On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, cg wrote:
quoted 2 lines or you could just ignore the guy who gave you trouble.. i don't mind> or you could just ignore the guy who gave you trouble.. i don't mind
> anyone talking about the beasties
Ok, well, I heard the majority of this LP, though in a random-skip order.
Here's how: I sat outside my downtown studio-building and listenned to the
suburban kids slowly cruising through downtown (traffic is at a crawl just
in front of my door. Everyone was blasting this new BBoys cd.
Two noteworthy songs I heard at length: one had a heavily-processed sample
of War's "Low Rider" as a sort of instrumental bridge. Another, probably
called "E'lectric..." had an odd-time sample- jacking of the word
"'lectric..." or something. The beats were predictable simple BB
thumpin', and I heard them on a wide variety of pickup and car
sound-systems, all with more-than-adequate bass. Fiberglass pickups
usually resonate a little rattley at certain freq's, I noticed.
The Beastie Boys never fail to make teenage party music that appropriately
lacks subtlety and basically _rakes_ through the history of funk and hip
hop and repackages it as an endearing snotty rap that works as
angst-fueled pop. No suprises for BB fans, somewhat of a return to
earlier form, imo.
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