Stimpy's new tooth: santadog: Seen them 8 times live. Best shows, always fun to be at. Will miss those.

I'm so uber jealous of you....they were the one band left on my "bands to see before I or they die".

I'm old. I had plenty of chances. I wish I would have seen more.

goddammit so much.

downstairs: And to the rest of your comment I didn't quote... CNN is covering this as breaking news, and indeed MTV's got nothing. *sigh*

Sigh indeed.

Stimpy's new tooth: santadog: Jerkwater: Tyrone Biggums: I remember when License to Ill came out. My brother and I thought it was the best thing ever. And if I recall correctly, it was on the Billboard top 100 well into the 90's.

RIP

And then Paul's Boutique came out, which really was the best thing ever.

This many times over.
HUGE album.

Have you heard "Hot Sauce Committee"? It was just released last year, and it's every bit as good as anything they've done, IMNSHO.

I have not, but now I will.

dunno why the whole quote didn't go through, but thanks again.

bungle_jr: now blasting "hot sauce committee" on my earphones at work in his honor. i just realized i apparently don't have any of their other stuff currently on my mp3 player

I have to check that out now. Haven't heard it.
Love your name.

Damn. That bummed me out.

I remember waiting outside the record store for Pauls Boutique to drop. I rode my bike to the mall with my boom box because I couldn't wait to get home to hear it. I rode around until my batteries died blasting that shiat. That tape changed my life and was a major part of my teenage sound track. When your heroes die it really sucks but when they are only a few years older than you are it hurts a little more. I'm sitting here crying over the death of a stranger, and to have that kind of impact on someone you never physically met is the sign of a well-lived life as an artist. Thank you.
I'm haveing a big ol bowl of Pollywog Stew for lunch followed by some B-Boy Boulliabase.
fark.

And so it begins.

RIP MCA.

Just as Stevie Wonder took urban music and made it urbane, the Beastie Boys took urban music and made it suburban, both giving the genre much needed exposure and capital.

RIP, yo.

queezyweezel: Lets get this thread rolling by telling your favorite Beastie Boys memory.

At my friend's bachelor party, after we had gotten kicked out of a strip club because one dumbass with us tried to sit in someone's wheelchair, we were driving back home, and Fight for your Right came on. So naturally, all of us being drunk launched in to singing it at the top of our goddamn lungs. Well, one of the guys had a raging case of the hiccups. There are very few things funnier to me than someone else with uncontrollable hiccups. YOU GOT[hic]TA FIGHT! So me and my friend are just laughing our asses off at him, still singing, and he is getting more and more pissed off at being laughed at, drunk, trying to sing, but can't, and he's yelling at us YOU SO[hic]NS OF BI[hic]TCHES, and that's even funnier. To this day, that's the first thing that comes to mind when I hear Fight for your Right.