Sabotage (song)
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| Single by Beastie Boys | |||||||||||||||
| from the album Ill Communication | |||||||||||||||
| Released | January 28, 1994 | ||||||||||||||
| Format | CD | ||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1993 | ||||||||||||||
| Genre | Rap rock | ||||||||||||||
| Length | 2:58 | ||||||||||||||
| Label | Grand Royal | ||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch | ||||||||||||||
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"Sabotage" is a 1994 song by American hip-hop group Beastie Boys, released as the first single from their fourth studio album Ill Communication.
The song features traditional rock instrumentation (Ad-Rock on guitar, MCA on bass, and Mike D on drums), turntable scratches and heavily distorted bass guitar riffs. A moderate commercial success, the song was notable as well for its video, directed by Spike Jonze and nominated in five categories at the 1994 MTV Music Video Awards.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked "Sabotage" #480 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at #46 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks, and was ranked #19 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s list. Pitchfork Media included the song at #39 on their Top 200 Tracks of the 90s list.
The song's music video, directed by Spike Jonze and played extensively on MTV, is a homage to, and parody of, 1970s crime drama shows such as Hawaii Five-O, The Streets of San Francisco, S.W.A.T., Baretta, and Starsky and Hutch. The video is presented as the opening credits of a fictional 1970s-style police show called Sabotage, with the band members appearing as the show's protagonists. Each band member is introduced as a fictional actor, and the names of the characters are also given.
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