Beastie Boys Book

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A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself by band members ADROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and .Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band Adam ADROCK Horovitz and Michael Mike D Diamond offer revealing and very funny accounts of their transition from teenage punks to budding rappers their early collaboration with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin the debut album that became the first hip hop record ever to hit 1, Licensed to Ill and the album s messy fallout as the band broke with Def Jam their move to Los Angeles and rebirth with the genre defying masterpiece Paul s Boutique their evolution as musicians and social activists over the course of the classic albums Check Your Head, Ill Communication, and Hello Nasty and the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits conceived by the late Adam MCA Yauch andForthan thirty years, this band has had an inescapable and indelible influence on popular culture.With a style as distinctive and eclectic as a Beastie Boys album, Beastie Boys Book upends the typical music memoir Alongside the band narrative you will find rare photos, original illustrations, a cookbook by chef Roy Choi, a graphic novel, a map of Beastie Boys New York, mixtape playlists, pieces by guest contributors, and manysurprises. Best Read Beastie Boys Book [ by ] Michael Diamond [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr I wish MCA could have contributed The whole book is a tribute to him It s as perfect as it can be without him.Oh man, I loved this Beastie Boys history lesson The audiobook is sooo pleasing to the ear In addition to Diamond and Horovitz, there s a full cast of narrators that will blow your damned mind The essays and anecdotes are well written, thoughtful, and o...I m sure you re scratching your head about right now thinking, WTAF is even happening with you, Cupcake What had happened wasAudible sent me an email that essentially said THIS IS THE BEST FUCKING AUDIOBOOK OF 2018 BUY THIS SHIT NOW paraphrasing since I m quite certain Bezos wouldn t sanction such language, though evidently, dick pics are ok My reaction wasI mean, I m not going to perpetrate and say I ve been a Beasties fan since always cuz that s a damn lie I didn I m sure you re scratching your head about right now thinking, WTAF is even happening with you, Cupcake What had happened wasAudible sent me an email that essentially said THIS IS THE BEST FUCKING AUDIOBOOK OF 2018 BUY THIS SHIT NOW paraphrasing since I m quite certain Bezos wouldn t sanction such language, though evidently, dick pics are ok My reaction wasI mean, I m not going to perpetrate and say I ve been a Beasties fan since always cuz that s a damn lie I didn t even pay attention to them until Hello Nasty then sort of backtracked to some others Why, you ask They were They totally were But one of the great things about the book is they admit to their assholery They don t sugarcoat it or try to say the dog made me do it or some shit No, they not only wrote a book with all of it in there but they also narrated the book and apologized for it With sincerity As a person who garnered a rep in high school as being a mega bitch, a rep I might add that between 2 5 yrs later I still had trouble shaking, I can rel...I just want to preface this by saying a couple of things First of all, I don t really write reviews on here, as writing about music ismy forte Secondly, Beastie Boys have been my favorite band since I was five or six years old, and Ill Communication was the third CD I owned as a kid While my peers were listening to whatever was topping the charts in 97, I was listening to burned copies of Licensed To Ill, Paul s Boutique, and Check Your Head thanks, Auntie I didn t know why I liked I just want to preface this by saying a couple of things First of all, I don t really write reviews on here, as writing about music ismy forte Secondly, Beastie Boys have been my favorite band since I was five or six years old, and Ill Communication was the third CD I owned as a kid While my peers were listening to whatever was topping the charts in 97, I was listening to burned copies of Licensed To Ill, Paul s Boutique, and Check Your Head thanks, Auntie I didn t know why I liked those albums, and I didn t know most of what they were saying, or even what the words meant you know that interlude bit on B Boys Makin With The Freak Freak I repeated that All The Time , but I was drawn in by the personalities, and so in 2012, I mourn...The Beastie Boys Book by Mike Diamond is a coffee table book full of pictures but it also contains quite a lot of thoughtfully written essays covering the life of the band in detail This is a chance for the surviving members and clos...I was so excited to get this hefty 500 pages book, and it did not disappoint I enjoyed it so much I devoured it in a weekend Who would like this book A Beastie Boys fan Yes A child of the 80s Yes A music aficionado Yes A New York resident Yes Someone who loves New York Yes A punk rock hip hop fan Yes Basically, you can love the Beastie Boys or not even care about the Beastie Boys and you ll enjoy this book I happen to be a fan and grew up watching their escapades on MTV, atte I was so excited to get this hefty 500 pages book, and it did not disappoint I enjoyed it so much I devoured it in a weekend Who would like this book A Beastie Boys fan Yes A child of the 80s Yes A music aficionado Yes A New York resident Yes Someone who loves New York Yes A punk rock hip hop fan Yes Basically, you can love the Beastie Boys or not even care about the Beastie Boys and you ll enjoy this book I happen to be a fan and grew up watching their escapades on MTV, attending the Tibetan Freedom Concert and lamenting the loss of bandmate Adam Yauch As they grew, I grew In all honesty, this book is a story of friendship Through short anecdotes essays detailing the Beasties Boys beginnings, middles, and un...Beastie Boys Book is wonderful Just like the group, it s chaotic, kaleidoscopic and packed with humour.The hard back edition is a surprisingly heavy coffee table type book packed with photos, essays, cartoons, recipes, trivia, mixtapes etc The overall effect is a mesmerising panorama of memories, history and nostalgia.Beastie Boys started as a teenage punk hardcore band in 1981 and, remarkably, in a couple of years, had metamorphosised into global hip hop superstars This was just the start of Beastie Boys Book is wonderful Just like the group, it s chaotic, kaleidoscopic and packed with humour.The hard back edition is a surprisingly heavy coffee table type book packed with photos, essays, cartoons, recipes, trivia, mixtapes etc The overall effect is a mesmerising panorama of memories, history and nostalgia.Beastie Boys started as a teenage punk hardcore band in 1981 and, remarkably, in a couple of years, had metamorphosised into global hip hop superstars This was just the start of their j...If you re like me and Amy Poehler see book , Beastie Boys or as I often miscall them, THE Beastie Boys were a central component of your teen and 20s DNA I was lucky enough to become musically aware well AFTER License To Ill So the first Beastie Boys album that dropped FOR ME, was Check Your Head It s 1992 I m going to be a junior in high school I m one of those kids whose musical identity isn t just about music and whose identity isn t about much else The bands I love teach me what to wea If you re like me and Amy Poehler see book , Beastie Boys or as I often miscall them, THE Beastie Boys were a central component of your teen and 20s DNA I was lucky enough to become musically aware well AFTER License To Ill So the first Beastie Boys album that dropped FOR ME, was Check Your Head It s 1992 I m going to be a junior in high school I m one of those kids whose musical identity isn t just about music and whose identity isn t about much else The bands I love teach me what to wear, what to support, who not to trust, what books to read, and whether or not to drink at high scho...For a casual listener this book might be worthless, but for any organism, even remotely resembling a fan of BEASTIE BOYS there can t be anything better Not even close Rarely do you downheartedly utter I wish there wasafter finishing almost 600 page tome.My heroes, Adam Horovitz Mike Diamond are fantastic storytellers, wild outstanding creatives, original pranksters with a sense of humor of proper stand up comedian So you not only get the inside scoop, but recipes, fashion For a casual listener this book might be worthless, but for any organism, even remotely resembling a fan of BEASTIE BOYS there can t be anything better Not even close Rarely do you downheartedly utter I wish there wasafter finishing almost 600 page tome.My heroes, Adam Horovitz Mike Diamond are fantastic storytellers, wild outstanding creatives, original pranksters with a sense of humor of proper stand up comedian So you not only get the inside scoop, but recipes, fashion police, comic strip, equipment inventorisation, about a thousand song checks for you to add onto your playlists, a ton of photoshoots and some fictional stories All packed into this marvel It makes you laugh out loud, or just in your mind, it has at least 30 to 40 wows wowen into the story and, as any Beastie Boys follower knows, it all ends up in devastating tragedy As band bios go, this is a grand statement And it seems honest to the bone The people who lived though all of this, are ti...I laughed, I cried, I mourned MCA I read this and listened to the audio version at the same time, which was a perfect way to experience the story.It s a shame he dies in the end.Absolutely Phenomenal The cast of thousands reading the audio book completely enhanced the experience They created such joy.But most of all, I appreciated the love shown to Yauch The loss of a close friend collabo...Book of the year for me An emotional read, too I realised, reading this, I grew up with this band watched them grow up they represent a lot to me they have talent but aren t extraordinary, so it s believable, it always seemed achievable they were flawed too We heard them mature, musically, philosophically and spiritually across the albums And the story was never able to be correctly finished So there s a sadness there Obviously And you feel it through these pages and in these voi Book of the year for me An emotional read, too I realised, reading this, I grew up with this band watched them grow up they represent a lot to me they have talent but aren t extraordinary, so it s believable, it always seemed achievable they were flawed too We heard them mature, musically, philosophically and spiritually across the albums And the story w...What an amazing book The whole complete history of the Beastie Boys An absolute must read for any Beastie Boys fan, or music fan It s a shame that this did not come out prior to Yauch s passing, because it would have been great to read his perspective It s big, it s heavy, but you can NOT put this...Four stars may be a bit of a stretch, but I, like so many others whether admitted or not , was a Beastie Boy fan back in the day Ad Rock, MCA, and Mike D were a novelty a group of punk rock white guys, raised in Manhattan, who created some of the dopest beats and craziest rhymes I had ever heard Admittedly, I had no idea what in the hell they were talking about, but when they said it, I ingested it To this day, Hold It Now, Hit It, still makes me swivel in my seat and takes me back to NYC Four stars may be a bit of a stretch, but I, like so many others whether admitted or not , was a Beastie Boy fan back in the day Ad Rock, MCA, and Mike D were a novelty a group of punk rock white guys, raised in Manhattan, who created some of the dopest beats and craziest rhymes I had ever heard Admittedly, I had no idea what in the hell they were talking about, but when they said it, I ingested it To this day, Hold It Now, Hit It, still makes me swivel in my seat and takes me back to NYC in the late 80s But...

Beastie Boys Book
  • English
  • 21 October 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 590 pages
  • 0812995546
  • Michael Diamond
  • Beastie Boys Book