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Anyone who does not own "Paul's Boutique" should buy it immediately. :)

Only really know a handful of these lads' songs, which I mostly enjoy, but I'll say it again: fuck cancer. Ugh. :(

Man, I literally came into this thread to say that.

Very sad news. I was a HUGE Beastie Boys fan in the nineties and have kept following them ever since. Adam Yauch might not have been one of the most gifted musicians that ever lived, but his creativity and natural coolness easily made up for that. And he always seemed like a really nice and mellow guy to me. RIP.

f*** cancer with a righteous fury. Used to listen to The Beastie Boys all the time as a kid..... Absolutely amazing MC's and musicians. 

RIP.

Time to dig out my old cds.

Way too young. His years were not wasted. He was a great guy and a great musician. RIP

Not a huge fan but I was familiar with the hits..

What a huge tragedy, always sad to see somebody go so young. My heard goes out to his wife, kids, parents and the rest of the Beastie Boys

When I was a little kid, my dad got remarried, so I met some new family members, and now had a stepbrother.  He was a big Beastie Boys fan, and played me "Brass Monkey" which I had never heard anything like that.  It was almost like forbidden music, lol.  Later I grew to love all of their stuff, especially after a beautiful friend of mine (a pretty hot blonde) amazed me by knowing ALL the lyrics to ALL the songs, and loved reciting them after school parked in the parking lot in her car. 

















So my point just being, guys like MCA affect the world much more than he ever could have even realized, countless hours were spent with my friends enjoying his music... he was a huge source of happiness in the world, and there's a small void out there now that he's gone.  God bless him for what he gave us.

Whoa, why did I think you were way older than what this post implies.

So sad to hear when anyone so young dies.  I was a Beastie Boys fan as a kid (hadn't listened to them in years until tonight, honestly), and MCA was a fantastic talent who will be missed. 

Always a bummer when someone you grew up listening to passes away - makes you feel old, you know? 

When I read that he was to sick to attend the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction, I knew that he would be gone soon. I'm not really a fan of their music, but it still sucks when somebody you remember as a kid growing up dies. I have a pretty vivid memory of watching them perform Sabatoge from the VMA's. It seems like a lifetime ago.

Just for the good times :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOKXYLRIs0o

I'm gutted. A huge band for me in '87. Had the VW badge and everything.

Seriously sad news.

Licensed To Ill memory: a group of us would get together at the local park to play basketball, usually after school when the weather was nice, and there was this older dude whose name I can't remember who would usually show up with a boombox in one hand and a basketball dribbling in the other. No one knew too much about him or didn't want to, other than he was good to have on a team because he could actually play. Kind of strange, though.

So he'd show up to the ballfield/courts and the boombox would start up - usually he would have "Licensed To Ill" blasting in the cassette deck. When the music played, he'd get a different attitude and kind of get a B-Boy walk/strut thing going, and he'd be grooving to the music. We'd always laugh, then egg him on - especially when the one song would come on: This guy would start doing the moves, singing "Ali Baba and the forty thieves, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, Ali Baba and the forty thieves..." in his best rap swagger, and it was fucking hilarious. He was totally, 100% sincere, and it was funny.

The Beastie Boys were the soundtrack that year and the next one too (only for basketball, when the skateboards and BMX dudes were there it was either punk or INXS (yep, INXS one year because Devil Inside had a cool skater video...), then we got too old to enjoy simple things like that.

And of course who didn't like the video for "Fight For Your Right..."? I found out later that one of my crushes Tabitha Soren (smart, beautiful, normal...) was in the video before getting a gig on MTV. Damn.

Paul's Boutique is one of my favorites. I remember watching the "premiere" of "Hey Ladies" on MTV at a friend's house, and I remember that at that time, especially among certain age groups, the whole notion of 70's retro-disco nostalgia was *not* hip or cool, in fact quite the opposite for most of the "hip" and "cool" folks. At least the ones we knew or thought we knew.

Then here was the Beastie Boys, coming out with a new song, a new sound, and basking in the glories of the disco era, from fashion to the beats to the Saturday Night Fever references in that video. Damn, it was refreshing and the video was awesome.

Later I got Paul's Boutique (on cassette) and was blown away by the sounds. I was thrilled to hear those sound collages, sampling of Beatles tunes, country clips that sounded vaguely familiar, and that killer sample of the Isley's "Who's That Lady" that killed me every time I played it.

Good times, great band, good memories. Sorry for rambling, but it always feels different when someone from that era who you grew up with in a way dies. Tough to explain.

My Licence To Ill stories are too legion to go into, but suffice to say I was a MAJOR fan, aged 15, in 1987. By the next year though I was a Beach Boys fan, and hip hop was most definitely out.

The older you get though, the more fondly you look back. I have to say I've been feeling a bit sad and empty the last few days since the news broke.

And an interesting note on Paul's Boutique. It is often referred to as the "Pet Sounds" of hip hop. I think this is not only because it is so good, and extremely influential, but also because, like Pet Sounds, it came for the most unexpected source.

And a note on the Fight For Your Right Video, if you liked that, you'll love this. All Yauch's work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evA-R9OS-Vo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evA-R9OS-Vo)