Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science [Box] by Beastie Boys

Pros: Diversity of great hits from a great band!
Cons: Apart from one or two songs, none.

Although I never knew much on The Beastie Boys, I always knew that they were a very good band. I already had some of their best songs (including Intergalactic and Sabotage) on MP3, and my older brother soon got this CD: Anthology: The...

Pros: Booklet and collection
Cons: Rare stuff stinks

This CD could have been laid out in chronological order. It could have been picked apart and pieced back together neatly. Instead, it is as if the Beasties took their favorite songs and put them in a box and shook it up. What came out … was a...

Pros: Some great songs that bring back a lot of memories, A good representation of the Beastie Boys catalog
Cons: Some TERRIBLE rare tracks were included which is unfortunate because there are better songs that could've been included

Adam "MCA" Yauch, Mike D (Michael Diamond), and Adrock (Adam Horowitz) are the Beastie Boys, and their newest release The Sounds of Science is an anthology that chronicles their journey from punk rock band, to wise-cracking rappers, to...

Pros: Definitive anthology (duh!), well arranged, very diverse.
Cons: If you don't want to know the inside jokes to the songs, don't read the notes.

Back in 1986, I was a little boy of age 9, working hard on such projects as making things blow up, using my Radio Shack electronics kit to play with the neighbors' air conditioning, and wondering what all the funny words written on bathroom walls meant....

Pros: There's a lot of songs, enclosed booklet.
Cons: Switching between CD's for a favorite song.

If you are just beginning to like the Beastie Boys, then spend your money on this. It may be a lot, but you'll see how this is a great anthology.

I bought it because I owned a previous album, Hello Nasty. I had heard of them earlier and as I...

Pros: Never gets old, all kinds of genre.
Cons: Some songs people might not like.

This is one of my favorite albums from the Beastie Boys. Their music is a premium blend of all genre. It goes from hip-hop to rap to even punk rock. The songs on the Sounds of Science were all carefully picked by the Beastie Boys and their fans. If...

Pros: great music
Cons: none

The beastie boys anthology, the sounds of science are amazing. It has all types of songs on it throughout the beastie boys history. Some of the songs are slow and low, shake your rump, gratitude, skills to pay the bills, root down, believe me, sure...

Pros: Mixture of hits and rare stuff, great "liner notes"
Cons: Recording quality on a few old tracks is poor

The release of "Beastie Boys Anthology - The Sounds of Science" snuck up on me. Maybe it was because I was about to graduate, but I barely found out it was coming out before it WAS out. In retrospect that was fortunate--it kept me from...

Pros: Great retrospective
Cons: With 42 songs, a little long

With The Sounds of Science, the Beastie Boys have made a greatest hits album for the true fans. In addition to containing almost every single released, the Beasties have included songs that weren't released as singles but are just as good, and in some...

Pros: Awesome Playlist
Cons: Missing a few of the good ones

No holding back on the music here, thats for sure. With remixes from Fat Boy Slim to songs from the first album, Pollywog Stew, there is something for anyone that was, is or should be a fan of the B-Boys. As with any "best of" Collection its...

Pros: cd booklet
Cons: actual cd

As for many Beastie fans, the thought of the anthology was highly exciting, and for me. Until the track list became public and the excitement seemed to waver a bit. I feel that they could have chosen a better selection of songs that better represent who...

Pros: over 40 different B.B.'s songs.
Cons: Songs sound differently

One of the things that I asked most for was the Beastie Boys new Anthology Album. I thought it was a really great idea for them to have released this. Well, one of my friends bought this for me, and it gave me several mixed impressions once I heard it....

Pros: Has a lot of their best songs on a 2 CD set
Cons: Have to put up some forgettable songs too

I'll just come right out and say that I don't like rap music. My tastes lean toward the more Alternative, Techno, Dance and Industrial persuasions. This is in fact only the second rap CD I've ever owned (2 Live Crew's Nasty As They Wanna Be was the first...

Pros: Funky, fresh, engergetic, original
Cons: too preachy in their old age

Here's a little story I know so well
about 3 bad brothers from days of old...
MCA Adrock and Mike D. The hip-hop kings... These guys are unbelievable.
If you're interested in dope rhymes and unbelievable lines these guys are for you. Be...

Pros: includes a small sized booklet with background on all of their songs on the CD and the lyrics to Alive.
Cons: Could have had less instrumental songs, and more lyrical songs like Professor Booty and Finger Lickin' Good.

The Beastie Boys have progressed a lot ever since their original band of lead singer Kate Schellenbach , John Berry, Mike Diamond , Adam Yauch , and Jeremy Shatten. These young aboriginees were first only an experimental, small punk rock band in New...