," got played by the same mix shows and club DJs. By early February 1987, the LP had gone platinum. DJ Run had been proven correct. This seemed incredibly fast; we were barely out of high school. Being small-time celebrities in our little NYC nightclub world had been fun; getting a chance to make records was incredible; opening for Madonna and Run-DMC was surreal. But this was something else entirely. And nobody - us, Rick, Run, nobody -could have imagined what happened next.

Rhymin & Stealin

4:08

The New Style

4:36

She's Crafty

3:35

Posse In Effect

2:26

Slow Ride

2:57

Girls

2:13

Fight for Your Right

3:29

No Sleep Till Brooklyn

4:07

Paul Revere

3:41

Hold It Now, Hit It

3:26

Brass Monkey

2:37

Slow and Low

3:38

Time to Get Ill

3:40

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Fight For Your Right

No Sleep till Brooklyn

Hold It Now, Hit It

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"Look, guys. I'm a Deadhead so I know where you're at. The company's just really busy right now. We're all just focusing, and working really hard on the new Donny Osmond album so, next time. Okay?"

To All the Girls

1:29

Shake Your Rump

3:18

Johnny Ryall

3:01

Egg Man

2:58

High Plains Drifter

4:13

The Sounds Of Science

3:12

3-Minute Rule

3:39

Hey Ladies

3:48

5-Piece Chicken Dinner

0:23

Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun

3:28

Car Thief

3:40

What Comes Around

3:08

Shadrach

4:08

Ask For Janice

0:11

B-Boy Bouillabaisse

a. "59 Chrystie Street" (0:57), b. "Get on the Mic" (1:14), c. "Stop That Train" (1:59), d. "A Year and a Day" (2:22), e. "Hello Brooklyn" (1:32), f. "Dropping Names" (1:02), g. "Lay It on Me" (0:54), h. "Mike on the Mic" (0:48), i. "A.W.O.L." (1:46 )

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Shake Your Rump

Hey Ladies

Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Shadrach

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Pass The Mic - Yauch was on a mission. He was standing in the middle of the live room at G-Son, directing traffic. We were several months into the recording of 'Check Your Head.' The process had been loose but productive. We had never made a records like this. We knew how to play and we knew how to sample and program and scratch and MC, but doing all of the above was uncharted territory. We didn't know what we were doing, in the best way possible. there was a lot of experimentation. Which was what Yauch was consumed with that day.

Jimmy James

3:14

Funky Boss

1:36

Pass the Mic

4:16

Gratitude

2:45

Lighten Up

2:41

Finger Lickin' Good

3:40

So What'cha Want

3:37

The Biz vs. The Nuge

0:33

Time for Livin'

1:49

Something's Got to Give

3:28

The Blue Nun

0:32

Stand Together

2:47

POW

2:14

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

4:02

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Jimmy James

Pass the Mic

Gratitude

So What'cha Want

Time for Livin'

Something's Got to Give

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And within their musicianship, they're not particularly skilled, nor are they particularly awful. Rather they embody all that is mediocre. Yet to my surprise, as well as that of the entire music journalist community, they've managed to create a new recording that some refer to as "pretty good." - Tim Willoughby, Syncopation (April 1994)

Sure Shot

3:20

Tough Guy

0:58

B-Boys Makin' with the Freak Freak

3:37

Bobo on the Corner

1:13

Root Down

3:32

Sabotage

2:58

Get It Together

4:06

Sabrosa

3:30

The Update

3:15

Futterman's Rule

3:42

Alright Hear This

3:07

Eugene's Lament

2:12

Flute Loop

1:55

Do It

3:16

Ricky's Theme

3:44

Heart Attack Man

2:15

The Scoop

3:36

Shambala

3:41

Bodhisattva Vow

3:08

Transitions

2:32

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Sure Shot

Root Down

Sabotage

Ricky's Theme

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'Hello Nasty' is more mixtape than record. A gift from us to you. When you get a sec...listen to the songs "Song for Junior," "Song for the Man," "Sneakin' Out the Hospital," "I Don't Know," and "Body Movin'." Are those songs supposed to be by the same band on the same record?

Super Disco Breakin

2:07

The Move

3:36

Remote Control

2:59

Song for the Man

3:13

Just a Test

2:13

Body Movin

3:04

Intergalactic

3:51

Sneakin' Out the Hospital

2:45

Putting Shame in Your Game

3:37

Flowin' Prose

2:39

And Me

2:52

Three MC's and One DJ

2:50

The Grasshopper Unit (Keep Movin')

3:01

Song for Junior

3:50

I Don't Know" (with Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto)

3:00

The Negotiation Limerick File

2:46

Electrify

2:22

Picture This (with Brooke Williams)

2:25

Unite

3:32

Dedication

2:33

Dr. Lee, PhD (with Lee "Scratch" Perry)

4:51

Instant Death

3:19

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Body Movin

Intergalactic

Three MC's and One DJ

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One day we met up to start thinking about what to make, and Yauch declared that whatever our next record was gonna be, it had to be an all-rap record. No instrumentals. I don't know what led him to that decision, but that was it. Me+Mike tried to argue with him about it-why did we have to decide now, why not just see what happened-but Yauch was not the wavering type. He was the most determined person I knew. Maybe it's something to do with him being an only child, and since Mike and I are the youngest of three-kid families, we're used to not getting our way. Or at least giving in to battles that weren't that important to us. I mean...it's always been so much fun making music together, what's the big deal? An all-rap record it is. And we got to work.

Ch-Check It Out

3:12

Right Right Now Now

2:47

3 the Hard Way

2:48

It Takes Time to Build

3:12

Rhyme the Rhyme Well

2:47

Triple Trouble

2:43

Hey Fuck You

2:22

Oh Word?

3:00

That's It That's All

2:29

All Lifestyles

2:34

Shazam!

2:27

An Open Letter to NYC

4:19

Crawlspace

2:54

The Brouhaha

2:13

We Got The

2:28

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Ch-Check It Out

Right Right Now Now

Rhyme the Rhyme Well

Triple Trouble

An Open Letter to NYC

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After 'To the 5 Boroughs,' we wanted to get back to playing instruments. It had literally been years since me, Adam, Mike and Mark had made music together, and we missed that spontaneous feeling of improvising with physical objects, away from a computer. We had no big concept or specific goal in mind for what we wanted to make; we just knew we wanted it to be live and direct. And fun. The end result was an all-instrumental record called 'The Mix-Up.'

B for My Name

3:31

14th St. Break

3:34

Suco de Tangerina

3:17

The Gala Event

3:47

Electric Worm

3:15

Freaky Hijiki

3:05

Off the Grid

4:36

The Rat Cage

3:37

The Melee

3:10

Dramastically Different

3:57

The Cousin of Death

3:06

The Kangaroo Rat

3:28

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Suco de Tangerina

Off the Grid

The Rat Cage

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We had a big idea for the music going into recording our last record, 'Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.' Every song would be made of fake samples. It was meant to be sort of a record collector's unattainable nightmare.

Make Some Noise

3:30

Nonstop Disco Powerpack

4:09

OK

2:50

Too Many Rappers

New Reactionaries version; featuring Nas

4:52

Say It

3:26

The Bill Harper Collection

0:24

Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win

Featuring Santigold

4:11

Long Burn the Fire

3:34

Funky Donkey

1:57

The Larry Routine

0:31

Tadlock's Glasses

2:19

Lee Majors Come Again

3:43

Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament

2:54

Here's a Little Something for Ya

3:09

Crazy Ass Shit

1:57

The Lisa Lisa / Full Force Routine

0:49

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Make Some Noise

Too Many Rappers (New Reactionaries version; featuring Nas)