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Matt Dentler
Solid Gold Hits (Capitol)
With only three songs not found on 1999’s career-spanner The Sounds of Science, the Beastie’s latest is for newbies only. Trimming the fat down to the 15 essential singles to date, Solid Gold sifts through the classics, “Sabotage” to “Brass Monkey,” while proving NYC’s hip-hop innovators have become frozen in time.
This article appears in December 30 • 2005.
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