Beastie Boys
Licensed to Ill
the joke of licensed to ill's cover that the beasties could crash their jet into the side of a mountain and keep on tickin' serves as a good metaphor for a career that even some of their 1986 admirers thought might be over after the onetimeonly shock of this fulllength debut that thousands of funkjunkie wannabes have since failed at recreating its groove breakingthelaw vibe and earsplitting mix of rock and rap is an even better joke and funniest of all is the record itself which packs dexterous boasts aural puns and lots and lots of yelling into a disc that can still be listened to with as much pleasure as it gave in '86
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