Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Chillin’ With Mario

It’s March 10th, which means people all over the internet are celebrating brand awareness by promoting their favorite Mario.

If you were really invested, though, you wouldn’t limit it to just one day. The Beastie Boys understood this by using every chance they could get to promote their favorite Mario, Mario Caldato Jr.

In “Intergalactic,” he likes to keep it clean. In “So What’cha Want?” either he can’t front on that, or the song is dedicated to him and you can’t front on that, I was never clear which. In “Three MCs and One DJ,” Norton is chillin’ with him.

I’m sure there are plenty more; those are just the ones that I’ve heard so many times that my brain calls them up even more easily than my phone number.

And in “The Grasshopper Unit” they’re asking him to rewind the tape and punch him in. Hello Nasty is my favorite of the Beastie Boys’ records, and I can still remember listening to it for the first time¹After getting stuck playing “Body Movin’” on repeat about a thousand times. It was around half way through this song when I thought, “this is one of my favorite albums of all time.” It still is.

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  After getting stuck playing “Body Movin’” on repeat about a thousand times