10 Songs Rock Bands Refuse To Play Live

2. Beastie Boys – '(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)'

Arguably the Beastie Boy's best-known song, being named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's ‘500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll’.

'Fight For Your Right' was performed only at 17 concerts in total, the last time they played it being all the way back in 1987. The song was written as a sarcastic knock on party anthems, like Twisted Sister’s ‘I Wanna Rock’. But like R.E.M.'s 'Shiny Happy People', the joke was lost on the masses. 'Fight for Your Right' became a frat house anthem, becoming synonymous with the lifestyle the Beastie Boys were parodying. 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 Beastie Boys hated this song. Really, they loathed it. In their Best Of album, the liner notes just call it ‘s**t’.

The Beasties eventually made peace with their most famous song by producing a brilliant short film based on Fight For Your Right starring Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood and Danny McBride in 2011 directed by the late Beastie Adam Yauch.