Volume 19, Track 7

Posted on | August 14, 2010 | No Comments

“Get It Together” by Beastie Boys (1994)

As I’ve mentioned before, if Q-Tip can be featured in one of your songs there is a really good chance that said song will be fantastic. There isn’t a whole lot to the beat of “Get It Together” but there’s enough inherent movement to it that separates it from the rest of the album. But what really seals this song’s excellence is how seamless Q-Tip is side-by-side with the Beasties.^[1] Towards the end of the song they throw it back to Q-Tip (the part that begins with “Because I had to talk about the times when I’m rhymin’…) and between his voice and the musical shift that that part takes, it is what every collaboration between two artists should be: a perfect communion of one’s sound with the other’s style.

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[1] Honestly, I don’t know why they never collaborated more often.

Category: Volume 19
Tags: Beastie Boys > Focus on Beastie Boys

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