Now available on remastered, 180g vinyl! The '94 album caught the Beasties in top creative form - experimenting with the music, but still keeping the quality high and their feet grounded, no matter what style they attempted. It not only contains some of their hypest crossover tracks ever like "Sabotage" and "Sure Shot," but also the super funky Q-Tip collabo "Get It Together" and the hard Biz Mark collab "Do It." Jazzy breakbeat groovers like "Root Down" and "The Scoop" are also present as well as some of their early instrumental jazz-funk-fusion noodlings ("Ricky's Theme" and "Sabrosa") and tracks that hark back to their punk rocker days ("Heart Attack Man"). Produced by the Beastie Boys themselves along with Mario C. 20 tracks total, worth every penny.

• 180g black double vinyl pressing
• housed in gatefold sleeve
• original release year: 1994
• music label: Capitol 2009

reviewed by Snackmaster 07/2009