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- From: s14335rd@UMASSD.EDU (W'zup)
- Subject: Beasties
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- Organization: UMASS DARTMOUTH, NO. DARTMOUTH, MA.
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:00:31 GMT
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- Check this out:
-
- ****** Now this wasn't originally meant to be posted to alt.rap but
- anyone with an open mind who is well rounded in their musical
- experience (as I am) should read on...
-
- Oh, and since this is about
- the B-boys, I might as well add that I agree with the whoever it was
- that said that the war between the Beasties and 3rdBass should stop.
- It is kinda silly considering they represent two different kinds of
- music. So, in regard to someone's statement about the Beastie Boys'
- lyrical content, it doesn't conform to the same standards as 3rdBass's
- so it's stupid to compare them really. The Beastie Boys kind of
- reflect the old rock attitude (like Run-DMC, etc... did) where lyrics
- didn't mean shit, while 3rdBass goes by a whole different set of
- rules. (personally, the style I like more depends on the kind of mood
- I'm in, which is why I don't tie myself into one kind of music or
- group. Try it.)
-
-
- I don't know if anyone's ever seen this book (the name is at the end of
- each article) but remember, while you're reading his rhetorical attack
- on the b-boys, that "License..." was number 30 on his top 500 list.
- He has a unique way of expressing his appreciation for the Beasties.
- (and everyone else on his top 500 list!) Well, here it is:
-
-
- BEASTIE BOYS, License to Ill, Def Jam, 1986
-
- "Fueled by alcohol and junk food and angel dust, three white Brooklyn Heights
- and Manhattan smartasses, let loose in their wildest and most diseased day-
- dreams, piss all over the sober face of socially acceptable adult decorum.
- Reveling in orgiastic fantasies of next-big-thing rock stardom, they pillage
- with hammer-of-the-gods riffs burglarized from Tony Iommi and Jimmy Page, all
- atop Bronxzilla beats enormous enough to turn skateboards into rocket ships.
- Laying claim to the collective bravado of Bill Haley and Bobby Fuller and
- Brownsville Station and Johnny Rotten, demanding a riot of its own like the
- reggae-enamored early Clash, this suburban saturnalia hoards the irreverent
- cool of black and white kid-rebellion, cross-ethnically merging symbols of
- American adolescence like nobody before or since.
- Ad-Rock, Mike D, and MCA inhabit a teenage wasteland of swirlies and Wiffle-
- ball bats and ripped-off ten-speeds, Colonel Sanders and Rice-a-Roni, Ed
- Norton and Phyllis Diller, Old Crow and Budweiser and Thunderbird wine; their
- signifying monkey is the Brass kind. They do the wild thing with "ladies of
- the eighties" and "classy hos," dance the smurf and freak and Popeye and Jerry
- Lewis, hang perfume pines from rearview mirrors so their Lincoln Continentals
- won't smell, get ill eyein' homehards shootin' jive turkeys in the back. They
- turn Richard Pryor's "Bicentennial Nigger" inside out.
- Rick Rubin plunders the hard-rock past like nobody's business: massive skins
- from "When the Levee Breaks," crude jolts from "Sweet Leaf," snippets from
- "The Ocean" and War's "Low Rider" and Creedence and Barry White and Mr. Ed
- here, verbals from "Fly Like an Eagle" and "Take the Money and Run" and "No
- More No More" there. All these salvaged shards are used to make connections,
- to outline youthcult perimeters. And when the brattiness falls together into
- a delerious delinquent anthem like "Fight for Your Right (to Party)," or "No
- Sleep 'til Brooklyn" (phrase from Motorhead, glaciated guitar from Slayer's
- Kerry King), or a google-eyed ghetto-gangster brag like "The New Style," I
- can't figure why even a black supremacist would resist."
-
- -- from "Stairway to Hell" (c) 1989 by Chuck Eddy
- ("The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe" -- this was #30)
-
-
- BEASTIE BOYS, Rock Hard, Def Jam EP, 1985
-
- "The mightiest rap record of its year, an inept, idiotic, sniveling, parodic,
- brutish, grating circus-of-fleas backed by AC/DC's "Back in Black" and Zep's
- "Black Dog" (note the fixation on nonwhite hue), with technoburban cultural
- referents galore: TV test patterns, cumulus clouds on the Weather Channel,
- B-boys too dumb to play their own instruments, big tools of reproduction doing
- the Alamo. The full-throttle tempo in "Beastie Groove" originates from
- Treacherous Three's "The New Rap Language," but the attitudes-at-large conjure
- an image largely comprising two hairy palms protecting future film star
- Ad-Rock's urinary plumbing, where he deserves to get kicked silly."
-
- -- from "Stairway to Hell" (c) 1991 by Chuck Eddy
- ("The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe" -- this was #79)
-
-
-
- Later,
- ROB
-