Well I'm the king of Boggle, there is none higherI get eleven points off the word 'quagmire'
― montoya (Ross), Sunday, 7 October 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
You can get Beasties nostalgia tees at Target and Walmart, so I imagine they still have some cachet.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 7 October 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
Just went on a mini Momo Crawl in honor of Adam Yauch.
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 October 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kigbQJ3vA8wmdq8WHB6iz
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Saturday, 9 November 2019 23:37 (four years ago) link
Our evening began in Peter Sechelle’s comfortable study in his New York townhouse. Where the candlelight was just right, the hi fi was in the background, and the wine was delicious.
― calstars, Saturday, 11 January 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/track/2wtNNJTXnYi1LLNP7dbbae
― calstars, Saturday, 11 January 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_NAHTLDpcM
― mizzell, Saturday, 11 January 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
cool
― calstars, Saturday, 11 January 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
Haha I have a Spotify playlist of 10,000 songs that I often play on shuffle and Blue Nun came up just this morning when I was driving home from the bank.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Saturday, 11 January 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
hankies at the ready, folks, this is gonna be emotional
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=0aCBDL1sUY8&feature=emb_title
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
fuckin' embeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aCBDL1sUY8
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
great revive
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
ffs
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
Glad it's on Apple+ to guarantee maximum exposure.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
can't wait to torrent it on april 24 so i can watch it on my birthday the next day
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
so it's like a screening with live commentary... or something?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
it's kind of unclear!
I'm looking forward to watching it whatever the format. The book and a couple podcast interviews reminded me of all the things I enjoyed about the Beastie Boys when I was younger and made me realize why I drifted away and decided something was inherently uncool about them at some point -- they were inherently uncynical, perpetually learning and doing what they enjoyed.
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
I got off the bus when their rhyming got lazier
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
that's when things started to get hazier
― maffew12, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
Hey Shakey!
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link
it was around the time when they defaulted to that rhyme-style of everybody yelling the last syllable of every line in unison
xps
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link
they might have started defaulting to that but they kind of did that all along?
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
it's something they copped from Run DMC and there's nothing wrong with it - but there's a lot more variety to the rhyming styles on the first three records. Once you get to Hello Nasty though, that's the only style they use.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
fair enough
I was immediately thinking of Slow and Low when you mentioned that style, and it's.. a Run DMC song recorded by the Beastie Boys
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
and I know I know by that point they were trying to do a million things - reggae, hardcore, jazz-funk, indie rock, whatever - and rapping just became one of many things they did, but their attention to the craft of it suffered, and as that was always one of the things that really drew me to them, it was disappointing and my attention wandered
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
don't get me wrong I'm not knockin' em, they went where their interests guided them and that's cool, I will always love them
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
The fact that they were trying to do a million things on Hello Nasty at least kept it interesting. When they decided to go to strictly hip hop with To the 5 Boroughs is probably where their lazy rhyme style ended up hurting them more.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
^^ agree 100%
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
they definitely just started jamming on ideas based on things they liked by the mid-90s
as a teen during the mid/late 90s it was cool to listen to them as a sort of amalgamation of things you should get into, lots of musical ideas that, like the rhymes, were a grab bag of cultural references
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
agree on Nasty/Boroughs. Loved Hot Sauce Committee, it was a nice surprise to get another Hello Nasty type trip
― maffew12, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
I finally got around in the past year to watching the long, goofy celebrity cameo-filled video from that last album and it's in this weird technological gap where it exists online but only in a low resolution grainy version.
like there's this entire media shift that they didn't bridge as the project ended and MCA died :(
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
Hello Nasty was the last album I bought. Liked it initially and then less and less each listen. The production style/textures/equipment had no life to it.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
That's one of the crazy things about BB to me, that they never really updated their rap style from their old school roots, yet managed to make it feel adequately fresh (for at least 12+ years) by re-contextualizing it with their music/production, which was always curious and evolving.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
they definitely never before or after seemed to really try to write rhymes on the same level they did on Paul's Boutique
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
the peakhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtEVKO9_ZDY
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
I only just noticed that they recycle (but reverse) the "We're from Manhattan, you're from Secaucus" put down from "Rock Hard" in "The New Style."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
I did once enjoy Ad-Rock doing his shtick whilst ordering lunch on line in front of me, but yeah.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
I'm sure I've posted about it before, but my favorite BB story was when I went to see a history of hip-hop exhibit at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. My friend and I were freaking out that one of the only other people in there that day/time was Yauch. It must have been around sukkot, because outside the museum were all these Lubavitch Jews in wait, ready to hand out a lulav and etrog (palm frond and citrus fruit) and corner you about your beliefs. My friend and I think, aw man, we're as Jewish as they look, there's so way we can get through the gauntlet. So we prepare ourselves, but they zoom right past us and straight to Yauch. So thanks for taking the heat, Yauch.
My second favorite was seeing them right when "Check Your Head" came out, in '92, at close to the nadir of their coolness (but right before they became cooler than everybody else) at the Troc in Philly, with fIREHOSE and Basehead opening. That show ruuuuuuuuuuuled. They came out and did PE's "Sophisticated Bitch" with fIREHOSE.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
oh fuck yeah, fIREHOSE used to totally rip it up on that tune, I saw them do it in maybe 1989
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
I was so pissed that I couldn't get anyone to drive me up to see that bill in Oakland - I think the Butthole Surfers were on it as well?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
Hello Nasty is one of the few late 90's full CD runtime grab bag albums actually worth listening to from front to back
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
fIREHOSE used to totally rip it up on that tune, I saw them do it in maybe 1989
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIqxMYLEB84
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
As far as covers go that whole '92 live EP was pretty hip: PE, Buttholes, Wire, BOC, Superchunk. Really couldn't go wrong whichever way you went for further research after that.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
Everybody rappin like it’s a documentaryActin like life is a big documentary
― calstars, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
imo the fact they left that flub in the final take instead of recording another take is pretty indicative of their ethosit’s funny
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:09 (four years ago) link
Have they ever said what the real rhyme was supposed to be?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:17 (four years ago) link
commercial/rehearsal iirc
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
I like the flubbed version better, it just sounds cool the way he repeats it. It's like he's too cool to rhyme.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:21 (four years ago) link
tbh it’s pretty obvious what it’s supposed to be and I laugh and go “really, what!” when it’sbeen a while since I’ve heard it
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link