10 Late Career Bangers From Huge Rock Bands
2. Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise (2011)
Pay attention, the Beastie Boys’ eighth studio album, Hot Sauce Committee, Part 1, was due to be released in 2009, while its sequel, Hot Sauce Committee, Part 2, was tentatively planned to follow in 2011. So far, so simple. Then, late 2010, the band announced that, due to Adam “MCA” Yauch’s throat cancer diagnosis, Part 1’s release was postponed while he sought treatment. Later, as the Spring of 2011 approached, it was announced that Part 1 would still not be released but Part 2’s release date would stay as planned. Also, Part 2’s track listing was said to be remarkably similar to what Part 1’s would have been had it stuck to it’s 2009 release date.
Which was all a roundabout way of saying that the planned two-part album was to be truncated to one disc. The Beastie’s spun the entire ordeal to suit their wacky sense of humour but, with hindsight, the message was clear, MCA was too ill to be a Beastie Boy anymore. The band would not tour or perform live again, and MCA died in 2013.
It was, it goes without saying, a sad end. But the Beastie Boys don’t do sad so the record was, typically, as fun a musical frolic as ever the band had created. And this track, the first single, accompanied as it was by a career-reminiscing music video epic, entitled Fight For Your Right Revisited (directed by Yauch), stands amongst the band’s best hits.