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Kickin’ It Live: Beastie Boys at Summerstage

Started by tomwatson · 11 months ago

The Beasties make party. Party is their product, and there was a great one going on at Summer Stage Wednesday night. After a day like Wednesday, it was a gift beyond measure.
The day started badly and then it got worse. It was a bad day for a great many New Yorkers. I was blessed, however, ... Continue reading »

11 comments

  • Tony Alva

    1 year ago

    Welcome to the Newcritics fold Theo! Great inaugural post. The world indeed needs music that doesn't require one to think. Too much Bob Dylan hurts my brain. The best antidote for this is...

    "I got millions and billions of rhymes to flex, I got more rhymes than Carl Sagan’s got turtlenecks…”
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  • Ted Wilson

    1 year ago

    'You're all mixed up
    Like pasta primevera
    Yo man,
    Why'd you throw that chair at Geraldo Rivera
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  • Jason Chervokas

    1 year ago

    The funny thing is, the Beasties lyrics are all pretty darn smart and thoughtful. That's what I like about 'em..well, it's one of the things I like about 'em
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  • billions

    1 year ago

    "Got more rhymes than Jamaica's got mangoes.'

    More importantly, Pink Floyd are not, and never will The Beastie Boys.
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  • Tom Watson

    1 year ago

    Great review Ted and welcome...what can I say but:

    Johnny Ryall is the bum on my stoop
    I gave him fifty cents to buy some soup
    He knows the time with the fresh Gucci watch
    He's even more over than the mayor Ed Koch
    Washing windows on the Bowery at a quarter to four
    'Cause he ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more...
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  • Jason Chervokas

    1 year ago

    Claims that he wrote the blue suede shoes
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  • Ted Wilson

    1 year ago

    Don't even start me on the 'Paul's Boutique', or maybe you should.....

    As my friend Chuck pointed out, nobody - not anybody in any genre, has ever rhymed a pasta dish with a TV News Personality.

    Not once, but twice.

    There the Geraldo bit I dropped above, and this one:


    "I'll Be In The Paper The News With Ernie Ernesto
    They'll Even Print My Recipe For Pasta With Pesto"

    You can't argue with that, or as they might say - you can't front on that.
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  • Tom Watson

    1 year ago

    Donald Trump Donald Tramp
    living in the Men's Shelter
    Wonder Bread bag shoes
    and singing Helter Skelter...

    It occurs to me that newcritics and Johnny Ryall are closely related....
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  • fred wilson

    1 year ago

    i've been playing a bit of the beastie's around the house since we went to that show jackson and josh has taken up the habit of calling out to his sisters with the memorable "hey ladies"

    it pisses them off but cracks me up
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  • Ted Wilson

    1 year ago

    It's mighty contagious stuff.
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  • Chowderhead

    1 year ago

    Me likey Beastie. Open letter to the folks who run the summerstage: More beer lines.
    Also, I agree with Jason #3, the B Boys lyrics are all pretty darn smart. Nice job Teddddd!
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