Over the weekend, the Beastie Boys’ The Mix-Up zipped all over the Internet, just a few weeks before its June 26 release date. The semi-stopgap album features only instrumentals, which means that there’s no rapping about the greatness of the Dalai Lama, New York City, and/or the Dalai Lama’s trips to New York City. We’re still working our way through it, but one stand-out track is “Off The Grid,” which starts out with a few playful keyboard lines and ends with some foreboding fuzz-bass noise (whatever the hell that means):
The Beastie Boys – Off The Grid [MP3, link removed]
What a crazy font! Those guys are such characters!
Why? This sort of thing was fine as an EP a few years ago, but a whole album’s worth? We get it, the Boys can play their instruments.
It could be worse, I guess. At least we don’t have to listen to the terrible rhymes off their last disc, right?
It wouldn’t be so bad if they ever changed the tempo EVER! But this is just one long slow jam that sort of stops and stars again every 3 and a half minutes. I’m sure it probably appeals to stoners, though.
This is what they should play at Starbucks instead of Maroon 5 or Alannis Unplugged. I mean that in a good way.
aluberalles, maybe. Although if you’re going to go that route allow me to suggest Starbucks plays the David Holmes tracks off the Ocean’s 13 soundtrack instead, sice they end up being far funkier and more fun than anything off The Mix-Up.
So that’s it? Sounds like high school kids trying to play Air. Grade Zzzzzzz.
Wow. Seems like the boys got lazy and decided not to write any lyrics, so their excuse is to let other people write the rhymes for them, then release that as a separate album. That plan sounds linkin park-esque, but the song doesn’t, it actually sounds alright.