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Check Your Head (Remastered Edition),Beastie Boys

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Beastie Boys
Released 1992

Gratitude (2009 Digital Remaster)
02:45
516 plays

Funky Boss (2009 Digital Remaster)
01:35
513 plays

Lighten Up (2009 Digital Remaster)
02:41
497 plays

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- 1
- Jimmy James (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:14
- 1,199 plays

- 2
- Funky Boss (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 01:35
- 513 plays

- 3
- Pass The Mic (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 04:16
- 1,373 plays

- 4
- Gratitude (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 02:45
- 516 plays

- 5
- Lighten Up (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 02:41
- 497 plays

- 6
- Finger Lickin' Good (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:39
- 479 plays

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- So What'cha Want (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:37
- 2,736 plays

- 8
- The Biz Vs. The Nuge (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 00:33
- 465 plays

- 9
- Time For Livin' (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 01:48
- 452 plays

- 10
- Something's Got To Give (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:28
- 466 plays

- 11
- The Blue Nun (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 00:32
- 426 plays

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- Stand Together (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 02:47
- 442 plays

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- Pow (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 02:13
- 362 plays

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- The Maestro (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 02:52
- 374 plays

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- Groove Holmes (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 02:33
- 427 plays

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- Live At P.J.'s (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:18
- 396 plays

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- Mark On The Bus (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 01:05
- 349 plays

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- Professor Booty (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 04:11
- 414 plays

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- In 3's (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 02:22
- 339 plays

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- Namaste (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 04:01
- 332 plays

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- Dub The Mic (Instrumental) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 04:27
- 300 plays

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- Pass The Mic (Pt. 2, Skills To Pay The Bills) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 04:23
- 351 plays

- 23
- Drunken Praying Mantis Style (Instrumental) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 02:37
- 295 plays

- 24
- Netty's Girl (Explicit) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:21
- 272 plays

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- The Skills To Pay The Bills (Explicit) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:13
- 326 plays

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- So What'cha Want (Soul Assassin Remix Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 04:06
- 404 plays

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- So What'cha Want (Butt Naked Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:26
- 302 plays

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- Groove Holmes (Live Vs. The Biz) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 06:10
- 232 plays

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- So What'cha Want (All The Way Live Freestyle Version)(2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:36
- 312 plays

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- Stand Together (Live At French's Tavern, Sydney, Australia) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 02:29
- 218 plays

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- Finger Lickin' Good (Government Cheese Remix) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 04:13
- 216 plays

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- Gratitude (Live At Budokan) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 04:25
- 222 plays

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- Honky Rink (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 02:10
- 217 plays

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- Jimmy James (Original Original Version) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:41
- 229 plays

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- Boomin' Granny (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 02:15
- 346 plays

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- Drinkin' Wine (Instrumental) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 04:41
- 204 plays

album review

Check Your Head brought the Beastie Boys crashing back into the charts and into public consciousness, but that was only partially due to the album itself -- much of its initial success was due to the cult audience that Paul's Boutique cultivated in the years since its initial flop release, a group of fans whose minds were so thoroughly blown by that record, they couldn't wait to see what came next, and this helped the record debut in the Top Ten upon its April 1992 release. This audience, perhaps somewhat unsurprisingly, was a collegiate Gen-X audience raised on Licensed to Ill and ready for the Beastie Boys to guide them through college. As it happened, the Beasties had repositioned themselves as a lo-fi, alt-rock groove band. They had not abandoned rap, but it was no longer the foundation of their music, it was simply the most prominent in a thick pop-culture gumbo where old school rap sat comfortably with soul-jazz, hardcore punk, white-trash metal, arena rock, Bob Dylan, bossa nova, spacy pop, and hard, dirty funk. What they did abandon was the psychedelic samples of Paul's Boutique, turning toward primitive grooves they played themselves, augmented by keyboardist Money Mark and co-producer Mario Caldato, Jr.. This all means that music was the message and the rhymes, which had been pushed toward the forefront on both Licensed to Ill and Paul's Boutique, have been considerably de-emphasized (only four songs -- "Jimmy James," "Pass the Mic," "Finger Lickin' Good," and "So What'cha Want" -- could hold their own lyrically among their previous work). This is not a detriment, because the focus is not on the words, it's on the music, mood, and even the newfound neo-hippie political consciousness. And Check Your Head is certainly a record that's greater than the sum of its parts -- individually, nearly all the tracks are good (the instrumentals sound good on their subsequent soul-jazz collection, The in Sound From Way Out), but it's the context and variety of styles that give Check Your Head its identity. It's how the old school raps give way to fuzz-toned rockers, furious punk, and cheerfully gritty, jazzy jams. As much as Paul's Boutique, this is a whirlwind tour through the Beasties' pop-culture obsessions, but instead of spinning into Technicolor fantasies, it's earth-bound D.I.Y. that makes it all seem equally accessible -- which is a big reason why it turned out to be an alt-rock touchstone of the '90s, something that both set trends and predicted them. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide