Todd Rundgren - A Dream Goes On Forever
Video: Beastie Boys - Year and a Day / Hello Brooklyn
Can you recall a killer song or verbal lick Yauch wrote that just knocked you out? - Rolling Stone
When we were in Los Angeles, doing Paul’s Boutique, he got this crazy apartment in Koreatown. And he made “A Year and a Day.” What happened to the three of us together and all that crap? But I heard that track, and it was some heavy shit. He rapped his ass off. Adam bought a jet pilot’s helmet, rigged it with a microphone and recorded the song wearing that helmet. - Adam Horovitz
Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys in his only interview following the death on May 4th of his bandmate Adam Yauch.: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beastie-boys-adam-horovitz-opens-up-about-adam-yauch-he-was-in-charge-20120523#ixzz1vpc0X8bN
W.I.T. - I Surrender
I surrender my love to you
I can’t fight it anymore
There is a war in my soul
And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.
The Warmth - Incubus [LYRICS]
So don’t let the world bring you down.
Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold.
Remember why you came and while you’re alive
experience the warmth before you grow old.
Happiness & Tears, Jan Duindam 1977
Kimbra - Build Up (George Fitzgerald Remix)
http://soundcloud.com/george-fitzgerald
The Dalai Lama & Adam “MCA” Yauch.
(Photo by Sue Kwon)
R.I.P. Adam. (5th August 1964 - 4th May 2012)
“I want to offer my love and respect to the end.”
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I think what makes the death of MCA that much sadder is that it also marks the death of the Beastie Boys.. there is no way that this group/band can continue without him.. in a conventional band.. you lose a member and you can go on.. hell you can lose the lead singer and still go on.. AC/DC is a perfect example of this.. but it’s not the case with the Beastie Boys.. i mean there are just so many name references to MCA in every song.. it just can’t be done.. and shouldn’t be. He can’t be replaced but they also can’t go on with just two Beasties.. that leaves a hugeeee gap.. the whole thing is really sad.. tragic in fact. the end of an era.
(Source: fiveslashfour)
I saw someone complaining on their dash today about people ‘spamming’ her dashboard, that people die, and we should just get over it.
She’s right, people die, and we go on.
But,
people are allowed to mourn.
Especially people who meant a great deal to them.
I have always loved the Beastie Boys. I was not allowed to listen to them when I was younger, and they were my guilty pleasure. I kept my first Beastie album hidden in a Cindy Lauper tape case. I have driven four hours to see them live, and in college I flew home to take my younger brother to his first concert- The Beastie Boys, John Spencer Blues Explosion, and The Roots. I grew up with this band, we grew in to our social consciences together, we matured together.
So I’m not spamming you with some random guy, I’m mourning someone who was genuinely influential in my life. A musician, a film maker, an intellectual, an activist.
More importantly he was a son, a husband, and a father.
So be respectful, if for no other reason than he was a real person, with a real family that loved him.
Beastie Boys/Gratitude
Good times gone and you missed them
What’s gone wrong in your system?
Things they bounce like a Spalding
What’d you think? Did you miss your calling?It’s so free, this kind of feeling
It’s like life, it’s so appealing
When you’ve got so much to say
It’s called gratitude and that’s rightGood times gone but you feed it
Hate’s grown strong, you feel you need it
Just one thing, do you know
What you think that the world owes youWhat’s gonna set you free?
Look inside and you’ll see
When you’ve got so much to say
It’s called gratitude and that’s right
