![]() Ill Communication consolidated the group's comeback in 1994, thanks in no small part to the hit "Sabotage," accompanied by a campily retro video directed by Spike Jonze. Beastie Boys played a vital role in that decade, starting with 1992's punk-rap-jazz fusion Check Your Head, which gave them another Top Ten album and established the group as alternative rock icons. Paul's Boutique stalled the trio's commercial momentum but it became an album revered by hip-hop aficionados, pointing the way to the genre-bending, self-referential pop culture of '90s pop. They soon abandoned pounding, aggressive rap-rock for the dense sampladelic vistas of Paul's Boutique, their 1989 collaboration with the Dust Brothers. This loud, obnoxious blend of hard rock and rap, showcased on their debut Licensed to Ill, wound up having a lasting impact, but the trio of Adam Yauch, Adam Horovitz, and Mike Diamond were young punks and restless artists. He’s one of the top five greatest MCs of all time, and to hear him giving respect to Beastie Boys was the best.Beastie Boys crashed into the mainstream in the mid-'80s rapping about "The New Style" and yelling "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)," their brash hedonism striking a chord with hip-hop fans and suburban metalheads alike. It’s so funny! And when you have Nas on your album just coming in to smash a verse and also give their respect, you just know these are the dudes because Nas is the king. The music video for this song is like the sickest music video ever! Danny McBride’s performance is Oscar worthy. MAKE SOME NOISE (Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, 2011) Well then, let’s just kick it old school and show them how it’s done.’ They could’ve aired this song back in the ‘80s when they here on tour with Run DMC. ![]() They were like, ‘There’s all this talk about us just being party MCs. This song sounded so fresh when it came out, but also so old school too. It’s so huge! I was lucky enough to see them on the Hello Nasty tour too.ĬH-CHECK IT OUT (To the 5 Boroughs, 2004) Everything about Intergalactic is amazing. It was the best! And as if you already had so many hits in your career, that you then come out with this song, which again was an evolution of your sound. I got stickers, and all sorts of cool stuff. ![]() They were like, ‘What does Beastie stand for?’ And I was like, ‘Boys Entering Anarchistic States of Intellectual Excellence.’ I won an XL Hello Nasty t-shirt and a free copy of the CD. I snuck into a bar that was doing a Hello Nasty record release party when I was younger, and I won every single prize in their Beastie Boys Q&A. HEART ATTACK MAN (Ill Communication, 1994)Īgain, this is just a sick hardcore song. But I love this song just as much as Sabotage. We thought we’d go with a recognisable one and crush it instead. This was another song that we talked about covering, but we decided that we’d done enough obscure covers. I have the single of this, where you have all the different beats behind it. It’s got a hardcore sing along, a groovy bass line, the down picking guitar, super funky drums, hip-hop verses, the scream – it’s got everything. We did a lot of obscure covers before we decided to do one that everyone knows, and my argument for doing Sabotage was that it doesn’t matter what genre of music that you listen to, that song is the best. You could break dance to Root Down all day long. But then you also have songs like Root Down on there. And it’s obviously the record that has Sabotage on, which is their rock anthem. I could do a top ten just on this record. They’d done all these other things – everything from hardcore to funk and whatever – and then this record came out and it crushed everything. To me, Ill Communication is the pinnacle of the Beastie Boys. ![]() So they revealed yet another side to me here. I was listening to skate punk bands like NOFX and Lagwagon, and there was a little crossover with that stuff, but this was actually the first proper hardcore music I ever heard. Even at that time I don’t think I knew anything about Youth of Today or the Gorilla Biscuits – or any of the New York hardcore scene – so this was my introduction. Hearing songs like Egg Raid on Mojo for the first time was crazy. This was when I dived way into the Beastie Boys and bought the compilation of all their early hardcore stuff. But they didn’t take themselves too seriously either.ĮGG RAID ON MOJO (Some Old Bullshit, 1994) They’ve helped to spread awareness about Tibet. It was like, ‘Oh, they’re making fun of everything.’ It wasn’t that they were actually like that in real life. When I saw that for the first time it all made sense. (YOU GOTTA) FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT (TO PARTY!) (Licensed to Ill, 1986)įight For Your Right was such an iconic music video. ![]()
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