Beastie Boys / best live songs
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- mg330
Heard about the new memoir book today and that got me to listening to all their older stuff all day at work, which has been great. I don't listen to them too often but there were the biggest part of our daily soundtrack in high school in the 90s.
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But something just struck me: were they a bit? Like, did they really live as, and live up to, this image they projected in their music? As kids in suburban Texas who had never been to New York, we were utterly fascinated by everything we could assume life for guys like that in NYC must have been like. I don't know if this question makes sense but for the first time listening to their music, and looking at old photos of them, it really struck me as a serious and calculated act, which it might have been and that might be perfectly fine. I guess I just never looked at the theatrics of it all this way until now.
- My impression is that they were legit NYers and brought that look to the mainstream. They were also legit punk musicians as well as rappers.monospaced
- That's where they're underrated. They're fantastic musicians.CyBrainX