Sabotage (song)
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| Single by Beastie Boys from the album Ill Communication |
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| Released | January 28, 1994 | ||||
| Format | Single | ||||
| Genre | Rapcore Hardcore punk |
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| Length | 2:58 | ||||
| Label | Capitol Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Beastie Boys | ||||
| Producer | Beastie Boys and Mario Caldato | ||||
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"Sabotage" is a 1994 song by the American hip hop group Beastie Boys. It appears on their album Ill Communication. The song's style is characterized as rapcore, featuring traditional rock instrumentation (Adrock on guitar, MCA on bass, and Mike D. on drums), turntable scratches and heavily distorted bass guitar riffs.
In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked "Sabotage" #475 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at number 46 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
The song is a playable track for both the video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Rock Band.
It is also the theme tune to BBC Radio Five Live's Sports comedy panel show Fighting Talk.
[edit] Music video
"Sabotage" is noted for its acclaimed music video, directed by Spike Jonze and played extensively on MTV. As an homage to (and parody of) 1970s crime drama television series like Hawaii Five-0, Streets of San Francisco, S.W.A.T., Baretta, and Starsky and Hutch, the video is presented as the opening credits of a fictional 1970s-style police show called Sabotage, with the band members appearing as the show characters. Each band member is introduced as a fictional actor, and the names of the characters are also given, effectively making the policemen fictional fictional characters.
The characters appearing on the show are (in order of credits):
- Sir Stewart Wallace guest-starring as himself (played by MCA)
- Nathan Wind as Cochese (also played by MCA)
- Vic Colfari as Bobby, "The Rookie" (played by Adrock)
- Alasondro Alegré as "The Chief" (played by Mike D)
- Fred Kelly as "Bunny" (played by DJ Hurricane)
Some scenes had to be removed when this video was shown on MTV, including a knife-fight sequence and a falling-off-a-bridge scene. In addition, the Beastie Boys Video Anthology featured a mock interview of the "cast" of Sabotage conducted by Jonze's then-wife Sofia Coppola.
In the DVD commentary for 1996 film Trainspotting, Danny Boyle credits the film's opening credits to those used in "Sabotage".
[edit] Trivia
- Buddy Rich is mentioned in the final lyrics of the song.
[edit] External links
- Music video at YouTube
- Comprehensive info at BeastieMania [1]
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