BEASTIE BOYS: Fight for Your Right (to Party) 7″ + Time to Get Ill. Classic 1987 Rap rock w. Slayer guitarist Kerry King. Check video

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BEASTIE BOYS fight for your right 7 inch uk b/w time to get ill 1987 (6504187) PIC SLEEVE

“(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)” (sometimes shortened to Fight for Your Right) was the first single released from the Beastie Boys’ breakthrough album, Licensed to Ill (1986). One of their best-known songs, it reached #7 on the Billboard 100, and was later named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

Ironically, the song was intended as a parody of party and attitude songs, such as “Smokin’ In the Boys Room” and “I Wanna Rock.” However, the irony was lost on most listeners. Mike D commented that, “The only thing that upsets me is that we might have reinforced certain values of some people in our audience when our own values were actually totally different. There were tons of guys singing along to ‘Fight for Your Right’ who were oblivious to the fact it was a total goof on them.” The guitar solo was played by Slayer guitarist Kerry King.
Despite probably being the groups most famous song, the Beastie Boys have expressed distaste for it. In The Sounds of Science liner notes, MCA jokingly says the song “sucks”, though they did not feel the album would be complete without it. The group has not performed the song live since 1987.

Chart (1987) Peak Position
Canadian RPM Singles Chart 7
German Singles Chart 25
UK Singles Chart 11
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 7

Many elements of the music video for “Fight for Your Right” appear to be influenced by George A. Romero’s zombie horror movie Dawn of the Dead. During Dawn of the Dead a biker gang infiltrates a shopping mall and attacks the zombies with (amongst other things) pies-in-the-face. At one point a biker even smashes a television set with a sledge-hammer, just like MCA in this video.

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