The thing is – I can go out and buy everything to get those looks from Zara, GAP, etc, this season while this photo was taken almost 4 decades ago! I’m sure I couldn’t buy anything in 1984 to achieve the looks of 1947 except in vintage stores.
While we’re seeing all those crazy designer cloths from Balenciaga, Gucci, etc and living in a world of fast disposable fashions, most of us still somehow dress the way we were back in the mid 1980s as if fashion hasn’t changed at all.
Album was so good the North Korean leader put it in his name when he came to power in ’94. It was also the inspiration for his own album I Told You I Was Ill that won many awards after his passing.
As someone who didn’t live back when they were on top and as someone who doesn’t understand their influence… can I just ask what made the Beastie Boys so hot? Like everyone loved them and I’m just so curious what got them so much publicity.
I was in high school in NYC when the album came out and we all hated “Fight For your Right” and the whole frat image they had. They seemed like white little posers at the time, even though some of my friends knew them from the Lower East Side downtown. They were way more popular in the suburbs than here in the city, so I ignored them.
It wasn’t until Paul’s Boutique that I recognized their genius, and then loved Licensed to Ill. It holds up well, except I still hate Fight for Your Right, the one frattish hold-out from the album.
I saw them live a few times in the early 90s (Palladium, The Building), and by then they wouldn’t play anything from their first album except for Slow and Low. I think it was because of all the misogynistic lyrics (they had steady girlfriends/wives to contend with).
I saw them on an episode of Futurama, this morning. I was thinking they wow didn’t have a ton of natural talent, but they were amazing dudes that still made some iconic, damn good music.
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One of the great parody albums.
I wore the first copy of the record I had down playing it so much; no worries, I got a replacement
The end of good popular music. This is the dividing line.
I think you know what time it is…
RIP MCA
I’ve met them … They were cool 😎😁
8 days before my 16th birthday. I saw them play with RUN DMC on this tour about a year later
They look pretty cocky for a trio of young men that were chased from the stage by a crowd of Madonna Wanna Be, ten minutes into their act.
At the time I swore these guys would be one hit wonders. But glad I was wrong.
I was a senior in high school and I don’t think I got in a car that didn’t have this cassette playing from now until the end of the year.
Did they sleep when they got to Brooklyn?
my paper route was never the same again
I think Paul’s Boutique was their best album
The thing is – I can go out and buy everything to get those looks from Zara, GAP, etc, this season while this photo was taken almost 4 decades ago! I’m sure I couldn’t buy anything in 1984 to achieve the looks of 1947 except in vintage stores.
While we’re seeing all those crazy designer cloths from Balenciaga, Gucci, etc and living in a world of fast disposable fashions, most of us still somehow dress the way we were back in the mid 1980s as if fashion hasn’t changed at all.
My first concert ever was Beastie Boys in 2004. They played Paul Revere. It was incredible.
You wanna know why
Because I…
OCTOBER THIRTY FIRST
THAT IS MY DATE OF BIRTH
I GOT TO THE PARTY
YOU KNOW I DID THE SMURF
Is that outside Tavern in the Green?
I had a weird nostalgic need to listen to this yesterday.
Premature yet again.
I tried to show this picture to my parents, but only my dad thought it was cool
I said, Mom, you’re just jealous it’s THE BEASTIE BOYS!
I did not know I shared the same b-day as licensed to ill, Very cool.
First Album I ever bought. The year was 1999.
WHATS THE TIME
r/BeastieBoys
Is that Esteban Ocon ?
Fight for your right was my class song in junior high.
I used to play the album all the time but my mom kept busting in.
I was blown away when I saw them perform on SNL and they were all playing instruments.
Crazy talented.
Screw those guys and their hood ornaments. Cars in my neighborhood got vandalized because of those punks, including my aunt’s.
Album was so good the North Korean leader put it in his name when he came to power in ’94. It was also the inspiration for his own album I Told You I Was Ill that won many awards after his passing.
I had that on cassette. Gosh. I’m old.
So hard to pronounce that title.
As someone who didn’t live back when they were on top and as someone who doesn’t understand their influence… can I just ask what made the Beastie Boys so hot? Like everyone loved them and I’m just so curious what got them so much publicity.
NO
1 lonely beastie i be
Alla by myself without nobody
Sun is beating down on my baseball HAT
Air is getting hot, beer is getting flat
Lookn for a girl, i ran into a guy
His name wass MCA
I said howdy, he said HI
No sleep till Brooklyn..
My first cassette
First CD I bought! If I dug deep enough I probably still have it.
RIP Adam
What’s the time?
I was in high school in NYC when the album came out and we all hated “Fight For your Right” and the whole frat image they had. They seemed like white little posers at the time, even though some of my friends knew them from the Lower East Side downtown. They were way more popular in the suburbs than here in the city, so I ignored them.
It wasn’t until Paul’s Boutique that I recognized their genius, and then loved Licensed to Ill. It holds up well, except I still hate Fight for Your Right, the one frattish hold-out from the album.
I saw them live a few times in the early 90s (Palladium, The Building), and by then they wouldn’t play anything from their first album except for Slow and Low. I think it was because of all the misogynistic lyrics (they had steady girlfriends/wives to contend with).
I was lucky enough to see this group six times.
It’s just a masterpiece album. I’m privileged to grow up listening to new beastie boy records.
I was exactly 11 months old
The only cassette tape I ever wore out due to use
EGG RAID ON MOJO! EGG RAID ON MOJO!!
badass song from their punk days pre-ill
They are the reason my VW car emblem got stolen 3 times back in the late 80’s!
I saw them on an episode of Futurama, this morning. I was thinking they wow didn’t have a ton of natural talent, but they were amazing dudes that still made some iconic, damn good music.
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