8/18/2023 0 Comments Brass monkey beastie boys 45![]() ![]() “No Sleep til Brooklyn” didn’t chart in American but reached No. Dance Music chart while both “Hold it Now” and “Paul Revere” reached No. “Brass Monkey” also charted on mainstream Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. Seven tracks from this historic album were released as singles, with “You Gotta Fight For Your Right (to Party!)” being the most commercially successful, hitting number-seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and finishing’ 1987 on the year-end chart at No. It’s sold an astonishing 10 million copies in the United States alone. License to Ill ended Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet seven week run at the top of the charts and parked themselves at number-one for seven weeks of their own before finally getting supplanted by U2’s The Joshua Tree. Licensed to Ill became the first rap album ever, debut or not to reach the top of the Billboard Top 200. Regardless, License to Ill is a must-have for any music collection and it’s not only one of the best rap albums of the 80’s, it’s one of the best of all-time, period.Ĭommercial Success: Before 1987, saying few rap acts ever hit the mainstream so successfully with their debut album would be doing the Beastie Boys a disservice, because the reality is NO ONE ever did like the three white boys from New York City. Again, I’m probably in the minority with that thought. In my opinion, one that I’m sure isn’t shared by the majority, they later became more serious-minded with their music and I think their music suffered. Oddly enough, I didn’t remain a huge Beastie Boys fan. ![]() This was my first real test of rap and metal fused into one and I’ll never stop loving this classic. I’m giving so much love to the Beasties and they deserve it, but major props to Rick Rubin and the label he co-founded with Russell Simmons, Def Jam for this musical gift. For teenagers and young adults there’s worse things in the world, #amirite? “No Sleep til Brooklyn” was some of the hardest shit and sickest beats I’ve ever heard in my life. No one sounded like the Beastie Boys and many of the lyrics and tracks on this album made everyone want to party. What saved the Beastie Boys and more specifically Licensed to Ill from eventually falling into anonymity was their originality, something too many hip hop artists lacked back then and almost all day today. However, effect on the culture by itself doesn’t make for an amazing album. ![]() I mean literally, even if you loathe their music (translation: you’re a hater) you can’t reject their standing. Where you think the Beastie Boys stand in the realm of all-time great rappers or rap crews is one thing, but their influence to the genre is simply undeniable. Why I Loved It: To refute how significant this Beastie Boys debut studio effort was to the music and culture of hip hop is unequivocally poppycock. Notable Songs: “Hold It Now, Hit It”, “Paul Revere”, “The New Style”, You Gotta Fight For Your Right (To Party!)”, “Brass Monkey”, “No Sleep Til’ Brooklyn”, “Girls” ![]()
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