Stereogum is in Vegas (baby) for Best Friends Forever festival. We'll be chatting with a bunch of the bands in video interviews so if you have any pressing questions about second wave emo lmk.
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 | thee hound of foggy bottom boys |
| Oct 8th | |
ok I guess Jelly Roll is getting a PE then | |
| Posted in: Album Of The Week: Chat Pile Cool World | |
A lot to unpack here.Then repack it, weigh it down with rocks, and drop it to the bottom of the ocean.
And Flying Up The Modern Rock Charts On Its Way To Peaking at No.22… it’s “So What’cha Want” by the Beastie Boys, on which, in a move that shocked both fans and detractors, they actually learnt – or re-learnt - how to play their instruments – we’re talking drums, bass, guitar! proper band instruments! - a skill that had previously been superfluous to requirements what with them being rappers and all.
What the Beasties wanted apparently was to jam. For hours and hours. Sometimes taking a break to skate or play basketball (they installed a skate ramp and basketball hoop in the studio) The “Check Yo Head” album is one of those albums where the band jams and noodles away and then they chop up the best bits, stick it together and rap over the top of whatever they ended up with.
In the case of “So What’cha Want” what they ended up with was some supremely squelchy, distorted funk-rock, complete with a great big clompin’ beat. If it sounded like nothing the Beasties had ever put out on the market before, rest assured that their rapping is still the same. The Beastie Boys are rapping about the same surrealist shit that the Beastie Boys are always rapping about. They are rapping a lot about food - “you’re eating crazy cheese like you would think I’m from Paris”, “Sweeter than a cherry pie with Reddi-Wip topping”, “Well I'm as cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce” – dropping nerdy references to jazz players, old school rappers and even older-school pediatricians, all the while pulling faces in the video.
“So What’cha Want” is a 9
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ru3gH27Fn6E
What a masterful headline!Every word just builds off the next one.And the kicker is that they played at the Church & State.
I thought they did it all for the nookie.
You know you've shit the bed when you can't find an aging metal band with a couple of trump supporters to last minute headline your shitty music festival for assholes.
Not the kind of “Rittenhouse booking” we’re looking for, but thanks anyway.
megaflopolis
lol
They hire a Slipknot cover band to be the new headliner while Trapt guy's still sitting at home, waiting for the phone to ring.