I figured a tribute post was in order.

Check Your Head is one of the greatest albums released in my lifetime.

Truth be told I even liked their punk shit. (Gratitude is easily my favorite song in their catalogue)

They put me on to so much additional new music over their career. I'm probably on this site because of them. (first time I heard the Roots was when they opened for Beastie Boys during the Ill Communication tour)

Speaking of shows I've seen them at least a dozen times and it's one of the best concerts I have seen in my lifetime and I've seen a lot of major artists

so painfully dope

I had never heard of Lee Scratch Perry before the Beastie Boys. Had to back track and dive into his Catalogue

This was my favorite song from that album btw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rDklqPG5pU (And Cibo Mato was another great group I had discovered from the Beastie Boys)

To the Five Burroughs was borderline wack. It sounded like they were struggling vocally at times

That Nas track was nice, loved the track OK, and the Lee Majors song was vintage Beasties

To me that's what should have been their follow up to Hello Nasty. To The 5 Boroughs was fun at times but mostly kinda corny, definitely sounded like they were trying so hard but couldn't bring it to that next level. The mix-up wasn't that great either and kinda had me writing them off but the last album surprised me a lot.

>To the Five Burroughs was borderline wack. It sounded like
>they were struggling vocally at times

Ill Communication might have been their last great album.

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>Ill Communication might have been their last great album.

I remember that MTV ran like a 2 hour documentary about them when that album was about to come out

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>>Ill Communication might have been their last great album.
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http://www.amazon.com/The-Beastie-Boys-Pauls-Boutique/dp/0826417418

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Where they were doing the basic run of the mill thing (License To Ill was great but in line with Rick Rubin's other projects) and decided to change things up big time. Paul's Boutique is probably top 3 most listened to album by me and exploring all the samples (Among other albums alike) definitely help introduce me to a lot of new music.

Saw them live during the Mix-Up tour and was kinda disappointed but maybe that was b/c of the venue it was (They played 2 shows in Toronto, the ACC (Hockey rink) and the Hummingbird Centre (More intimate theatre). Figured the intimate one might be better but everyone was sitting and not getting into it that much. Would love to see them at a festival but doubt that'll happen anytime soon.

It was in the round where they were in the center of the Arena with a rotating stage.

Half DJed show and half instrumentation. And Tribe opened up.

I've always heard their best tour was the Lollapalooza 94 tour, that was when they were at their prime. But could imagine Beastie Boys half dj, half instrument set with Tribe would be pretty amazing as well

It was fun but I have seen MUCH better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W2o9HKgcZs

Did Muggs produce this?

B-Real used to be SO fuckin ill, jeez.

Cypress Hill actually opened for them on the Check Your Head tour and that's how this came about. Definitely a classic

I'm probly older than you guys...but I used to videotape all the music on Arsenio Hall. Adroc is prophetically ill in this clip with Cypress Hill. Yauch looks like he's living in slow motion. Shit is hilarious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kX_49MTrJo

Another classic 90's group I discovered through the Beastie Boys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90iaLaPMa9g

didn't do a project together. Would have been amazing

Beastie Boys had moved on from the Dust Bros and were working with Mario Caldato Jr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbroxaMRTOw&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL7832B6494BA7D9A9

I just started to expect them to invent some new subgenre with every new album. They've been in my hall of fame for a long time.

Revolver to Sgt. Pepper's to The White Album

Some don't count MMT b/c it was suppose to be a double EP (Capital released it in the US as an LP) and was a soundtrack as oppose to an actual straight album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnVZCDkPMHE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqnHFCUhRBs

How they got their start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTtQ-uTf1uo
Licensed to Ill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5pvxgWJnws
Paul's Boutique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr1Qe2m8oOA
Check Your Head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYqtw4GxMW0
Ill Communication: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNkYVaRzhxE
And in 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkvALjJTkdE

(first time
>I heard the Roots was when they opened for Beastie Boys during
>the Ill Communication tour)

1994/95 right? Man those were the days.

One of my most memorable Beasties concert was in 1998 when my boys and I drove from Michigan to DC for the Tibetan Freedom concert


>Speaking of shows I've seen them at least a dozen times and
>it's one of the best concerts I have seen in my lifetime and
>I've seen a lot of major artists


I love that story of Ad-rock going through demo tapes in Rick Rubins office and finding some MC named Ladies Love Cool James, and convincing Rubin to give him another crack at it...


One of my favorite groups of all time.
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And HR got in a fight with the rest of the band during practice and they didn't make the tour

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>1994/95 right? Man those were the days.
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LL tells the story in his autobiography too...

and I stand corrected, it wasn't in Rick Rubin's office..but rather a shitty studio apartment that Rubin and Ruthell Thimmons used as an office somewhere in Greenwich Village...


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Rs-I2K148

Live at PJ's (Letterman)

the one and only group that goes beyond color...

and pushes rap to the limit... to the edge

cosign across the board, altho you've seen them more times than me.

they def served as a kind of grower's graft for me back in the early 90s -- turning me on to tons of new music -- across genres.

that lollapalooza lineup was a fun one (1994) with them, atcq, the pumping smashkins, gclinton, nick cave, etc -- the crowd was off the hook during the beastie boys' set on randall's island nyc.

well deserved recognition this year for them.

peace.

one.

The Minneapolis stop had L7, the Breeders and the Boredoms as well, and the Verve (I think) and Flaming Lips on the b-stage. Probably the best Lolla line up (touring edition) ever.

*edit*
no snark-o.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lollapalooza_lineups_by_year#1994

peace.

one.

All that schwag I smoked as a teen made all those years run together. At least I got the acts right!

Another sick group spun off from the Beastie Boys

1994.

i'd have liked to have caught that shoreline show with fishbone/beasties poets too.

peace.

one.

love the Beastie Boys

that said, haven't got round to picking up the last album (so much music so little time), but it's on the list

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They were sort of the first domino to fall for me musically speaking. I mean i bumped the shit out of michael jackson in the 3rd grade and metallica in the 4th, but when I discover the beastie boys in the 4th grade it was game over- all i listened to for the next 4 years. I ended up missing my first day of 8th grade to see them playing at nassau coliseum for the hello nasty tour with KRS opening. That got me listening to public enemy and tribe very quickly there after. I kept on going further and further down that rabbit hole.

It still blows my mind how quick some people blow them off. That makes me lose respect for peoples musical taste fast. I don't mean people who say that they aren't great lyricists( they are not great lyrically at all) but the people who don't even know that they play instruments OR the people that say that they aren't really hip hop. REALLY?

Regardless of how you feel about they music or their lyrics, their legacy (much like de la and tribe) is rooted in being yourself and sampling. Those two things are, in my opinion, 2 of the most important aspects of hip hop. Those 3 white old jews are masters of their craft and I would argue one of the most influential bands of the last 25 years or so.

> Those 3 white old
>jews are masters of their craft and I would argue one of the
>most influential bands of the last 25 years or so.

Back when I used to book shows I booked a show with DJ Hurricane. I had to pick him up from the airport and when I find him he told me the airlines lost his record case (pre-Serato).

So we're chilling throughout the afternoon and I put him onto Little Brother. He was hyped on them too had never heard of them and said it was some of the best new hip hop he had heard in a while.

Hours later no word on his records and I'm like I have some vinyl at my place you could go through. Since he was so hyped on my Little Brother recommendation he agrees and we go to my spot. Get blazed and he goes through my records and picks up enough for his set. I actually had a record store waiting that was willing to give him what ever he wanted but he said he was good with my records.

Then we go to dinner and he tells me all the stories growing up in Hollis Queens down the street from Jam Master Jay and what not. He was there for the birth of hip hop and just had some of the most fascinating stories ever.

Sadly he said the Beasties did him wrong at the end there was some bad blood but it was an honor to just listen to his stories and really get to know who he was as a real person versus the hip hop legend he really is.

Thanks.

now they will let any and everything in the Hall, there are no standards.

we liked brass monkey back in the day and a few other cuts, but come on, these turkeys been played out for a real long time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNkYVaRzhxE

peace.

one.

>we liked brass monkey back in the day

As in- the editorial?

and more surprised you forgot to mention race (explicitly). n/m

peace.

one.

but they got the right shade to get over. they know it. ain't nothing about them turkeys hall of fame worthy, maybe in Hip hop. but not the big HOF

glad -- altho still kinda surprised -- to see you comped to hip hop tho.

lol. n/m

peace.

one

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Poor post, mate. You'll be hard pressed to name many more creative groups than the Beasties.

If anything, I'd deem them as underrated. The fact that you regard 'Brass Monkey' as their defining achievement says a lot about this.

PS. Didn't Miles Davis call PB one of his favourite albums? I know this should be irrelevant, but seeing as you threw the collective "we" in there I thought I'd bring it up.

Run DMC, Public Enemy, Outkast, Wu tang Clan,Whodini,EPMD,NWA,Geto Boys,UTFO,Eric B and Rakim, got them turkeys served and beat.

Your opinion is worthless

What the blood claaat ???

Beastie Boys was one of the vERY first bands who used the infamous blast-beat (or something very similar/prototypical) that would later become a staple in grindcore and death metal. They used it in the song "Riot Fight" on their first EP. I always found that amusing, almost as amusing as the fact that another early blast-beat pioneer was Deep Wound whose drummer was Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis who is of course known for being lazy and laid-back to the core...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd7tEsAuspA

http://www.mediafire.com/?dn0i27oikf13e72

but at least he got to see it in some way.

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Quest talking about the Beastie Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBEiZz99fZw

Amazing speech by Chuck D talking about hip hop & the Beastie Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LF4uaFaWRI

Travie McCoyand Mix Master Mike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nik0QzKiM7I

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/beastie-boys-rock-roll-hall-of-fame_n_1477109.html

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http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2106&Itemid=0&limit=1&limitstart=2

These guys I feel like they never slept, they just hung around cool ppl and played music all day long lol

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Yauch Rocked: Raised by the Beasties

As music fans, we may have many favorite bands during a lifetime. Many posters on our bedroom walls, many memorized verses. But when the smoke clears, there's usually one band you can look back on and think "these guys raised me, they remained the definition of cool throughout the years, I wanted to be like them and studied everything they did." For me, and for many others across generations, that was the Beastie Boys. With the heartbreaking passing of Adam Yauch, I can't help but reflect on the influence they had on me.

Until I was about 10 or 11, I grew up listening to rock: a salmagundi of '70s classics and a mild obsession with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I can safely say that the Beastie Boys were my gateway into hip hop, a genre that changed my life. My older brother Dave played guitar in bands and I basically followed him and his friends into their musical forays. When "So What Cha Want" came out, that opened a portal and we haven't looked back since. Everything about that song and its video was coolness personified: the skater clothes, the distorted vocals, the scratching... So Dave borrowed the Check Your Head cassette from a friend, as well as their previous album Paul's Boutique, and he made dubs for us. Of course, the Beasties had already made a huge impact by then. As important as Licensed To Ill was, I only got into it later in my fandom. And frankly, that album's beer-guzzling party ethos spoke less to my young self. Not to take anything away from its importance -- the Beasties broke down racial barriers, topped Billboard charts, toured with Run DMC and Public Enemy and, as Rick Rubin famously said, "brought hip hop to the suburbs." But I was 4 years old when that album came out so I guess I missed the memo.

So here I was listening to Paul's Boutique and Check Your Head, completely engulfed in their sea of cultural references. Where did all these sound bytes come from? How did this patchwork sound so cohesive? I didn't really know about sampling and I was discovering it all at once. Dave and I studied the album art too. He wanted to buy a Kangol hat like they wore (and he did, from some Jamaicans whom he impressed by name-dropping Parliament-Funkadelic). We were just two white kids trying to piece together this rich and fascinating culture. The opening line from "So What Cha Want" said "plug me in just like I was Eddie Harris" -- who was Eddie Harris? An old jazz head? That's how we got into record digging. I remember when I finally understood that the "two sealed copies of Expansions" that Mike D rapped about was a Lonnie Liston Smith album! It's like their lyrics were full of code and we wanted to unlock it.

Before the Internet, we were getting our culture from them. Dave was getting into graffiti and the Beasties rapped about that too; the legendary Eric Haze even did the album art for Check Your Head. Of course, they weren't the first ones to dig up samples or wear baggy pants, but they brought it to the doorstep of our Jewish Canadian household and did so with charm and wit. These guys were the ultimate erudite pranksters. That's what we wanted to be, and they showed us how to do it respectfully without trying to act like something we're not, without being poseurs. I think that's why the rest of the rap world embraced them so much: they were just being themselves, vibrant New York youths with endless curiosity and a knack for catchy records.

By the time their fourth album Ill Communication came out, we were anticipating it the same way that a few years later we would anticipate Wu-Tang Forever... but we never would have gotten into Wu-Tang if we hadn't started with the Beastie Boys. At that point I was 12 years old and flirting with the idea of DJing, or at least learning how to scratch. My brother gave me the red vinyl 7inch for "Sure Shot" and there was a remix that started with an acappella dedication to MCA: "Like my man Yauch, will I use a fork? And never ever ever am I eating f*ckin' pork." That was the first sentence I ever scratched. Every day, coming home from school, on my father's turntable, until it became virtually inaudible. Ill Communication also featured "Bodhisattva Vow," Yauch's oath to Tibetan Buddhism.

These guys were maturing in unexpected ways. At the time, MCA's activism went way over our heads, but now I admire the path of a man who became so close to the Dalai Lama while mainstream America still mistook him for a college frat brat chugging Budweisers. That was part of the beauty of the Beastie Boys though: they didn't need to grow, but they did, and we're all better for it because curiosity is contagious.

Groups that mark a generation are ones that go beyond just releasing music, ones that are cultural vectors, with an actual iconography, with such good taste and vision as the Beastie Boys. They founded one of the coolest labels and magazines of the last 15 years, Grand Royal. Their interviews were hysterical. They also had the absolute best music videos of any band in history. Their level of irony was miles ahead of anyone else. The "Hey Ladies" video made fun of afros and platform shoes back in 1989! No one was doing that then. "Sabotage" mocked '70s cop flicks, again before anyone else. How many of us adopted the nickname Vic Colfari after that one? Many of their videos were directed by Yauch himself under the alias Nathaniel Hörnblowér, an avant-garde genius from the Swiss Alps.

I first met the Beasties in 1998, during the Hello Nasty tour. They hired my good friend and mentor Mixmaster Mike as their tour DJ and gave him full rein on the music of the show. I can't even explain what that meant to me, as a young DJ full of optimism, to see one of the biggest acts in the world put such trust in Mike. Their opener was long-time collaborator Money Mark, who also hired a friend of mine as his DJ: Kid Koala. So through those two connections, I tagged along for their Montreal and Toronto shows. What I recall from walking around backstage was their basketball nets set up by the dressing room, Biz Markie cracking jokes and Adrock wanting to go record shopping. I went to see another one of their shows in 2004. On this tour their opening acts were Talib Kweli and... a dog show. Yes, literally, dogs jumping through hoops and doing tricks in the middle of a stadium at a rap concert. More than 20 years into their career, these guys were still irreverent as ever.

In 2007 I got a call from Money Mark saying that the Beasties were listening to my brother's band Chromeo and wanted to have them be the opening act on their upcoming Canadian dates. That's when everything went full circle. I felt so proud and appreciative at that moment. It also showed something about the Beastie Boys: they were forever curious, forever personally invested in everything they did. We can only hope to carry on in their tradition.

"Because you can't, you won't, and you don' stop..."