track 5: fight for your right

My younger brother David used to have Licensed to Ill on tape. Along with his best friend Nicky, he would listen to it all the time. I think they even pretended to be the Beastie Boys, rapping along. I was 12 or 13 at the time and I fucking HATED it. I seem to recall actually planning to somehow sabatoge (heh) the tape, but I never did. At the time I was still listening to Madonna, The Go-Go's and was on the verge of the bubblegum teenagedom goodness of Debbie Gibson and Tiffany.



More than a decade later, a friend would play some of Ill Communication and Check Your Head for me and I'd grow to really appreciate the Beasties. So much so that when Hello Nasty came out I was buying it bright & shiny on it's Tuesday release. I loved "Super disco breakin'" and "Intergalactic" but what was funny was that by that point, David was no longer a fan. *shrug*