Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Beastie Boys - Love American Style


There are few people in my life who's musical opinions matter to me. One of those people is my good friend ,digging partner and fellow music junkie Marc.

Marc runs his own audio blog over at "Marc of the Covenant".... you can find your way to him in my "other blogs I frequent" link section. Marc and I have been friends for quite a while. You might have met him years ago as the dready that worked at Mixed Media when it was still in the univesrsity area or you might know him as Mr. Gray, your child's 2nd grade teacher. Either way, Marc's musical hand is far,far reaching often pulling out the obscure, or finding an advance copy of an album not due in stores for months. Marcs generosity with his music and knowledge are just a few of the reasons I find Marc to be one of my closest friends. Almost weekly he'll toss me an MP3 disc or fill up my USB drive.

A few weeks ago, I mentioned to Marc that I'd like to find a copy of a rare Beastie Boys 12 Inch EP entitled "Love American Style". It was said to contain 2 tracks from Pauls Boutique and 2 more unreleased tracks from the same era. It should have come as no surprise when Marc replied " oh..... yeah I got that, Its not a first -pressing but it is the re-issue of it". To which I replied, " well if you come across another one somewhere keep me in mind." I didn't really think much more about it after that.

I'd thought about searching ebay, but thats like hunting fish in a barrel and paying to do it. When it comes to digging I prefer to find what I'm looking for elbow deep in a cardboard box of musty old records on sunday mornings at the flea market.

I guess that you sometimes need to be careful of what you wish for as Marc's copy of "Love American Style" found its way to my house christmas eve along with a bad-ass James Brown sweatshirt. Immediatly being encased in a plastic sleeve and placed into the crates to await the right moment to go under the needle for digitization. Its taken me almost 2 weeks to just play the record.
It was,without a doubt, the best christmas present I received this year. Thanks Marc!

The first track on the B-side is "33% God", a remix of "Shake Your Rump". Track 2 is "Dis Yourself in '89( Just Do It), a remix of "Hey Ladies" I'm not gonna post either of the two tracks from the A-side . They are both available on the Pauls Boutique.

Track 1- 33% God http://www.divshare.com/download/6266042-0b0
Track 2 - Dis Yourself in '89 (Just Do It) http://www.divshare.com/download/6266058-889





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