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Solid Gold Hits is a greatest hits collection by Beastie Boys, released in November 2005. In contrast to 1999's The Sounds of Science anthology, Solid Gold Hits consists only of tracks that were released as singles. Where The Sounds of Science is a double CD compilation, Solid Gold Hits contains one CD with all their singles that broke gold, plus a DVD with the respective videos of the songs. Although the standard US release of the CD/DVD has 15 songs, the Japanese release has the song and video for "Right Right Now Now" as the last song.
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Listening to this stocking-filling compilation of all the Beastie Boys' hit singles, you have to admire how far they've come.
Solid Gold Hits spans eighteen full years of musical chaos, during which the three skinny white boys from New York matured from macho party dudes into right-on hipster kings.
The greying freedom fighters have rhymed about everything from throwing eggs to the racial politics of their home town, creating classics with the explosive mayhem of "Intergalactic" and the disorienting scream-punk of "Sabotage".
Though 1999's The Sounds of Science double anthology was more representative - drawing on their often beautiful instrumentals and hardcore experiments - Solid Gold Hits is a lean and exhilarating introduction to NYC's finest in chart-busting hip-hop mode.
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