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Published On June 14, 2016 » By »

The Beasties Sabotage R.E.M.'s Speech (1994) - The Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," one of the most iconic music videos ever, ridiculously lost out in all categories in 1994. This shutout so angered Beastie Adam Yauch's lederhosened alter ego, Nathaniel Hornblower, that Nathaniel famously bumrushed the stage during Michael Stipe's typically P.C. speech, yodeling, "This is an outrage! This is a farce!" (over the injustice that "Sabotage" mastermind Spike Jonze had lost the Best Direction award to R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts"). Stipe just looked confused. But we think it was the VMA judges who were most confused. Spike really should have won. And Adam "MCA" Yauch, who died in 2012, really deserves a posthumous Video Vanguard Award.

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