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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Beastie Boys |
| Record Label: |
Capitol/EMI Records |
| Contributing Artist: |
Mix Master Mike |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Alternative |
| Release Date: |
June 15, 2004 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Ch-Check It Out 2. Right Right Now Now 3. 3 the Hard Way 4. Time to Build 5. Rhyme the Rhyme Well 6. Triple Trouble 7. Hey Fuck You 8. Oh Word? 9. That's It That's All 10. All Lifestyles 11. Shazam! 12. Open Letter to NYC, An 13. Crawlspace 14. Brouhaha 15. We Got The |
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This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Beastie Boys: Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch, Mike D . Additional personnel: Mix Master Mike (turntables). In the six years following 1998's HELLO NASTY, the Beastie Boys watched their hometown of New York City endure dramatic changes, most of them direct repercussions of the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The trio's response is TO THE 5 BOROUGHS, an album that prominently features the WTC on its cover illustration of the Manhattan skyline (circa 2000), and lovingly looks at the past, present, and future of both NYC and the Beastie Boys themselves. "Ch-check It Out" opens the album in classic Beasties style, with Ad-Rock, MCA, and Mike D trading rhymes over a deft old-school hip-hop beat. However, things quickly get topical on "Right Right Now Now" with MCA declaring, "I'm getting kind of tired of the situation/The US attacking other nations..." over a slightly ominous backing track. Th... |
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