Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (2LPs, Red) - Audiophile
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (2LPs, Red) - Audiophile
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (2LPs, Red) - Audiophile
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (2LPs, Red) - Audiophile
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (2LPs, Red) - Audiophile
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (2LPs, Red) - Audiophile
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (2LPs, Red) - Audiophile
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (2LPs, Red) - Audiophile

Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (2LP, Red Vinyl)

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Rarity - Sealed

Beastie Boys  :

  • MCA (Adam Yauch) - Bass
  • Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) - Guitar
  • Mike D (Mike Diamond) - Drums

Clavinet, Electric Piano [Wurlitzer], Keyboards [D6], Organ, Other [Master Carpenter] – Mark Ramos Nishita

Percussion [All That (Bata', Shakeree, Cuica, Conga, Tamboura, Mridunga)] – James Bradley, Jr. (A2, A4, B5, C3, D1, D5)

Written by Beastie Boys (A1-5, B1-2, B5, C1-5, D1, D3-5), Caldato (A1, A3, B1, B5, C2, D3), Nishita (A2, A5, B5, C3, C5, D1-2, D4-5), Cushman (A4), Hill (B1), Fite (B1), The Grand Imperial Dr. Marcell Hall (B3), Ted Nugent (B3), Frontline (B4), Sylvester Stewart (B4)

 

 

2LPs, Gatefold jacket

30th Anniversary limited edition

Original analog Master tape : YES

Heavy Press : 180g 

Record color : Red

Speed : 33 RPM

Size : 12'’

Stereo

Studio

Record Press : GZ Media

Label : VMP - Vinyl Me Please - Essentials series

Original Label : Capitol Records

Recorded and mixed in 1991–1992 at Studio G-Son, Atwater Village, California

Engineered by Mario Caldato, Jr.

Produced by Beastie Boys, Mario Caldato, Jr.

Remastered by Beastie Boys, Chris Athens at Sterling Sound

Lacquer cut by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound

Originally released in 1992

Reissued in 2022

 

Tracks:

Side A:

  1. Jimmy James
  2. Funky Boss
  3. Pass The Mic
  4. Gratitude
  5. Lighten Up

Side B:

  1. Finger Lickin' Good
  2. So What'cha Want
  3. The Biz Vs The Nuge
  4. Time For Livin'
  5. Something's Got To Give

Side C:

  1. The Blue Nun
  2. Stand Together
  3. Pow
  4. The Maestro
  5. Groove Holmes

Side D:

  1. Live At P.J.'s
  2. Mark On The Bus
  3. Professor Booty
  4. In 3's
  5. Namasté

 

Awards:

Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list - Ranked at number 261

 

 

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." AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

 

Ratings :

AllMusic : 5 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.75 / 5

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