{"id":998,"date":"2003-03-13T16:12:10","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/14\/beastie-boys-in-a-world-gone-mad\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:02:53","slug":"beastie-boys-in-a-world-gone-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/13\/beastie-boys-in-a-world-gone-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"Beastie Boys: In a World Gone Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15118,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.beastieboys.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15119,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/bitpimps.com\\\/happy_times\\\/Beastie%20Boys%20-%20In%20A%20World%20Gone%20Mad.mp3&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210609220336\\\/http:\\\/\\\/bitpimps.com\\\/happy_times\\\/Beastie%20Boys%20-%20In%20A%20World%20Gone%20Mad.mp3&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:35:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:35:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15107,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com\\\/archives\\\/001013.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030919000650\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com:80\\\/archives\\\/001013.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:34:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 20:38:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 20:38:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15120,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.blogcritics.org\\\/archives\\\/2003\\\/03\\\/12\\\/164858.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.blogcritics.org\\\/archives\\\/2003\\\/03\\\/12\\\/164858.php&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Beastie Boys have released an anti-war protest in the form of a rap track, freely avaible to download from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beastieboys.com\/\" title=\"BeastieBoys.com\">their website<\/a>, called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bitpimps.com\/happy_times\/Beastie%20Boys%20-%20In%20A%20World%20Gone%20Mad.mp3\" title=\".mp3 download of 'In a World Gone Mad'\">In a World Gone Mad<\/a>&#8220;. Not their best work, admittedly, but interesting nothenless. While artists like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/archives\/001013.html\" title=\"geek*muffin: Self Evident\">Ani DiFranco<\/a> have kept the &#8220;protest song&#8221; alive, the Beastie Boys are the first <em>big<\/em> group (no offense meant at all to Ani fans!) I can think of to do something like this.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, they&#8217;re no Dylan. Still, it&#8217;s something.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics below, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogcritics.org\/archives\/2003\/03\/12\/164858.php\" title=\"The Beastie Boys vomit up a protest song\">Blogcritics<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  In a world gone mad it&#8217;s hard to think right<br \/>\n  So much violence hate and spite<br \/>\n  Murder going on all day and night<br \/>\n  Due time we fight the non-violent fight<\/p>\n<p>  Mirrors, smokescreens and lies<br \/>\n  It?s not the politicians but their actions I despise<br \/>\n  You and Saddam should kick it like back in the day<br \/>\n  With the cocaine and Courvoisier<br \/>\n  But you build more bombs as you get more bold<br \/>\n  As your mid-life crisis war unfolds<br \/>\n  All you want to do is take control<br \/>\n  Now put that axis of evil bullshit on hold<br \/>\n  Citizen rule number 2080<br \/>\n  Politicians are shady<br \/>\n  So people watch your back &#8217;cause I think they smoke crack<br \/>\n  I don&#8217;t doubt it look at how they act<\/p>\n<p>  In a world gone mad it&#8217;s hard to think right<br \/>\n  So much violence hate and spite<br \/>\n  Murder going on all day and night<br \/>\n  Due time we fight the non-violent fight<\/p>\n<p>  First the &#8216;War On Terror&#8217; now war on Iraq<br \/>\n  We?re reaching a point where we can?t turn back<br \/>\n  Let&#8217;s lose the guns and let&#8217;s lose the bombs<br \/>\n  And stop the corporate contributions that their built upon<br \/>\n  Well I?ll be sleeping on your speeches &#8217;til I start to snore<br \/>\n  &#8216;Cause I won&#8217;t carry guns for an oil war<br \/>\n  As-Salamu alaikum, wa alaikum assalam<br \/>\n  Peace to the Middle East peace to Islam<br \/>\n  Now don&#8217;t get us wrong &#8217;cause we love America<br \/>\n  But that?s no reason to get hysterica<br \/>\n  They&#8217;re layin&#8217; on the syrup thick<br \/>\n  We ain&#8217;t waffles we ain&#8217;t havin&#8217; it<\/p>\n<p>  In a world gone mad it&#8217;s hard to think right<br \/>\n  So much violence hate and spite<br \/>\n  Murder going on all day and night<br \/>\n  Due time we fight the non-violent fight<\/p>\n<p>  Now how many people must get killed?<br \/>\n  For oil families pockets to get filled?<br \/>\n  How many oil families get killed?<br \/>\n  Not a damn one so what?s the deal?<\/p>\n<p>  It&#8217;s time to lead the way and de-escalate<br \/>\n  Lose the weapons of mass destruction and the hate<br \/>\n  Say ooh ah what&#8217;s the White House doin&#8217;?<br \/>\n  Oh no! Say, what in tarnation have they got brewing??!!!!???!!<br \/>\n  Well I?m not pro Bush and I&#8217;m not pro Saddam<br \/>\n  We need these fools to remain calm<br \/>\n  George Bush you?re looking like Zoolander<br \/>\n  Trying to play tough for the camera<br \/>\n  What am I on crazy pills? We?ve got to stop it<br \/>\n  Get your hand out my grandma&#8217;s pocket<br \/>\n  We need health care more than going to war<br \/>\n  You think it&#8217;s democracy they?re fighting for?<\/p>\n<p>  In a world gone mad it&#8217;s hard to think right<br \/>\n  So much violence hate and spite<br \/>\n  Murder going on all day and night<br \/>\n  Due time we fight the non-violent fight.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beastie Boys have released an anti-war protest in the form of a rap track, freely avaible to download from their website, called &#8216;In a World Gone Mad&#8217;. Not their best work, admittedly, but interesting nothenless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035,2042],"tags":[80,14,2270],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-politics","tag-music","tag-politics","tag-the-beastie-boys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}