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The only official reference to the album appears on the Beastie Boys compilation [[Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science ]], which includes the songs "Railroad Blues" and "Country Mike's Theme". |
The only official reference to the album appears on the Beastie Boys compilation [[Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science ]], which includes the songs "Railroad Blues" and "Country Mike's Theme". |
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In the liner notes, [[Adam Yauch]] explains: |
In the liner notes, [[Adam Yauch]] explains: |
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"At some point, after [[Ill Communication]] came out, [["Mike" |
"At some point, after [[Ill Communication]] came out, [[Michael Diamond|"Mike"]] got hit in the head by a large foreign object and lost all of his memory. As it started coming back he believed that he was a country singer named Country Mike. The psychologists told us that if we didn't play along with Mike's fantasy, he could be in grave danger. Finally he came back to his senses. This song ("Railroad Blues") is one of the many that we made during that tragic period of time." |
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Country Mike's Greatest Hits is a full-length country album recorded by the Beastie Boys. Never officially released, originally only a few hundred copies were produced and given to family and friends of the Beasties as a Christmas gift in 1999, with bootlegs starting to surface a few years later. It has proven to be a very hot collectible, supposedly fetching as much as $400 on eBay. The only official reference to the album appears on the Beastie Boys compilation Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science , which includes the songs "Railroad Blues" and "Country Mike's Theme". In the liner notes, Adam Yauch explains: "At some point, after Ill Communication came out, "Mike" got hit in the head by a large foreign object and lost all of his memory. As it started coming back he believed that he was a country singer named Country Mike. The psychologists told us that if we didn't play along with Mike's fantasy, he could be in grave danger. Finally he came back to his senses. This song ("Railroad Blues") is one of the many that we made during that tragic period of time."