Name: Check Your Head
Brand: Beastie Boys

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

cdp7989382

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2007-08-07

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Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Universal

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

77779893829

Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Beastie Boys

Genre GB

Hip Hop

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The Beastie Boys are an American hip hop band that formed in New York in 1981. Originally a hardcore punk combo, they gained success with their first hip hop track, "Cooky Puss" in 1983. The group transitioned into a rap group that occasionally incorporated punk rock tracks into their albums. From 1992 to 2001, they operated the Grand Royal label. Following the death of Adam Yauch in 2012, the band officially disbanded in June 2014.

The original members of the Beastie Boys included Ad Rock (Adam Horovitz) on vocals and guitar from 1982 until 2014, MCA (Adam Yauch) on vocals and bass from 1981 until his passing in 2012, and Mike D (Michael Diamond) on vocals and drums from 1981 until 2014. The band also had additional members during various periods including Kate Schellenbach on drums from 1981 to 1984.

Throughout their career, the Beastie Boys collaborated with several touring members such as Rick Rubin as DJ Double R from 1984 to 1985, DJ Hurricane from 1986 to1997, Mix Master Mike from1998 to2014 among others. Their unique blend of genres and energetic performances made them one of the most influential groups in hip hop history.

with their third album, the beasties transformed themselves from smart-ass punks with a hip-hop jones into a playful live funk band with some solid rhymes, assisted by the extraordinary keyboardist mark ramos nishita. a couple of tracks look back to their old school rap roots, and they still deploy goofy samples like nobody's business, but they're mostly making their own grooves (including some instrumentals worthy of being sampled in their own right). their universalist world-view results in some excellent, off-the-wall fusions - the metalloid bump that forms the funk pulse of 'so what'cha want', sly stone's 'time for livin'' transformed into a hard-rock bomber - but they don't have to prove how clever they are any more, and they're stronger and more humane for it.

Check Your Head

Music GB