6. Sabotage
Beastie Boys
You know what TV Land needs? Less reality shows. It also needs more 70s crime dramas. In the 70s, there was no need for forensics or snappy one-liners while putting on sunglasses and blasting "Won't Get Fooled Again." All you needed were fists, guns, a cool car, and a soundtrack so funky you could swear it was stolen from a John Holmes film.
In the video for "Sabotage," directed by Spike Jonze (this fucking guy!), the Beastie Boys pretty much recreate the gritty theatrics of a "Baretta" or "Streets of San Francisco." Armed with loaded guns, sunglasses, and rockin' 'staches, the trio is able to make the opening credits sequence for a show so good that I wish it existed.
It being a fictional show (named "Sabotage," of course), there are fictional actors (each band member). So, "Sabotage" stars:
- Sir Stewart Wallace guest-starring as himself (MCA)
- Nathan Wind as Cochise (MCA again)
- Vic Colfari as Bobby, "The Rookie" (Adrock)
- Alasondro Alegre as "The Chief" (Mike D)
- Fred Kelly as Bunny (frequent Beastie Boys collaborator DJ Hurricane)
As the rock/rap mix plays, bad guys get busted, scum gets interrogated, fists fly, chases ensue, people get their heads slammed into car hoods, and one guest-starring Englishman gets tackled into a pool. All the makings of a classic cop show. Not only that, but there was shit cut out of the video. Including knife fights, a falling-off-a-bridge scene, and MCA in ANOTHER goddamn role, this time as a kung-fu master.
Oh, also this is the only video on this list (and to my knowledge, the only video ever) to actually influence an entire scene in a film (Danny Boyle's "Trainspotting.")
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