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Sabotage
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“Sabotage” is a song by American hip-hop group Beastie Boys, released as the first single from their fourth studio album Ill Communication.
The song’s style is characterized as rapcore, featuring traditional rock instrumentation (Ad-Rock on guitar, MCA on bass, and Mike D on drums), turntable scratches and heavily distorted bass guitar riffs.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked “Sabotage” #475 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.
Read on...Song lines: ♪ I Can't Stand It, I Know You Planned It ... But I'm Gonna Set It Straight This Watergate ♫
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This song is listed #475 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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