A self-parody (by the Boys and Rick Rubin, presaging Rubin's yoga jones by many years) of the first full-length Beastie Boys disque, and, yes, each LP came with a free pack of incense. Gone: the Led Zeppelin samples and paeans to beer - that's replaced with sitar loops and an ingenious use of Ravi Shankar's speech from the Monterey Pop Festival. L Subramanian plays violin on "Brass Monkey", an ode to Hanuman. "The New Style" extols the virtues of meditation and the Gita.

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