Beastie Boys

Comprising a three-piece line-up, guitarist Ad-Rock born Adam Horovitz, bassist MCA born Adam Yauch and drummer Mike D born Mike Diamond, Beastie Boys first formed in 1981 in New York City.

They emerged from the underground hardcore-punk scene, two years later, with an independent EP titled "Cookie Puss"; the trio, continued mixing punk with rap, heavy rock using samples and found fame as the first white rap act in New York clubs.
They signed a contract with Def Jam in 1984 and recorded "She's On It", for the soundtrack of the movie "Krush Groove"; in late 1986 the threesome released the explosive debut full-length album, "Licensed To Ill", the record reached the #1 on The Billboard Top 200 chart on the strength of the single "Fight For Your Right" which peaked at #7 on The Billboard Hot 100 and became their first transatlantic hit.
The subsequent album, "Paul's Boutique", released via the major label Capitol, didn't gain the praise and popularity compared to the band's first effort and failed to enter the top 10 in U.S. Albums chart but generated their first Modern Rock top 20 hit single, "Hey Ladies".
After various projects including their own independent label, Grand Royal, the band returned to action in 1992 with "Check Your Head", which soared to #10 on The Billboard 200 Albums chart, its "So What'cha Want" pierced the Top 30 of The Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Two years later, Beastie Boys, with the double-platinum album, "Ill Communication", reached again the top of The Billboard Top 200 chart and also topped the U.K. Albums chart; the set included "Sabotage", their second Modern Rock top 20 hit.
Their next album, "Hello Nasty", issued in the summer of 1998, followed its predecessor into the pole position in U.S. Top 200 chart, spawning "Body Movin" which peaked at #15 on Modern Rock Tracks chart, the top 30 hit "The Negotiation Limerick File" and the #4 "Intergalactic"; the latter won them a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance, during the same ceremony they received a second Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance for their fifth album.
The trio released, a year later, the double-CD, "The Sounds Of Science", a retrospective collection that included unreleased material and three new songs, "Alive" was released as a single and entered The Modern Rock chart at #11.
In 2001 Mike Diamond, officially announced the shut down of the Grand Royal record label citing “mounting debts, decreasing assets and exceedingly harsh industry conditions”.
Beastie Boys resurfaced in mid-2004 with "To The 5 Boroughs", it immediately rose to #1 in North-American Albums charts; its main single "Ch-Check It Out" shot to #1 on The Modern Rock chart and a second single cut, "Triple Trouble", hit #11 in the same chart.

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Licensed To Ill

(1986)

1. Rhymin & Stealin
2. The New Style
3. She's Crafty
4. Posse In Effect
5. Slow Ride
6. Girls
7. Fight For Your Right
8. No Sleep Till Brooklyn
9. Paul Revere
10. Hold It Now, Hit It
11. Brass Monkey
12. Slow And Low
13. Time To Get Ill

 

Paul's Boutique

(1989)

1. To All The Girls
2. Shake Your Rump
3. Johnny Ryall
4. Egg Man
5. High Plains Drifte
6. The Sound Of Science
7. 3-Minute Rule
8. Hey Ladies
9. 5-Piece Chicken Dinner
10. Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun
11. Car Thief
12. What Comes Around
13. Shadrach
14. Ask For Janice
15. B-Boy Bouillabaisse

 

Check Your Head

(1992)

1. Jimmy James
2. Funky Boss
3. Pass The Mic
4. Gratitude
5. Lighten Up
6. Finger Lickin' Good
7. So What'cha Want
8. Biz Vs. The Nuge
9. Time For Livin'
10. Something's Got To Give
11. The Blue Nun
12. Stand Together
13. Pow
14. The Maestro
15. Groove Holmes
16. Live At P.J.'s
17. Mark On The Bus
18. Professor Booty
19. In 3's
20. Namasté

 

Ill Communication

(1994)

1. Sure Shot
2. Tough Guy
3. B-Boys Makin' With The Freak Freak
4. Bobo On The Corner
5. Root Down
6. Sabotage
7. Get It Together
8. Sabrosa
9. The Update
10. Futterman's Rule
11. Alright Hear This
12. Eugenes's Lament
13. Flute Loop
14. Do It
15. Ricki's Theme
16. Heart Attack Man
17. The Scoop
18. Shambala
19. Bodhisattva Vow
20. Transitions

 

Hello Nasty

(1998)

1. Super Disco Breakin'
2. The Move
3. Remote Control
4. Song For The Man
5. Just A Test
6. Body Movin'
7. Intergalactic
8. Sneakin' Out The Hospital
9. Putting Shame In Your Game
10. Flowin' Prose
11. And Me
12. Three MC's And One DJ
13. The Grasshopper Unit (Keep Movin')
14. Song For Junior
15. I Don't Know
16. The Negotiation Limerick File
17. Electrify
18. Picture This
19. Unite
20. Dedication
21. Dr. Lee, PhD
22. Instant Death

 

Beastie Boys Anthology
The Sounds Of Science

(1999)

DISC #1:
1. Beastie Boys
2. Slow And Low
3. Shake Your Rump
4. Gratitude
5. Skills To Pay The Bills
6. Root Down
7. Believe Me
8. Sure Shot
9. Body Movin' [remix]
10. Boomin' Granny
11. Fight For Your Right
12. Country Mike's Theme [Previously Unreleased]
13. Pass The Mic
14. Something's Got To Give
15. Bodhisattva Vow
16. Sabrosa
17. Song For The Man
18. Soba Violence
19. Alive [NEW TRACK]
20. Jimmy James
21. Three MC's And One DJ [live]

DISC #2:
1. The Biz Vs. The Nuge
2. Sabotage
3. Shadrach
4. Brass Monkey
5. Time For Livin'
6. Dub The Mic
7. Benny And The Jets
8. The Negotiation Limerick File
9. I Want Some
10. Rock Hard
11. Son Of Neckbone
12. Get It Together
13. Twenty Questions [NEW TRACK]
14. Remote Control
15. Railroad Blues [Previously Unreleased]
16. Live Wire [NEW TRACK]
17. So What'cha Want
18. Netty's Girl
19. Egg Raid On Mojo
20. Hey Ladies
21. Intergalactic

 

To The 5 Boroughs

(2004)

1. Ch-Check It Out
2. Right Right Now Now
3. 3 The Hard Way
4. It Takes 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. An Open Letter To NYC
13. Crawlspace
14. The Brouhaha
15. We Got The

 

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