What was the first Beastie Boys song you really got into?

[Lex Diamonds]

For me it was Skills To Pay The Bills, I used to rewind and play the part with it on my sister's Sabotage VHS over and over.

[TAFKASB]

fight for your right...I was 18 a the time and thought this was awesome. Went out and bought LTI and was surprised it was rap, with only NSTB and FFRTP being the only 2 " rock " type songs on it. I reckon this was the album that turned me onto Hip Hop. My bro was a breakdancer at the time, and I never really got into the "Electric Boogaloo" thing, aside Grandmaster Flash, which again was more hip hop than "electric boogaloo."

[AceFace]

Shake your RUMP!

my bro and i had a dance to it.

[Guy Incognito]

not very original but it was FFYRTP. Heard it on radio - loved it, heard it again, bought a music mag with them on the front and was out looking for Volkswagens that didnt want their badges the next day!

[abcdefz]

Shake your RUMP!




Me, too.

I couldn't stand the Boys during the LTI era. Much after the fact, this guy I worked with at a record store kept insisting that PB was
a great album, and one day he threw it on and I was absolutely blown away. "To All the Girls" didn't do much for me on first spin --
pleasant enough, but it's a throwaway -- and then this came on.

[IzzyNYC]

"Girls"

My friend and I would sneak out at night to cruise around in her chevette listening this. (on cassette, of course(y))

[Weezman]

Featured in Krush Groove....they caught my attention, influence me to express my adolescent freedom. And broadin my horizons that you can be any race, color, creed, to rap.

i was down with da ladies from the 80's..... damn im shown my age... : )

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

[Mr. Smacktackle]

I think it was Get It Together. It wasn't a sudden blow, it was a process. I wasn't very experienced as a music listener at the time. I was into De La Soul a lil' bit, and couple other funky rap songs, just a kid listening to these songs I somehow found to be nice. My older brother's friend gave me Ill Communication and To The 5 Boroughs in 2004, I didn't know any of the songs except Sabotage. It all sounded strange at first. It was all there in the media player and I just somehow got to listen to Get It Together every once in a while, and then moved to the other songs little by little. Maybe because it is after Sabotage, it kinda got into my ear. Ill Communication seemed to me like such a great bunch of songs, even while I wasn't into all of them. And later as I grew older, by experience of listening to more music, I realized what are albums in this world. I realized that not all albums have 20 tracks, and not all albums have punk and hip hop and nice instrumentals together. And then later I started understanding the lyrics.
Ill Communication is my favorite album, and Root Down is my favorite song and video. Maybe it sounds stupid to some, but I strongly feel that album is a part of me. In fact, now I remember that actually I started playing drums along with Root Down, wow, yes that's how it was.

[Waus]

My best friend's older brother managed to get a gig DJ'ing at the highschool dance. We got to help him set up (he was like 5 years older than us) and he blared "Brass Monkey" while we were getting things ready.

By the time I was old enough to go to my own dances, "Intergalactic" was pretty popular. Eventually I got into collecting and bought Paul's Boutique and became a lifer.

[BangkokB]

I've been a diehard fan since I saw Kerry King play the solo on the "No Sleep til Brooklyn" video

Oddly enough: I'd gotten completely out of hiphop at that point in my life and into black metal/thrash so when I saw the culmination of the two I was hook line and sinker. Been a fan since. I bought Pauls Boutique the day it came out and dropped acid the celebrate to occasion: Car Thief will always have a place in my heart because of that experience

*Gulps more Heineken

[Lyman Zerga]

i hated them before intergalactic

[beastieboysbaby]

either paul revere or intergalactic....they played on the radio .

[mathcart]

either paul revere or intergalactic....they played on the radio .

I was 10 when FFYR was huge- I remember really liking it but thinking Paul Revere was a much more fun song and that being my favorite of their's. I was a fan then, I guess, but not really. I missed most of PB but I do remember REALLY liking Shake Your Rump.
But I would say it wasn't until SWW that I got really into them and the back catalogue.
This is an interesting question because if you mean which song made you take notice of the Beastie Boys as a band that has a song that you like its Paul Revere,
but if you mean which song made me really "get into the band" and all their songs (and influences!) then its definitely SWW.
So Padster I leave it up to your (impartial?) judgment to decide which criteria I should decide my song on, since this is your thread.

[M.C. Guevera]

"Intergalactic", but it took me 6 years to really become a fan (and the song that turned me into a fan for life was "Sure Shot" and the "Sure Shot" music video by the way).

[Kid Presentable]

Fight for your Right on New Years 1989-1990 when I stayed up late and watched radio with pictures or some shit. That doesn't mean to say I'm some kegging frat-boy, I was 9.

[funk63]

ch checkit out..im gonna sound like a n00b but to the five boroughs was the first bboys cd i bought. i had heard sabotage and intergalactic then i heard ch check it out and thought the style and sense of humor was cool and bough tt5b. and of course that got me curious about the rest of their cds so since i had their latest cd i thought id give the classics a list, & bought lti..and got acquainted with the old shit. then i kinda jumped around, i got ill communication. and that blew my mind and was my favorite shit for ever, then i got hello nasty and once again was blown away then i picked up check your head then PB. and ive been addicted since.

[mate_spawn_die]

i seen FFYTP, so watcha want, sabotage and intergalactic on mtv when they were released. i never hated them... but it was never something i would buy. fast forward to 2001: a good friend of mine gave me 3 crates of used records as a gift. one of them was pauls boutique... "shake your rump" made me fall in love with the beasties and i've been hooked ever since.




the end.

[scotty]

For me, it was 'The New Style'. I would have been 13-14, LTI had been out for a few years by then so the hype had well and truly been and gone. I thought FFYR was kind of funny, but being a 12yo country boy from Australia. A friend gave me a copy of LTI and I listened to it a few days later. As soon as the break at the end of 'The New Style' dropped I was fully hooked......'cruisin on the corner on a hot summers day, just me and my posse and MCA'.........I still love it 20 years later, whenever I put LTI on I skip to it first and then go back to the start.

[camo]

So whatcha want. I was just starting high school and I was rebelling against everything including all of the shite dance music my peers thought was cool.

[DeeJayZap]

oh damn im not even sure. i remember seeing so watcha want on mtv2 and then i bought tt5b so ima say so watcha want.

[Miho]

So What'cha Want and Pass the Mic.

[pm0ney]

Fight For Your Right. I got LTI by accident...I stole a Neil Diamond cassette out of a car when I was 7 (I dont steal anymore) because my dad loves Neil Diamond. To make a long story short, I put it in my cassette player and Fight For Your Right comes on. I was like NEIL DIAMOND RULES!!! YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY!!!!!!

Turns out it was Licensed To Ill inside a Neil Diamond jewel case. My dad took one listen, said "son, you can have it." I got Check Your Head and a new boombox for Christmas 1992 and the rest is history.

[taquitos]

ill communication

[fonky pizza]

I was around 14, Fight for your right!! I loved the video and song!

[Justin]

ALIVE

We had just got MTV available in my neighborhood and I remember hating all the videos that they showed during TRL. Then one day they showed ALIVE for the premiere video of the day and it just stood out from all the other videos being shown at that time. It was just like...crazy stupid...

I also remember MTV using parts of the song right before and after commercials for at least another year.

[PussyCrumbs]

Fight For Your Right. I got LTI by accident...I stole a Neil Diamond cassette out of a car when I was 7 (I dont steal anymore) because my dad loves Neil Diamond. To make a long story short, I put it in my cassette player and Fight For Your Right comes on. I was like NEIL DIAMOND RULES!!! YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY!!!!!!

Turns out it was Licensed To Ill inside a Neil Diamond jewel case. My dad took one listen, said "son, you can have it." I got Check Your Head and a new boombox for Christmas 1992 and the rest is history.

Great story...(y)

When Licensed To Ill came out, here in Texas they played Brass Monkey on the radio nonstop...I was 6 years old and it is the first song I can remember actually jumping up and shaking my ass to.....I've considered them family ever since.

[funk63]

ill communication


ill communications not even a song.. wtf!?

[Mr. Smacktackle]

recognise fool!! :cool:

[dave790]

Sure Shot/Intergalactic/Root Down - all at roughly the same time. It was everything I wanted in Hip Hop.

[skept-a-cleptic]

Bodhisattva Vow

[MC Moot]

Hey Ladies...without a doubt...

FREE JAMES BROWN!

[Rip Round'n Roc]

i remember being roughly 5-6 years old and seeing 'hey ladies' on muchmusic. first video i remember ever seeing

but it was definently so whatcha want that really got my attention