To my mind, part of the brilliance of the Beastie Boys wasn’t so much that they were super talented or preternaturally innovative (although, they kinda were), but rather that they just went ahead and did stuff only if they happened to find it amusing, whether the rest of the world was in on the joke or not. Their oeuvre seems exclusively predicated on making each other laugh – I always loved that.
I've spoken about it before, I believe, but the recording below was done for the twentieth anniversary of the release of Paul's Boutique and used as the special bonus commentary, but it’s basically just the three of them sitting in a studio, listening to the record, and unspooling ridiculous anecdotes, again primarily for the purpose of making each other laugh.
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