how did you come across this incredible group?

[jackrock]

i was 6, i was watching tv with my older bro (some music channel) and 'intergalactic' came on. i was like hypnotised by the incredible sound, i loved it!
anyways, years later around when TT5B came out, i was thinking of music i liked, and all of a sudden i remembered that sound, that song, didn't know what it was called, so i watched MM for a while till it came on. sure enough it did. soon i was on my way getting more and more bboys songs.
that's my story what's yours?

[pip07]

Haha, you said "come"

[jackrock]

Haha, you said "come"
lol where?

[enree erzweglle]

thread title

and the word "across" follows it

[P.T.B.A.I.]

I wish they'd cum across me... :(

[BroomHead]

^^LMAO.
I kinda worked backwards. I first heard Ch-Check It Out. Then I bought IC, then LTI, then CYH, then PB, and finally HN.

[enree erzweglle]

Google search for a book title that happened to share the name with a Beasties song.

Read the lyrics.

Came here.

Got hooked on the band and then you people.

[TopazJAK]

Google search for a book title that happened to share the name with a Beasties song.

Read the lyrics.

Came here.

Got hooked on the band and then you people.

Which song?

[enree erzweglle]

Which song?
bodhisattva vow

If you google "bodhisattva vow" a link to the BB lyrics appears in the results, just around the fold.

When I googled it originally (Spring 2004) the link to the lyrics was maybe third on the list in the results.

[Lex Diamonds]

Adrock is my uncle.

[jackrock]

thread title

and the word "across" follows it
hahaha oops

[Mr.Right]

About 10 Years ago when I saw the "Sabotage" Video on MTV.

[djc1980]

i saw the so whatcha want video on beavis and butthead back in 1994,then on other episodes i saw pass the mic,sabotage,gratitude damn i miss that show

[Chicka B]

Hey, I "came across" them when I watched that $2 bill show on mtv2. Haha, I'm laughing so hard right now. :confused:

[TopazJAK]

I first heard them when Fight for your Right was playing on the radio. I became a diehard fan when Paul's Boutique was released.

[Miss Jonni D]

I just recently found out that I heard them for the first time when I was a year and a half...I went on a road trip with my grandma and uncle and I was screaming the whole time, and my uncle had the liscence to ill tape in his walkman, put it on my head..and I shut the hell up. But the first time I knew what I was listening to, Girls was playing on the radio..and then they played brass monkey and it was over.... I was hooked!

Miss Jonni D

[Miss_miner]

I first heard them when Fight for your Right was playing on the radio.

Yep me too- back in 86. I was in 5th grade and I was hooked!


Damn I feel old. :(

[timmie]

I feel so old!! hehehehe......I was hooked when I saw the She's on it video (Live) from the Crush Groove days & when NSTB & FFYR was released back in 85/86!! I was 12/13, then I could breakdance..........still can a little?!?!?!

[laurie_hammy]

my cousin let me borrow one of there cd's

[JasonP]

I got hooked when I saw them at CBGBs in '83. Damn I miss John Berry...He would have been a dope MC.

[sheesh]

Someone brought LTI to high school back in the mid eighties. It was the best thing I'd heard in a long time.

[n1keman]

I first saw the 'Ch-ch-check it out' video and quite liked it, then I saw the 3 MC's 1 DJ video and was instantly hooked. I then went on an album buying spree. :D :D

Now theres NOT MUCH that i listen to that is not Beastie related. :cool:

[TopazJAK]

Yep me too- back in 86. I was in 5th grade and I was hooked!


Damn I feel old. :(

Don't feel old. I was in high school! :D

[wanton wench]

thread title

and the word "across" follows it

and then he said came on!! hee hee

[wanton wench]

I wish they'd cum across me... :(
they might if you didnt have bedbugs feeling you up!
noone wants competition in the bedroom! :D

[minorthreat]

i saw fight for your right on mtv years ago, and liked it and then forgot about it. i then heard ch-check it out last year and remembered i liked them.

[Raina]

When did I first see them...?

Oh, me and my cousins who lived with me would watch mtv every morning before going to school. The Sabotage video came up and I thought that they were really weird....which is why I like them!!! I didn't become a big fan until Hello Nasty though.

-^___^
(=^.^=)

^kitty

[Weezman]

Ok the Weezman was 15 at the time....going on 16. I recorded videos that were on the MTV. I happen to get the first air play of "Fight for your Right...on MTV. I was just starting to go into High School. After seeing that video....i was like..."I want to hang out with those guys and party like them".

Well I bought my 1st fresh copy of Liscence to ILL. Took it to a weekend sleep over/house party. Changed my whole lifestyle, attitude, and outlook on hip-hop. Got laid too...hee hee!! No group has effected me since. But I see groups that follow there style...Gorillaz, Beck, Fun Lovin Criminals, the Roots, .......and a very, very taint-bit of Limp Biscuit and Kid Rock. Eminem has his moments...as far as originallity...and viscious flow...and Dre's beats help him out aLOT. Em couldn't f' with the beasties on his best...or there worst day.

Pauls Boutique....those were the experimental party days.....Check your Head was time to be a little more creative by going back to school.....Ill Communication was a settling down period....Hello Nasty, was hello wife.......TT5B....i still "freak a fukin' beat like the $hit was in a blender"!!!

Lets just put it this way fellow B-BOYS/B-GIRLies....my youngest son is named "ADAM".

WERD!!!!

LONG LIVE BEASTIES!!

[Weezman]

Yep me too- back in 86. I was in 5th grade and I was hooked!


Damn I feel old. :(


You?? I was in H.S. 86' sophmore year. Just in time to PARTY!!!

Been a fan ever since!!

Hi, my name is "Weezman", and im a BEASTIE-AhoLic. :)

[ilona-maaria]

i heard ch-ch-check it out and bought the tt5b. I'm so young that i hadn't really heard them that much before that. Here in Finland they don't get played that much.

[cj hood]

1986.....7th grade........together forever......19 years later......i'm chillin on their website....

[Funkyfreshgrape]

when I was a baby my dad would listen to them. And now I love the beastie boys! :D

[timmie]

I'm now 31 started listening at the age of 12/13 as mentioned before!! I would of loved to of seen them at there LTI tour but my very first BBOY gig was in 1998 @ Brixton (London) for an exclusive gig for the Hello Nasty Tour!! but seen them now about 6 times!! each one is just so spectacular, lots of video's & pics but best ones are at the ICA London 2004! competetion winner I was at the front only a 30/40 set, very exclusive in front of only 200 people as you can imagine very small & very intimate!!

And also Dec 2004!! Backstage VIP at the London Wembley!! Wow! met & shoke hands & chatted to MCA, Mix Master Mike, Alfredo (hes the man) Mike D!!!! MCA's wife & daughter!!! I could go on & on!!!! :D

[Laver1969]

1986....11th grade. Hooked ever since.

[OperatorSwitch]

On the way to the beach my brother used to blair Brass Monkey in the back seats on his boombox. I then became a fan.

[Rawr]

1999 just before the 20th cent came, i was browsing my tv and found this weird music video what was really Sabotage by the beastie boys... i thought it was funny and cool. but i never really checked them up and forgot about them. then somewhere around this year i was watching futurama and the beastie boys where on it, and i reconized the name beastie boys and just knew it was them from the video i saw way way back..from then on i've gotten why more knowlege abale about them and there my fav band now..

[!!!brittany!!!]

i was in grade 3 when hello nasty came out
and my brother and i used to always love watching the beastie boys videos on much music (ie. intergalactic, body movin) and we would tape them
so i liked them

and than in gr 7 i asked the boy i liked what he was listening to and he said "beastie boys.. brass monkey" and started singing it.. and since then i have been a big fan!!

[paulb]

Sept 10th, 1998. I will never forget that day. It changed my life.

[discopants]

October 2001 (i should bake a cake or something to celebrate my 4th anniversary) I got the anthology when it was cheaper in a sale. I only had memories of Intergalactic, FFYR and the Sabotage video. I thought I'd wasted £12 at first but I soon got into it.

[laurie_hammy]

my cousin let me borrow one of there cd's

Didnt finish this off. Anyway back in 98 my cousin had Hello Nasty, and I didnt know who they were. Anyway me and my brother were in his room listening to 3 MC's And One DJ, and Intergalactic, and he also had Body Movin Fat Boy Slim Remix playing as well, dunno where he had gotten it from. I asked him if I could borrow the cd and he let me. Went home listened to 3 MC and Intergalactic and Remote Control soooo many times. I saw Intergalactic on a music video show and I was like "so thats what they look like" I remember thinking "construction workers posing through a mall SiK". Anyway didnt listen to em between then at TT5B and when I saw the Triple Trouble video on TV I realised it was them, bought the album, got every other album etc etc etc. Havnt gotten SiK of em for over a year now. Im happy I discovered the Beastie's, Thanks Cuz :cool:

[Lowjams]

I knew about the Beastie Boys for awhile. But I didnt start to listen to them. Untill I found a tape somebody made layin on the ground. One side was labled Beastie Boys. So I took it home popped it in. Later I found out is was a copy they made of the album Licensed to Ill. Only thing was there version excluded the song Girls. I now have all the CDs. And there one of my favorite bands.

[marshall10]

I had heard various songs without knowing who they were sung by, until last summer I saw Ch-Check It out in a music store and heard it being played, aswell as hearing it on the radio that sam eday. In the evening I decided to go onto this website and watched videos, finding a few songs I had heard a while before. I then got a copy of TT5B from my good friend Mantle and decided to ge ta ticket to the Glasgow gig of the pagaent tour in December.
ONE QUALITY NIGHT

[DapperDiverge]

The very first encounter I can recall was when I was about 3 or 4 years old in '88 or '89... I'm pretty sure it could've been '89 because that's when Paul's Boutique came out.My parents had cable and I knew my way around a television remote since the age of 2. Anyways, I was channel surfing, remember I'm just 4, and stumbed upon Mtv,... Ya know, when they used to show videos!!!

Anyways, I think it was one of their Spring Break shows or Summer Break shows because I remember the Beastie Boys being at the beach either being inerviewed for their new album or were guest VJ's, I have no idea I was just 4!!! But I've never forgot!! (y)

[Chicka B]

This is waaay long, and I doubt anybody's gonna read it but....

Ok ok ok ok, this is how I came across them for real now. It all starts way back when I was 6 years old a looong time ago, like about 9 years, and I saw the video Intergalactic. Damn, that video and their name really stuck out or something because I remembered them 8 years later when I saw the video for Check It Out. When I first saw the video for Ch-Check It Out I wasn't paying attention and I was sort of confused, I'm like who the hell is these dudes and who's who? Because they were like different people and it was just confusing the hell outta me and I couldn't understand what they were saying or talking about. Now I do though. But I was like, this video is so fucking annoying it comes on every other video! Then I read the thing you know where it says the name in the corner after and before the video it I was like, "Beastie Boys? They sound familiar!" and then I remember later at night I saw that Live from the 5 Boroughs thing on MTV where they play that game and I'm like "These dudes are funny! And hot!" and then I saw the 2 dolla bill thingie on MTV and I'm like "These guys are cool!....and sexy!" Then when I got on the internet I was just browsin and their name just popped in my head "Beastie Boys....hmm" So I searched and went to a whole bunch of sights, and finally I came to the official one and learned all about them and got jealous at how much the fans on here knew. And not even a week later the Just Blaze remix video came on Fuse while I was at my friend's house and her cousin Brandon was there and I'm like "Oh that's the Beastie Boys!" and Brandon says "Yeah, I got their new cd To The 5 Boroughs. Wanna listen to it?" and I'm like "Hell ya!" and I listened to it and liked it A LOT and I was like "Wow these dudes are awsome rappers!" and he burned the cd for me so I could listen to it til I got it myself, and I wanted the unedited version cuz he got his at WalMart. So I went to get all their cds 1 by 1 and loved em! And dats da story on how I came across this incredible group! :D

[jackrock]

^^ hah i read it all!


and i started (at the beginning anyways) by seeing intergalactic video when i was 6, and years later i was thinking of songs and bam! hah weird huh?

[Laver1969]

Sept 10th, 1998. I will never forget that day. It changed my life.

What happened on Sept. 10, 1998?

[paulb]

VMAs....

[Chicka B]

^^ hah i read it all!


and i started (at the beginning anyways) by seeing intergalactic video when i was 6, and years later i was thinking of songs and bam! hah weird huh?

Yeah makes sense, that song was really popular when it came out. It's weird because they were everywhere and I liked them before I even knew who they were! So I was destined to be a fan or something! Yeah, for example, my dad had No Sleep Til Brooklyn for his alarm and I liked it, my Uncle played LTI all the time, I heard the song Sabotage alot on the radio and liked it, I was waiting in the car for my mom at a grocery store and I was listening to Brass Monkey on the radio and didn't know who they were but some dude next to me (which later became my boyfriend, but not no more) was like "Turn it up that's a good song." You know what I'm sayin? Just weird. Sorry, typed too much again. :o

[jackrock]

hah cool! ^^^ and again read it all!

[marshall10]

You could have cut that down a bit Chicka B, but an interesting story.

[Nomen Nescio]

I'm 27 years old and in 1989 my friends older brother had their newest album. I was listening to it and I think he came home with his girlfriend or something and wanted us (my friend and I) to get out of the house so he said I could have the tape.

I do remember at the time that I had heard them before but wasn't into them enough to realize who they were until I heard Paul's Boutique.

First time I ever officially "came across" them was one of the LTI songs, probably FFYR on MTV.

I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it, I don't buy cheeba, I grow it!

[fonky pizza]

I came across this group in the 80's with Fight for your right video clip and liked them a lot, I had a very cool picture of the BBoys on my school agenda and on that same page there was a Bard grafitti I made cause I was wearing a Bard sweater I love that an friend from NY gave me during the holydays. That's fun cause I heard on the Howard Stern interview that 1 of them went to Bard college but I can't tell who's speaking( anybody know?)
Anyway, school ended and I totally forgot about them for 10 years. Until the day I met the drummer of my band and he brought some hip hop and acid jazz music and I said cool what’s that? It’s the Beastie boys!!!!! Wow! I said. It was the In sound from way out album, Ill communication, Root Down ep. Then I got all the other records Paul’s Boutique what a trip! and more, The GR Magazine, the Tibetan freedom concert, I definitely connected to the beastie world.

[meniri mca]

i was 6, i was watching tv with my older bro (some music channel) and 'intergalactic' came on. i was like hypnotised by the incredible sound, i loved it!
anyways, years later around when TT5B came out, i was thinking of music i liked, and all of a sudden i remembered that sound, that song, didn't know what it was called, so i watched MM for a while till it came on. sure enough it did. soon i was on my way getting more and more bboys songs.
that's my story what's yours?

Something like that (y)

[Ebs]

when i was 10 i remember hearing intergalactic and loving it. not long after that my family had an exchange student staying and she was obsessed with the beasties. we used 2 sit in her room & just chill listening to Hello Nasty

back when i was in primary school everyone knew fight for your right, but we just never knew who it was by...it wasn't until someone mentioned intergalactic & FFYR in the same sentence that i realised they were the same band

anyway, i forgot about them until i heard ch-check it out in mid 2004 & i remebered how much i loved listening to them when i was 10. so i went out & bought HN. i've been hooked on them ever since & seeing them at big day out this year was just the icing on the cake!!!

(woohoo my first post!!)

[thennek]

well i just heard them in 04 (considering im 12) on the radio and realized i had ch-chect it out on some music award cd and listened to them and looked up the lyrics and eventually bought liscensed to ILL and To the 5 boroughs and got hooked..



[this is my first post too] :D

[Lipper]

I was about 6 or 7, and "fight for your right to party" always come on MTV on some countdown they had back then. It used to come on right after a video by RUN-DMC - i forget which song, but the video had something to do with a helicopter and 3 card monty.

i have no idea how i remember this.

[BangkokB]

I was in 9th grade and someone told me he saw a video where on a BBoys video someone*Rick Rubin* was wearing a Slayer t-shirt. Then later I heard about their worst song ever "No Sleep til Brooklin" that KK played a solo. I borrowed the cassette and have been a fan of all their tracks includinh Ill. And hanging on since

[titou lapraline]

i was 6, i was watching tv with my older bro (some music channel) and 'intergalactic' came on. i was like hypnotised by the incredible sound, i loved it!
anyways, years later around when TT5B came out, i was thinking of music i liked, and all of a sudden i remembered that sound, that song, didn't know what it was called, so i watched MM for a while till it came on. sure enough it did. soon i was on my way getting more and more bboys songs.
that's my story what's yours?

:eek: :eek: :eek:
MY STORY IS VERY SIMILAR!!!!
In 98' my "older bro" listened a lot hello nasty, but personaly, I didn't like it...
(I was young...) But 4 years later, in a gamesworkshop, I heard Remote Control, and then... :D

[jackrock]

:eek: :eek: :eek:
MY STORY IS VERY SIMILAR!!!!
In 98' my "older bro" listened a lot hello nasty, but personaly, I didn't like it...
(I was young...) But 4 years later, in a gamesworkshop, I heard Remote Control, and then... :D
ahhhh older brothers... great, and mean at the same time lol