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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 05-04-12 13:44
Now I know why he didn't come to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. I suspected as much. This sucks. I feel for his family and bandmates. May he rest in peace.
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Author: MrFab
Date: 05-04-12 13:55
Ach, that's awful. But not really a total shock - when I heard he'd skipped the RaRHoF induction, and saw a recent picture him looking like a 70-year-old, I knew he was not long for this world.
The Beasties arrived at the right time in my life - when me and my friends were entering that most dangerous part of adolescence and the Beasties were the perfect soundtrack to our debauched Saturday nights and Vegas weekends. Smart, conscious, and musically innovative as well as rude and funny. One of the few acts I can say I'm familiar with their entire discography, even their early crappy punk stuff.
Damn, what are the other two gonna do now?
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 05-04-12 15:06
I'll be the first to tell you that from the get-go I was NOT a fan of the Beastie Boys.
I was working in a record store when Licensed to Ill came out and sold a bazillion copies. All of the metal chicks I was friends with abandoned Dokken and Motley Crue and that damned BB tape was ubiquitous. I hated everything about them. Not hip hop. Just them.
Over the years, I softened my stance against 'em, but never bought a single thing they ever did. Never downloaded anything for free either. The music did get better. How could it not?
I did really like the video for "Sabotage." Yauch's dedication to Tibet was admirable.
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49 seems a depressingly young age to die at. RIP.
Call Madonna and tell her that the Beasties give the lie to her notion that one cannot be alternative and popular.
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 05-04-12 15:09
Aww, man. . . that sucks. I was listening to "Flute Loop" this morning. I had no idea things had progressed to that point with him.
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Author: zoo
Date: 05-04-12 15:54
I had a friend who was nuts for Licensed to Ill when it came out (we were in 9th grade, I think). I guess I thought it was funny, but it was so...low brow (a term I wouldn't have known at the time). Clever, perhaps, but completely adolescent. I can't even imagine attempting to listen to it now.
Then Paul's Boutique bombed...but 10 years later was hailed by some as the greatest album ever made. I could never figure that out.
I read one article today that said something to the effect of "Yauch became a vegan at the behest of his Tibetan doctors." Seemed like just a bit of info thrown in for no reason.
If it seems like there is no focus to this post, you're correct...just reminiscing about someone whose work I never really cared about, but was present in my life for such a long time. Kind of an odd thing, really.
So, RIP, Adam.
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Author: breno
Date: 05-04-12 16:12
I always thought the 1994 Lollopalooza line-up was the strongest one of the bunch back when it was a touring concern - The Boredoms, The Breeders, Tribe Called Quest, Nick Cave, L7, George Clinton, Beastie Boys and Smashing Pumpkins. The Beasties blew every one of the great, great bands that came before them off the stage and rendered the Pumpkins' closing set so tedious in comparison that we ended up leaving before the halfway point of Corgan & co.
Thanks, MCA, for one of the best sets I ever saw. You started out as an obnoxious brat and grew into an important artist.
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 05-04-12 16:16
I can't say I was ever a fan, either, though, like yours, my opinion softened a lot over the past few years. I really like "Sabotage" (the great bass riff on which is played by Yauch) and"Intergalactic," though. I think the Beasties deserve to be in the Rock Hall more than the Chili Peppers.
The Beasties were booked to tape ACL a few years ago, but had to drop out after MCA's diagnosis. I'm sorry we'll never get the chance to make that happen.
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Author: MrFab
Date: 05-04-12 16:23
"Then Paul's Boutique bombed" - eh? It might not have been as huge as "Licensed To Ill" (what was?) but getting great reviews, hitting #14 on the charts and going gold within a year isn't exactly what I'd call a bomb. I bought it the day it came out, and still think it's their masterpiece. "so like a pimp I'm pimpin'/ I got a boat to eat shrimp in" - so silly. Still makes me laugh.
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 05-04-12 17:13
I still listen to Ill Communication regularly, Check Your Head a few times a year, and I enjoyed Hot Sauce Committee Part Two a lot (though the paucity of samples on the latter points to the copyright stranglehold nowadays). For me, Ill Communication is their crowning achievement--"Get It Together" (with Q Tip), Root Down, Flute Loop. . . all of that still sounds fresh to me. Early to mid-1990s Beasties and Tribe Called Quest and late 1980s Public Enemy remain high-water marks in hip-hop (to these ears). I went to college in downtown NYC from 1990-94 and the world just seemed saturated with that music (and, unfortunately, Dee-Lite).
"Oh, my God, just look at me/Grandpa been rapping since '83!"
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Author: BCE
Date: 05-04-12 20:34
I hope nobody forgets that pre-"Licensed To Ill" Beastie Boys -- i.e., the Polly Wog Stew stuff -- was vastly different than what most people remember. I'm just glad they reissued some of it a few years ago, because they are STILL regarded as "one-hit wonders" by a lot of people. (How that's even possible when "Fight For Your Right" wasn't the only song from LTI to get mainstream radio airplay is beyond me, but I'm already getting one-hit-wonder 'vibes' from the some of the news reports. So much for accuracy in reporting.)
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Author: Jermoe
Date: 05-04-12 23:52
I got into hip-hop in the early '80s. By the time the whole Beasties thing broke, everyone (of every race) was skeptical. Licensed to Ill wasn't reassuring. Having assumed the whole thing was orchestrated by Rick Rubin, Russell Simmons and Run-DMC, we went about enjoying the early stages of what's now known as the golden age of hip-hop...
...ah, but these guys weren't just jerks. It turned out they were our jerks. They meant it, too, man.
There aren't a ton of people sincerely invested in making the world a better place, simply because it's right. Adam Yauch was one of those people.
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Author: STEVE
Date: 05-05-12 00:20
and so everyone in muslim,catholic,islamist & christian (insert your belief system here) heaven be illin.
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Author: rebelwithoutaclue
Date: 05-05-12 00:23
One of my favorites. it was the soundtrack of my college years. liscense to ill was played at every college party. then came pauls boutique which flopped commercially but everybody who listened to it liked it and was a critics darling. im 44 my nephews are in their mid 20s. one of those bands that besides bridging the gap between rock n rap also bridged the gap between almost old n young. at family functions to annoy the older folks we crank up the beastie boys to 11.
they maintained a great balance musically between growing up and still maintaining their immaturity which is a extremely hard thing to do.
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Author: rhettlawrence
Date: 05-05-12 02:46
Gotta say that MCA's voice was my least favorite of the Beasties, but still, this is extremely sad. Paul's Boutique is on my short list of the best hip-hop albums ever, but I basically stopped paying attention to them after the early 90s (when I stopped paying attention to most rap). Now I feel like I need to go back and revisit some of those records.
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Author: Aitch
Date: 05-05-12 03:41
I still don't get the way Check Your Head finds itself under the radar so much. Recently been getting into the other unsung release, The Mix Up (very much unsung when you think about it).
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Author: Aitch
Date: 05-05-12 09:50
Please tell me this is a joke. http://www.gigwise.com/news/72781/Coldplay-perform-Beastie-Boys-tribute-at-live-show---watch
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Author: mats84
Date: 05-05-12 12:58
R.I.P. - the Beasties good natured humor is the kind of thing that's always needed in pop music as a counterbalance to self-serious mopes and I still play Check Your Head regularly.
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 05-05-12 15:11
"Please tell me this is a joke. http://www.gigwise.com/news/72781/Coldplay-perform-Beastie-Boys-tribute-at-live-show---watch"
They really should have just sent a card and flowers instead.
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