We lost a true legend last week when Adam Yauch lost his battle with cancer. MCA along with his brothers in the Beastie Boys made the most innovative music over their three decade. The trio also made some of the most memorable music videos from the golden age of MTV even though they inexplicably only won two VMA’s: Best Hip Hop Video for Intergalactic and Best Director for last year’s Make Some Noise. They did pick up the Video Vanguard Award and some made up award from 2009 called Best Video (That Should Have Won a Moonman) for Sabotage (to save you a Google search, it lost to Cryin’ for Video of the Year, Viewer’s Choice and Best Group Video; you could not touch Alicia Silverstone in 1994). So to honor MCA I thought I would compile a list of the greatest Beastie Boys music videos, most of which were directed by Yauch’s alter ego Nathanial Hörnblowér, who is most famous for storming the stage when Spike Jones lost out to Everybody Hurts by R.E.M. for Best Director in 1994 (R.E.M. also blocked Sabotage for Breakthrough Video that year). I have marked the videos directed or co-directed by Nathanial Hörnblowér with a *.
1. Sabotage
2. Intergalactic *
3. Fight for Your Right (To Party)
4. Make Some Noise *
5. Ch-Check it Out *
6. Shadrach *
7. Hey Ladies
8. Body Movin’ *
9. No Sleep ‘till Brooklyn
10. Triple Trouble *
11. So What’cha Want *
12. Pass the Mic *
13. Right Right Now Now *
14. Alive *
15. Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win
16. Sure Shot *
17. Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun *
18. Jimmy James *
19. Shake Your Rump *
20. Shazam! *
21. Gratitude
22. Root Down
23. Three MC’s and One DJ *
24. An Open Letter to NYC *
25. Netty’s Girl
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