The Beastie Boys: Mike D. [Michael Diamond] (vocals, cow bell); Adam Yauch (acoustic guitar, bass, background vocals); John Berry (guitar); Kate Schellenbach (drums, background vocals, washboard).

Additional personnel: Dave, Dave Parsons, Id, Nick (background vocals).

Producers: The Beastie Boys, Scott Jarvis, Dug Pomeroy.

Engineers include: Scott Jarvis, Dug Pomeroy, Greg Cewdson.

Recorded at 171A Studios, New York in Winter, 1981 and Celebration Recording, New York in March, 1983. Includes liner notes by Michael Diamond.

SOME OLD BULLSHIT contains the two UK import EPs POLLYWOG STEW and COOKY PUSS. This release also includes a 16-page booklet, original cover artwork and previously unreleased demo versions of "Egg Raid On Mojo" and "Transit Cop."

Long before the Beastie Boys told jocks to fight for their right to party and Adam Yauch was hanging with the Dalai Lama, an early incarnation of the band was part of the early-'80s New York City hardcore movement that also included Reagan Youth. SOME OLD BULLSHIT not only compiles sides from the Beastie (Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Internal Excellence) Boys when future Luscious Jackson drummer Kate Schellenbach was a member, but the eventual trio's early hip-hop attempts as well.

Early hardcore nuggets such as "Egg Raid on Mojo" (which they occasionally play live to this day) and "Beastie Boys" are of questionable fidelity compared to the better-sounding but no less passionate "Riot Fight" and "Ode To." Two anomalies point to the band's musical restlessness: "Jimi," a psychedelic slice of stoner heaven and "Beastie Revolution," a rock-steady/dub reggae experiment no doubt influenced by their friends Bad Brains. Two versions of the novelty dance single "Cooky Puss" round out SAME. This prank call wrapped in a dance beat not only found the Beastie Boys focusing their attention full-time on hip-hop, but it also preceded the Jerky Boys phenomenon that came along a few years later.