Beastly Noise

[VAXman(Admin)]

Jim recently put a track from the Beastie Boys on the moon. I haven't heard it.

Anyway, my son recently purchased a video game system where you can play toy drums and toy guitar to a music video. One of the video tracks -- and I'm loathe to call it a music video -- was the Beastie Boys. I didn't know their material before and now I am certain that I do not wish to hear any more.

It's truly a shame that this game doesn't include any prog videos. I will now require the kids to wear headphones when playing.

[progzealot]

Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you have the technology to alter the queue? (wink,wink,nudge,nudge).

[Yesspaz]

Actually, there's at least two, if not three Beastie Boys albums that would do well on AM. They're known as this rap outfit, but they're actually all really good musicians, and have two or three instrumental jazzy albums that sound a lot like Medeski Martin & Wood.

[Yesspaz]

Originally Posted by VAXman

My son recently purchased a video game system where you can play toy drums and toy guitar to a music video. One of the video tracks -- and I'm loathe to call it a music video -- was the Beastie Boys.

Was it "Sabotage?" Oh, and it's probably Guitar Hero III or Rock Band.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by progzealot

Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you have the technology to alter the queue? (wink,wink,nudge,nudge).

On AM I can but I don't do video games.

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

Was it "Sabotage?" Oh, and it's probably Guitar Hero III or Rock Band.

Just asked son the youngest. Sabotage is on GHIII. I prefer the Sabbath record

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Just asked son the youngest. Sabotage is on GHIII. I prefer the Sabbath record

Just asked my son the oldest. The track is called Sabotage. GHIII?

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by VAXman

Just asked my son the oldest. The track is called Sabotage. GHIII?

Guitar Hero III

[Yesspaz]

Sabotage is a great song, if you like that sort of thing. My favorite Beastie Boys song is Intergalactic.

"Well now don't you tell me to smile
You stick around, I'll make it worth your while
Got numbers beyond what you can dial
Maybe it's because I'm so versatile
Style, profile, I said
It always brings me back when I hear Ooh Child
From the Hudson River out to the Nile
I run the marathon to the very last mile
Well if you battle me I will revile
People always say my style is wild
You've got gall, you've got guile
To step to me I'm a rap-o-phile
If you want to battle you're in denial
Coming from Uranus to check my style
Go ahead put my rhymes on trial
Cast you off into exile"

"I like my sugar with coffee and cream!"

"Beastie Boys know when to let the beat... mmm drop?"

[kevishev]

I was a little taken aback when I saw the Beasties had been added to the Moon. My curiosity having gotten the better of me, I requested their entry this morning and was suprised that it was a harmless little instramental tune of no great consequense.

So what's next? Primus?

Aw jeez, I probably shouldn't have asked that...

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by kevishev

a harmless little instramental tune of no great consequense.

Yep, that also describes the one and only Zeppelin tune in the library...

[Yesspaz]

At the risk of sounding like a brown-noser, let me give my two words of advice: Trust Jim. Apart from the fact he owns the station and doesn't have to even take anything we say into consideration if he doesn't want to, he's the program director by default. AuralMoon's three greatest assets are the community, the timely request feature, and the broad definition of prog/art-rock, or even "artistic" rock. With that being said:

Why is the immediate reaction to seeing Beastie Boys added, "Oh crap!, AM's going down the tubes?" Why isn't it, "Wow, I didn't know Beastie Boys had any proggish material? This'll be cool." In other words, why not trust Jim implicitly? If I looked at the new additions and saw, say Clint Black added, my reaction would be, "Wow, didn't expect that. I gotta hear that one!"

If Jim wanted to add the Beastie Boys' two instrumental albums, The In Sound from Way Out and The Mix Up, as well as the various instrumental tracks from their other albums, I'd applaud it. Why not? It's interesting, not-boring, funky-jazzy stuff. Sounds like a prog/proggish/artsy thing to me. So trust Jim. Applaud him for adding Beastie Boys. Encourage him to add more. If he dediced to add 25% of Primus' material, or a dozen or so select Zeppelin songs, or a half-dozen Beatles songs, applaud him for footing 98% of a free-to-us prog station with a huge library.

To quote RnR in another thread, let's not be "another who thinks the world starts and stops with the same 5 or 6 bands and their offshoots."

Thank you.





(Is my nose brown?)

[Rick and Roll]

My son used to like Intergalactic when it came out.

I'm sure every band's got at least one prog song, except for Asia.

It's only one song in the library, no big deal.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

At the risk of sounding like a brown-noser, let me give my two words of advice: Trust Jim. Apart from the fact he owns the station and doesn't have to even take anything we say into consideration if he doesn't want to, he's the program director by default. AuralMoon's three greatest assets are the community, the timely request feature, and the broad definition of prog/art-rock, or even "artistic" rock. With that being said:

Brown noser? Nah, you're just a sycophant.

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

Why is the immediate reaction to seeing Beastie Boys added, "Oh crap!, AM's going down the tubes?"

Where was that said? Certainly not by me.

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

If Jim wanted to add the Beastie Boys' two instrumental albums, The In Sound from Way Out and The Mix Up, as well as the various instrumental tracks from their other albums, I'd applaud it. Why not? It's interesting, not-boring, funky-jazzy stuff. Sounds like a prog/proggish/artsy thing to me. So trust Jim. Applaud him for adding Beastie Boys. Encourage him to add more. If he dediced to add 25% of Primus' material, or a dozen or so select Zeppelin songs, or a half-dozen Beatles songs, applaud him for footing 98% of a free-to-us prog station with a huge library.

Do you know that 87.3% of quoted statistics are made up 53.9% of the time and that the remaining 61.2 % don't add up?

Originally Posted by Yesspaz

(Is my nose brown?)

Don't know... post your photo.

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally Posted by VAXman

Don't know... post your photo.

NO! For the love of all that's good and holy please no.

Last time he did that I had a case of the collywobbles that lasted the better part of a month.



Shudder.

[ErikM]

I'm totally agree with you Yesspaz. I'm always surprised with the good chozen tracks by Jim. And AM needs more Beastie Boys. They even sampled a piece from Emerson Lake & Palmer.

[Methem]

Well, there's also a song by Massive Attack on the Moon, or at least used to be. They aren't progressive rock either. (I myself got three MA albums, and "Hymn of the Big Wheel", one of their early tunes, is still one of my favourite songs.)

As for BB, not exactly my cup of tea, but I've liked some of their material in the past. Got one album from the early 1990s, "Check Your Head" or whatever it's called, which I bought when I was a teenager. That's indeed pretty noisy for most parts, if I remember correctly (the CD is "somewhere" in my apartment). But I've also heard a tune or two of their more mellow and jazzy stuff and thought it was pretty nice.

As for "harmless instrumentals", perhaps "Machine Gun" (the song) by the Commodores would be a suitable addition. Some of the keyboard/synth moments are nice, IMO.


-Meth'

[kevishev]

I think the younger members of the AM community need to grow up a little bit. Or maybe alot in this case.

As an old timer that will freely admit that I'm skeptical when it comes to the Beastie Boys (and I am certainly not alone on that), I went ahead and gave the BB tune the benefit of the doubt and requested it so I could judge the song's merrits for myself. In my opinion, the tune is nothing to get excited about to say the least. I said so here as well as in the shoutbox when it played. There was nothing said by me or anyone else I know of like "Oh no, the Moon is going down the tubes because they're playing the Beastie Boys." Where the hell did that come from?

To have it implied that Jim's judgement isn't trusted or somehow we're ungrateful for the privelige of listening because we're suprised by an artist's addition certainly eclipses a nose of brown and takes on more of the characteristics of a full cranial insertion into the rectal cavity.

[MrMagoo]

Originally Posted by kevishev

...a harmless little instramental tune of no great consequense.

Tony Levin, Double Espresso, Black Dog = "no great consequense"? It (IMO, YMMV, IANAL)

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by MrMagoo

Tony Levin, Double Espresso, Black Dog = "no great consequense"? It (IMO, YMMV, IANAL)

No sir, that would be "Black Mountain Side" from Zep I.