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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
Everybody's got different tastes and all, but when I first heard they're cover of "Beat on the Brat" on it back in '87 I honestly got what was so great about punk rock for the first time. I was into post-punk before punk, and when Sonic Youth pulled that back to the basics number, they laid out the energy of the freedom that came from banging out those two chords in two minutes for the whole jaded world to see.
Then you've got the title track, which for me, achieves everything the Beastie Boys ever wanted to do but messed up swigging Budweiser. Smartass White-noise Rap the way God would have intended if God weren't so fucking square and serious and shit.
The sound collage stuff is gratuitous as fuck, sure, but it's every bit as fun as Negativland's first record in a very similar sort of way. It sounds like a band having a good time and laughing at the fact that the world is treating them as important, and making a joke about that by acting stupid, but never fully disguising that they are just acting stupid.
So yeah, Master-Dik is a curio, if Sonic Youth is a curio.
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Wow, thank you, you pretty much said my feelings on it perfectly.
I'm glad I have it, but its no where near a favorite of mine