Make Some Noise

April 25, 2011 11:32 AM

"Good people, unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control, the "clean" version of our new album, The Hot Sauce Committee pt 2 has leaked. So as a hostile and retaliatory measure with great hubris we are making the full explicit aka filthy dirty nasty version available for streaming on our new site. We hope this brings much happiness, hugs, and harmony. Enjoy Kikoos for life!"

Similar in vein to the Foo Fighters leak a few weeks ago, the Beastie Boys are fully embracing new media.

posted by nickheer (60 comments total)

So far I like.
posted by Navelgazer at 11:37 AM on April 25, 2011

I've heard good things. Listening to it now.

(Am I blind, or is there no volume control on their player? How annoying.
posted by inigo2 at 11:38 AM on April 25, 2011

Good people, unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control, the "clean" version of our new album, The Hot Sauce Committee pt 2 has leaked.

Are they trying to tell me now it's sabotage?
posted by shakespeherian at 11:40 AM on April 25, 2011 [25 favorites]

Are they trying to tell me now it's sabotage?

I know they planned it.
posted by molecicco at 11:42 AM on April 25, 2011 [9 favorites]

I know they planned it.

Glad you set it straight.
posted by bjrn at 11:44 AM on April 25, 2011 [6 favorites]

GIRLS!
posted by robocop is bleeding at 11:46 AM on April 25, 2011

I guess they're backs were against the wall.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 11:50 AM on April 25, 2011

their even..grr
posted by MCMikeNamara at 11:50 AM on April 25, 2011

It won't play for me and I don't know why (Fx4, OSX)
posted by caution live frogs at 11:55 AM on April 25, 2011

Also scroll down for vid. or has this been posted already?
posted by Max Power at 11:57 AM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Anyone annoyed by the lack of pause or volume, check them out here instead.
posted by rusty at 11:59 AM on April 25, 2011

(Volume control is way up at the top right corner of the page, nowhere near the player, because that's how the kids roll these days.)
posted by rusty at 12:01 PM on April 25, 2011

I don't say sabotage. I say sabotaaage. You say sabotage.
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:01 PM on April 25, 2011 [3 favorites]

Fry: Back in the 20th century, I had all five of your albums.

Ad-rock: That was a thousand years ago! Now we got seven.
posted by almostmanda at 12:03 PM on April 25, 2011 [27 favorites]

I couldn't get the volume control to show either...

It's easier (for me) to listen at the Soundcloud site.
posted by mrgrimm at 12:13 PM on April 25, 2011

You've gotta fight. For your right. To pirate.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 12:16 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Anyone annoyed by the lack of pause or volume, check them out here instead.

oops.

the full explicit aka filthy dirty nasty version

So where are the filthy dirty nasty parts so I can compare against the version I downloaded last night?
posted by mrgrimm at 12:18 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Can't listen right now, any qualitative comments or criticism would be appreciated.
listened to Paul's Boutique and Check Your Head about 999999999 times each but it was a sad day for me when Ill Communication came out as I loathed it
posted by jtron at 12:19 PM on April 25, 2011

Do they take doody rhymes to a brand new height??
posted by PostIronyIsNotaMyth at 12:22 PM on April 25, 2011

listened to Paul's Boutique and Check Your Head about 999999999 times each but it was a sad day for me when Ill Communication came out as I loathed it

You are weird. "Ill Communication" is great. The correct cut-off point is "Hello Nasty," which is stupid and awful.
posted by Sys Rq at 12:30 PM on April 25, 2011 [7 favorites]

MCA taught me to play Mah-Jongg night before last. That is all I have to say, but c'mon.
posted by nicwolff at 12:32 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

I feel the same about Hot Sauce as I do about their last album*: a couple of gems with a bunch of regular normal raptime filler. I don't think they've had an album that works as a coherent whole since Hello Nasty.

* And by last album I mean 5 Boroughs; rumors of some kind of non-compilation instrumental album are just that--vicious, baseless rumors.
posted by danny the boy at 12:39 PM on April 25, 2011

I'm with jtron. PB and CYH over and over, but (aside from enjoying the Sabotage video) I never got into Ill Communication and then Hello Nasty killed it for me.
posted by mrgrimm at 12:44 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

WHAT. Hello Nasty contains some of their best work. Yeah it's not Paul's or like any of their earlier work, but why would you want to listen to the same stuff over and over again? Hello Nasty is old school in the new millennium.

And the first 7 songs of Ill Communication is one of the best examples of masterful album arrangement since the first 6 songs of Siamese Dream. COME ON
posted by danny the boy at 12:45 PM on April 25, 2011 [4 favorites]

Aaaaaaaaaand, having listened to five tracks of "Hot Sauce"...

This will be the first album I have bought in years.
posted by Sys Rq at 12:53 PM on April 25, 2011 [2 favorites]

I'm definitely in the camp of those who were happy through Hello Nasty. The 5 Burroughs album wasn't bad, per se, just completely boring. They have nothing to prove to me, so I'm not even sure I'm happy to hear about another BB album...it seems more of an opportunity to dilute their legacy. I mean, even on Hello Nasty you could tell that they Boys are no longer boys, and affectations of boyishness seem increasingly forced.
posted by Edgewise at 12:54 PM on April 25, 2011

I mean Hello Nasty is what gave us this, which is objectively, undisputedly, the best example of... something. Also this, which not only features giant robot breakdancing, but contains my favorite example of sampling your own damn self.
posted by danny the boy at 12:57 PM on April 25, 2011

Sorry, but Hello Nasty was a masterpiece.
posted by rollbiz at 12:57 PM on April 25, 2011 [5 favorites]

After just one listen, and as the mayor of the Altered State of Druggachussetts, I deem the new Beastie Boys to be ...Awesome.
It's like the funkier, deeper tracks on Ill Communication and less of the old-school bombast stuff that made Boroughs kinda boring and much grimier and more textured.
It's not a massive departure but it still feels like a confident step out of the box a bit for them.
posted by Senor Cardgage at 12:57 PM on April 25, 2011

The correct cut-off point is "Hello Nasty," which is stupid and awful.

I remember being at a party in high school when it had just come out. The host had it in the CD player all night but anytime it got more than a track or two past Intergalactic this particularly annoying ditzy girl would say how much she loved that song and just had to hear it again, so immediately one of the many boys trying to impress her would run over and skip back to it again.
Thus, I became forever convinced that Hello Nasty is just that one song on repeat. Stupid and awful indeed, but perhaps it's been long enough since that dark night that I should give it another chance.
posted by mannequito at 1:01 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Yay! So exciting!

And whoever says they don't get Ill, I will cut you, I swear I will cut you.

Hello Nasty is kind of half and half, if I recall correctly. So excited!! I'm asssuming this means Yauch is feeling better!!!
posted by cavalier at 1:01 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Am I the only one that, when encountering a new and weird situation occasionally hears

"...I did it like this, I did it like that I did it with a whiffleball bat, So..."

Float through their head?



Just me then? Fair enough.
posted by quin at 1:09 PM on April 25, 2011 [6 favorites]

Hello Nasty was a creative return to form (with innovation!) after Ill Communication. They dropped back the live instrumentation and brought on a turntablist DJ. I don't understand hate on that album.
posted by mikeh at 1:09 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

(Volume control is way up at the top right corner of the page, nowhere near the player, because that's how the kids roll these days.)

Still can't find it.
posted by shiny blue object at 1:11 PM on April 25, 2011

It's a little speaker on the top right corner of the player, at the end of the waveform.
posted by Sys Rq at 1:14 PM on April 25, 2011

Failing that, adjust your computer's volume.
posted by Sys Rq at 1:15 PM on April 25, 2011

Nah, I'll just play it REALLY FUCKING LOUD AS GOD INTENDED

(no speaker there, maybe it's a Chrome thang.)
posted by shiny blue object at 1:18 PM on April 25, 2011

For me (on Chrome) the speaker isn't anywhere near the waveform. It's waaaaaaaaay up at the very top right corner of the page, next to the gray bar -- "App Gallery | Get help | Try Premium | What's new?" -- that stuff. Presumably it's there because that's the last place you'd ever look and volume adjustment costs a website crazy money.
posted by rusty at 1:31 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Your favorite band -- and I am in agreement with you that they are unquestionably an excellent performing act with few, if any, flaws -- sucks because of something they did which I like less than you like. And you should feel bad because you claim they suck because of something they did which you like less than I like.
posted by ardgedee at 1:32 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Beastie Boys started out as a hardcore band. The original EP is available Here[SYTL]
posted by errspy at 1:38 PM on April 25, 2011

WOW
posted by Hoosier Prospector at 1:49 PM on April 25, 2011

say guddam
posted by boo_radley at 1:50 PM on April 25, 2011

IS YOUR NAME MICHAEL DIAMOND?
posted by Jofus at 1:55 PM on April 25, 2011 [2 favorites]

This album is the cheese and I'm the macaroni.
posted by the painkiller at 1:56 PM on April 25, 2011 [6 favorites]

NAH, MINE'S CLARENCE
posted by mrgrimm at 2:25 PM on April 25, 2011 [2 favorites]

Streaming. Loving it enough to pre-order the vinyl. Yay.
posted by pdxgene at 2:31 PM on April 25, 2011

I still love their tracks on the NYC Hardcore compilation tape, errspy. I was so happy to see them sometimes return to that years later, though I do love the hip hop as well.
posted by freebird at 3:25 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

I refuse to listen unless they change the name of the group to "Beastie Men".
posted by billyfleetwood at 4:44 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

"Party for the motherfuckin' right to fight" is a brilliant lyrical inversion, and I'm kind of jealous I didn't think of it myself.

But I guess if I had, then I'd be the Beastie Boys.
posted by pts at 4:46 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Kikoos? Anyone have a clue what they mean? Urban Dictionary doesn't help.
posted by Kattullus at 5:41 PM on April 25, 2011

(see also: "Party for the Fight to Write")
posted by nebulawindphone at 5:44 PM on April 25, 2011

Max Power: Also scroll down for vid. or has this been posted already?

Yup, 3 days ago. Check the beastieboys tag.

This makes me happy, in ways that the previously mentioned video did not make me happy. I heard the beats and the verses, and thought "are these new, and where can I buy them?" Lo and behold - AWESOME.

Another recent response to a leaked album: Amon Tobin's new album available for purchase online early, less than a week after the first leak, including bonus track(s).
posted by filthy light thief at 7:01 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

"Party for the motherfuckin' right to fight" is a brilliant lyrical inversion, and I'm kind of jealous I didn't think of it myself.

Public Enemy thought of it a while ago... it's kind of awesome to see the interplay between them and the Beasties in the late 80s, Paul's Boutique/Nation of Millions era.
posted by COBRA! at 7:10 PM on April 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Glad to see hear something browner rawer from the boys again...gave 5 boroughs a few cursory listens but was unimpressed. Hello Nasty was hit or miss but mostly miss. Ill Communication is a masterpiece only surpassed by Check Your Head and Paul's Boutique...
posted by schyler523 at 8:19 PM on April 25, 2011

Wait, no one has mentioned the lovely instrumental detour that was The Mix-Up, and the resulting tour, where the Beasties played instruments during interludes between rapping? It was a lot of fun.
posted by filthy light thief at 8:49 AM on April 26, 2011 [2 favorites]

Beastie Boys started out as a hardcore band. The original EP is available Here yt [SYTL]
posted by errspy at 1:38 PM on April 25 [+] [!]


WOW
posted by Hoosier Prospector at 1:49 PM on April 25 [+] [!]

I thought that was well known? It's not like 'Heart Attack Man' and 'Tough Guy' and such just sprang, full-formed, out of the void...
posted by FatherDagon at 9:10 AM on April 26, 2011

This makes me happy. I can't wait for the proper release and the 30 minute long superstar movie.

And FTR, I loved Ill Communication. And Hello Nasty was good, but if you were anywhere near the breaks scene in the 90s you can't get near it for fear that you'll hear Body Movin', which was the first song ever to achieve the feat of being remixed by every single person ever.
posted by Theta States at 9:21 AM on April 26, 2011

And by Body Movin' I meant Intergalactic.
Body Movin' wasn't quite as bad on the remix front.
posted by Theta States at 9:21 AM on April 26, 2011

My favorite Body Movin' mix.
posted by owtytrof at 11:25 AM on April 26, 2011

Has this been posted yet? “Electric like Dick Hyman”: 170 Beastie Boys references explained
posted by Eideteker at 7:16 AM on May 3, 2011