Beastie Boys Book

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For more than twenty years, this band has had a wide-ranging and lasting influence on popular culture. It's a love letter to friendship, to music (all of it), to New York City, to beat-up musical gear, to mixtapes, to exploration. Mike D and Ad-Rock take turns writing their thoughts for these mini-chapters, going through the start of the band, the music scene in NY in the 80s, and briefly touching on each album cycle. As a special shout out to myself, as I was listening to this book, I was reading War and Peace by Tolstoy at the same time.

The Beastie Boys book is simply essential to any and all music fans, history fans and people that like like a laugh! Wanda Sykes could make fart noises and just say the word "Weimaraner" for, like, 15-20 mins and I'd be in stitches. I mean, I'm not going to perpetrate and say I've been a Beasties fan since always cuz that's a damn lie. In a recent interview they admitted to be uncomfortable dealing with the past, preferring the present and future. It’s a wonder audiobooks bother with just one author when this smorgasbord of a-list voices proves such fun.That there was a Beastie Girl in the band who was forced out (and whom is given her own essay to tell her painful side of what happened). Having an all star ensemble to read various chapters was cool but I enjoyed the parts read by Ad-Roc and Mike D the best, so I think they could have done the whole thing themselves and actually enhanced the experience. This is a chance for the surviving members and close associates to tell their stories and they take full advantage. insightful about the group’s shifting music and are expert yarn-spinners, homing in on telling vignettes rather than doling out a straightforward history . The book mostly-written by Adam Horovitz (Ad Rock) and Michael Diamond (Mike D) with contributions from all kinds of people who have been in and around the Beastie Boys camp over the years.

Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. It’s important to remember that the Beasties reached the height of their fame firing the analog musket in the digital revolution. Really evocative descriptions help transport you to that place and time, it's certainly the best part of the book.It's part of their charm and added a layer of mystique to their existence as a group, something that's all but vanished in the digital age. This is an absolute gem and insight into their lives and how they became the biggest hip hop group in the world.

The thing I enjoyed more than anything, however, was just the little pieces of trivia that were scattered throughout the book. When talk began swirling about a "Beastie Boys book," Mike D and Ad-Rock had said they wanted to do something untraditional, and in the throes of grief following the death of MCA, I thought that sounded terrible.Shoutout to the audiobook, which is read (no joke) by Steve Buscemi, Jon Stewart, Kim Gordon, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Elvis Costello, and many more. Or the story of when Yauch purchased the phone number of a defunct company mentioned on their album Paul’s Boutique — he hooked it up to an answer machine to see what happened.