"After the out-of-nowhere success of Licensed to Ill, the Beasties had to prove they were more than one-album wonders,
and they hit it out of the park with this follow-up. The Boys' lyrics are a hysterical deluge of cultural allusion
(Ponce De Leon, Sadaharu Oh, and Love Connection's Chuck Woolery all get name-dropped), compressed wordplay, and adenoidal snottiness, but the real stars are the Dust Brothers, whose production is a hip-hop landmark. Their music tracks sound like the history of rock and funk radio boiled down to a pure concentrate--monster jams built out of thousands of unexpected samples (Sly & The Family Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, The Ramones etc).
It's a killer party album, kinetic and dense, and it never slows down."
Track Listing:
1. To All The Girls (first 1:30)
2. Shake Your Rump
3. Johnny Ryall
4. Egg Man
5. High Plains Drifter
6. The Sounds of Science
7. 3-Minute Rule
8. Hey Ladies
9. 5-Piece Chicken Dinner
10. Looking Down The Barrel of A Gun
11. Car Thief
12. What Comes Around
13. Shadrach
14. Ask For Janice (skit)
15. B-Boy Bouillabaisse
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