Yauch twelve years gone.
Three very solid albums. Paul’s, Check and Ill… plenty of okay and a little crap.
I grew up on Check Your Head and Ill Communication as much as Songs about Fucking and Spiderland. New Zealand in the 1990s was basically Beastie Land. Beasties, Palace Bros and Helmet were the general soundtrack for the skater crowd I was in during my formative years. The band meant a lot to me, I actually cried in public when I read Yauch died.
It would be easy to comment on the Frat Boy of License to Ill but that vibe was dropped pretty fast and all expressed embarrassment and apologised for the sexism.
A not crap from me. But I’m incredibly biased.
The Beastie Boys
1clocker bob may 30, 2006 wrote:I think the possibility of interbreeding between an earthly species and an extraterrestrial species is as believable as any other explanation for the existence of George W. Bush.