Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2 Image
Metascore

Universal acclaim - based on 42 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 56 Ratings

  • Band members: Mike D, MCA
  • Summary: The Brooklyn-based hip-hop legends return with their eighth studio album.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 38 out of 42
  2. Negative: 0 out of 42
  1. 100
    The Beasties' irreverence is what made them stand out in the first place; that their willful chaos continues to charm and mutate so many years on is the big surprise.
  2. May 31, 2011
    80
    Mixed by Philippe Zdar of Cassius fame, the whole record feels bright, poppy and fresh. [Jun 2011, p.105]
  3. Jun 1, 2011
    80
    Their days of wild experimentation seem to be over, but on Hot Sauce Committee (and the fine tracks they left off, some of which have been made available online), they demonstrate that there are plenty of nooks and crannies to explore within that style.
  4. Aug 17, 2011
    60
    Hot Sauce Committee finds The Beastie Boys being The Beastie Boys with nothing that isn't exactly what on would expect from The Beastie Boys. [Jul 2011, p.44]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. There's not much longevity in hip hop. All the 80s icons are playing cops on tv, looking for love on VH1, or providing voice overs for video games. The Beasties are back in 2011 sounding as good as ever. Get this album now and make some noise if you're with me. Expand
  2. 8
    It's terrific. Here's what I imagine went on when they made this album - no nonsense about artistic direction, no intention of profound retrospective, no pretense of demolishing barriers. Simply: let's make some sick beats, bad-ass rhymes, and do what we're f***ing good at. Expand
  3. A fine album. But unfortunately the pattern Beastie Boys have established over the years (mainly their 3 first albuns) make 'fine' such a weak word for this album Expand
  4. Hard to listen to. The lyrics are amateurish and seem unfinished and this weakness is disguised with lots of vocal effects. Impossible to listen to this CD all the way through. "We come together like peanut butter and sandwiches", "I cuss, and grab my nuts", and "Suckers sniffing on socks, chewing on rocks" are as good as the lyrics get. The jokes aren't funny and the music is not on the level it should be. The only listenable song is the Make Some Noise single, and even that is not very good. (See the review by the Badger Herald which is suspiciously absent from the Metacrtic ranking.) Expand

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