{"id":2216,"date":"2013-08-13T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T01:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2013-08-13T21:03:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T01:03:13","slug":"video-beastie-boys-no-sleep-till-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2013\/08\/13\/video-beastie-boys-no-sleep-till-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Beastie Boys, No Sleep Till Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay. I promise I’m not going to get mired down in the ’80s, here, but I just had to post one more old one, because MTV is using this song to promote the VMAs and every time I have to sit through one of the ads – i.e. every week during Teen Wolf<\/i> – I want to yell “I HOPE YOU PAID THROUGH THE NOSE FOR THE RIGHTS, YOU HYPOCRITICAL JACKALS” at the television.<\/p>\n

So anyway, here is the video for No Sleep Till Brooklyn<\/i>, from 1987. Watching it now, I have the following reactions:<\/p>\n

1) This is it: this is where popular culture as we knew it underwent a radical, drastic sea change. They politely knock on the door; at about the same time, RUN-DMC<\/a> was provoking Steven Tyler into punching a hole in the wall between rock and rap.<\/a> <\/p>\n

2) The massive, pure-metal-aggression-fueled riff Kerry King (Slayer) is playing is my favorite part of the song.<\/p>\n

3) Oh my god, they are so young<\/i>. Babies. If I didn’t know they were the Beastie Boys<\/a> I’d think they were some high school punks clowning on the pretentions of the music industry.<\/p>\n

4) . . . on second thought, punks clowning on the pretentions of music industry is exactly<\/i> what they were. They didn’t know what they would become; they were just mouthy upstarts taking aim at The Man.<\/p>\n

5) And the thing is, for all that they became elder statesmen, they never became The Man.<\/p>\n

6) This song is never more true than when you are singing the chorus to yourself at 2 AM on the R train platform while waiting to get home to Bay Ridge.<\/p>\n

 
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The Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn<\/div><\/div>
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