Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
- Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
Infobox Song
Name = Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
Artist = Beastie Boys
Album = Paul's Boutique
Released = July 25, 1989
track_no = 10
Genre = Hip hop
Length = 3:28
Writer = MCA
Adrock
Mike D
Label = Capitol Records
Producer = Beastie Boys
Dust Brothers
Mario Caldato Jr.
Chart position =
prev = "5-Piece Chicken Dinner"
prev_no = 9
next = "Car Thief"
next_no = 11
Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun is the 10th track on the album "Paul's Boutique" by American hip hop group the Beastie Boys, released on July 25, 1989.
* Produced & written by the Beastie Boys and the Dust Brothers.
* Engineered by Mario Caldato & Allen Abrahamson.
The track contains the most live instrumentation on "Paul's Boutique", with guitar and bass played by Adam Horovitz and Adam Yauch respectively.
The song was later covered by the band Anthrax for the 1993 compilation album "The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience".
The lyrics "Get hip don't slip knuckle heads/Racism is schism on the serious tip" were repeated in the Sublime song "Don't Push."
amples
*"Time" by Pink Floyd
*"Mississippi Queen" by Mountain
*"Last Bongo in Belgium" by the Incredible Bongo Band
References
* Bruce Willis
* "Die Hard"
* Rambo
* Son of Sam
* "A Clockwork Orange"
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