The best of the Beasties. (Ill Communication - Beastie Boys)

Member Name: thoamy

Product:	Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
Date:	12/07/00 (36 review reads)
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Advantages: You'll want to leap like a Beastie.

Disadvantages: No-one can leap like a Beastie.

This is my favourite Beastie Boys album - it's got everything, from brilliant instrumentals to the funkiest of beats, from relaxed chillout tracks to the funniest samples, from perfectly juggled rap to evil guitar noise, all topped off with the sheer genius that is Sabotage. This album is one of the finest works of a group of people who have acheived the impossible task of being consistently cool for the best part of two decades.

You have to be something special to be a successful white rapper, and the Beasties are the most successful proponents of this (thankfully) sparsely populated genre. Ill Communication is the product of a varied and qualified mix of musical influences filtered through an incredible talent. I haven't come across many records this diverse, or this consistently funky. It's got tracks your gran would love, alongside tracks you wouldn't want your gran to think you listened to. It's just ace, generally.

If you like the Beastie Boys but don't have this album, I strongly recommend you get hold of a copy. If you want an introduction to the Beastie Boys, this is perfect. If you're in a music shop and you fancy the person behind the till, buy this album - anyone who likes decent music likes Ill Communication, so they're bound to be either hideously impressed with your general skill, or not worth the bother... it says here. Yes, well, anyway, it's a great record, etc.

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