I got stickers, and all sorts of cool stuff. They were like, ‘What does Beastie stand for?’ And I was like, ‘Boys Entering Anarchistic States of Intellectual Excellence.’ I won an XL Hello Nasty t-shirt and a free copy of the CD. I snuck into a bar that was doing a Hello Nasty record release party when I was younger, and I won every single prize in their Beastie Boys Q&A. HEART ATTACK MAN (Ill Communication, 1994)Īgain, this is just a sick hardcore song. But I love this song just as much as Sabotage. We thought we’d go with a recognisable one and crush it instead. This was another song that we talked about covering, but we decided that we’d done enough obscure covers. I have the single of this, where you have all the different beats behind it. It’s got a hardcore sing along, a groovy bass line, the down picking guitar, super funky drums, hip-hop verses, the scream – it’s got everything. We did a lot of obscure covers before we decided to do one that everyone knows, and my argument for doing Sabotage was that it doesn’t matter what genre of music that you listen to, that song is the best. You could break dance to Root Down all day long. But then you also have songs like Root Down on there. And it’s obviously the record that has Sabotage on, which is their rock anthem. I could do a top ten just on this record. They’d done all these other things – everything from hardcore to funk and whatever – and then this record came out and it crushed everything. To me, Ill Communication is the pinnacle of the Beastie Boys. So they revealed yet another side to me here. I was listening to skate punk bands like NOFX and Lagwagon, and there was a little crossover with that stuff, but this was actually the first proper hardcore music I ever heard. Even at that time I don’t think I knew anything about Youth of Today or the Gorilla Biscuits – or any of the New York hardcore scene – so this was my introduction. Hearing songs like Egg Raid on Mojo for the first time was crazy. This was when I dived way into the Beastie Boys and bought the compilation of all their early hardcore stuff. But they didn’t take themselves too seriously either.ĮGG RAID ON MOJO (Some Old Bullshit, 1994) They’ve helped to spread awareness about Tibet. It was like, ‘Oh, they’re making fun of everything.’ It wasn’t that they were actually like that in real life. When I saw that for the first time it all made sense. (YOU GOTTA) FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT (TO PARTY!) (Licensed to Ill, 1986)įight For Your Right was such an iconic music video.
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