Licensed To Ill

this isn’t outright bad but it is worse than the other two Beastie Boys albums on the music list and I am irritated that we got what is basically the same album three times instead of leaving those slots open for the album list’s many, many, many, many blind spots

hmmm

A classic sound, some classic songs, but the overwhelming takeaway is that these guys sound like colossal assholes. And that’s okay- artists are allowed to be young and dumb, finding their way. They would go on to make really incredible, mature and innovative music starting with their very next record. Rubin’s production has some high points (When the Levee Breaks + Sweet Leaf= yes please) but the Beastie’s inelegance often makes it sound flat.

No es mi estilo, no lo he terminado de escuchar al completo:(

This is music for retarded adolescent boys.

Juu ei kiitos.

Kinda fun but a bit one note.

Overall, not a bad album, although it's not really my thing. It's fine having the songs in the background, but the only one that I kind of enjoyed, and that I also knew already, was Fight For Your Right, and that was pretty decent.

didn't like it very much, but there are some ok songs

Eh, they get better.

No me gusto tanto , para mi gusto se hizo aburrido

1.5

It’s shit isn’t it

lots of shouting

4/10

one of the most influential hiphop albums but does it live up to that? --NO!

Review - it's the classic album but it's not aged so well. Influential at it's time but their later work is much better Score - 5/10 Need to listen? YES

I love Beastie Boys, but I never connected with this. Maybe if I had been just a little older and experienced it in real time? With the exception of the ubiquitous singles, I only heard it in full after Check Your Head and Ill Communication, and visiting it in that order made it sound like a goof. (Coming to Paul's Boutique even later made Licensed to Ill feel even more like a footnote in a storied career.) Their charisma is obvious, but the rhymes are dumb and seem to single-mindedly exist to get babes and have a good time. That's not out of keeping with the other stuff in the early days of the genre, but its place in the modern musical canon is fueled by nostalgia (and probably a touch of racism, since this made rap music safe for the first time for an awful lot of white people).

Alcune idee molto interessanti, ma nel complesso mi è risultato un po' ripetitivo e a tratti disturbante nelle voci e nel mixaggio.

Not my favorite genre, but very good album overall

Hurt my head

Full of shit like me

Although plagued by unnecessary shouting, lyrics that sound like they were written by fourteen year old boys and outdated themes, some of the songs were fine.

Mid as shit

Not my cup of tea

wasn’t my vibe today but in general just not rly my speed

When we reviewed the Beastie Boys’ second album, ‘Paul’s Boutique’, I was surprised how much funky, jazzy, soulful, interesting, complexly arranged sampling was being done and how the songs overall showed more restraint, maturity and general appeal than I expected based on my knowledge of the BB. As it turns out almost all of the songs I was indirectly complaining about with that review are on this album. ‘Licensed to Ill’ has moments of smart lyricism, but the overall impression is that it’s tacky, overwrought, and childish.

I was prepared for this to hurt my ears but it wasn't so bad. Two things can be true: they were cool and also I don't really care for it too much.

Não é o meu estilo

First listen: By about halfway through track three I was thinking Oh Man This Is Not My Thing and they're *all* gonna be like this. But once that was established, I could appreciate the good vibes that were in here - and more importantly, that it does feel like a very historically important listen for this genre. Second Listen (had some time over the weekend to give it another go): I did end up getting into it! It's not the kind of thing I'd seek out more of, but it is hard to argue with the sheer vitality and energy of this. And I was maybe initially bringing a bit too much of a 2026 political viewpoint to something made by 3 20-year-old Jewish kids in the 80s. Who, looking into them, all seemed like pretty decent guys? Perhaps the stuff they were bragging about having done on this record wasn't entirely accurate. Favourite tracks: well No! Sleep! Till Brooklyn!! Obviously is just a banger. I also really liked Paul Revere. The parts where it just feels like some friends goofing around endeared me the most.

a little too white pa mi gusto, aunque sea a propósito o eso dicen vea xd

A great band...before they become truly great.

Cool, nostalgic, annoying, limited appeal when all is said and done. Several songs sound like they were made by Lonely Island to spoof the Beastie Boys.

Apart from the few popular songs, the rest seem a bit cringe to me - like improv rap battle boom-clap tracks.

Slow Ride... Shoebill sampled this 😮 So much fun! 😆 Paul Revere... This must have inspired Hamilton the musical 🙃 By the end this album gave me a bit of a headache though 😅 I don't see myself revisiting any of this😥, but it was a fun experience. I had lots of fun🤍

Man I hate it. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when it comes to the Beastie Boys. On this album - the production sounds like shit, the lyrics are dumb, the flow is amateurish even by 80s standards.....and the voices. They sound like a flock of geese being strangled all at the same time. And why are they always shouting? It's just horrible. I'll be honest - I listened to a few songs all the way through and gave the others a cursory 30-45 seconds before skipping. I just couldn't do much more. Sorry. This is terrible. One extra star because I thought "Rhymin' and Stealin'" was actually kind of funny. TWO STARS TWO STARS

Eh. Meh.

Another one? Did their shout singing and loud crash backing tracks really evolve that much from album to album?

How did we get all three Beastie Boys albums already?

it took half a minute to figure out how to actually navigate this site and i'm still not sure if my personal list is separate from the group i'm in. this is necessary context because i need to establish that the first album i was given to listen to before i maybe figured out the web site was Stevie Wonder's Innervisions, and moving from that directly to Licensed to Ill was like enjoying a long, picturesque drive down a scenic coastline, then reading the end of that coastal road and turning back onto the main urban grid, immediately hitting a long red light and seeing worse-than-average congestion ahead for the entire length of the drive back home. i can recognize the contemporary importance of an album but beastie boys ain't for me, kin. it made me smile a couple times i guess but my white boy quotient is far too low for me to enjoy it.

algunas canciones tenían buen ritmo pero la letra dejaba mucho de desear.

I mean No Sleep Till Brooklyn is a classic the rest is w/e. TMNT ass band. Not my vibe.

I gave myself an edit window via settings to move this down to 2 so I could give public enemy a 3

Too much noise and Rick Rubin's production is all over the place, even though he's a great producer

Hip hop, eh…

Some of the sampling was interesting, otherwise this was not for me.

I know this has some great songs on it, but as an album there was a lot of crap. It's a 2 for me.

Album #147 Beastie Boys: Licensed To Ill I suppose I just found out where every white kid got their flow from. Normally, when listening to a formative album from a genre, I find it interesting to note all of the influences that it has had on music to come; from Licensed To Ill, the most obvious disciples of the sound that I recognize are white comedy rappers like The Lonely Island, Smosh, and The Warp Zone. The only avenue that this sound has been able to survive in is through YouTube sketch songs and video game raps. 90s rap in general is too over the top for me, though Beastie Boys at least seem to be (hopefully) playing up the absurdity for comedic effect. Some of the lines on here are quite funny, albeit very of their time, notably a line about being like Jimmy Page because he likes his girls underage, as well as the dozens of lines about White Castle and KFC. I think it’s the kind of album I’m not supposed to analyze and just enjoy, but even then, the schtick gets pretty old quite fast; there are only so many times I can be caught off guard when the rest of the band says the last word of a sentence. The strongest point of the album is definitely the middle, with a spell of classic songs; honestly, quite unusual for an album to have a weak beginning and end. Though I didn’t completely hate it, it is really more of a novelty album and not one I’d be quick to return to. Best Songs: No Sleep Till Brooklyn, Brass Monkey, The New Style Worst Song: Slow And Low Score out of 10: 5.5

I like beastie boys generally but they have better albums than this

Has some classic party songs but otherwise I felt heavily annoyed by this album. Maybe it just wasn’t my day but I felt like the beats sucked, especially the drums which was most of what every beat was, and the rapping was over the top and about nothing. I grew up with my dad’s CD of Check Your Head which is an album I still love but this falls so short of that

Everything in this album its repetitive, maybe its because I was born in a different era but this album its like it was made for a 90's kids show

Liked some parts of the music. Did not like the singers/rappers at all. It felt like they were just screaming the whole time.

Je comprend l'histoire important pour rap Pas pour moi trop lent vraiment super lent 😱

mainly shouty shite.

4/10, чисто крутые хип-хоп ребята в бэгги джинсах с примесью рока

It sounds like this was a whole lot of fun to make, I remember friends going crackers over the Beastie Boys when this came out and I feel the same about is now as I did then: ambivalent. I assume this was the first mix between Rock and Rap? Probably good fund to spot where all the samples are from, if you can be bothered. I can't. The odd track I might smile wryly at but the whole album drags on.

Never understood the appeal

I immediately recognized the drums opening the first track, and my thought was "this is going to be interesting". The songs themselves are mostly repetetive, though they have great potential to stick in, it isn't my particular style.

Knew a few songs, like Brass Monkey and No Sleep Till Brooklyn. A little too yelly for me.

Funny storytelling but generally quite crap musically

There were a couple of good tracks on here (No Sleep... , She's Crafty), but over-all, I didn't care for this. From a historical preservation standpoint, this may deserve at least a 3, from for a personal how much did I like it / will I play it again standpoint, the answer is, "Nope! I won't be playing this again."

ale gowno xd

Not my style

hmm

verstehe nicht was so krass an dem album sein soll. kulturelle relevanz okay aber iwie fand ich nur paul revere stark. der rest hat mir nicht gefallen

Liked it back in the day, now I find it a bit screamy and juvenile

4/10

Un estilo totalmente diferente a lo que suelo escuchar, creí que nada me iba a gustar y sorprendentemente me gustaron varias canciones. En definitiva, no es mi estilo, pero tiene lo suyo. Me recordó al rap que cantan Michael Scott y Dwight en The office.

Not really my vibe tbh. I liked the first one more

S'OK, not really my thing - a bit slow for my tastes. Can't believe it's nearly 40 years old!

2,4/5

No es el estilo que más me gusta, pero tiene buenos temas.

ill drink a big fat beer (beer) then ill go to the potty (potty)

I'm just not into the Beastie Boys, sorry

Não faz meu estilo.

I only listened to a few of the songs, but I could not get into it :(

This, like RUN DMC sounded quite corny now and I don’t think this has aged that well. I found it hard to hear how this is so influential, it just feels quite repetitive.

Just not my thing at all. Music for playing loud in suburban America in a bedroom to annoy Mom. Can't really relate to it sonically or lyrically. Music for kids and adults who wish they were still children.

Didn’t like it, not my style

Go, white boys, go! 2/5

J’ai vraiment pas trouvé ça bien

I feel like I am both too young and too old to enjoy this. Too young to have any nostalgic feelings for this era of music and too old (read not a child) to enjoy it at face value. There are some cool samples and some good beats but it’s all ruined by some kids shouting at me the entire time. I actually don’t get it at all, it’s just annoying. Maybe it’s supposed to be ironic or something but that doesn’t stop it being hard to listen to.

Not my taste. Listened to a couple known "classics" (Brooklyn and Party), and called that enough.

There is some crap in the album (girls?), and only one or two very good songs. So, let's say its average. 5/10

Too much going on for me

Don't like them except for a couple of songs here and there. The voice is annoying, grating and their melodies boring. They sound like annoyed kids not able to decide which genre of music they want to play

Feels a little bit too silly most of the time. Some moments that perk my interest but lyrically doesn't do it for me.

I love love love Beastie Boys, but besides Brass Monkey, Fight For Your Right and No Sleep Till Brooklyn the rest of the songs just aren't good and not enjoyable. Especially knowing what great work they would do later.

I couldn’t listen to much of this. I liked the underlying music but the scream singing is very different from what I enjoy.

This makes me distrust Rick Ruben

Wouldn't listen to again. Just sounds like boys screaming. Brass Monkey was a familiar tune. Girls has a catchy tone. Probably the best song of the album.

Whack

En écoutant, j'ai vraiment eu une sensation étrange entre le j'aime et le j'aime pas. Certains sons sont dures à écouter et ont mal vieilli et pourtant d'autres sont cools, funs et modernes. Il y a des chansons vraiment trop particulière, c'est parfois étrange à écouter. Je ne pense pas réécouter tout l'album mais j'ai mis certaines chansons dans ma playlist. Note : 2 À réécouter : Non

not a huge fan.

can't lie i thought i was going to like this a lot more, but this thing drags on. it starts off super strong; "rhyming and stealing" as an intro works so well, high energy and fun. "she's crafty" is a cool beat, not sure about the lyrics, but the song overall works. "slow ride" is probably my favorite beat on the album, but the vocals are a little annoying, with some of the intonations they use on the call and response bit. "girls" is just hilarious, couldn't help but smile listening to it. "fight for your right" is a classic revolutionary hip hop song, and that guitar riff is fucking bad ass, the solo is dope too. after that it just goes downhill to me. "no sleep til brooklyn" has a cool ACDC sample on the refrain but other than that it doesn't do much for me. and that's pretty much the last song i can tolerate; from here it's just a no go for me unfortunately. so despite a strong first half or middle section, this was really difficult to go through. i think it's partly because the instrumentation doesn't really diversify much, all the beats kind of start to meld together. and the yelling vocal does get a little tiring after a while.

Heard Before? Well I haven't been living in a pit my whole life. Notes: - the beat switches on "The New Style" are still somehow exciting. - no shortage of inspired samples throughout the album. - "Paul Revere" made me laugh. - that said, Beastie Boys improved in every conceivable way after this. only "To the 5 Boroughs" is weaker. - the beats are as punchy and distinctive as ever BUT - of course, it needs to be said that no one should be writing incel anthems, even as satire. someone is always going to take it seriously and run with it. Verdict: For better and (mostly) worse, the ground zero of white rap. Listen Again? I don't think so. But I still enjoy later Beastie Boys.

Mid album

Not my cup of tea. Whiny yelling over sampled famous rock songs.

Likes: ridiculousness; high energy Dislikes: big fratboy energy; no sense of dynamics or chill; samples are so on-the-nose that it takes away from the song - if I want to hear Zeppelin, I’ll listen to Zeppelin Overall, disappointed by this one. Thought I’d really dig it as one of the first albums to combine punk and hiphop, but I just didn’t care for it. It’s a little to juvenile to warm up to if you’re hearing it for the first time in your 30s

A few ok songs. The Led Zeppelin sample was cool. It's just not great. Strangely enough I occasionally hear Tekashi 69 in some of the raw vocals, these guys definitely influenced his style. 1.5 outta 5

i dont even like the Beastie Boys (besides a few select songs)

I just don't like rap. And this was worse as it felt like being shouted at 2

Fine.

Boring repetitive

So much of this album is very outdated, with the corny, one-note flows, identical in just about every song in the album, couple with some weird lyrics (Think he said something about preferring underage girls in The New Style? Ick). On the bright side, the singles are great. Fight For Your Right and No Sleep Till Brooklyn both have such a rousing energy. Feels like in those two they actually get the rap/rock fusion correct, unlike the rest of the album. Those two songs do make me want to explore the rest of the Beastie Boys discography, I'm hoping they get it right on later releases. Favourite Song: No Sleep Till Brooklyn Worst Song: Girls

Some instrumental melodies were good but they were mostly just hootin and hollerin and I’m not a middle school boy so…

A few classic tracks, fun, fight for your right to party, but feels very high school teen angst, found myself wanting more hip-hop that spoke of struggle and social justice so then I put on a KRS one album

Wonderful album cover art.. but not a fan of the album.. too punky and edgy.. not my style

Feels blasphemous to say this all sounds like the same song. The only exceptions are the songs with guitars in the background. Everything else was kind of filler

Na mě asi moc ukřičené, ale doprovod se mi líbí.

its, alot of yelling. i only knew about brass money and no sleep til brooklyn going into this album. ive always been a huge fan of brass monkey but this is like 15 brass monkies in a row and it gets very annoying after a while. was pretty irritated while listening to it. half the songs i couldnt tell the different between. they might as well been all one song lol. that being said! Fight For Your Right - that one is so fun man. the guitar is super cool. probably the best song on the album aside from Brass Monkey. Im sick of their voices though :( 4/10

Obviously, Fight for Your Right is incredible. I liked the sample in Slow Ride. Girls was a unique song so added that too. Everything else I would never listen to again. It has too much energy which works for me if the music comes with a catchy melody but in this case it just sounded like annoying frat boys yelling for 45 minutes.

I liked the beats and the music and the singing was good but not my favorite. But still nice

A bit to punk for me

HIP HOP TÊTE DE SHNOCK!!!!!!!

Dette var slitsomt å høre på til tider! Noen av sangene her er virkelig grusomme (Girls, blant annet). You Gotta Fight For Your Right to Party er en ordentlig banger da. Rhymin and Stealing og. Og stjal Eminem dette albumcoveret for Kamikaze?? 🤔 2/5

Interesting to hear tracks that I recognise but most of the album felt like a school band shouting. Like the innovation given it was mid 80s and some of the production is cool. Unlikely to listen to again.

fighting for my right to kill dogs

I don't know... I am entertained for a little, and then it starts to become very repetitive. Fortunately or unfortunately, I have the other Beastie Boys album to donate this to, and that one was so much more dynamic, interesting, and attention keeping. This one was a little boring. However, the three huge hits were all GREAT, however was probably because of the heavy guitars, not the actual songs. Either the Beastie Boys or their producer must be big Led Zeppelin fans!

Not a fan. I was surprised that they had 2 alblums in the top 1001. I was even more surprised they came up so soon together.

Rap with metal backing tracks was a bit different back them so marks for innovation but still a bit same old.

Not a memorable listen for me after a few songs. I don't have a nostalgic connection to the Beastie Boys and this was my first time listening to them. Was fun for the first few tracks but very samey after that. Would not go back for the listen again though I did think it was fun for a once off!

Ei napannut, kuulosti joltain parodialevyltä.

It's fine. Listened a bit to Beastie Boys in the past and they have some songs i really like. However, this album didnt really hit me. Some fun songs but pretty repetitive? Very mood based album? Didnt really hit me this time.

Not for me

Huh. I thought I liked their stuff, but this one just doesn't work for me.

Kova on uho, mutta kun ei ne ossoo lauloo. Samalla ärsyttävällä äänellä ja nuotilla kaikki biisit.

nicht ganz gehört, war nicht in dem mood für das album, ab einem anderen tag bestimmt besser

Beastie Boys always sounds a little bit annoying to me. I don't think there was a single song that I really enjoyed. It still was listenable, so avoiding the 1/5.

me molesto un poco, las letras tampoco me gustaron, meh

Worse than expected. Guy can't get over how good his rhymes are and all the girls he gets as a result. Ridiculous lyrics and the songs all sound the same.

not my usual taste. good for what it is

I liked this album in 6th grade and I'm disappointed to say this album sounds pretty immature after you hit puberty. I have an appreciation for its place in rap/rock history, but it's just way too fratty and gross. The lyrics are not just sexist, they're downright rapey at times. I consider myself a Beastie Boys apologist, but this record is a bridge too far.

I love the singles 'fight for your right' and 'no sleep till Brooklyn'. Before that, it was clear how easily the Beastie Boys parodies come. Prefer their later albums.

Combining rock and hip hop works well in places but can't sustain a while album. Ends up a bit like a novelty act.

Not for me but can see why they are popular

Me gustan más sus samples que sus canciones, pero están bien para una canción.

beastie boys are the musical representation of how i feel about being biracial (the whiteness is the most annoying thing). the switch up in new style reminded me of three six mafia for a split second. i can’t decide if this album was a bit or not??? i can’t believe one of these guys married kathleen hanna wtf? i’m on slow and low and im begging for this album to be over already best tracks: the new style and no sleep till brooklyn

I think it's safe to assume on my part, on my second Beastie Boys 1001 listen, that I'm just not really a fan of what they do and likely never will be. This was way too confrontational and "in your face" for me vocally for large spells, and whilst the rap-rock fusion and lyricism occasionally yielded some compelling ideas and cool links/through lines to other artists in mainstream rock culture, it didn't provide enough reward to offset the fatiguing nature of the listening experience.

2/10

Mistura de metálica e rap mas não sei se no bom sentido. Tem sem dúvida boas músicas mas tem muitos berros e pouco melódico para mim.

A 2.8 All the hit songs were the ones I’m familiar with. It’s probably a 3 but when would I go “it’s time to listen to Licensed to Ill”

this genuinely sounded like a high-school diss track for most of the songs? incredibly samey-samey rhythm pattern and just naff lyrics all round, very cringe, not a fan

a couple excellent songs mired by an overall mediocre albun

Anstrengend zu hören. Die stimme ist sehr gewöhnungsbedürftig. Girls ist irgendwie weird aber unterhaltsam. Fight for your right ist halt ein ziemlicher banger. No sleep till brooklyn auch ganz gut.

There was a bit of nostalgia here listening to Fight For Your Right and No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn, and Slow And Low was OK, but beyond that I struggled to get anything from this. Taken at face value, it's shouty, tedious frat-boy hip-hop. If you take it as a satire, it remains shouty, tedious, frat-boy hip-hop but you don't have to take it so seriously. However, back in the day, I don't remember it being labelled as satirical (a group of English comedians released a song called No Sleep 'Til Bedtime to cash in a bit), and it seemed to be championed by the people that maybe it was poking fun at! Either way, apart from a few songs, not for me. A low 2.

I was familiar with some of these tracks ("Girls", "Fight For Your Right", "No Sleep Till Brooklyn", "Brass Monkey") via general cultural osmosis, and based on those wasn't looking forward to the rest of the album. There were definitely moments here I enjoyed - "Rhymin' and Stealin'" was fun, partly because you can't go wrong with John Bonham's thunderous drums. But for the most part the album was what I expected - the soundtrack of the beer-soaked frat boys that I hated in college. Simple rhymes about beer and hos and how awesome they were, nothing too complicated that you couldn't slur along to after a few brewskis. None for me, thanks.

Not really my piece of cake

Good for what it was. 80’s hip-hop not my cup of tea (for now)

1 stern

ngl this felt pretty corny, repetitive, and basic.

Sure

Fun

Old school rap. The way rap should have stayed. Not the rap crap they have today. Some good songs.(Rap)

Wasn’t expecting to dislike this one as much as I did. I enjoyed Paul’s Boutique and Ill Communication, but this one feels far more amateur than those, which I guess makes sense.

Not one of their best. Couple of good tracks, lot of slop. Terrible lyrics and often pretty uninventive musically.

There are better BB's albums.

I get the Beastie Boys are somewhat iconic but this sounds like pretty basic stuff. Simple, childish lyricism paired with with simple, childish beats. Purposely immature and bratty. Theres fun to be had but little to no depth. Great album cover.

I've known this album for ages, and I know it's technically complex, massively influential, and has some good grooves, but it's really just not for me, and that's okay. And this is a good chance early on to note (mostly for myself) that my star ratings on this project will indicate how much I personally enjoy an album, not how objectively "good" I think it is.

I've never been able to get into the Beastie Boys. I find their voices annoying, and they always seem to use the same basic rhyme scheme with the exact same flow in every song. I definitely feel there is much better early hip hop out there. 2/5

Yikes

I really like the later Beastie Boys. This is annoying at best. Sometimes the songs feel like they couple be a new one by The Lonely Island, which isn‘t a good thing.

My first listen to a Beastie Boys album, and much as expected from the radio play singles. I think that this material as a set would be great in a live, possibly festival setting but back to back songs on an album were just a bit too much BB for me.

Way too many “White Castle”, “girlies” and “my names Mike D”. I actually came in to this record with a positive impression of the Beastie Boys and enjoyed the hit songs. But man, this was so brutal to listen to. Some of the sampling and beats were cool, but I couldn’t stand the lyrics and rap-singing. I just don’t get it.

BRASS MONKEY THAT FUNKY MONKEY! Har hørt ein del på den. Overraska over alle sjørøvermytologien. Like stilen, unik, men dessverre ganske slitsom:) Beste sang: Brass Monkey

beastie boys is ok. brain candy. tickles the brain but not high art, imo. thats my hot take

Too noisy

Silly and fun, reminds me of my childhood. The it later albums are much better

Just don’t like the beastie boys very much

Not a good listen in the morning. Prefer Intergalactic, but this is prob an age thing.

i wanted to like this so bad but i hate it so much I'm sorry

The hits are good but that's about it. 44 minutes of these dudes is headache inducing. But I can acknowledge the dumb fun aspect of it

tI hink it's too much metal for me, but I liked getting to know another musical group I had never heard of before.

I remember when this came out well. I was in fifth grade, and "Fight for Your Right" was massive. And I, even at that tender age, thought it sucked. It wouldn't be till Check Your Head that I came around on the Beasties. Nearly 40 years later, I still kinda hate this album. I can take "Paul Revere" and some other moments here and there, but as far as I'm concerned, the Beasties don't exist pre-Paul's Boutique.

There’s something nostalgic about that 80s rap flow and beat. I grew up on hiphop but never got into the Beastie Boys as I used to think white rappers were all hype (yes, I’m white) and I wasn’t into the rock/rap/yelling mashup. And I’ll admit 80s rap has rough replay value as beat technology and flows advanced over the decades. But putting rock and rap together like this with a group of Jewish kids was obviously a multi-million dollar idea. Their bravado on the mic is unquestionable, their flows are tough and the samples spot on. Opening with Led Zeppelin’s drums from When the Levee Breaks was a great touch. With all that said, as an adult, rap doesn’t interest me anymore and the album can get noisy (I’m an old person yelling at the sky), and I’ll likely never listen again so I’m tempted to give this a 2.

Thought I'd like it a lot more but the shtick really does get annoying by the third song. Very little in terms of actual music and mostly just dudes yelling

Mixing rap with rock and heavy metal riffs, this fun and creative album was the first rap album to top the Billboard charts, marking hip-hop's crossover into the mainstream. I understand and appreciate its significance, but I find their voices and rapping a bit annoying. Still, there are some great anthems on this. Favorite tracks: Fight for your right

načelno za trojku al mi je pjesma "girls" tolko usrala doživljaj, brate...

„Licensed To Ill“ erschien 1986 und war das Debütalbum der Beastie Boys, aufgenommen unter anderem in den New Yorker Chung King House of Metal Studios. Das Trio aus den USA – Mike D, Ad-Rock und MCA – verband auf dem Album Hip-Hop mit Rock- und Metal-Elementen, was damals neuartig und stilprägend wirkte. Besonders bekannt wurden Songs wie „Fight for Your Right“, „No Sleep till Brooklyn“ und „Paul Revere“, die die jugendliche Rebellion, Humor und Energie der Band auf den Punkt brachten. Musikalisch setzten die Beastie Boys stark auf eingängige Beats, Samples und Gitarrenriffs, die die Grenze zwischen Rap und Rock aufbrachen. Produziert wurde das Album von Rick Rubin, der den aggressiven, rauen Sound mitprägte. Damit traf die Band den Nerv der Zeit und erreichte als erste Rap-Gruppe Platz 1 der US-Billboard-Charts. „Licensed To Ill“ ist ein Meilenstein des Hip-Hop, der die Tür für Crossover-Projekte weit aufstieß. Das Album wirkt aus heutiger Sicht roh, aber voller Energie und bleibt ein wichtiges Dokument der Musikgeschichte.

A couple good songs here and there but most of the flows sound pretty much the same. Every other song is about “Hey we’re the beastie boys and we know how to rap”. Same problem I had with Ill Communication. Maybe I just don’t understand the symbolism of it. Standout Songs: Rhymin and Stealin Slow Ride Fight For Your Right

eh, it’s okay fun but after a while it feels like the same thing

Yuck

Sekamelskaa

not my kinda thing sounds too much like rodrick's music in diary of a wimpy kid

These guys think they are sooooo cool. I hate their lyrics so hard.

Zeppelin beat to start is cool. Two hat store rap albums in a row is rough. I joke about hat store rap but I really have no concept of how important B-Boy culture was. I think it’s a bit like the hippie movement, where you kind of had to be there in the moment to understand it as revolutionary before it became kitsch and silly. There really is an irony to the Boys rapping over Zep riffs that Jimmy Page lifted from black bluesmen. I’m FLuke Wilson and Im hear to say, i be taking chicks every day. Yeah im not shy or meek, Got a new girl every week. Don’t believe me? Just Trudt Me! After the gym my socks are musty! Got a nice girl and she is BUSTY. Teachers hating cuz they’re old and CRUSTY. Holy shit this is easy. I can’t lie though. This is fun. The interplay with these guys is undeniable. Rick Rubin curated some great beats. It’s Hat Store rap that knows it’s silly so it’s able to be really playful. A core memory Of mine is the crazy hop all of my senior prom did when Girls came on. This album is stacked on the back half.

Same thing I mentioned about my previous Beastie Boys. I see, respect, and understand the impact and influence, and I should on paper love their music. In practice, I just don't care for it, and that's okay. That doesn't take away from how important they were

unfortunately I do not have any of the apparent nostalgia that most listeners have when relistening to this album. How ever learning about how this was part of the beginning of Rick Rubin’s legendary producing and general music making wisdom definitely made it a more interesting listen. Hasn’t aged well, but what has. +++ fight for your right, no sleep till brooklyn - - - girls, she’s crafty (crazy immature misogyny)

Madrfakr, edini album od Beastie Boys, k ga ne maram in zanalašč nikoli ne poslušam. I guess today's the day. Ok, začetek je itak kul, k je sample od Led Zeppelin zadej. In se že sprašujem, če sm preveč trmasta v moji nastrojenosti prot Licensed To Ill? Ne, sj vem točn kva vse me mot pr temu albumu, najbl "Girls", k so ga pa itak že sami denouncal oziroma se opravičl za whatever the fuck je ta komad. Kokrkol, ta obdobje hip hopa, k so še loh samplal je imenovan the Golden Age z razlogom. Prva dva komada, "Rhymin & Stealin" in "The New Style" sta odlična. In dalje so mi isto vsi komadi všeč. Pač totalno že vidš oz. slišš v prvem albumu njihov stil. Uf, "Girls" je. Bljak. Pač, ker butast komad. In sledi njihov breakout komad. K mi je - meh. Nisem ga že dolg slišala in veselim se ga spet ne dolg slišat. Ha, " No Sleep Till Brooklyn' mi je tud mal brezvezn. Kle so bli res še mulci. Pač, za večje uživanje ob poslušanju, je pr temu albumu priporočljivo ne preveč natančno poslušat večino besedil. Skoncentrirat se na musko in beate. In tko se prebijem skoz ta del albuma in zraven celo uživam. Sm biased, ker so mi ljubi, ampak sm tud trmasta k sam Satan. Še zmer mi ni tok kul ta album.

Another hip-hop album, therefore automatically it can’t be rated very highly. The first four tracks were pretty much the same and boring. The next few tracks were better, then things went back to boring. The last track was mostly clips from old tv shows on top of percussion. The group seems to be obsessed with White Castle, as I heard it mentioned in at least three tracks. 2.5 stars.

No one can deny they have a unique sound! But as previously discussed, it's not for me. And I feel extra validated in my Beastie hating after reading they were originally gonna call this album "Don't Be a [f-slur]". Excuse me?! Good album cover though. "I'll steal your honey like I stole your bike" is a line in LFO's 'Summer Girls'! I didn't know it was from here! (I wish LFO were on this list instead of the Beasties.) 'Girls' is supposed to mock misogynistic rappers, but I think it suffers from the Borat problem (=people are gonna miss the mockery and keep the misogyny). Ha, and exactly the same for 'Fight For Your Right to Party', although that's about ~lifestyle~ instead. (Wiki quotes Mike D saying: "There were tons of guys singing along to 'Fight for Your Right' who were oblivious to the fact it was a total goof on them"). That's often a risk of mockery and big audiences, I guess. I have a soft spot for 'No Sleep Till Brooklyn' because my favorite podcaster advertises Brooklinen bedding by saying "No Sleep Till Brooklinen". But that's not enough to save this album from joining the terrible 2s!

Föredrog verkligen de låtar med mer hårdrocksinslag än de som kändes straight up hiphop

Ehhh... This is the first time I've listened to a full Beastie Boys album and it's a real mixed bag. The few I knew already from being in rotation on the radio/ music channels when I was.a teen.are great, but there's some proper garbage in here.

Good mastering, not a fan of songs being sampled from others. Also not my favorite genre.

Shit. Like half a dozen bangers that I've had in my library for over a decade. But the album is shit. Grating vocals and writing, obnoxious cadence and performance. If it's satire, it's incredibly well done. But I get the sense that it isn't. Outside the songs I already had saved and locked in my memory, I won't be touching any part of this album again. Weak 2/5.

meh

Weakest BB album imo

Early rap stuff but yh not a fan, made me realise how much I need a good instrumental to enjoy an album

Very much of its time and you only need the singles 😊

This album made me realize I’m too old for beastie boys

Beastie Boys, License to ill. Ok, I love the Beasties and I think Paul’s Boutique is the Mona Lisa of hip hop sampling and Gen X white guy rapping (Eminem is another category entirely). LTI otoh is kind of a rough listen. I think the two records from my generation that are way more important than they are good are Licensed to I’ll and Becks Mellow Gold, they both laid down the blueprint for a very Gen X style of music but neither one of them holds up next to the rest of their respective catalogs. I have a ton of nostalgia for Fight for Your Right and Girls and No Sleep Til Brooklyn but this is all so juvenile and stupid. If Rick Rubin has any genius at all, and I’m not sure he does, but here is his best case, as he’s really the guy that fused metal and hip hop together with all of the Zep and Sabbath samples here. Not to mention Walk This Way

I remember disliking them when I first heard them. Then I heard their early punk efforts which were horrible; they made the right move to rap, but I'm still not enjoying it all that much. I'm cringing less this time than I did back then. Maybe.

This album is mostly screamy and infantile. Other than "FFYRTP" & "NSTB" which I think I more retroactively like than I did at the time, this album just gave me a headache 4.6 ★★

I can appreciate it’s quality but the sound isn’t for me

I wasn't a big Beastie Boys fan before, and I'm still not. Yes, there's a couple of iconic tracks that are completely necessary to talk about the music of today, and there's another few that do sound particularly good in a car. Other than that, to me it feels dated. Its reference to hip-hop beginnings doesn't feel like something that holds up outside of a frame, it's very clearly 80s. No hate, no love. 2.2/5

No sleep til Brooklyn is the only hit tbh

never been a big fan of the beastie boys, i’ve never liked their vocals and it’s always felt sort of aggressive and too in your face for me

corny

Some great guitar playing! Didn't think much of this one though. Not my style, though I have to give it credit for being largely influential.

A lot of this didn’t age well. Felt like a slog in the first half until you get to the hits.

Oljud

I loved the Beastie Boys in high school, but I've really lost my taste for them since then. They have some really cool beats and sounds. I like the Zeppelin samples.

Q pesados

Rap rock de blancos misóginos, homofóbicos e inmaduros. Así es como percibí este álbum. Me resultó molesto en cuanto a temática y en la interpretación a los gritos. Ya escuché "Paul's Boutique" de Beastie Boys, un álbum que me gustó un poco más. Lo que sucede en ese álbum es que es mucho más experimental en el sampleo. En este caso es demasido pobre para ser destacable, simplemente mezclaron rap y rock. El único tema que resaltó es "Paul Revere" al menos intentan algo distinto en el sampleo. Supongo que puede interesar si te gusta Beastie Boys o conectaste con este álbum en la adolescencia (como a mi me pasó con Red Hot Chili Peppers por ejemplo). Sino, resulta en un álbum anticuado y además, machista.

Even the Led Zeppelin samples aren't going to make this something I want to listen to, although I do have a sudden craving for White Castle for some reason...

STOP YELLING AT ME - I DIDNT DO ANYTHING TO YOU - I DONT EVEN KNOW YOU

I'm sorry, this album is supremely obnoxious. But I have to respect the DGAF attitude.

some iconic songs, but a lot of filler too. it's a classic but not a strong album. 2/5

I hardly need to listen to this one. There’s a charm to this album, but it hasn’t aged well. The misogyny isn’t cool. I believe them at face value that they were being dumb punks, because they became super cool later.

I want to like this album more because of all the iconic tracks, but the Beastie Boys only really work for me in small doses and moments.

49/1001. I used to own this a long time ago, and haven't probably listened to this in 30 years. While it has the raw energy of the youth I'm glad they changed from abnoxious teen party hip-hop band in to abnoxious adult I-don't-know-whats-gonna-happen-next -hip-hop band. Their delivery is as fun and crafted as their shouting and voices are annoying.

1.5/5

I don't need to like all the classic stuff, I need melody behind all the raps. Annoying after 2 songs

Yeah nah. I can't get into the yelling vocals. This album gets two stars though for music and some of the fun sounds.

עדיין מעדיף את שב"ק ס שיר מועדף - Hold it now, hit it

Of all the things I haven’t gotten on this list, this might be the haven’t gottenest

I'm tempted to give this a one as parts of the album genuinely made me angry. I love the late Beastie Boys, I gave Ill Communication a five, but this is pretty cretinous at times. Part of me, if this wasn't by a band that I have such fond memories of, would I even question giving a one? On reflection, there's enough that I think is okay about this album for me to give it a 2. But this is terrible compared to their best work.

Really wasn't a fan of this album at all.

Just not a fan!

Eh. I don't like how it's just words and then the last three are the ones he shouts.

More like licensed to suck. I’ve tried with the beastie boys in the past but can never get into them. Their voices are extremely grating and every song feels repetitive.

It just sounds like a whole bunch of yelling to me.

It's just ok 2/3

Läck beastie bobbys Das sind bar rächt grussigi musikalischi beats und riffs in kombination mitere Stimm wo meist weh dued. Ich weiss isch au biz s Konzept vo ihne nimmi ah. Und bim einte Track hends mi au biz gha ("Fight for your right") au bekannt, aber süsch halt würki nöd abgholt. Bin eich im strömende Rege gstande ohni Regeschirm und s Beastie Taxi isch eifach nöd cho um mich abzhole, sad. Dos puntitos

Alkoi mennä liikaa puheeksi eikä lauluksi...

Listening to this with no prior knowledge about the Beastie Boys my knee jerk reaction is that this has to be satirical. Constant references to White Castle, beer, school lockers, "wasting" enemies, their intense desire to let everyone know they are from Manhattan... It is obnoxious, repetitive, and does not appeal to me. I can see how young audiences in 1986 would have enjoyed it, and unfortunately I cannot ignore that many of these songs are to this day incredibly popular. Still, I did not enjoy one second of it. Not for me ! I suspect their later works might be better and more refined

I understand this is 80's hip hop, but still i find it cringe

The beastie boys... Definitely a defining band and totally deserved of a spot on this list. Almost any given track on this album would be a fun, enjoyable throwback, but I found it tough to listen to the album as a whole. Pretty samey, call and response early rapping. It's quite unrelenting and full on. I can't say I disliked it, but I don't find it very moving beyond it's historical cultural interest.

I wanted to like this... I enjoy their style from The Lonely Island parodies. But yeah, the issue is that every song sounds exactly the same to me so could never hold my attention.

Terroristic

just can't do it in album format. Few fantastic bangers on this, surrounded by out-dated, boring duds. No Sleep Til Brooklyn slaps though

They obviously had a lot of fun making this album and the videos, but not really my taste.

I just don't like it. I know I know. It's like an amazing classic of hip hop. Iconic. Influencial. I just don't like listening to it. I like the song Fight For Your Right, but the rest just doesn't do it for me.

Songs were familiar but this isn’t really my speed. Can appreciate how sonically different it was though.

Som ett virr-varr av longboards och break-dance

I'm glad this album exists but I don't want to listen to it.

Experimental bastante

Too slow, too silly, not my record. It does have a couple of nuggets, but it's not for me.

Didn't enjoy. It sounds too much like a pair of teenagers for me - even though I remember it from my youth.

So aggressive and angry. Surprised this was Rick Rubin. Cant say I enjoyed this.

i mean fun but crazy dated. dont think I could actually listen to it

If musical legacy were based solely on how many beer-soaked college dudes screamed your lyrics, the Beastie Boys would be gods. While this album may have helped bring hip-hop into the mainstream, it honestly doesn't hold up well at all, and comes off as mostly juvenile nonsense, yelled to a beat. To call this their worst album is almost a compliment, because it did pave the way for the Beastie Boys to grow up and eventually create some genuinely good music.

I love Hip-Hop and this album's influence is undeniable. It remains an interesting and occasionally hard-hitting blend of Rap Rock, but it hasn't aged perfectly and has serious gaps. The obvious example is "Girls", which is lyrically very poor, the production is frankly appalling and it essentially cuts the album in half as some sort of low-quality interlude. "The new style" and "Posse in effect" remain good, but the rest is just a bit too much "Party Rap", and while it was innovative back then, it hasn't help up that well for me.

Complete

Kaxigt. Repetitivt. Stressande.

Couple of bangers (fight for your right one of my all time favs, rhymin and stealin pretty good, girls and slow ride are alright) — but mainly a one note album. The shouty voices get grating

The musical version of morning djs on the radio. Not for me.

Did not dig. Am so ashamed.

It's pretty cool how they were going for a blend of hard rock/metal and hip-hop on about half of this album, but for the most part, it feels a bit underwhelming? They'd go on to better things over the next few albums, but "Fight for Your Right" aside, this one just doesn't have it.

It was... bad. This album had only 2 actually good songs for me, others were not good and I enjoyed only some seconds of cool samples or some riffs. Ill Communication was surely better. Still, I won't give this album a 1 because I did enjoy some parts of it but it was a disappointement.

Obnoxious and rowdy. The Beastie's debut is full of frat boy anthems bridges the gap between rock and hip-hop. While the rapping is decent, the lyricism is vapid and the humor is juvenile, which was a huge part of their appeal at the time. It took me a long time to come around to the Beastie Boys, and once I did, this is still the only album of theirs I can't stand. Does it deserve to be here for its cultural and historical significance? Absolutely Does I think it deserves to be here because it's "good"? No. No I do not. Paul's Boutique if anything.

I don’t get the Beastie Boys. Are they a joke band? I certainly found it amusing.

Not amazing, not bad. Good angry listening probably

its a 5/10 for me, liked some of it and not others. got old after a while, maybe a little too long

69/1001 - This was annoying to listen to. I liked Paul Revere with the reversed drums but that's about it.

Few bangers some mid

I had my brief Beastie Boys era when "Check Your Head" came out in high school, but besides that I've had little stomach for their music. It just comes off as a bunch of shouting of this guy to that guy and back again and honestly it gives me a head ache.

Not my favorite. Very high school edgy in a lot of aspects. Loved whoever was doing the guitar in a couple songs

Juvenile.

An important album for the band, establishing them as less hardcore punks and more rappers... and their style of trading lines and being not altogether serious is here. but the music is so-so, and the lyrics are juevenile. I liked this album when I was a kid, but Paul's Boutique and Check Your Head just crush this thing. I'm not going to listen to it again.

Ok album, samples are pretty good, the beats and the vocals not so much. Even with the great samples, the album is kinda of boring, all their vocals are pretty much the same throughout the album.

White frat rap. Interesting that the second half was much better than the first. But man, they knew how to put a classic rock riff behind some juvenile lyrics!

chatin

So anstrengend dass ich nur zwei Lieder max geschafft habe zu hören

I feel like this is more historically significant than musically significant and it's only historically significant because it was popular. The other popular hip hop at the time was way more dynamic and sonically interesting.

I want you to understand that, at one point in my teen years during the 90s, I was a huge fan of the Beastie Boys. But a critical reappraisal of their work can't ignore the fact that *they're not very good rappers*. They have worked with great producers and musicians, and there are definitely tracks on this record that suggest some of the greatness that better rappers would go on to achieve in hip hop. But all these songs would be better if you replaced the Beasties with better MCs, or even just rocked them as instrumentals.

Musicly good, just couldn't bear the shouting. I can see why they made an impact but not for me.

I usually listen to each album four or five times before committing to anything, but I couldn't listen to Licenced to Ill a second time. Not today anyway. The object of the satire here is clear and, like much satire, there is the risk of the satirical object enjoying the work at face value - look at the DJs who played Girls and Boys in Ibiza. I know the Beastie Boys took a lot of money from the frat bros they were ridiculing. Why shouldn't they? I know they moved away from that model pretty quickly too. Why wouldn't they? Regardless, that scene is so far removed from my life - geographically, culturally, chronologically, my current spot in the male life cycle - that I don't care about its success or failure either way. In my early twenties, I had neighbours who partied like this every Saturday night and it made no difference if they were sincere or lampooning all the other parties. It was noisy, aggressive, puerile, inconsiderate, and self-indulgent. I was on the other side of the wall then and I feel on the other side of the wall from this record too - I only care to the extend that I have to put up with it. Even if the 1986 Beastie Boys were acting as my personal hypemen, I would find it obnoxious more than edifying. Those neighbours always regretted it the next day - I could hear that much as well. I understand that the Beastie Boys regretted it to some extent too - the party got out of hand. I was going to give them some credit for that, but, apparently, they don't care for Kerry King's solo on No Sleep Til Brooklyn - the highlight of the album - so I'm taking that credit back. It's mine. Get your own half a star, Beastie Boys! 1 I read the Wikipedia page about this album and, incredibly, there is no reference in the whole entry for Licensed to Ill to the (plain) fact that it is a comedy record. I can’t comprehend that there is any other way to hear this album other than as 13 variations on the same joke. I don’t know much about rap or hip-hop but it is very difficult to see that this shares a genre with, to take recent examples I have encountered, De La Soul, Jeru the Damaja or even the puerile provocations of Eminem. Sure, those other rappers tell jokes but here rap is not so much the medium for jokes - rap is the joke. Surely? Anyway, there’s no music here worth criticising. Even the rhythmic patterns of the raps themselves are so lumberingly simple as to be unmistakably satirical, notwithstanding everyone on the planet’s apparent mistaking them for earnest genre gold. So let’s focus on the jokes. ‘A lot of beer, a lot of girls, and a lot of cursin’/ 22 automatic on my person’ That’s funny. There are lots of other funny bits (some essentially this same bit) and there are enough of them to justify about 3 good joke songs. All the same - there are 13 tracks here. 2/5

Weird

5/10 Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok yes it’s revolutionary yes it’s ahead of its time yea it’s influential yes it's well respected, BUT…, I don’t think we would be saying these things had it not been for everything that came after it. This album was not super respected in the hardcore Hip Hop spaces at the time, not that it was hated or anything, but considering what Vanilla Ice did to Hip Hop at the time, it wasn’t a surprise that the record wasn’t as immediately influential, especially as it was the sort of Bible for “frat-rap”, not typically enjoyed by black audiences. This album is white, white as hell, and that wasn’t completely comprehensible in the genre at the time, that is until the years passed by as it gained more success and they finally released Paul’s Boutique, which could possibly be perceived as one of the best or the best Hip Hop album of the 80s. It was this and what came after that cemented the Beastie Boys not as white outsiders, but Hip Hop pioneers who respect the genre and chose to do their own thing as white rappers. Licensed to Ill has phenomenal ideas and forward thinking production, but it’s still very very white (again, not inherently a bad thing, but can be horrible if you make a weak rap record), and I think these rose tinted glasses kinda mask the obvious shortcomings regarding the not very great rapping, not very great humor, and not very great beats at points. Oh and just annoying half the time lol. It’s great in concept, kinda ehhhhh? in execution. It’s a fantastic blueprint, but when we look at it on a more “objective level”, what impact on the greater canon of Hip Hop is there really outside of being important to Pop culture? The biggest songs off this are novelty songs, overwhelmingly used in media to soundtrack something comedic, I can’t see any convincing argument behind the hits being some of the best songs in the genre, no one is out here thinking “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”, “Fight For Your Right” or “Brass Monkey” are the best Rap songs you’re ever gonna hear. The influence on Hip Hop definitely comes from the deep cuts on the record, but they’re still far from perfect, they just seem like ideas better executed on their next albums. It’s not trying to be great rap, and they’re just having fun and not being serious. But, they were all that and more on everything they made after that, and that shit was fire. Is this that Eminem album? EDIT: I originally gave this album a 3 star because I felt like maybe I was a bit too harsh about it, but I now just spent the past couple of hours re-listening to the following three BB albums back to back and, yeah, nah the quality difference pretty fucking huge, and that goes back to my main gripe with this. I still think we wouldn’t be hyping this album up this much if Paul’s Boutique didn’t permanently change Hip Hop for good, we just see a formula that they created work really well because they made it work elsewhere.

Not really my style. A little repetitive and shouty, which leads to exhaustion quickly. Still - not terrible.

Too much of the frat boy vocals with not enough behind them. There's some good guitar work here and obviously Fight for Your Right is a banger, but I don't know, everything blends together on this one and frankly a lot of the vocal work is obnoxious.

I feel like I should like this album more that I do. Rap rock just doesnt do it for me. Too many guitar stabs and yelling.

Too underground, but still there are two songs that made it to my list of preffered songs. I like the simplicity of the bases. I like how the mixed the hip-hop together with rock samples.

While a Beastie’s fan for literally every other record, I had to earnestly try to listen to this one with an open mind. I absolutely hated the douchy 80’s frat boy bro culture that co-opted this record and adopted Fight for Your Right as their anthem. I’ll give the Beasties credit for brilliant leading edge music and genius samples but I’m figuring Rubin is just as much the star of the show here. Upon revisiting this record with an open mind I find I still hate it. Bumping from 1 star to 2 only based on the music/samples.

I tried twice but this was very grating

There's some classics here but they're all corny to various degrees and just overall annoying. I hate the vocal style, annoying record.

Macho swearing, misogyny, loud beats. Still fun.

I didn't like it, but it was mostly inoffensive to me. The samples are neat, and I guess the energy is fun. I like "Girls" the best; the others kind of sounded the same to me. 2.5 stars.

Ive had other beastie boys. 2 or 3? It's not my favorite listen, but it is different from my usual routine.

Not as terrible as III Communication and Paul's Boutique. I wonder why anyone should listen to 3 albums of Beastie Boys before he/she dies. I don't get it.

100% not for me

Auch, wenn unpopular opinion, ich finde die haben zwar interessante Stimmen, aber der Flow und alle zusammen, klingt einfach wie gröhlen auf ner Party. Einige Lieder sind cool, aber ich finds einfach häufig nicht schön und anstrengend zu hören. Songs der Playlist hinzugefügt: Keine

Not great

I respect that they were hugely successful and influential, but they never did anything for me.

Too out there and juvenile, but I guess it was a good shtick at the time, thus 2 stars.

Really not my thing

This was pretty hard work to listen to. It was mostly just junky noise. It did get slightly (and I mean slightly) better towards the end of the album. Best tracks: Fight for your right Awful bin-worthy tracks: The rest of them

I can't say I'm a huge BB fan. Their flow feels rough and harsh. There were a couple bangers on her like Fight for Your Right and No Sleep Till Brooklyn. But other then that. I wasn't impressed

well these beastie BOYYYYZZZZ show more dynamic RANGE on their first AL-BUM isn't that STRANGE I still don't ENJOY IT the way that they YELL so another TWO STARS and I'll see you in HELL music: hated. (⌐■_■)