The internet.... I'm not going to talk about it's impact, and it's stance as a modern day tool to fire freak missles from yr own private bunker, but I am going to post this...
Tonetta777
There's a chance he's never felt the touch of a woman... There's a chance he has, but whist gaffataping her mouth in the boot of his car... There's a chance he's a musical genius... There's a chance he's behind you right now putting a skewer through the head of his penis whilst shitting in a tube... Just watch... And hope he doesn't live nextdoor to you... I just can't shake the feeling that we'll be looking back at this guy after it's found out he's killed 30 people in a whole different light.
Beastie Boys were legit as fuck. Dudes with a fresh take on the world, living and loving whatever the hell they were doing, and doing it like no one else before them, even when they were completely ripping people off (sup RUN DMC). The late 80s & early 90s in hip hop were a serious place to be, and made a fuckload more exciting due to their involvement, starting (their hip hop career, i'm not really counting their Punk era, even though Egg Raid & Cookiepuss are pretty mega) by laughing at the ridiculous nature of hip hop whilst still obviously loving the genre completely all the while trying to hold a mirror up to the moronic side of american party culture, then having that mirror swallow them whole. That could have killed lesser men, and I have always been in awe of how they just walked out of that into Pauls Boutique, I mean, they didn't have much choice as men of taste, but much to the critics dispair at the time, they dropped a hotbed of modern hip hop with the help of the Dust Brothers, which confused the shit out of most, myself included, but man how I loved that record once it settled in after a day or so. But i'm not going to discount their 'ill' days, the Beasties were the greatest party band of all time, even if they did get lost in it. Just teenagers with a budget gettin' loose as fuck with their buddies. Imagine having fame on your back when you were first starting to really party? Fuck that.
So then they walk into Check Your Head, cementing the fact that these motherfuckers were basically immortal for a good stretch of time. Anyway, for those of you who don't know too much of the early Beasties mayhem, here's my Beasties tribute. Kick back, crack a bud & smoke a bag of dust and get with it!
I'll try to keep this shit chronological.
1985:This interview for what looks like a public access channel for their 'Shes On It' single starts with a stallionic Rick Rubin flicking his hair to their left. This is pretty loose, but it's a good window into their first tastes of fame, and how young they were when it hit.
1987: Two years later, and the boys have gotten a bit more savvy with their interviewing skills. The interviewer is a complete idiot, but knows their secret love of... arm wrestling?
This is a clip from 1987 as well, from their Licenced To Ill VHS to be exact. You know all those press shots and film clips of the Beasties partying? This is the reality. I actually think this is somewhat staged, but man, it's pretty rivetting either way... Heads up for the honey drop, MCA coppin' a cheeky fingerpop and Adrock getting a final brewski sip in.
More LTI VHS magic, general bro-in' about
and one more, with the Rhymin' & Stealin video clip. If anyone has the whole of the VHS, hit me up!
1989: So Licenced to Ill has done it's dash, the world thinks the Beasties are the most hella party jocks of all time 1989 interview just before Pauls Boutique drops, MCA ain't no Shrimp toast, but Adrock likes shrimp toast.
You know what? In my treks for the best beasties footage, I found a copy of an MTV Bio done in 1998, which is fucking amazing and it displays two things. 1. Beasties ruled and 2. MTV was actually a good station once. It covers the entire important part of their career, has amazing OG footage that i've never seen and interviews with legends like Chuck D & DMC. Ten parts, lets do this!
If I ever make a song as bumpin' as Shake Your Rump, i'll die a happy man... Oh well. On the outro tip, have a little bit of Check era Beasties ripping balls doing 'Live At PJs' on Letterman
Sup. I should preface this with a bit of what's going down & what my point of being here is... CHECK THIS ORIGINAL FLAVOR!! A blog by a disgruntled idiot with a chip on his shoulder of how things have gone, and where they're headed.., how novel. But basically I just want to make a small pocket where I can do what all aging dudes do and shine a light on what they perceive as their own 'glory years', back when things were simpler, when you could lie on your skateboard listening to Public Enemy on a walkman watching the sun set over your house, of when you'd ride BMXs around the block at night to go egging with your friend, when you'd put on a new record and have your stomach roll out in backflips of excitement as you peak through the curtains of a window to a world you never knew existed.
I often ponder what it's like to be a late teen these days. So much of that time is delving into the unknown, of discovery, uncertainty and angst, but now with the internet, and access to any whim for information, I wonder how that feels. Do kids still pour over album covers for info, daydream about how someone would have made something as unfathomable as Star Wars, or would they just wiki it the second it enters their mind? Do they have the heavy blanket of anticipation whilst trying to unravel the secrets of a creative mind or body you would give anything to understand? Where does that leave a kid? Does it strip the base mechanism that builds nostalgia itself?
So maybe this is me trying to bridge that gap. Maybe share the feelings I have of those times in comparison, or maybe i'm just into feeling those feelings again as they become more abstract as the years march on, as my friends have their own kids to go through those first experiences again. So here are my golden years, of music & popular culture, perhaps i'll be showing some hidden gold to some, or reliving magical moments for others. Really, I don't give a fuck, I just wanna post some videos and songs from the 80s and 90s, because as much as I think the internet could be ruining it for kids today in some way, it's the greatest tool for nostalgia fools ever. We grew up begging for info, craving it, and now we can get it, it's time to OD. So yeah, another 80s/ 90s nostalgia blog... But if you don't like it, my nuts are here for suckin'.
