The Beastie Boys' Check Your Head may not be the decade's most profound artistic statement or its most essential work, but the album is both universally entertaining and personally meaningful. Oh yeah, it's also fucking dope.

If we were to watch a montage sequence of our past ten years, we'd like Check Your Head playing in the background. It is the album we would like to be remembered by. The music of this decade and the people who loved it are too often described as "angst-ridden." Yet the Beastie Boys were never a part of any specific genre. They were bigger than that.

Check Your Head is an unparalled, adrenaline-filled, ass-kicking ride, topped to its brim with brilliant laughs, hypnotic jamming and, most importantly, bass lines you can shake your ass to. Not only will we take this album with us into the next Millenium, it will be the one we have on our stereos as we go.