Beastie Boys "Girls/She's Crafty" 7" Def Jam Recordings BEAST 3 (UK)

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AGirls2:14AAShe's Crafty3:36

Beastie Boys are an American trio from New York City. The group consists of , , and .

The Beastie Boys began as band in 1979, first appearing on the compilation cassette before releasing their first , , in 1982. After achieving moderate local success with the 1983 release of their 12" , they made the transition to in 1984 and a string of successful followed by their in 1986 which received international critical acclaim and commercial success. As of 2010, they have sold 22 million albums in the United States and 40 million albums worldwide.

They are one of the longest lived hip-hop acts worldwide and continue to enjoy commercial and critical success in 2011, nearly 25 years after the release of their debut album. On September 27, 2007, they were nominated for induction into the . In 2009, the group released digitally remastered deluxe editions of their albums , , and . Their eighth studio album, , was released on May 3, 2011, and received positive reviews.

History

Early years (1979–1983)

The Beastie Boys came together in 1979 as a hardcore punk band. A teenaged had the idea to start a band and approached friends John Blue Berry, , Harald Bakke and (who were locally known to be musically inclined), asking them to join him. The name "Beastie Boys" was suggested by original guitarist John Berry. The name "Beastie" stands for "Beings Entering Anarchistic States Towards Internal Excellence," but this was a , as it was decided what the letters stood for after the band's name had been chosen. The band's original line-up consisted of Adam Yauch on , Kate Schellenbach on , John Berry on , and Michael Diamond on . Their first gig was at Berry's loft at 100th Street and Broadway on Yauch's 17th birthday.

On Friday, November 13, 1982, the Beastie Boys, consisting of band members, John Berry, Michael Diamond (Mike D), Adam Yauch (MCA) (a.k.a. Nathanial Hornblower), and Kate Schellenbach (later of ), played Philip Pucci's birthday for the purposes of his short concert film of the Beastie Boys, "Beastie" . Pucci held the concert in Bard College's Preston Drama Dance Department Theatre. This performance marked the Beastie Boys’ first on screen appearance in a published motion picture. Pucci's concept for “Beastie” was to distribute a mixture of both a half dozen 16mm Bell and Howell Filmo cameras, and 16mm Bolex cameras to audience members and ask that they capture the Beastie Boys performance from the audience’s own point of view while a master sync sound camera filmed from the balcony of the abandoned theater where the performance was held. The opening band for that performance was “The Young and the Useless”, which featured Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock) as their lead singer. A one minute clip of "Beastie" was subsequently excerpted and licensed by the Beastie Boys for use in the "Egg Raid on Mojo" segment of the "Skills to Pay the Bills" long form home video released by Capitol Records. “Skills to Pay the Bills” later went on to earn the Recording Industry Association of America’s (R.I.A.A.) gold sales award for selling more than 500,000 copies.

The band quickly earned support slots for , the , the and at venues such as and , playing at the latter venue on its closing night. That same year, the Beastie Boys recorded the 7" at 171A studios, an early recorded example of .

John Berry left the group (later forming Thwig, Big Fat Love, and Bourbon Deluxe) and was replaced by Adam Horovitz of (who had become close friends with the Beastie Boys at this point) in 1982. The band also performed its first track, "", based on a by the group to . It became a hit in New York underground dance clubs and night clubs upon its release.

Hello Nasty (1997–2001)

Beastie Boys returned to New York City in 1997 to produce and record the album . The album displayed a substantial shift in musical feel, with the addition of , who added to the Beasties' sound with his kinetic DJ style. Released July 14, 1998, Hello Nasty earned first week sales of 698,527 in the U.S. and went straight to No.1 in the U.S., the UK, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. The album achieved No.2 rank in the charts in Canada and Japan, and reached Top Ten chart positions in Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Belgium, Finland, France and Israel.

Beastie Boys won two , receiving the for Hello Nasty as well as the for "". This was the first and, as of 2008, only time that a band had won awards in both rap and alternative categories.

Also at the they won the highly coveted Video Vanguard Award for their contribution to music videos. The following year at the they also won the award for Best Hip Hop Video for their hit song "Intergalactic". Beastie Boys used both appearances at the Video Music Awards to make politically-charged speeches of considerable length to the sizable MTV audiences. At the 1998 ceremony, Yauch addressed the issue of Muslim people being stereotyped as terrorists and that most people of the Muslim faith are not terrorists. These comments were made in the wake of the that had occurred in both and only a month earlier. At the 1999 ceremony in the wake of the horror stories that were coming out of , Adam Horovitz addressed the fact that there had been so many cases of sexual assaults and rapes at the festival and the need for bands and festivals to pay much more attention to the security details at their concerts.

Beastie Boys started an arena tour in 1998. Through , the band made live downloads of their performances available for their fans, but were temporarily thwarted when Capitol Records removed them from its website. The Beastie Boys was one of the first bands who made mp3 downloads available on their website; they got a high level of response and public awareness as a result including a published article in on the band's efforts.

The 1999 Tibetan Freedom Concerts featured shows in , Wisconsin, Sydney, Tokyo, and . On September 28, 1999, Beastie Boys joined to play "Radio Radio" on the 25th anniversary season of .

Beastie Boys released , a two-CD anthology of their works in 1999. This album reached No.19 on the Billboard 200, No.18 in Canada, No.6 on the Internet sales charts, and No.14 on the R&B/Hip Hop charts. The one new song, the single "Alive", reached No.11 on the Billboard's Modern Rock chart.

In the years following the release of Hello Nasty the group launched their official website which underwent several transformations eventually culminating in one of the most popular recording artist related websites on the internet.

In 2000, Beastie Boys had planned to co-headline the "" with and , but the tour was canceled when drummer Mike D suffered a serious injury due to a bicycle accident. The official diagnosis was fifth-degree ; he needed surgery and extensive rehabilitation. By the time he recovered, Rage Against the Machine had disbanded, although they would reunite seven years later.

Under the name "Country Mike", Mike D recorded an album, , and gave it to friends and family for Christmas in 2000. Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz's side project released in 2001.

Hello Nasty was reissued on September 22, 2009.

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