Talk:Beastie Boys/Archive 1

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Obviously someone with a poor sense of humor has made some absurd changes and additions all over this article. To add insult to injury this person's style is rather repetitive and unprofessional. It should be cleaned up.

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BB also have an instrumental album 'The In Sound From Way Out' which probably should go on the discography. -mhjb

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Hmm.. I'm wondering how accurate this page is. Check Your Head and Ill Communication both say "Grand Royal" on their records. They're listed as "Capitol Records" here. Which is the truth?

Also, I've never heard of the "Don't Mosh" CD. Does it really exist? Could someone who knows the answers to these questions correct the article? --rlwelch

They produced the albums under Grand Royal but were manufactured and distributed by Capitol, if you check the album inserts. Popular bands on indie labels tend to do this if their albums are big sellers because smaller labels can't handle the volume. Beasties smaller releases like 'Aglio' could be released on GR, since demand is not as high (bands like Bad Religion whose members started and still manage Epitaph, signed with Atlantic to release their stuff). 'Don't Mosh' was an unreleased interactive CD-ROM from '94. Beastiemania.com is a good comprehensive source for all things beastie.

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Damn

I can't believe this has only had one pass....sigh...

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I edited this:

The Beastie Boys were the first successful white rap band, and are the only band from the early days of hip-hop that still enjoy major successes. to say one of the only acts ...because of LL Cool J...and if we want to get technical, Angie Stone was a member of Sequence and Dr. Dre was a member of The World Class Wreckin' Cru. --b. Touch 06:44, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Female vocals in "Sabotage"

Who is the female vocalist in the song "Sabotage"? Is that a clip taken from somewhere else and if so, from where? Drop a note on my talk page if you know. -- Sy / ^(talk) 17:04, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

there are no female voices... just Adam Horovitz -- some unsigned remark.

(copied from my talk page -- Sy / ^(talk) 02:42, 26 May 2006 (UTC))

In answer to your question, the female voice featured on 'Shadrach' is one of the members of 'sly and the family stone'. The sample was taken from the sly song 'Loose Booty'. I'm not sure how many times this question's already been answered for you but there you go 140.159.4.4 01:41, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

WIRED CD

From the Wired_magazine article:... The November 2004 issue of Wired was published with The Wired CD. All of the songs on the CD were released under various Creative Commons licenses, an attempt to push alternative copyright into the spotlight. Most of the songs were contributed by major artists, including the Beastie Boys, ...

I'm surprised to not see a related reference on the Beastie Boys' own page. Nihiltres 22:52, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

pictures???

what happened to the pictures? all the album covers are now non-existantin wikipedia. is this a legal thing, or are they just lost?. --Ballchef 07:59, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

take out dead pictures

someone please actually put in the pictures

i hope this is a little better...

As others have pointed out, the discography for this article was grossly incorrect, so I've polished it up a bit with the help of several reference sites. I've also taken out some of the chaff from the article, deleted dead pictures, and fixed grammatical and spelling errors. I hope this meets with everybody's approval. If you have any further suggestions for how this article can be improved upon, let me know and I'll see what I can do. Grammar nazi 02:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Side Projects

Someone should ad at least something on the side projects, such as BS2000. Jimmyjrg 05:16, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Southern?

The discography lists "Southern" as the label that released Cooky Puss, but the EPs' article says it's Ratcage Records (and so does the vinyl copy of the EP that I own). The same applies for the Pollywog Stew entry. Beastiemania.net's discography page agrees with me. I'm changing these entries accordingly.

Additionally, can someone explain why the section for the 1988-1992 era is titled "The Sounds of Science"? This is especially confusing, as it links to the article about the compilation. I don't think this is an appropriate name, since the other time periods are given titles of albums that were released during that time. I vote to change this, though I'm not sure to what. Any suggestions? NeilDespres 08:02, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

As all the other sections are named after the album of that era I suggest naming it Paul's Boutique and moving Check Your Head into it's own section or at least calling it Paul's Boutique and Check Your Head, better yet remove all of the links to albums in their headings as they're mentioned inside anyway. Jimmyjrg 08:44, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

I changed the "Sounds of Science" section to Pauls Boutique/Check your Head and linked to the album names. Tell me if you think it should be something else. Also, what's with the list of singles not being completed? NeilDespres 02:13, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I like it, I added a space on either side of the bracket though to make it more obvious each album title has a different link. In regards to the singles, do you mean the Hit singles section?

Yeah, I'm talking about the table that currently includes the chart position for Hey Ladies, right below the hit singles table. Does someone want to merge those? NeilDespres 02:33, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I see what you mean now, it needs to be merged.--Jimmyjrg 03:53, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Discography

1 -First off what is "Beastie Boys Anthology: Beastitude", supposedly released on Capitol Records in '99? Is it meant to be the DVD? It sounds like a bootleg to me.

2 -Also the Love American Style EP needs it's own page so it can be added to the EPs and compilations section down the bottom of all the pages.

3 -The page for Aglio e Olio needs an image, as does Some Old Bullshit, Cooky Puss and Pollywog Stew.

4 -Rock Hard also needs a cover and the page could also state the information about the ACDCD sample which caused it's recall.

External links

Should I ad links to where I got the Charts information from?--Jimmyjrg 13:15, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Hit Singles

I'm just moving this in here for the momment until I can confirm all of the Chart Positions. Any help would be great. --Jimmyjrg 06:32, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

-All Dates have been confirmed- Now we just need to confirm the order. Everyhit.com [1] has the exact date for all UK Chart info, but Billboard.com [2] doesn't list the actual dates, just the year.

Also not all of the singles are hits so we need a new name for the section. --Jimmyjrg 09:37, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Beastiemania external link dispute

I'm not sure whether others have noticed but a certain someone keeps removing Beastiemania from the external links. I am wondering how others feel about this as it is the best website for Beastie Boys information and if someone was looking for more information on the Beastie Boys BM is the only website in the external links worth looking at as the official site has no information on it.

I personaly find it extremely annoying, even more so as this certain person never says why they do it. Please let me know your opinions. --Jimmyjrg 01:34, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

You are right. The anonymous user (83.221.83.61) is basically a vandal. I'll readd the link Ziggur 23:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

There is no anonymous user. I am the only one on this who identifies by a real IP. As you can see, ziggur?, Jim Roland Gaunt aka jimmyjrg knows who I am. So why do I prevent you from bringing in the Beastiemania link? Just because this site uses to discredit people on their subpages. Example: http://www.beastiemania.com/downloads/wallpapers.php Scroll down to the "liar and cheat" lines. --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.221.83.61 (talk • contribs) .

Users who aren't logged in are considered anonymous users on wikipedia. A single comment on an obscure page of a site doesn't really seem like enough to balance the usefulness of having it linked from here, but perhaps someone should contact the site and ask why that comment is present. Thankyou for commenting on your reasoning. --Fuzzie (talk) 19:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for finally discussing your content changes. However, I must agree with Fuzzie. Plus I believe the comment on that wallpaper was added by a user of the site and not anyone having to do with running the site. Perhaps you should contact the site instead of continually removing the useful link from this article. Ziggur 06:21, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Furthermore, given the clear consensus, I am going to readd the link to Beastiemania. Please do not delete it again. Ziggur 06:22, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Deleted again since the comment was added by the autor of the wallpaper, David Ensinger, a fellow member of Beastiemania.

Please stop removing the link. It's getting annoying. Everyone who has chimed in on this sees no problem with the link being on the article except for you. Your own dislike for a small, out of the way comment on an external, informational, and helpful website has no bearing on whether or not the link should be included in this article. This is getting stupidly trivial. Ziggur 08:09, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Just as a note, I agree with User:RJN's removal of the beastiemuseum.de site. beastiemania.de points to the same site. Most pages seem to be marked 'coming' and the rest is useless. --Fuzzie (talk) 22:54, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Reference 4 is broken.

Reference 4 is rendering with an error. That is, when you reach the references section of the page, there is a bold red error message in the space where reference 4 should be. I don't have enough wiki-fu to correct it, but it is probably a trivial fix for someone who knows more than I do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.83.200.239 (talk) 11:23, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Beastle Boys

I have a course but not sure if its good enough to add somewhere to this page --Superlightoftruth (talk) 17:33, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Written by a 3rd grader?

Just glancing at The Early Years, it's written just horribly. No sense of punctuation or capitalization. 99.98.221.223 (talk) 01:48, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Sampling lawsuits

I think the section on sampling lawsuits should be expanded because the Beasties WERE sued for Paul's Mall. I checked a couple of sources, and although the Dust Brothers did pay about $250,000 for sampling rights, apparently some of the songwriters also sued because they felt they were owed something as well. Paul's Mall was the last album in hip hop to use such a large number of samples and the practice basically ended with it. The rights are so costly now, that some rightholders demand 100% of the royalties just for a single sample, which doesn't make economic sense anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danpetitpas (talk • contribs) 15:39, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Early members

Wasnt there an early drummer called Gary Summers/Somers? googuse (talk) 19:30, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Early Years?

It says the band formed in 197& and that Yauch got the idea after seeing Black Flag play in 1981. Did he have a time machine so he could get the idea to form a band and go back 2 years to do so? Also, the info box lists the years active as 1979 to present, not 1978. Wschart (talk) 12:02, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Very good point. I have amended the article accordingly. --John (talk) 12:17, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

What's the source for this date of origin? The band did not form in '78 or '79. I was playing in a band with one of them in '80 or '81, and it certainly wasn't the Beastie Boys. Pyroglyph (talk) 07:07, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Check out the chronology cited by many of the people involved at the time in the SPIN article from '98. All concerned seem to confirm 1982. http://www.angelfire.com/fl2/beastie/yo.html Pyroglyph (talk) 07:13, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

The first time they played was Andys 17th birthday party 1981. Andy was quoted as saying that in your link and Mike D is quoted saying the same thing here http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Beastie-Boys-Biography./0B982363068317484825682C0009A5AE . All dates previous to 1981 aren't supported and 1982 seems to be the first that they REALLY did play as the Beastie Boys. -- That Guy, From That Show! 15:42, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

The two links supporting 1981 have the same material, do not cite anything either and are not reputable websites. Also, Adam Yauch "got the idea" does not support 1981, just the type of music or the name. There are also more reliable pages that say 1979. Remember that they were originally a hardcore punk group and may have gone by other names. If a group does play different music or still retains the same people but under a different name it is always considered to be part of said group. Also, it is better to be earlier than to be later and ignore predated accomplishments. With that in mind 1979 is a more proper date.

http://www.answers.com/topic/beastie-boys http://www.fastcompany.com/1837168/the-music-pivot http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/182741/10-great-beastie-boys-videos/ http://www.vibe.com/article/beastie-boys-mca-passes-away-age-47 http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/9beb62b2-88db-4cea-801e-162cd344ee53 Worldofnoise 18:56, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Kate Schellenbach

"Kate Schellenbach left to join Luscious Jackson in 1991." Wouldn't it be more clear if it stated "Kate Schellenbach left the group in 1984 (later joining Luscious Jackson in 1991)"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.107.92.6 (talk) 02:04, 9 May 2012 (UTC)