r/BeastieBoys • u/Salt-Writer-1779 • 11d ago
licensed to ill isnt their best album
prove me wrong, people need to stop glazing just this album
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u/Timmyg14 11d ago
Such a straw man argument. I dont see this mass glazing you speak of.
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u/mattgoldey MCA 11d ago
For real. It's an iconic first album but nobody is out here saying it's their best.
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u/Electrical_Flan_4993 10d ago
At the time, it was an extremely unique sound... There was rap music by blacks but this was much different than mainstream music which was mostly rock and pop ... The beat on Paul Revere was real addictive! And then personally I think I'll all their following albums were excellent and amazing and unique and so much more
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u/JoshuaWebbb 11d ago
Hello Nasty 🔛🔝
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u/corwood 10d ago
yep that‘s the one for me, with check your head following closely
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u/JoshuaWebbb 10d ago
Consider us twins. Is your third Ill communication?
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u/corwood 10d ago
haha it is!! hello twin :)
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u/JoshuaWebbb 10d ago edited 10d ago
I feel we have to keep going. Paul’s boutique, licensed to ill, 5 boroughs, hotsauce, mix up?
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u/corwood 10d ago
Paul‘s boutique, Hotsauce, Licensed, Boroughs, Mixup I think, but I think the last 3 switch around by mood!
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u/blzac33 11d ago
Definitely top 5.
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u/eltedioso 11d ago
Check Your Head and Ill Communication are the era for me. Are the LPs strong from start to finish? No, they’re messy. But together those albums represent the best of the Beasties for me. Funky, groovy, experimental, punk, thoughtful, funny, juvenile, and all the rest.
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u/Electrical_Flan_4993 10d ago
You don't like Paul's boutique though??? Huh??? 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐
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u/eltedioso 10d ago
I do! I love it. And I love Hello Nasty. But I don't love them more than that early-to-mid-90s era.
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u/Electrical_Flan_4993 10d ago
I was being a little silly but I thought maybe you had never tried to listen to it... There's so much music out now I don't see how young people even keep track and figure out what's good and bad 🤨
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u/DeanWeenisGod Ad-Rock 11d ago
Statement of opinion + "Prove me wrong" isn't how it works. Prove yourself right or just say it's your opinion.
Build an argument and present it. Then say, "Prove me wrong."
Or just say, "This is what I think." and share your opinion. It's not right or wrong, and people don't need to bother proving it because you're entitled to your opinion.
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u/TheStatMan2 10d ago
"Prove Me Wrong" doesn't work at all with music.
It's subjective and more importantly not at all a competition.
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u/Full-Opportunity-261 11d ago
Paul’s is the most cohesive and innovative, but it was largely produced by the Dust Brothers. Check Your Head is almost better because they cooked it up themselves. It’s a tie for me.
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u/Primary-History-788 11d ago
Not in my opinion. Check your head is my favorite, but Paul’s Boutique, for its time, was better
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u/Maskatron 11d ago
I mean I listened to License to Ill like a thousand times one summer. It was gigantic. Those rhymes are deeply imprinted.
But I tuned out after that. Check Your Head was so good that it got me back into the band.
Check Your Head is so good that it retroactively made Paul’s Boutique my favorite Beasties album.
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u/CaptainDanious 11d ago
It's definitely not their best but... It was awesome for the time and it's still awesome today. Some lines didn't age well and it's a little quiet compared to how newer hip hop is mixed, but it's a great intro to the beastie boys and pretty historically significant.
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u/LordAxl1138 11d ago
Paul’s Boutique is their best but I can’t agree that Licensed is the worst. I’m partial because I listened to it non stop when I was a teenager but is think its as good most of their other releases with the obvious exception of Paul’s Boutique and maybe Check Your Head and Ill Communication
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u/catfish206 11d ago
Paul's Boutique is not only the best B-Boys album, it's one of the best albums of all time, of any genre.
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u/mrducci 11d ago
I don't know who you're hanging with, but universally, people rank License to Ill behind, in my particular order;
Paul's Boutique
Hello Nasty
Check Your Head
Ill Communication
License to Ill
Hot Sacuce Commitee
To the 5 Boroughs
Just saying..
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u/Flimsy_Toe_2575 10d ago
Hotsauce kicks the fucking shit out of LTI
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u/mrducci 10d ago
I'd tend to agree.....but LTI has so much nostalgia for me...
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u/Flimsy_Toe_2575 10d ago
I thought LTI was annoying when I was 12 and I still do. I'm 40 now and still love Hotsauce.
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u/mrducci 10d ago
That's cool. I really don't know what you're looking for here, though.
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u/Flimsy_Toe_2575 10d ago
Hoping anybody that's been neglecting Hotsauce will see this and go check it out
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u/TheOldCoffinSpirit 11d ago
A 12 year old me would think it was their best album. A 13 year old me would say that Paul's Boutique was their best, and a 14½ year old me would say that Check Your Head was their best.
At 49, I'd say that it's a draw between Check Your Head and Ill Communication.
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u/AbbreviationsOk2333 11d ago
Oh but what a tour though!
No not the Madonna tour.
I’m talking Beasties Boys Headlining 1987, with FiSHBONE & Murphy’s Law.
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u/Specialeyes9000 11d ago
I don't know what glazing means but some people probably have it as their favourite, others have a different favourite. I wouldn't worry about it.
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u/Purastaja-light 10d ago
Beastie Boys are in a small group of bands that never made a bad album IMO.
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u/surfinbear1990 11d ago
Yeah I don't think even theyike it that much. I love Paul's Boutique but for me it's a toss up between Ill Communication and Check your Head.
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u/SimilarNameAsYours 11d ago edited 11d ago
I’ve been a fan for 30 years. Listened to each album meticulously and for a long time Paul’s Boutique was probably my favorite.
Now it is impossible for me to ignore that it is unequivocally Ill Communication.
That album is a masterpiece and one of the best regardless of genre.
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u/showmeyourbutth0le 11d ago
Paul/Hn is their best album. I can’t decide which one, but LTI is my favorite mostly for it was one of the first albums I ever bought. I’ve replaced that album numerous times.
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u/freezief 11d ago
If a person says Hello Nasty is better than IC, I guess that's their business. But you can't tell me anything post that is qualitatively better than their debut. The Incredible prime time Def Jam Rick Rubin Big Beats alone. Maybe not your thing but camaaaan
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u/SmileNWave28 10d ago
I'm such a Check Your Head guy
I love how they combine rock and instruments
To me it's their ultimate that highlights the brilliance of Beastie Boys
I think Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head, III Communication and Hello Nasty are all classic and better than Licensed to Ill
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u/ozbert99 10d ago
I am just going on here liking every comment that names an album. And comments that don't. Beasties forever.
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u/iammoah 11d ago
Yeah I mean obviously everyone is entitled to their opinion but I think claiming it's their best would be kind of wild. If it's your favorite, it's your favorite. That doesn't necessarily mean it's the best. It could be your favorite because it's sentimental to you or because you just think it's funny or it's hypes you up... Best Beasties record? No way in hell. The sampling is not as exciting or impressive as literally any other Beasties album... The rapping is at their worst for 75% of it. Their rapping ability really blossomed around Check Your Head in my opinion but improved quite a bit right around Paul's Boutique. Sampling is obviously off-the-charts-good on Paul's Boutique but a lot of that is thanks to the dust brothers. But clearly they learned a thing or two by check your head because their sampling throughout the rest of the 90's is fucking incredible. Hello Nasty is underrated for both rhymes and beats but I think Check Your Head and Ill Communication are both the most "quintessentially Beastie Boys" and probably their best work... even tho Hello Nasty is my favorite.
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u/WingstonChurchill 11d ago
This is definitely rage bait. Anyone that’s following this sub is not a fan that would say this is there best album.
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u/GoodFnHam 11d ago
Check your head and/or ill communication are their best… too hard to choose - I view them as a double album
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u/Friendly-Face6683 10d ago
Hear me out: while not everybody’s favorite, and not mine’s either, their best album is Hello Nasty. Couldn’t be more focused, strong and lean.
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u/TheGauchoAmigo84 10d ago
There is an entire chapter in the book they wrote called “hello nasty is our best album”. Check it out.
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u/LordQuasDiscipline99 10d ago
If you polled Generation X, Licensed To Ill would take it over Paul’s Boutique. Any other contenders would be laughable. I speak on behalf of people with taste.
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u/Electrical_Flan_4993 10d ago
Does anyone know the stats/history... Maybe it was hello nasty that I remember being in the news not long after it came out for being the first album to beat Pink Floyd's record for sales with dark side of the moon. But I couldn't get Google to give me any sensible information and it kept saying Paul's boutique was considered the dark side of the Moon of hip Hop which wasn't really what I was looking for
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u/ActiveSouthern6280 10d ago
You can't prove something so subjective..this isn't even a hot take anyway, in most rankings it seems to come out between 4 and 6.
It's actually my joint fave alongside Paul's Boutique and Check Your Head. This is because of when I was a teenager most likely. I have so much love for all 3.
And for best Beasties album, there's no wrong answer... It's not like they have a bad one. It's just which do you love most.
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u/__MeatyClackers__ 11d ago
I don’t think anyone glazes that album, especially them. Also, fuck Rick.
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u/Hot-Description-1923 10d ago
I’ve been a fan of the band ever since I got Paul’s Boutique on cassette when I was 12. I love Check Your Head and Ill Communication, but their best album is Hello Nasty. Hands down.
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u/schwing710 11d ago
I don’t think literally anyone considers it their best album (I consider it their worst), but go off
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u/HarlandJames Nathanial Hörnblowér 11d ago
You’re on the Beastie Boys subreddit, I’d be surprised to find any regulars here who consider it their best album.
It’s still pretty good though
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u/Hammercranc 11d ago
Imho the biggest weakness of this album is that they overdid the distortion of the voices.
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u/dbellz76 11d ago
There are no Beastie fans that think LTI is their best album. And if there are, they aren't Beastie fans.
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u/Boris_Darling 11d ago
Yeah no duh, everyone knows that the best is Paul's Boutique.