RE: RE: Beastie Boys

Michael Aregood (maregood@comcastpc.com)
Wed, 7 May 1997 14:00:02 -0400

Maybe in my effort to keep the hardcore stuff brief i wasn't clear. When
i said as a hardcore band they're bad i wasn't referring to them now, i
was referring to them when they actually were just a hardcore band. Yes,
i'm choosing to be judgemental, but as far as hardcore goes they were
pretty bad and re-issueing that stuff is kind of silly. I must say
though i was a bit harsh considering we're talking about 80-83' and they
were just kids. But if i ever begin to actually make the music i spin
the last thing i'm going to do is release a song on a demo from when i
was in a hardcore band when i was 16... (it sucked!!) I absolutely agree
with you about working with the music you are rooted in and having the
hardcore coming through in the stuff they do now. I totally dig
everything they do....

Peace,
Argo

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> From: Michael Bolotin
> Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 1997 11:47 AM
> To: Michael Aregood
> Cc: acid jazz list; Jon Jung; Pradip Kiran Sarkar
> Subject: Re: RE: Beastie Boys
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> > They should keep their speed demon numbers to a minimum because as a
> > hardcore band they're pretty much on the suck side. I don't know why
> > they felt they had to remind people of how bad they were.
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> I'm gonna have to stop you here. I think that it is important for the
> b-boys, or any other band for that matter, to keep working with the
> music they are rooted in. I do agree that the "in sound from way out"
> music of theirs is perhaps one of the best musical styles out there,
> and I love it, but a hardcore song or too adds texture to their albums
> or shows. I think that it is too judgemental to say they are a "bad"
> hardcore band, as they don't really try to be a "good" hardcore band.
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> -mike
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