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Check Your HeadBeastie Boys
Hip-Hop · 1990s

Check Your Head

Beastie Boys
Released 1992Hip-Hop
ClassicPicked by a lifelong record collector

A live-instrument pivot blending rap, punk and funk. Loose and beloved. A creative high. Released in 1992, it's a key entry in Beastie Boys's run.

On vinyl: Vinyl can be scarcer than the CD from this era, so it's worth looking for a recent repressing.

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