“Body Movin'” by Beastie Boys

"Body Movin'" was the second single from Hello Nasty, the fifth studio album from the Beastie Boys, out on Grand Royal and Columbia in 1998. The group produced it with Mario Caldato Jr., who engineered it too, with Suzanne Dyer and Steve Revitte helping out, and the songwriting credit is split between Ad-Rock, Mike D, Adam Yauch, Caldato and Tito Puente. It's a jittery, rubber-legged party jam, all bounce and wisecracks, the sound of a band having far too much fun in the studio.

Then there's the Fatboy Slim remix: same rhymes, new instrumental bed, with a sample of the Byrds' "Fido" thrown in. It later turned up on the compilation The Sounds of Science, and a radio remix built on the same backing brought in Redman, Biz Markie and Erick Sermon. That one found a second life in the dance games Dance Central and Just Dance 2.

The video, set to the Fatboy Slim mix, was directed by MCA under his alias Nathanial Hörnblowér, and it spoofs the 1968 Italian caper Danger: Diabolik, with Ad-Rock in the title role, MCA as the villain and Mike D as his henchman. It came in censored and uncensored cuts: the clean one swaps machine guns for laser guns and drops a gory, gag-worthy beheading. It followed "Intergalactic".

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