My First Beastie Boys Experience with Intergalactic! Vocal Analysis of rap?

Sometimes you have to get out of your comfort zone, and I think this is what I'm doing with this Beastie Boys analysis. It's way out of left field, but I've heard so much about them, and their impact on music today - so we're diving right in!

Join professional opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, as she listens to Beastie Boys for the first time, performing "Intergalactic”.
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Written and Performed by Mike D, Ad-Rock & MCA (Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz and Adam Yauch)
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Elizabeth Zharoff is an international opera singer and voice coach, with 3 degrees in voice, opera, and music production. She's performed in 18 languages throughout major venues in Europe, America, and Asia. Currently based somewhere between Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth spends her days researching voice, singing, teaching, writing music, and recording TONS. She also plays Diablo and Dungeons & Dragons.
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[scorpiofrancis]

‘Sabotage’ has to be your next Beastie Boys experience

[renlessard]

"rhymes approaching the ridiculous"

Well yeah. It's the Beastie Boys

[LogicalNiko]

Three Jewish kids from a jazz background trying to be a punk band in Brooklyn and then accidently stumbling on 1st gen rap of Grand Master Flash and The Sugar Hill Gang. They then switching their game up and becoming one of the first people to kickstart the modern rap era, and being the start of Def Jam Records. They are ridiculous because these circumstances were ridiculous. They wrapped an immense amount of talent around the fun and the party aspect of the scene, making nothing quite say party like the Beastie Boys.

And that R2D2 sound is Mario C. (Mario Caldato, the producer on this) and Ad-Rock between turn tables, synth, and sample edits.

[johndevoist]

This confirms that Elizabeth has grown up from an extremely sheltered childhood.

[noneprovided]

*If my rap’s soup, my beats is stock.*

…the most undersold, under-appreciated line in the song.

[jasonbrock]

That that had you laughing is actually a call back to a previous Beastie Boys song.

[marshallindustries]

The crazy thing is the boys have perfect pitch, while sounding like they're yelling, and rapping. Super super hard to do. They used a Vocoder for the Intergalactic voice. In the early 1970s, Moog developed a vocoder with Wendy Carlos for the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange. Artists such as ELO (“Mr. Blue Sky, ” 1977) and Kraftwerk (“The Robots, ” 1978) popularizing its sound.

There are bits of classical music flowing through this song. Rachmaninoff's "Prelude C-sharp Minor, " sampled from a recording by Les Baxter played on a synthesizer, is blended into the verses. The piece of classical music at the beginning of the song is "Night on Bald Mountain" by Modest Mussorgsky. Also sampled is "Love is Blue" by The Jazz Crusaders.

Mix Master Mike is the DJ (turntablist) on this track scratching your "R2-D2 " sounds. Mix Master Mike is often credited with inventing the Tweak Scratch. The scratch is performed by moving the record back and forth while the platter motor is stopped. The inertia of the platter causes the sounds to slow and drop in pitch in an unusual manner. He is also well known for the unusual technique of using a wah-wah pedal, an effect most commonly used by guitarists, with his turntables.


All of them are self taught musicians, and because of that they experimented with everything, helping to pioneer a huge amount of music in some many different genres. All just natural talent; style and having fun.

[brianforgos]

The "R2D2" sound is a DJ, Mixmaster Mike, cutting and scratching a record. His turntables are connected to a Wah-wah pedal to get that distorted sound

[scott-pearce]

When thinking of the beastie boys I can’t help but think of the cartoon Futurama set 1000 years in the future, the character Fry, who was frozen in 1999, meets their persevered talking heads in a jar and says he had all 5 of their albums, the beastie boys respond by saying “That was a 1000 years ago, now we got 7”

[ScottLovenberg]

The rule is that the Beastie Boys took the music itself, and the craft *very* seriously, but took themselves not seriously at all. They were true craftsman and a lot of the things you hear from them and think, "this sounds like xyz" are things they pioneered. BB are consistently praised by top tier artists in every genre. Reportedly their album Paul's Boutique was Miles Davis' favorite album up until he died.

[strawtube]

That "MMmmm DROP!" was ICONIC and from a song of theirs like 8 years earlier, immediately recognizable,

[arinbaun]

So I'm a vocalist for a Beastie Boys tribute act, and this song is one of the most popular ones at all of our gigs. When the part "Beastie Boys known to let the beat..." hits, we pause and let the crowd scream themselves hoarse before we come in with the DROP"

And this video is a tribute to Japanese Kaiju films, the part where they are in the jumpsuits was even filmed in Tokyo. And to answer your question, Godzilla was the first franchise to explore giant monster battles in an urban setting (your subscribers are mostly nerds as well 😏)

[kevinparker]

If you want to get your nerd on, you have stepped into a whole new sub-culture. This video calls back to the "man in a rubber suit" Godzilla influenced movies and TV shows. After the 1954 introduction of Godzilla, Asian TV and movies (primarily Japanese, but Korea also had some) shifted toward Kaiju content in the 60's. Of these spawned "Johnny Soko and his Flying Robot", "Inframan" as well as all of the Godzilla vs (insert monster name here). These also inspired Power Rangers and later Pacific Rim (Del Toro is a HUGE fan of the genre). As to the "R2-D2 sounds", that is scratching...where a DJ pushes the record back and forth to create specific sounds from a designated place on the record. Beastie Boys was one of the first Rap based groups that blended hard rock into their music but not as samples, but actually music they composed to drive the beat. I wholeheartedly agree that you should check out "Sabotage" and "No Sleep Til Brooklyn". Additionally, if you want a heavy rap/metal collaboration, you MUST check out Anthrax/Public Enemy "Bring The Noise"

[djcahoon]

'Brass monkey', 'fight for your right', or 'no sleep till Brooklyn' would all be good songs for you to experience.

[danedelacruz]

The Beastie Boys were originally in New York hardcore punk rock band. They quickly switched to hip hop early in their careers.

The music video for intergalactic is reminiscent of a Japanese kaiju movie (giant monster).

The word Beastie is actually an acronym that stands for boys entering anarchistic states towards inner excellence.

[SevenEternities]

Sabotage live on the Letterman show is an amazing performance. You can see them playing all the live instruments, the energy is awesome 😎

[GalleryATV]

The "mmm Drop" is a reference done in one of their earlier songs "The New Style" from their 1986 Debut Album "Licensed to ILL"

[nylonstringninja]

There are a few musical groups that are so unique they stand alone and Beastie Boys is one of them. They are one of a kind.

[briangoss]

Between knowing and liking the Mr.Spock reference and coolly sliding in an Illithid reference you rock! I knew I was impressed with you before but now, dang! As others have stated yes, Sabotage should probably be the next video.

[EvanWeber]

This is a heckuva place to start with the Beastie Boys