If you think Licensed To Ill is the best Beasties album, I feel sorry for you. Hip Hop was progressing so fast at the time, it outgrew this style. This type of sampling & style of writing was extremely simple. It got so much more complex by the next album, it makes this album seem like nursery rhymes. I love Licensed To Ill but I outgrew it too. We can't all stay 14 years old forever. Maybe muletrainhoe can but he also missed out on the unbelievable shit that they did on the next 4 albums. Sure, maybe he listened to all of them. But it doesn't sound like he HEARD them to me. No disrespect intended to him or Licensed To Ill. I do, although, have suggestion for muletrainhoe & anyone else who feels that Ill is the best album by the Beasties. Def Jam released music by another group called Public Enemy. 2 very important albums came out between the first 2 Beastie albums that inspired Paul's Boutique & everything that came after. Public Enemy's Yo! Bum Rush The Show! & It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back were pivotal to this progression. Try "hearing" those albums. Give them a fair chance with a truly opened mind. Maybe it will make the change in the Beasties more understandable. To continue with the same old thing would've made them a novelty. It just couldn't last. And their way got them 7 albums after this one with possibly one more to come.
If you think Licensed To Ill is the best Beasties album, I feel sorry for you. Hip Hop was progressing so fast at the time, it outgrew this style. This type of sampling & style of writing was extremely simple. It got so much more complex by the next album, it makes this album seem like nursery rhymes. I love Licensed To Ill but I outgrew it too. We can't all stay 14 years old forever. Maybe muletrainhoe can but he also missed out on the unbelievable shit that they did on the next 4 albums. Sure, maybe he listened to all of them. But it doesn't sound like he HEARD them to me. No disrespect intended to him or Licensed To Ill. I do, although, have suggestion for muletrainhoe & anyone else who feels that Ill is the best album by the Beasties. Def Jam released music by another group called Public Enemy. 2 very important albums came out between the first 2 Beastie albums that inspired Paul's Boutique & everything that came after. Public Enemy's Yo! Bum Rush The Show! & It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back were pivotal to this progression. Try "hearing" those albums. Give them a fair chance with a truly opened mind. Maybe it will make the change in the Beasties more understandable. To continue with the same old thing would've made them a novelty. It just couldn't last. And their way got them 7 albums after this one with possibly one more to come.