Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs

Hey ladies, fellas and everyone between. What's the time? No, it's not time to get ill. It's time for my first album review. 

At first, let's quote Wikipedia: 'To the 5 Boroughs is the sixth studio album by the Beastie Boys. The album was released on June 14, 2004 internationally, and a day later in the United States. The album debuted #1 on the Billboard 200 with 360,000 copies sold in its first week. To the 5 Boroughs was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album at the 47th Grammy Awards, losing to Kanye West's The College Dropout'.

Okay, it's enough of dry facts.

It's one of my favorite albums by Beastie Boys. It has 16 tracks, which share some similarities, but it's really different than anything else in their discography. There is no instrumental tracks or sick beats. There is, of course, a lot of samples and great rhymes. Beasts are simple, clear, and great. Lyrics make You want to party, but there is also e.g. criticism of George W. Bush and his politics.

Favorite song? Well, I have to admit I'm genetically disabled, I don't have the ability to easily chose my favorite song form any album. I want to mention two songs.

An Open Letter to NYC is one of my favorite love songs. Yeah, love songs. It's about love To the city that blends and mends and tests. Lyric is great and touching. Let me quote a few great verses:
Dear New York I know a lot has changed
2 towers down but you're still in the game
Home to many rejecting know one
Accepting peoples of all places, wherever they're from

Another song which I'd like to mention is Triple Trouble. It's good, but I'm writing about it, because of a great intro in the video. You can learn from it, why they haven't recorded anything new for a 6 years. Yeah, Sasquatch.

Worst song on the album? I used to like less Crawlspace, but it was a really long time ago.

I remember one night when I was reading the liner I found something that make me sad: they sampled something from 50 Cent. He isn't very respectable rapper. I can't forget one of his stupidest lyric:  I love you like a fat kid love cake. So romantic.

The liner is very nice. I thought about put it on my wall. It's a really great piece of New York City. By the way, I hope that one day I visit this place.

Before I buy the album I had downloaded it. And then, when I finally bought it I was very surprised. There was a track called 3 the Hard Way. What I downloaded was incomplete. Yeah, You've just read the paragraph against piracy.

To sum up, if You haven't listen the album or even to Beastie Boys yet, You're definitely missing something in Your live. 

Oh, I hate writing summaries.