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They’re Back

by John Cole|  April 21, 20114:40 pm| 64 Comments

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New Beastie Boys vid:

Beastie Boys – Make Some Noise – Free Music Videos – Top Songs

Been waiting for this one for a while.

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  1. 1.

    Linnaeus

    April 21, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    The DeLorean steals the show.

  2. 2.

    Mark S.

    April 21, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    Are Ted Danson and Steve Buscemi playing waiters?

  3. 3.

    Yutsano

    April 21, 2011 at 5:02 pm

    Am I wrong in thinking there should have been a “To Be Continued” at the end there?

  4. 4.

    Bob Loblaw

    April 21, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    It’s very important that we not have “boots on the ground” in Libya. Fortunately, this is the 21st century. Drones are how the cool kids fight their wars.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/21/us-obama-predator-drones-libya

  5. 5.

    ed

    April 21, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    Mr. Pink!

  6. 6.

    R-Jud

    April 21, 2011 at 5:04 pm

    Aaaand here’s a link that works if you’re outside the US– at least so you can hear the track.

    PS: Yessss.

  7. 7.

    kdaug

    April 21, 2011 at 5:09 pm

    That’s actually brilliant.

  8. 8.

    John - A Motley Moose

    April 21, 2011 at 5:09 pm

    There are a bunch of celebs in this. Two that might slip by are Amy Poehler and Mary Steenburgen in the restaurant. They are only visible for a couple of seconds.

  9. 9.

    Martin

    April 21, 2011 at 5:09 pm

    Best old white jewish hip hop group, by far. And nice job getting Ferrell on the cowbell.

  10. 10.

    kdaug

    April 21, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    @Mark S.: Yep. And the kid in the red shirt is Frodo from LOTR.

  11. 11.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    Mary Steenburgen too

  12. 12.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

    April 21, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    .
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    Hey, I was waiting for the live musical performance to President Obama at today’s presidential fundraiser in San Francisco. Please post that vid when you get it.
    .
    .

  13. 13.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    @Martin: Funny, they don’t look Buddhist.

  14. 14.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    Chloe Sevigny

  15. 15.

    Yutsano

    April 21, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    @Martin: Which one of them had cancer? I confess I don’t know them all by sight alone.

  16. 16.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:17 pm

    @Yutsano: Yauck.

  17. 17.

    MikeJ

    April 21, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    Also too, Fight for your right revisited.

  18. 18.

    McKnuckles

    April 21, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    Orlando Bloom as the squegee man and Dwight from the office being sprayed. Lots of hidden references to old songs done by the group.

  19. 19.

    McKnuckles

    April 21, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    Orlando Bloom as the squegee man and Dwight from the office being sprayed. Lots of hidden references to old songs done by the group.

  20. 20.

    rdalin

    April 21, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    I love the 80s clothes and elijah wood seals the deal for me. Great video.

  21. 21.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    April 21, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    Nothing endears the locals to us like killing them with robots.

  22. 22.

    Kidhill

    April 21, 2011 at 5:20 pm

    I’m still not sure who it is that gets out of the DeLorean at the end. It looks like Jack Black, Will Ferrell, and…? Not sure who the other guy is.

  23. 23.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:20 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Like they give a fuck HOW they get killed.

  24. 24.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:25 pm

    @Kidhill: John C Riley but I don’t think that is Will.

  25. 25.

    Martin

    April 21, 2011 at 5:25 pm

    @stuckinred: Well, none of them were Buddhist when I first heard them. I was maybe 14 or so. God that was such a long time ago.

  26. 26.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    You can go full screen here.

  27. 27.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    @Martin: When you get interviewed by Shambala Sun you may be on the path.

  28. 28.

    Punchy

    April 21, 2011 at 5:29 pm

    Steve Buschemi as the waiter? Nice.

  29. 29.

    Lysana

    April 21, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    The tune’s good, but the video makes me want to kick each one of them square in the nuts.

  30. 30.

    MikeJ

    April 21, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead: They do like it when you kill mercenaries the government is using to kill them though. And why are remotely piloted aircraft worse than planes with the pilots in them? We’ve already attacked Libya with aircraft. This is just more of the same.

  31. 31.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:31 pm

    Bohdissatva Vow

    I grew up with skateboarding, snowboarding and with the music of Beastie Boys, one of the greatest hip hop (and punk) bands. One of their members Adam “MCA” Yauch (right dude on a picture above) is a Buddhist and here’s some lyrics from a song called Bodhisattva Vow (from an album Ill Communication [1994]):

    As I Develop The Awakening Mind I Praise The Buddha As They Shine
    I Bow Before You As I Travel My Path To Join Your Ranks,
    I Make My Full Time Task
    For The Sake Of All Beings I Seek

  32. 32.

    Yutsano

    April 21, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    @stuckinred: I bet he’s still a good Jewish boy that doesn’t eat shrimp and calls his mother every weekend. Some habits die really really hard.

  33. 33.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    @Yutsano: Since paths are many and truth is one, what the fuck, why not. When the monks came here to do their sand mandala they were mad for Burger King!

  34. 34.

    AAA Bonds

    April 21, 2011 at 5:37 pm

    @MikeJ:

    I agree that this is exactly as bad as what we’re doing in Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq . . .

    However, the symbolic aspect of Predator drones is real. They’re an extremely effective anti-American recruiting tool, paid for by you and me.

  35. 35.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    April 21, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    the yeastie girlz

    since we are going all back in the day and all.

  36. 36.

    Egypt Steve

    April 21, 2011 at 5:41 pm

    Is that Cornel West as the leprechaun?

  37. 37.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:41 pm

    @AAA Bonds: Here, bitch about this:

    WASHINGTON — A provision in the new 9/11 health bill may be adding insult to injury for people who fell sick after their service in the aftermath of the 2001 Al Qaeda attacks, The Huffington Post has learned.

    The tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, construction workers and others who survived the worst terrorist assault in U.S. history and risked their lives in its wake will soon be informed that their names must be run through the FBI’s terrorism watch list, according to a letter obtained by HuffPost.

  38. 38.

    MonkeyBoy

    April 21, 2011 at 5:42 pm

    hitfix:

    … About a dozen prominent actors from Will Arnett, Steve Buscemi, Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson, Jack Black, Will Farrell and Orlando Bloom show up in the clip, with Elijah Wood, Jonah HIll and Danny McBride starring as the trio,
    …
    Tag along with the fellows as they crash into a bodega, get hit by cars, take drugs in a limo, piss-off restaurant patrons and face-off their later-life rivals: themselves (as Jack Black, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly).

  39. 39.

    AAA Bonds

    April 21, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    We’re never going to win in 2012 with certain people in our ranks working so hard to divide Democrats over our foreign policy.

    The tough part is: they hang out at the White House.

  40. 40.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    @MonkeyBoy: None of the women, holy chit!

  41. 41.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:45 pm

    @AAA Bonds: There’s as much of a chance that this stuff will split the republicans.

  42. 42.

    John - A Motley Moose

    April 21, 2011 at 5:47 pm

    @Kidhill: Will Ferrel, Jack Black, and John C. Reilly.

    Here’s a list from MTV of the cameos.

    The “Make Some Noise” video features a steady stream of star spottings, with a stream of cameos by some of our favorite TV and movie actors, including Will Arnett, Orlando Bloom, Steve Buscemi, David Cross, Ted Danson, Kirsten Dunst, Will Ferrell, Rashida Jones, Amy Poehler, Jason Schwartzman, Chloe Sevigny, Mary Steenburgen and Rainn Wilson. And yes, that’s Susan Sarandon. Dudes have the hottest cell phone contact list in the game right now.

  43. 43.

    AAA Bonds

    April 21, 2011 at 5:50 pm

    @stuckinred:

    Sounds shitty, maybe even shittier than Arianna Huffington always was and shall be.

    I’ve done some work for the ACLU concerning that watchlist. It’s mutated into a gigantic rampaging monster and there’s very little that anyone is willing to do about it.

    http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/watch-lists

    Did you know that there were 414 incidents of suspected al-Qaeda members tangling with Virginia law enforcement in 2009 alone? Or at least that’s what the watch list got people to report . . .

  44. 44.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:51 pm

    @AAA Bonds: Low hangin fruit or any port in a storm I guess.

  45. 45.

    AAA Bonds

    April 21, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    @stuckinred:

    Split what? Where? When?

    A robust anti-interventionist Republican primary candidate? An influential anti-war Republican Congressional faction? Will Republicans be so disheartened by what Obama’s doing that they will stay home in 2012 rather than trying to vote him out? Or will his strong interventionism using robot planes and 500-pound bombs rally all those ready-made “Obama Republicans” behind him?

    Only time will tell, I guess.

  46. 46.

    stuckinred

    April 21, 2011 at 5:58 pm

    @AAA Bonds: Well the Paulista’s and Scarborough rage against the “wars” every day.

  47. 47.

    Bubblegum Tate

    April 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    Hello, Rashida Jones! I would like to have your baby.

  48. 48.

    Mark D

    April 21, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    Oh. Hell. Yes.

    Oh, and I’m guessing someone has either posted (sorry — in a hurry), or everyone here is already familiar with, the Beastles by dj BC (who does amazing mash-ups)?

  49. 49.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 21, 2011 at 6:42 pm

    @Mark D: I really like the Moe Pope vs the Pixies mashup.

  50. 50.

    Hermione Granger-Weasley

    April 21, 2011 at 6:58 pm

    yay.
    the beastie grampaws.
    /zzzzzzzzz

  51. 51.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 21, 2011 at 7:08 pm

    @Hermione Granger-Weasley: You unironically posted a link to a Ke$ha video. Nothing more need be said.

  52. 52.

    Hermione Granger-Weasley

    April 21, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: /sideways smile
    Like I keep telling you guys, I really just wanna dance.

  53. 53.

    Moonbatting Average

    April 21, 2011 at 7:38 pm

    Thanks for posting this, John.

  54. 54.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 21, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    Great song. Video was fun to try to spot the celebs, but I didn’t much care for the trashing everything thing.

  55. 55.

    Mike Lamb

    April 21, 2011 at 7:41 pm

    @MonkeyBoy: It’s hilarious that they got Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen confused.

  56. 56.

    Jamey

    April 21, 2011 at 7:46 pm

    Objectively, a great song–stands up there with their best, even if it doesn’t reflect a career’s worth of “musical growth.”

    Don’t get me started on why Paul’s Boutique is the greatest Rock and Roll record of all time…

  57. 57.

    sidereal

    April 21, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    @Yutsano

    None of them. That’s Seth Rogen, Kenny Powers, and Frodo. Not the actual Beasties.

  58. 58.

    Yutsano

    April 21, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    @sidereal: Sheesh you humans are so literal sometimes. :)

    @asiangrrlMN: Hi hon. I was a touch disappointed at the liberal application of AutoTune, but that’s dragging out an old argument of mine that I’d rather not get into at this juncture.

    Took a mental health day. If I didn’t I was gonna scream and prolly just quit. And it had nothing to do with my employer or my bosses.

  59. 59.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

    April 21, 2011 at 9:52 pm

    @Uncle Clarence Thomas:
    .
    .
    Oh, here it is – Young People Sing to President Obama.
    .
    .

  60. 60.

    Joseph

    April 21, 2011 at 10:43 pm

    @Egypt Steve: No, that’s David Cross.

  61. 61.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    April 21, 2011 at 11:21 pm

    Fuck to the yes!

  62. 62.

    Jebediah

    April 22, 2011 at 4:49 am

    @Uncle Clarence Thomas:

    Hey, I was waiting for the live musical performance to President Obama at today’s presidential fundraiser in San Francisco. Please post that vid when you get it.

    He was in San Francisco today? Dude gets around – he was in Culver City, on the Sony lot, this afternoon, for a fundraiser. My little Culver City is so Mayberry that we barely had to be locked down/Secret Serviced/black helicoptered at all.

  63. 63.

    Michael D.

    April 22, 2011 at 6:54 am

    This is the one post on Balloon Juice where everyone loves Michael D.

  64. 64.

    mattH

    April 22, 2011 at 7:53 pm

    This is the one post on Balloon Juice where everyone loves Michael D.

    My god (better mine than yours). Even I’m not that pathetic.

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