Jason Mustian
When I was in high school at least 75% of my personality was based on The Beastie Boys, and looking back, I don’t feel bad about that.
These days the BBs aren’t quite the part of my music rotation that they once were, but at least twice a year I go on a week-long binge of the greatest hits, and also listen to Paul’s Boutique in its entirety. Might be time for me semi-annual binge now though, as a friend shared this mashup of one of the Beastie Boys’ best videos, Sabotage, remixed from Sesame Street clips.
Just as a primer, I think you owe it to yourself to watch the Sabotage video again first:
Ok, generally refreshed? Great, now enjoy this mashup by Mylo the Cat:
The video has over 2.3 million views and almost entirely positive reviews (a rarity for Youtube)
Fun random fact, the song is about their longtime producer, Mario C, as per this Esquire interview from 2018:
When Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz yells, “I can’t stand it / I know you planned it,” he’s directing his frustration at their friend and producer Mario Caldato Jr., who was pushing the Beastie Boys to actually finish a track. As the story goes, the group was being indecisive about completing songs on their fourth studio album.
“We were totally indecisive about what, when, why and how to complete songs. Mario was getting frustrated,” actor Tim Meadows narrates in the audiobook. “That’s a really calm way of saying that he would blow a fuse and get pissed off at us and scream that we just needed to finish something, anything, a song. He would push awful instrumental tracks we made just to have something moving toward completion.”