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Beastie Boys Music
I think it was a real missed opportunity not to put the original release of "Too many rappers" on the Beastie boys MUSIC cd.
To me its their best song from the 2009 era, that version
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Well there is a reason why the original didn’t even make the album. Plus I think tracks on that album are better then too many rappers. I like that song, but to me songs like Long Burn the Fire, and some others are better songs.
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I mean TMR is certainly more deserving than Don’t Play No Game. But then again so is An Open Letter. Or any other Beastie Boys song.
Besides, we all have our favourites. Sadly I don’t think it’s a missed opportunity regardless. I mean who is buying this? Completists? Casual fans? There seems to be some misguided concept that the book and stage show have strayed into the mainstream Beastie Boys have a huge devoted fan base and the book and story offered something new (albeit still retrospective) which they / we rightly lapped up. This comp does not.
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The original did'nt make the album because MCA remixed without adrock and mike D knowing and in the end they warmed to it.But it was the first 12 inch release from HSC and this CD is kinda of a singles and 12inch b-sides release, rather than a best of album, hence my statement.
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^^^
Personally I don’t think that’s clear from what it says in the book. Adrock seems to be describing more the OG version than the New Reactionaries one. So it would appear to me that the song existed in a different, earlier form originally, but then Yauch did his own thing with the fuzzy bass line etc. Needless to say, I could be wrong and you could be right - but might be worth reading that section again. I know the book lists the song as the New Reactionaries version but he doesn’t seem to be describing that end product at all.
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Who really knows, but that's always why I assumed those lines were changed. If that is the case, it makes the whole thing that much more sad, but hey, that's life I guess. |
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Like a nexus six comin' home to roost Hand-held fifty eight when it's time to get get loose Probably everybody knows this, I think we have collectively talked about it on here before, it's possible this was someone else's explanation. But whenever I think about it, it really blows me away. The Nexus 6 in Blade Runner come home to Earth , to the Tyrell Co., to try and get more life. They come home to Roost. Their past is catching up with them, (or lack of past) and they know they are going to die. MCA replaced an artistic line about never dying, (a shout out to Nas and a shout out to the party never stopping, his work ethic never quitting and his voice ringing eternal on wax) with a line about 100% knowing he was about to die and he just wants to let it rip one more time on the mic. He came home to Oscope and grabbed his fave cheap handheld mic. The dude is such a master of his artform. That's heavy heavy shit. And the beautiful thing is I /we could be wrong with this interpretation. He gives just enough to sink your teeth into what he could be saying. But also, it's just a really good line about rapping. I don't know. My take.
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