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With the exception of the first single, the new album sounds like throw-away B-sides, plus their hardcore political stance ruins it for me... I guess I just prefer politics to stay out of music because the way I see it, music is transcendent and when you start talking about current events, you pigeon-hole yourself into an identifiable time and place... I don't like to be reminded of bad people. places, events when I'm listening to music (esp. Bush, Iraq etc... I'd rather forget all the shit from the past 3 years) I'm not saying music has to be happy, (I love everything from the The Cure to the Pumpkins to the Counting Crows to Chopin for god's sake) but hearing 40 year-old white rappers deliver painfully bad rhymes about politics is sort of embarrassing. I understand and appreciate the fact that the Beasties come up with their own beats, but they're too old school to be considered foreward progress. That Rolling Stone 5 star review is bullshit.
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