delancey
05-10-2012, 07:51 AM
Three Idiots Create a Masterpiece? Has anyone ever seen a review with this headline or did someone just make this up?
Every article that comes out about MCA claims that Rolling Stone reviewed Licensed to Ill with the headline "Three Idiots Create a Masterpiece."
This is on the BB Wikipedia listing, but isn't in RS or anywhere I can find.
I've got the February 1987 RS with Mark Coleman's original review and it doesn't say that or anything like that. The RS site makes no such claim and you'd think they'd be quick to reprint anything like that.
RS didn't make a big deal out of Paul's Boutique either, they reviewed it with Ton Loc in the same blurb in the back pages.
In 2004, Mike D. gave a quote to a Miami Herald reporter (Mike Hamersly) about Paul's Boutique-
And yet, few still took Beastie Boys seriously.
``With Paul's Boutique, the attitude was still like `three idiots create a masterpiece','' says Mike D. ``It still seemed like it was a total accident.''
Every reporter just quotes this supposed RS review of Licensed to Ill without question, which tells me they sure weren't around to see how the BB were really received in 1987.
So how did this story about a RS review get around? Maybe there is a review, but it isn't the one in RS from February 1987. (Believe me, no one called this a "masterpiece" at the time.)
Sorry if this has already been covered but I just can't stand reporters who make things up and other reporters who then repeat the things the first guy made up.
Every article that comes out about MCA claims that Rolling Stone reviewed Licensed to Ill with the headline "Three Idiots Create a Masterpiece."
This is on the BB Wikipedia listing, but isn't in RS or anywhere I can find.
I've got the February 1987 RS with Mark Coleman's original review and it doesn't say that or anything like that. The RS site makes no such claim and you'd think they'd be quick to reprint anything like that.
RS didn't make a big deal out of Paul's Boutique either, they reviewed it with Ton Loc in the same blurb in the back pages.
In 2004, Mike D. gave a quote to a Miami Herald reporter (Mike Hamersly) about Paul's Boutique-
And yet, few still took Beastie Boys seriously.
``With Paul's Boutique, the attitude was still like `three idiots create a masterpiece','' says Mike D. ``It still seemed like it was a total accident.''
Every reporter just quotes this supposed RS review of Licensed to Ill without question, which tells me they sure weren't around to see how the BB were really received in 1987.
So how did this story about a RS review get around? Maybe there is a review, but it isn't the one in RS from February 1987. (Believe me, no one called this a "masterpiece" at the time.)
Sorry if this has already been covered but I just can't stand reporters who make things up and other reporters who then repeat the things the first guy made up.