Sabotage (song)
| sabotage | |
|---|---|
| Beastie Boys | |
| publication | 1994 |
| length | 2:58 |
| Genre (s) | Rapcore |
| Author (s) | Beastie Boys |
| Label | Grand Royal |
Sabotage is a song by the Beastie Boys from 1994. The label Grand Royal released it on the album Ill Communication, among others . Sabotage can best be assigned to the rapcore sub-genre because of the mixture of hardcore and hip-hop that was typical of the Beastie Boys at the time.
Authorship and Inclusion
The original idea and the characteristic riff for sabotage came from MCA , the text was written by Adrock . The copyright for the song is owned by all three Beastie Boys. Produced was sabotage by Mario Caldato, Jr. and the band itself, the played a song in the following occupation.:
Although Sabotage was one of the first songs recorded for Ill Communication , it was the last to be finished. In this context, Adrock remembers a man named Chris, who was often in the studios on Tin Pan Alley while recording Ill Communication . Most of the time he seemed rather bored with the music of the Beastie Boys, until he heard an instrumental version of the as yet untitled Sabotage for the first time . Then he called: “This is the shit! This shit rocks! " The later sabotage was therefore given the working title Chris Rock in his honor . After that, it remained an instrumental piece for about a year until the Beastie Boys finally decided to add a text to the song.
Music video
The music video for Sabotage is both a homage to and a parody of the typical police series of the 1970s. The director was Spike Jonze . At MTV the video ran at times in heavy rotation .
At the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards , Sabotage was nominated five times, including “Video of the Year”, but did not receive a single trophy. Sabotage in all categories was Cryin ' by Aerosmith and Everybody Hurts by REM MCA then stormed the stage in his Nathanial Hörnblowér costume and described the event as a farce. At the award ceremony in 2009, Sabotage was then awarded in the category “Best Video (That should have won a Moonman)”.
reception
The music magazine Rolling Stone tops Sabotage at number 480 on its list of the 500 best songs of all time .
Trivia
After the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 , the media company put Clear Channel Communications sabotage on a black list , which contained songs that the radio should not be sent for the time being.
In both the eleventh and thirteenth Star Trek films , sabotage is integrated into the plot: In Star Trek , the song is played on the car radio while the young James T. Kirk takes his stepfather's Corvette for a spin through rural Iowa; In Star Trek Beyond , the song is sent by the crew of the Enterprise to a swarm of enemy fighters during a space battle, which destroys them.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Beastie Boys: Ill Communication (Liner Notes)
- ↑ a b www.beastiemania.com: Sabotage (Production & Release Details )
- ↑ Beastie Boys: Beastie Boys Anthology - The Sounds of Science (Liner Notes)
- ↑ www.imdb.com: Sabotage - Video (production details )
- ↑ www.mtv.de: Obituary for MCA
- ↑ www.mtv.com: MTV Video Music Awards 1994
- ↑ www.mtv.com: MTV Video Music Awards 2009
- ↑ www.rollingstone.com: Sabotage (list placement)
- ↑ www.memory-alpha.fandom.com: Sabotage & Star Trek
- ↑ www.theguardian.com: Star Trek Beyond (review)