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GOODBYE NASTY
May. 6th, 2012 01:19 amYou probably know by now that Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys lost his battle with cancer.
I can’t say too much about him as an individual, mainly because I always thought of Beasties Boys as a unit, so I didn’t distinguish much between the individual members.
As for the Beasties …
I fully confess that, like a lot of people at the time Licensed To Ill came out, I thought they were a joke at first. Most people I knew hated them because (1) they were rap, which meant they sucked by default, (2) they used music samples, which meant they had no talent at all by default, and (3) they ran around like idiots yelling about their right to party and they had a big inflatable cock as a stage prop, which meant they were offensive knuckleheads.
Personally I didn’t hate them for any of those things – by the time I heard License To Ill, I was already into Run-DMC and Slick Rick and Bobby Jimmy and other 80s rap acts, and I have no problem with big inflatable cocks – but apart from my lack of interest in partying as a verb, I thought they were somewhat gimmicky. They were a bit too obviously going for shock value, and I figured if that was all they had going for them, they probably weren’t going to last long.
As it turned out, they had far more going for them than most people suspected. You probably know how that worked out for them.
For all that, I never really bought their music – I suppose because they were ubiquitous enough that I didn’t need to. But I tend to like what I hear.
Anyway, since you’ll probably be seeing enough of their music videos in the next 48 hours, here’s a clip from an installment of Oprah in 1986 in which Tipper Gore talks about how dangerous and nasty those Beastie Boys are.
Recommended for the added bonus of seeing Jello Biafra on the Oprah show in a suit.
FUN FACT: Apropos of that last guy in the video, the Beastie Boys also coined the term “mullet” (as in the 80s hairstyle, not the fish).
Got the ladies of the 80s from here to White Castle,
This is dF
I can’t say too much about him as an individual, mainly because I always thought of Beasties Boys as a unit, so I didn’t distinguish much between the individual members.
As for the Beasties …
I fully confess that, like a lot of people at the time Licensed To Ill came out, I thought they were a joke at first. Most people I knew hated them because (1) they were rap, which meant they sucked by default, (2) they used music samples, which meant they had no talent at all by default, and (3) they ran around like idiots yelling about their right to party and they had a big inflatable cock as a stage prop, which meant they were offensive knuckleheads.
Personally I didn’t hate them for any of those things – by the time I heard License To Ill, I was already into Run-DMC and Slick Rick and Bobby Jimmy and other 80s rap acts, and I have no problem with big inflatable cocks – but apart from my lack of interest in partying as a verb, I thought they were somewhat gimmicky. They were a bit too obviously going for shock value, and I figured if that was all they had going for them, they probably weren’t going to last long.
As it turned out, they had far more going for them than most people suspected. You probably know how that worked out for them.
For all that, I never really bought their music – I suppose because they were ubiquitous enough that I didn’t need to. But I tend to like what I hear.
Anyway, since you’ll probably be seeing enough of their music videos in the next 48 hours, here’s a clip from an installment of Oprah in 1986 in which Tipper Gore talks about how dangerous and nasty those Beastie Boys are.
Recommended for the added bonus of seeing Jello Biafra on the Oprah show in a suit.
FUN FACT: Apropos of that last guy in the video, the Beastie Boys also coined the term “mullet” (as in the 80s hairstyle, not the fish).
Got the ladies of the 80s from here to White Castle,
This is dF
