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To the 5 Boroughs
by Beastie Boys
Product Group: Music
Studio: Capitol
ISBN: B00021LRWM
EAN: 0724358457100
UPC: 724358457100
Audio CD
Original Release Date: 2004-06-15
Release Date: 2004-06-15
SKU: BX025-061030001
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: CD with original fold-out cardboard case. Very minor wear, near new, clean, well cared for.
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
The hiatus is back off, again, for the Beastie Boys, and music lovers will bob their heads with insuppressible glee. With its Nice & Smooth impersonations and shout outs to Brooklyn's Albee Square Mall, To the 5 Boroughs, their first album in six years, harkens the return of the trio to the city that made them who they are today. It's an up-tempo yet surprisingly homogenous assemblage of vintage electro-style party beats, and it's a strictly Beastie affair: the Boys co-wrote and produced each track themselves, which means that it sports none of the sonic fripperies and quirky collaborations that distinguished previous classics such as Paul's Boutique. Finally jelling after two years of on-again, off-again recording, To the 5 Boroughs will appeal to those fans old enough to remember the Licensed to Ill tour. Those old-schoolers are sure to appreciate the album's mostly off-the-cuff lyrics and minimal-to-the-extreme musical landscape--even if its stripped-down sound may leave others longing for the days when the Boys were California dreamin'. --Rebecca Levine
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There is no copy controlled software on US or UK releases of Beastie Boys' To the 5 Boroughs. The copy protection system used in Europe and other territories on select EMI/Capitol releases including To the 5 Boroughs is Macrovision's CDS-200, which sets up an audio player into the users RAM (not hard drive) to playback the Yellow book audio on the disk. None of the copy protection in CDS-200 requires software applications to be loaded onto a computer. Contrary to rumor, it does absolutely NOT install any kind of spyware onto the users system. None of the copy protection associated with CDS-200 requires software applications to be loaded onto a computer. Beastie Boys Photos More from Beastie Boys
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Customer Reviews
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This is rap
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-10-15
When you ask a teen today who listens to rap (which shouldn't be hard to find) and ask who is the #1 white rapper, 99.9% of the time they'll all say Eminem without thinking. Thats how MTV has raised the youth. The Beastie Boys can out rap Eminem anyday of the week. I use to love Eminem until the movie came out and he unleashed a slew of rappers upon us. I recently started listening to Beastie Boys and im floored. There rhymes are more clever then Eminems and they dont have to rap about hating there wifes, bringing along 50 friends to have rap careers, or telling people not to mess with them because they'll kill them. All in all, an amazing cd. This is rap music not the stuff you hear on the MTV or the radio. Thats all a phase, Beastie Boys will outlast and outshine all on comers.
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Craptacular Copy Control
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-09-28
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
That's right, folks. This isn't a CD. It's a shiny disc that looks like a CD. However, it doesn't meet the CD specification, and you won't see 'Compact Disc' written on it anywhere.
There is no guarantee that this hunk of junk will work in any past, existing, or future equipment. For lots of people, they'll put it in their computer/car/portable CD player, and it won't play.
Don't buy this album.
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An expensive drink coaster!
Rating (1)
Date: 2007-07-24
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I can't see how anyone can like this, unless flat and boring is your thing.
It's kinda funny: when Licensed To Ill was released it was the BBoys joking around and it turned into a gem. I assume they are taking themselves serious on this one, and it turned out a clunker.
How can a band have such a great string of awesome music and then release this piece of junk followed by their latest release: Mix-Up (more junk).
If the BBoys were playing baseball, they would've switched to DH long ago. Instead these guys are still starting, and at best hitting the Mendoza line.
Retire while you still have some pride, unless you think selling corny music for lots of money is cool. I don't. Some poor sap bought my trade in.
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Getting better?
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-31
Excellent. The B-Boys are taking a different approach to the past. The B-Boys made this album hit harder and more aggressive than previous B-Boys work. The B-Boys usually stay on the clean side, but I'm not complaining! The bass hits hard on many tracks and the sound is clean. I like it better than Intergalactic myself. Not as much instrumental as previous albums.
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B-Boys and politics? You may NOT want to CH-Check It Out!
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-11-19
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I agree with a few earlier posts. I am a big Beastie Boy from way back and I was really excited when this album came out and this album definitely has a few great moments like "CH-Check It Out", "All Lifestyles", "Rhyme The Rhyme Well", "An Open Letter to NYC" but some of the other preachy departures and references to "Columbine bowling" quickly diminish and date this work. Throw in a few songs like "Crawlspace", "Hey F*** You", "Time to Build", and "Shazam!" that in the old days would have been to end up as b-sides and you end up with a diappointing addition to your B-boy catalog. Most songs on this album just seem to fall short of what the B-boys use to produce. Perhaps its their growing older or they are just too distracted nowadays with other endeavours. My advice to B-boys if they were to put out another album is to focus more on the music and lyrics and leave out the preachy politics.
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