Saturday, September 8, 2007

Licensed to Ill

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Licensed to Ill
(MassMirror)

All Music Guide
There is a sense of genuine discovery, of creating new music, that remains years later, after countless plays, countless misinterpretations, countless rip-off acts, even countless apologies from the Beasties, who seemed guilty by how intoxicating the sound of it is, how it makes beer-soaked hedonism sound like the apogee of human experience. And maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but in either case, Licensed to Ill reigns tall among the greatest records of its time.
Rolling Stone
"Licensed to Ill" cuts an even wider swath musically than Run DMC's "Raising Hell", and it's the brash assurance of Rubin's "stealin" that ultimately makes these white boys more than a sophomoric joke.

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