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Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

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Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

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Celebrate the fucking wins.

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  2. 2.

    joe from Lowell

    Paul Revere.

    I don’t understand why anyone bothered to make any more gangsta rap after that epic tale.

  3. 3.

    TheFountainHead

    Paul Revere.
    I don’t understand why anyone bothered to make any more gangsta rap after that epic tale.

    Seconded.

  4. 4.

    Polish the Guillotines

    @EdTheRed:

    Paul’s Boutique > Licensed To Ill

    By leaps and bounds.

    But the best tracks on on LTI are "Hold It Now, Hit It" and "She’s Crafty." Although, "Rhymin’ & Stealin’" is up there.

  6. 6.

    Art

    Paul’s Boutique is hands down one of the greatest albums of all times. Certainly the Beastie’s finest.

  8. 8.

    MobiusKlein

    Am I the only person seeing / hearing a sound sync issue on the first video? It’s about a quarter second, and annoys me.

  9. 9.

    Bob In Pacifica

    Paul Revere (and the Raiders) ‘s "Just Like Me" was great too. Didn’t know they were still around. The Music Machine’s "The People In Me" and not "Talk Talk". And The Move’s original and much better version of "Do Ya".

  10. 10.

    realbtl

    "Gimmee That Harp Boy" – Capt. Beefheart’s response after seeing Canned Heat.

    "Sympathy for the Devil" from the Altamont bootleg album.

    Anything by James McMurtry – So gritty you’ll need a shower after listening.

    Merle Haggard!

    Yeah, I’m an old fart. So what.

  13. 13.

    Third Eye Open

    @amorphous:

    Second Liquid Swords

    Chronic and Chronic 2001 with Overcast from Atmosphere, right in the mix.

    Personally, I love the BB, even when they were making fun of Punk, but at some point you gotta admit that they use the same damn rhyming scheme in just about every-damned song.

    I see your License To Ill and raise you a Black Sunday

  16. 16.

    Geeno

    Finlandia’s good and all, but Beethoven’s 9th is better. Chokes me up for some reason whenever I hear it.

  17. 17.

    Elliott

    The New Style
    The New Style
    The New Style
    Coolin’ on the corner on a hot summer’s day, just me and my possee and MCA lotta beer lotta girls and a lot of cursin twenty-two automatic on my person got my hand in my pocket and my finger’s on the trigger my posse’s gettin big and my posse’s getting biggerAlthough, you have to love "Mutiny on the Bounty’s what were all about" from Rhymin’ and Stealin’, also Rhymin and stealin in a drunken state and I’ll be rockin my rhymes all the way to Hell’s gate.I feel eighteen again.

  18. 18.

    brandon

    She’s Crafty.

    The bit about running off with everything in the house "and my old skateboard" makes me laugh every single time I hear it.

  19. 19.

    pharniel

    Musical Suggestions – Circ, Love electric. Specifically Revolution Song and Destroy She said.

    sadly, though I listened to nothing but ‘hip-hop’ while i was in middle school i couldn’t afford albums, so by the time I was able to I was in high school/college and thus had spontaniously developed Taste. (and am totally not regretting never purchasing naughty by nature, 2 live crew, abc, bbd etc. album. The mp3’s are embarrasing enough)

  21. 21.

    bartkid

    The best Beastie Boys tune was done by a Jedi’s consort: Natalie Raps.

    Smack Jeff Zucker, indeed.

    (Tho’ I hafta admit, I am swayed by joe from Lowell’s proposition.)

  23. 23.

    Svensker

    Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in B Minor cranked up as loud as you can take it.

    Palestrina’s Mass "Hodie Christus Natus Est" (The Gabriel Consort recording is very good).

    And for yearning sorrow tinged with lovely, accepting calm, Bach’s "Ich Habe Genug" Cantata, Matthias Goerne, baritone.

    Of course, if you want real superlatives, there’s this.

  25. 25.

    Brachiator

    OT but related: "Atlantic Records Says Digital Sales Surpass CDs"

    Atlantic, a unit of Warner Music Group, says it has reached a milestone that no other major record label has hit: more than half of its music sales in the United States are now from digital products, like downloads on iTunes and ring tones for cellphones….

    At the Warner Music Group, Atlantic’s parent company, digital represented 27 percent of its American recorded-music revenue during the fourth quarter. (Warner does not break out financial data for its labels, but Atlantic said that digital sales accounted for about 51 percent of its revenue.)

    With the milestone comes a sobering reality already familiar to newspapers and television producers. While digital delivery is becoming a bigger slice of the pie, the overall pie is shrinking fast. Analysts at Forrester Research estimate that music sales in the United States will decline to $9.2 billion in 2013, from $10.1 billion this year. That compares with $14.6 billion in 1999, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

    And some stuff I’ve been listening to lately:

    Brand New Day, Van Morrison (my unofficial Obama victory anthem)

    Monkey Man, Rolling Stones

    Tight Like This, Louis Armstrong

    Schubert, Quartet # 14 (Death and the Maiden), Busch Quartet

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    Krista

    Paul Revere.
    I don’t understand why anyone bothered to make any more gangsta rap after that epic tale.

    Indeed. I can still recite the entire damn thing word for word, I listened to it so much when it came out. The funny thing is that the track that had the most commercial success (Fight for your Right) is my least favourite on the album.

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    patrick

    Little T&A – Rolling Stones
    Myrna Lee – Blue Mountain
    Celebrity Skin – Hole
    Big Gay Heart – Lemonheads
    Pilate – Mulehead
    Pochahontas – Neil Young
    Heart Shaped Box – Nirvana
    Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk – Rufus Wainwright
    Unrepentant – Steve Earle

    Best track from LTI – No Sleep Til Brooklyn

  29. 29.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    No Sleep ’til Brooklyn, especially when played so loud it rips holes in the space-time continuum.

    I’d like to take this opportunity to extend a big bottle of Fuck You to the assholes who canceled the Beastie Boys’ appearance in Poughkeepsie out of fear there would be riots.

  30. 30.

    Linkmeister

    Whatever I listened to last is the best I’ve heard, so that would be a compilation of Neil Young’s Greatest Hits, including "Down by the River," "Cowgirl in the Sand," and "Southern Man," all extended versions.

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    Jon H

    Hey, look what I found over on the Curious Capitalist blog at blogs.time.com:

    "Yet, as plukasiak has been pointing out again and again in the comments, I’ve generally defended the bailout of Industry A–finance–while being critical of Industry B–automakers."

  38. 38.

    monad

    Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana — greatest album you’ve never heard of. A shame it never made it over here from Japan because it’s one of the great, great albums of the last 10 years, maybe my favorite so far of the ’00s.

    Shuukyou
    Yattsuke Shigoto
    Meisai

    If you dig the above, the entire album, every note of it, is equally good if not better.

    Really, an hour or so on youtube searching for Shiina Ringo/Shena Ringo/Tokyo Jihen is well worth your time. The ground she’s covered in her career is pretty breathtaking.

    A few other non-KZK suggestions, but barely even scratching the surface:
    OSCA
    Kuki (doom metal meets Karen Carpenter)
    Stoicism
    Ringo no Uta
    Mayonaka wa Junketsu (with Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra)

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