Beastie Boys

Playing The In Sound From Way Out! to unsuspecting Beasties haters has been a popular parlor game since its release in 1996. Now comes an excellent and similarly groovy sequel, and it's just as likely to wrong-foot those few friends you still have who continue to disparage the Boys' talents. As jazz funk albums go, this probably isn't going to excite or offend serious jazzheads too much, but for the less educated among us it's a fun diversion from the Beasties' normal canon, and you can never have enough Hammond organ in your life.

Ten years ago, when the Beastie Boys ruled the world, they let U2 appear on their Tibetan
Freedom Concert album. It was poignant to hear U2 sound lost and confused, at their
commercial and creative nadir, floundering through the vaguely anthemic "One." Poor old
U2 had no clue how to connect with a Beastie-worshipping young mod world. But now,
with U2 bigger than ever and vague anthems all the rage, the Beasties can be for... More >