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Beastie Boys "Ill Communication" CD
-officially licensed Beastie Boys music
By 1994 the Beasties had settled into their cultural role as the grand arbiters of cool, and Ill Communication is pretty much a catalog of coolness: live funk, a bit of hardcore, ingenious samples of obscure records, keyboards by analogue master Money Mark, guest shots by Q-Tip and Biz Markie, MCA's cop-show metal number "Sabotage," and the inevitable cascade of witty old-school rhymes. But it's also a surprisingly mature record from a band that had, after all, been at it for 12 years already. The original jazz-funk instrumentals hold their own with the group's favorite sample sources. Their voices are modestly buried in the mix, and they've tempered their old snottiness with lyrical compassion: check out "Bodhisattva Vow," a salute to Buddhist spirituality. --Douglas Wolk
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TRACK LIST
- 1 Sure Shot
- 2 Tough Guy
- 3 B-Boys Makin' with the Freak Freak
- 4 Bobo on the Corner
- 5 Root Down
- 6 Sabotage
- 7 Get It Together
- 8 Sabrosa
- 9 The Update
- 10 Futterman's Rule
- 11 Alright Hear This
- 12 Eugenes's Lament
- 13 Flute Loop
- 14 Do It
- 15 Ricki's Theme
- 16 Heart Attack Man
- 17 The Scoop
- 18 Shambala
- 19 Bodhisattva Vow
- 20 Transitions
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