Beastie Boys: Classic or Dud?

I am, yes, but HMV's not far way and frankly I needed some fresh air. I also got a haircut.

Ah. Carry on - fine movies, neat trim hair, Paul's Boutique through the Grados - good day.

This is fucking awesome.

Told ya!

Really glad you like, to be honest. I always have a hard time repurchasing stuff, but sometimes it's worth it.

Bump, in light of the Check Your Head reissue.

I think CYH is my 2nd favourite Beasties record, definitely. I also think it seems pretty disingenuous to think of them as hip hop. They're just a band who happen to have done a lot of different things including a lot of rapping.

Looks like somebody just posted this on line after 22 years, so what the hell...

http://beatpatrol.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/chuck-eddy-lay-it-down-clowns-the-beastie-boys-take-over-1987/

...and Eloise, an overweight go-go dancer who’s supposed to look “sexy” when she strips down to her black lace, I guess, but mostly just comes off as gruesome.

reads like the 2009 internet xhuxk - consistent style!

MCA undergoing surgery for cancer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7CH3M7cECI

Damn. He sounds pretty hopeful about it at least.

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?

http://i31.tinypic.com/6i8nyv.jpg

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