Beastie Boys - License to Ill (w/ guests Ed and Alice Magdziak)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2016

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian welcome bloggers Ed and Alice Magdziak from youdontknowjersey.com to help us talk about what makes Beastie Boys' License to Ill great. Formed by 3 teenage New Yorkers who held the burgeoning rap scene of the early 80s in the same regard as the hardcore punk they grew up on, the band went on to release a huge cross over hit that was only a hint at the critically acclaimed and influential series of albums they would produce. Alice and Ed discuss their very different experiences discovering the band in middle-of-nowhere Ohio and as a college sophomore who had a chance meeting, respectively. Brian, Bill, Ed, and Alice discuss the Beastie Boys' party dude image, the mysoginistic and sexist content on the album, the influence of happenstance in meeting producer Rick Rubin and label head Russell Simmons, how broad the genre divide is in rap music, the importance of sequencing especially when navigating mediocre tracks, and of course a track by track review!

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0:00.0	Kick it!
0:07.0	You wake up late for school, man, you don't want to go.
0:25.6	Yeah, you're my please, but she still says no.
0:32.6	You missed two classes and no homework
0:39.8	but you teach your bridge this class like you're some kind of jerk
0:47.3	you gotta fight for your right to party.
0:56.9	Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast.
0:59.8	I'm Bill.
1:00.3	And I'm Brian.
1:01.2	And what were we just listening to right there, Brian?
1:03.2	We're listened to Fight for Your Right to Party by the Beastie Boys from 1986's Licensed to Ill.
1:11.2	Because that's what we're going to be talking about today.
1:13.6	All day.
1:14.9	If you've never listened to the podcast before,
1:16.9	what we do hear every week is take a different album of music
1:19.8	and talk about what makes it great.
1:22.2	We're going to do a little bit of talking about our personal relationship with it,
1:26.9	and we're going to talk about
1:28.4	the history of the band and leading up to the production of the album, and then we're going to get
1:32.7	into a track-by-track review.
1:35.0	That's it. Sign me up. Let's do it.
1:36.6	Yep. And for those that have never listened, it's what we do here. It's not really a documentary
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