Beastie Boys: Classic or Dud?

Man, best of luck to him. Also, the new single with Nas works for me: http://www.spinemagazine.com/news_item.php?id=8830

It's a pain in the neck (sorry had to say it)

Huge respect for this comment. Also: 1) fuck cancer, as ever; 2) sincere hopes for a speedy recovery.

What cancer? Cant play youtube here.

Salivary gland and lymph node iirc.

Where is Mike D?

Mike D too scared to be close to him?

anyway, ouch! Lymph node doesn't sound good, but hell what do i know. hope he recovers soon!

Hope he recovers and is at ease.

bummed

Medical info on what's got/will be dealing with.

At what point did Mike D decide he wanted to be old Jewish lady librarian?

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Did anyone pick up the record store day single? It was "Lee Majors Come Again" and "Here's a Little Somethin' For Ya", both sides sounding like they went through a ridiculous amount of DJ/remix work. Like, there are breaks all over the place, a ton of samples (they seem to be based mostly off "Da Funk" and "The Number Song"), and some very heads-up production. I doubt the full album is gonna be like that, but what if it was?? The single is one of my favorite things they've ever done.

Couldn't listen to them for ages but am really enjoying Ill Communication and Check Your Head right now! Does anyone do anything like classic Beasties these days without embarrassing themselves?

Whatever summer it was when I was young and carefree and Ill Communication and It's Great When You're Straight came out, that was such a great summer. Shame the latter hasn't held up well at all.

Oh I guess they were released a year apart. Hazy days

God yeah..both albums I could spin anytime, anywhere and it just always feels both fresh and familiar.

when they re-released Check Your Head, and I think Paul's Boutique too, last year, they put up a commentary on their website for each of them, where they all sat around and talked about making the albums. Both are definitely A+, many lols, and worth digging up

I'll see if I can find the link

would be curious about the Paul's Boutique one...

dunno if it's still active but here you go

http://paulsboutique.beastieboys.com/content/download-pauls-boutique-audio-commentary
http://checkyourhead.beastieboys.com/content/download-check-your-head-audio-commentary

There's some great stuff on the Paul's Boutique one where they talk about all the clothes they wore in the Hey Ladies video

I'm suprised more albums haven't been released with commentary tracks like on dvds. (Poster Children did it several years ago, but I've not heard of any since then.)

Yeah, I think it's a really cool idea, especially with bands that are fun to listen to, a la Beasties.

I love the sample repository sites that sprang up in my early internet days about "Paul's Boutique" and also Pop Will Eat Itself's "This Is The Day..." album. It was intriguing to see the vatious consensuses especially where I did in fact know the source.

Did anyone else watch the full-length 'Fight For Your Right Revisited' the other night?

Link here: http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/beastie-boyss-fight-for-your-right-revisited-full

It was kinda silly fun overall, like a big long music video...but I thought it was pretty fun. And Elijah pulls off his Ad-Rock homage pretty nicely!

feel like Beastie Boys are extremely unhip to like now. are the young people into them at all??

when i saw em at bonnaroo, no one sang along to "Paul Revere," but everyone knew the words to "Intergalactic," so

Paul Revere didn't even crack the top 40 when it was released what, 30 years ago? Intergalactic was a much bigger hit from not much longer ago.

but no kids don't care about the Beastie Boys. why should they?

tbh i'm always kinda surprised when friends of mine that are like 10 yrs younger than me seem to still care about the beasties

there's no reason they should care, but when I was a teenager I listened to "old" bands, y'know? just seems like Beasties fall from cooler-than-shit to eww-those-corny-old-white-guys??? in a relatively short span of time is pretty epic.

unconfirmed rumor of MCA's passing?

http://globalgrind.com/news/adam-yauch-mca-beastie-boys-dies-47-photos

really hoping this isn't true...these guys were so big to me when I was a teenager

Can anyone confirm?

http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/04/beastie-boys-adam-yauch-dead/

http://www.pitchfork.com/news/46406-rip-adam-yauch-of-the-beastie-boys/

oh man, no way!

fuck!!!! RIP :(

no no no no no please no

fuck, I always thought he had luckily beaten the cancer, sad news...

Oh shit.

FUCK

awwwww fuck

deserves his own RIP thread, surely

horrible news, cancer can get tae fuck

Oh fucking hell

xxpost -- Rather.

RIP Adam Yauch/MCA of the Beastie Boys

damnit when I saw this thread get bumped I thought it was them announcing a new album

Tempted to do a POX thread. But would that be Beasties overkill, or is there still enough Beasties love in the wake of Yauch's passing to make it worthwhile?

We did just have a Beastie Boys PoXX thread. Just check everyone's ballots.

And then cut them in half.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

http://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-31-8-1

Solid Steel in association with Serato (31st August) 3 years ago Solid Steel DJs Cheeba, Moneyshot and Food had the idea of collaborating on a version of the Beastie Boys‘ ‘Paul’s Boutique’ album made entirely from the original sample sources, shortly after Moneyshot aired his mix of their ‘Check Your Head’ album in the same way.

Finally the result is here, titled ‘Caught In The Middle Of A 3-Way Mix’ - each of them have taken a third of the album to work on and combined their efforts into a mix that will make you hear it in a new way. Aside from the original sample sources they’ve included commentary from the Beasties, vintage interviews, demo versions and much more.

The mix was over half way completed when they heard the tragic news of MCA‘s death in May so the impetus to finish it was instantly doubled and new meaning given to the project. It goes without saying that this is also a tribute to Adam Yauch and the legacy he left behind and we hope it will be embraced by Beastie fans around the globe.

Caught In The Middle of A 3-Way Mix - a tribute to The Beastie Boys' 'Paul's Boutique' album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIO8LdsoN8g

so many rushing to disparage the 'Boys at the top of this thread.

One of the things Ad-Rock is doing now:

A gathering on Thursday in New York of “Artists for Warren” included some notable possible supporters of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Dem who keeps insisting that she’s not running despite clamor among the fans of her populist message. The cool kids in attendance at the indie/arty mixer included Adam Horovitz (aka Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys) and actress Chloe Sevigny, we’re told. The host committee included actor Mark Ruffalo, and music was by Tennessee Thomas, a British drummer/actress.

The swanky backdrop? The loft of Julie Pacino (yeah, her dad’s name is Al) and Jennifer DeLia, filmmakers behind the production company Poverty Row Entertainment.

Per the invite: “Attendance is not an endorsement of Warren for President. Rather, this is an invitation to meet as a group of artists and activists to discuss how an Elizabeth Warren run could change the conversation, build progressive power, and move us closer to our shared vision of an America where everyone has a fighting chance.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2015/01/26/celebs-like-mark-ruffalo-and-chloe-sevigny-may-be-ready-for-elizabeth-warren/

seeeing Adrock being the dutiful husband in the punk singer kinda warmed my heart tbh