The Beastie Boys' unintended swan song finds the trio reconnecting with their ramshackle punk-funk DNA while acknowledging the clock running down. Make Some Noise won them a final Grammy, but it's the album's looser moments, like the Santigold-assisted Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win, where their freewheeling spirit still burns brightest.

Released months before MCA's death, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two captures three friends making noise together one last time, their sample-digging craft and studio chemistry intact even as mortality lurked offstage.