[dave790]

Great stuff! Yes I'd love to think that I would have 'gotten it' straight away. But I definitely would have been bewildered. Even when listening to the Anthology - which was the first time I heard Hey Ladies - it didn't do much for me. I agree that Shake Your Rump and Shadrach were more immediate, and probably better choices as singles. That said, I love how Hey Ladies was the first song dropped, and I wonder who's decision it was.

While the Beasties gained more control over their output than most (partly due to the 'failure' of Paul's), I remember Yauch complaining on here that Capitol were pushing for Triple Trouble to be the second single off TT5B, when the band really wanted An Open Letter to NYC. I still think it would have been a better follow up to Check It Out, which was by all accounts a hit. In the end, it came at the end of the campaign and only in Europe / the UK I believe (also bizarre).

Anyway, I digress... Thanks for your recollections.