Beastie Boys Some Old Bullshit CD

The Beastie Boys: Mike D. [Michael Diamond] (vocals, cow bell); Adam Yauch (acoustic guitar, bass, background vocals); John Berry (guitar); Kate Schellenbach (drums, background vocals, washboard).
Additional personnel: Dave, Dave Parsons, Id, Nick (background vocals).
Producers: The Beastie Boys, Scott Jarvis, Dug Pomeroy.
Engineers include: Scott Jarvis, Dug Pomeroy, Greg Cewdson.
Recorded at 171A Studios, New York in Winter, 1981 and Celebration Recording, New York in March, 1983. Includes liner notes by Michael Diamond.
SOME OLD BULLSHIT contains the two UK import EPs POLLYWOG STEW and COOKY PUSS. This release also includes a 16-page booklet, original cover artwork and previously unreleased demo versions of "Egg Raid On Mojo" and "Transit Cop."
The Beastie Boys: Mike D. [Michael Diamond] (vocals, cow bell); Adam Yauch (acoustic guitar, bass, background vocals); John Berry (guitar); Kate Schellenbach (drums, washboard, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Dave, Dave Parsons, Id, Nick (background vocals).
Producers: The Beastie Boys, Scott Jarvis, Dug Pomeroy.
Engineers include: Scott Jarvis, Dug Pomeroy, Greg Cewdson.
Recorded at 171A Studios, New York in Winter, 1981 and Celebration Recording, New York in March, 1983. Includes liner notes by Michael Diamond.
SOME OLD BULLSHIT contains the two UK import EPs POLLYWOG STEW and COOKY PUSS. This release also includes a 16-page booklet, original cover artwork and previously unreleased demo versions of "Egg Raid On Mojo" and "Transit Cop."
Personnel: John ? (guitar); MCA (acoustic guitar, background vocals); ID (background vocals).
Liner Note Author: Mike D .
Recording information: 171A Studio.
Photographers: Arabella Field; Josh Cheuse; Robin Moore.
In the hilarious liner note/photo package with the disc is an indignant letter from a punk fan in about 1982 or so complaining bitterly about the Beastie Boys as being little more than "a pathetic, feeble imitation of Minor Threat." The thing is, that's fairly accurate. Collecting some of the long out-of-print/hard-to-find early releases by the band -- the Polly Wog Stew EP and the Cookie Puss single, mainly -- Some Old Bullshit is mostly that, if an entertaining enough variety. The eight Polly Wog Stew tracks are brattish hardcore and not much more, mainly interesting to hear Mike D's lead snotty whine and sometimes amusing lyrics ("Egg Raid on Mojo" is about carrying out such an assault on the doorman of a Manhattan club). "Jimi" is the best of the bunch because it isn't anything like hardcore, but more an attempt at noisy psychedelia that sounds like a sweeter, younger version of the Butthole Surfers. There's one other reason to at least give the album an initial ear: the drummer at this point was Kate Schellenbach, eventual founding member of Luscious Jackson a decade later. The Cookie Puss tracks signal the initial transmogrification of the Beasties into the hip-hop monsters of the later '80s, if a bit hamhandedly. There's old-school synth beats and bass, some minimal scratching, and vocals that in retrospect sound like Ween, but not much else -- the mock reggae anthem "Beastie Revolution" is pretty funny, though. As an amusing bonus, two radio tracks from the hardcore days are included: rough takes on "Egg Raid on Mojo" and "Transit Cop." ~ Ned Raggett
Long before the Beastie Boys told jocks to fight for their right to party and Adam Yauch was hanging with the Dalai Lama, an early incarnation of the band was part of the early-'80s New York City hardcore movement that also included Reagan Youth. SOME OLD BULLSHIT not only compiles sides from the Beastie (Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Internal Excellence) Boys when future Luscious Jackson drummer Kate Schellenbach was a member, but the eventual trio's early hip-hop attempts as well.
Early hardcore nuggets such as "Egg Raid on Mojo" (which they occasionally play live to this day) and "Beastie Boys" are of questio