Thursday, April 7, 2011

Take That, Rebecca Black


Ok...full disclosure: I LOVE the Beastie Boys, especially Paul's Boutique, (The Sgt. Pepper's of our generation-think about it) Check Your Head, (the soundtrack to my college years and the first hip-hop style music I warmed up to) and Ill Communication  (could be called Check Your Head Part 2, really)

Why do I love the Beastie Boys? 
1)  They have some of the coolest rhymes ever (IE: "Like Sam the Butcher bringing Alice the meat, like Fred Flinstone driving round on bald feet." and "I've got more action than my man John Woo and I've got mad hits like I was Rod Carew.") 
2)Their samples are amazing (IE: On "Paul's Boutique" they sample the guy playing harmonica from the opening scene of Jaws, the cowbell and half a note from Mountain's "Mississippi Queen" and Lloyd Lindsay Young from the old Channel 9 in Seacucus NJ (from when I had the brown cable box with the cable attached to the TV)




3)  They have the best video EVER: Sabatoge.  No debating, please.  (Although Foo Fighters "Learn To Fly" is a close second)  








So after Adam Yauch's cancer scare and not knowing if we'd ever hear from them again, they're back. The album is called Hot Sauce Committee Part 1, the song is called "Make Some Noise."

Give it a listen, bop your head and tell me what you think.

1 comment:

  1. I like my sugar with coffee and cream! (actually I take it black, but that's one of my fav. lines lol)

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