How Can You Hate The 808?!

'Cause I certainly don't.

Happy #808 Day!

1) Spastik (12" Version By Richie Hawtin): Plastikman (1993)

2) Xtal (Album Version): Aphex Twin (1992)

3) Voodoo Ray (Original Mix): A Guy Called Gerald ft. Nicola Collier (1988)

4) (You Are My) All And All (Take Twelve) (Remix By Kurtis Mantronik): Joyce Sims (1986)

5) The Way You Move (Club Mix By Carlton Mahone, Jr.): Outkast ft. Sleepy Brown (2003)

6) It's Tricky (Album Version By Rick Rubin & Russell Simmons): Run-D.M.C. (1986)

7) Musique Non Stop (Album Version): Kraftwerk (1986)

8) French Kiss (The Songbird Sings Long Vocal Mix): Lil' Louis ft. Karlana Johnson & Shawn Christopher (1989)

1986: All And All EP: 4

1986: Electric Cafe: 7

1986: Raising Hell: 6

1988: Voodoo Ray EP: 3

1989: French Kiss EP: 8

1992: Selected Ambient Works 85-92: 2

1993: Spastik EP: 1

2003: Speakerboxxx / The Love Below: 5

How Can You Hate The 808?! (47:02) (GD) (M)

Kicking Lyrics Right To Your Brain

It doesn't have to be Good Friday to feature Beastie Boys but any Friday featuring Beastie Boys is a good Friday.

I was an extremely late comer to their albums, despite always enjoying what I heard - and saw, their videos were always brilliant - from the moment that they burst into our consciousness in the 1980s. I was only peripherally aware of their music in the 1990s and started playing catch up in the 21st century. Sadly, the passing of MCA aka Adam Yauch in 2012 brought an end to Beastie Boys a couple of years later. However, their music continues to inspire, influence and entertain.

Here are ten tracks, not a 'best of, but a few personal favorites and overall seemed to flow well together. MCA, Ad Rock aka Adam Horowitz and Mike D aka Michael Diamond, I salute you.

1) Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament (2011)

2) The Vibes (1994)

3) Sabotage (Alex Metric Re-Edit) (2010)

4) Intergalactic (Prisoners Of Technology/TMS 1 Re-Mix) (1998)

5) Triple Trouble (J. Wizzle Remix) (2004)

6) In 3's (1992)

7) Instant Death (1998)

8) Hey Ladies (Album Version) (1989)

9) Hold It Now, Hit It (Album Version) (1986) 

10) Get It Together (Album Version) (1994) 

 

1986: Licensed To Ill: 9

1989: Paul's Boutique: 8

1994: Ill Communication: 10

1998: Intergalactic EP: 4 

1992: Check Your Head: 6

1994: Sure Shot EP: 2

1998: Hello Nasty: 7

2004: Triple Trouble EP: 5

2010: Sabotage EP: 3

2011: Hot Sauce Committee Part Two: 1

 

Kicking Lyrics Right To Your Brain (35:35) (Box) (Mega)

Time's A Double-Edged Sword

Forty five minutes of hip hop and rap, featuring Beastie Boys, De La Soul and Run-D.M.C., some next gen artists with Antipop Consortium and Young Fathers, and some lyrical treats bridging Wales and Brooklyn as Green Gartside meets Mos Def, Lee Majors and A Tribe Called Quest's Ali Shaheed Muhammad. 

 

By sheer coincidence, I flip from a young mother to the Young Fathers, with Monie Love's exhortation to Build Relationships Where Education and Enlightenment Dominate followed by Edinburgh's finest who returned after a four year break in July with Geronimo.

 

The selection starts and ends in 1998, with cuts from Hello Nasty by Beastie Boys and Jurassic 5's self-titled debut, two much-loved albums in my collection. As you might expect, a parental advisory sticker is slapped over this selection due to occasional smut and cussing.

 

1) Body Movin' (Album Version): Beastie Boys (1998)

2) The Projects ('Ocean's Eleven' Album Edit): Handsome Boy Modeling School (1999)

3) Say No Go (New Kick Instrumental) (Remix By Pasemaster Mase): De La Soul (1989)

4) War: Outkast (2003)

5) Capricorn One: Antipop Consortium ft. Mr. Live (2009)

6) Born 2 B.R.E.E.D. (The Freedom Mix): Monie Love (1993)

7) Automatic (Jayou Remix): Young Fathers (2010)

8) Feel The Vibe (Album Version): Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics (1992)

9) Tinseltown To The Boogiedown (Ali Shaheed Muhammad Variation): Scritti Politti ft. Mos Def & Lee Majors (1999)

10) It's Tricky (Album Version By Rick Rubin & Russell Simmons): Run-D.M.C. (1986)

11) Bucky Done Gun (DJ Marlboro Funk Carioca Remix): M.I.A. (2005)

12) Lesson 6: The Lecture (Album Version): Jurassic 5 (1998)

Double-Edged Sword (44:56)