Listen: Beastie Boys Get Experimental With 'Tadlock's Glasses'

Another track from the Beastie Boys' long-awaited new album Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 has leaked. While the album's first single "Make Some Noise" leaned on classic Beasties funk, "Tadlock's Glasses" is much more experimental, with the trio rapping through distorted effects over a digitally warped electro funk track. The album will come out on May 3rd, but you can listen to a radio rip of the song in the player below.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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