Beastie Boys – “Dont Play No Game That I Can’t Win” Spike Jonze Video

Spike Jonze, who directed the classic ’90’s Beastie Boys video “Sabotage” (and has worked on videos from everyone from Weezer to R.E.M. to Ludacris to Arcade Fire), has been called upon to transform the new single “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win” (featuring Santigold) into another presumably prize winning video (script by Adam Yauch aka Nathaniel Hörnblowér). This time you won’t find the Beasties in police costumes or controlling giant robots. Here they have been plasticized so that their action figures can serve as avatars for some hilarious and action packed “continuingly ill” adventures. With their performance interrupted by an anti-Beasties group out to assassinate them, the Beastie Boys make a quick escape before their vehicle flips and a shootout begins. It definitely deserves a few repeats in order to observe the nuances in the “costumes” and “scenes”.

The reggae-infused track is one of my favorites from Beastie’s the new album Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 which should itself in quite a few of the year end Top 10 lists. Be sure to purchase the album at Amazon.