Check Your Head by Beastie Boys

Pros: Lots of variety; So Whatcha Want
Cons: some weaker tracks

One of the Beastie Boys' most admirable aspects is their frequent desire to reinvent themselves and try new sounds. They may have started with loud, frat boy rap, but by their second album, they were smooth, stylish, and much more mature. Sure enough, ...

Pros: "funky boss"
Cons: none that I can think of

It is a new era for the Beastie Boys. Three years after Paul’s Boutique, they seem ready to try something new. Although Paul’s Boutique is my all-time Beasties favorite, they did a great job in the transition on Check Your Head.

The most...

Pros: Innovative and packed with great stuff
Cons: Some of those funk jams are just damned annoying

Have you ever noticed that every odd-numbered release from the Beastie Boys went over very well, while the others bombed? The first release from the band was Licensed to Ill, and it went over great. The same is true of its third and fifth...

Pros: Classic Beastie Boys
Cons: None

This 1992 album release, Check Your Head, is another great effort from my absolutely hands down favorite group, The Beastie Boys. It was created at a time when many critics and neighsayers in the musical community were down on them, claiming that...

Pros: High-energy, guitar-based songs with often-interesting lyrics and a lot of humor
Cons: So good I want more

This is my favorite Beastie Boys album because of the heavy application of supporting guitar. Most of the tracks play like songs, not grooves, and though there's a good deal of characteristic fronting going on in front of the mic, there are also a few...

Pros: great beats, fun, experimental
Cons: lack of technical perfection might bother some, but this was the beginning of the lo-fi movement

At this stage in the game, it is almost hard to believe that the Beastie Boys ever had to have a comeback. However, "Paul's Boutique" was considered a huge bomb when it followed up the mega-selling "Licensed to Ill." Time has...

Pros: Great chill music, great funk music, hell great music
Cons: I can't really find any honestly. The Beastie Boys style might not be for you but most people can enjoy this without being fans. If you can't then you're definitely missing out.

I bought this album for What'cha Want. Straight up. This was about a year ago. Why did I wait so long to review it? Well I, unfortunatly, never got around too listening to much more of the album until about a week or two ago and I must say, that was a...

Pros: positive messages, length of album, debut of new style
Cons: occasional silliness

I was born well after the Beastie Boys first appeared on the scene, and I was first turned onto them with their first album, "Licensed to Ill." Then I discovered that there was a whole new side of the Beastie Boys that emerged and has been...

Pros: intensity, experimentation, and music up the wazoo
Cons: slight decline in rhyming skills, unbalanced emphasis on live jamming

I suggest you buy other Beastie Boys albums before this one. That's what I did. Why? Because this album gives rough love.

The first half is extremely strong, combining all the elements which make the Beasties great: rhymes, energy,...

Pros: Chock-full of character, wicked bass lines
Cons: To my recollection, none.

When I first went over to my friend Teddy's house, and into his basement where a host of speakers welcomed me, and he put on The Beastie Boys' "Check Your Head", I could not believe what I was hearing. I mean, I don't listen to rap; I am...

Pros: Everything...
Cons: It's so good, it actually diminished my enjoyment of other B-Boy albums

In my never-ending quest for receiving hate mail, here I attempt to explain why this album blows every other B-Boy offering out of the water.

First, the rhyme skillz of the B-boys were never more apparent than on here. Songs like 'Pass Da...

Pros: Ecclectic, funky vibe
Cons: None

From beginning to end, Check your Head is one of the best albums to come out of the 90s. Prior to this effort, which crosses hip-hop, hardcore, and funk, the B-Boys were most noted for their cheesy party music and raunchy lyrics. But, this album...

Pros: it's the beasties. what more do you want?
Cons: the low-fi sounds and distorted mics on some songs may bother some.

One of things I really like about the Beastie Boy's first three albums is that they sound absolutely nothing like each other, almost like you are listening to a completely different band altogether. They followed up the heavy guitar riff ladened Licensed...

Pros: Vintage Beastie Boys.
Cons: Only those with good musical taste can enjoy.

The album starts off with what I believe to be one of the greatest rhymes in the Beastie's arsenal. "People how ya doin', it's a new day dawning. For the earth mother it's a brand new morning. It's been such awhile, there's been such a longing....

Pros: Nice songs!
Cons: Funky beats!

Beastie boys! I love them, their album they have the greatest of tunes
all of them good! I have loved these guys forever, and ever! They keep doing it again, and again!

If you want to jam out, these songs, these...