(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)

~ Recording by Beastie Boys

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.7Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
  • US1986-11-15
Def Jam Recordings (US)CK 40238
1.7Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
  • US1986-11-15
Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX), Def Jam Recordings (US)C 40238, FC 40238
1.7Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
Def Jam Recordings (US)314 527 351-2
1.7Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
Def Jam Recordings (US)P2 27351
1.7Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysLicensed to Ill (BMG club edition)Beastie BoysAlbum
Def Jam Recordings (US), BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions)314 527 351-2, D102493
1.7Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
Def Jam Recordings (US)DEF 450062 1
1.7Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
Def Jam Recordings (US)450062 1
1.7Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
Def Jam Recordings (US)P2-27351
1.7Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
Def Jam Recordings (US)DEF 460949 2
1.7Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
Def Jam Recordings (US)DEF 450062 2
1.7Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
Def Jam Recordings (US)BL 40238
1.1(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)3:28Beastie BoysFight for Your RightBeastie BoysSingle
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)650418 7
1.1(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)3:28Beastie BoysFight for Your RightBeastie BoysSingle
Def Jam Recordings (US)DEF 650418 6
1.8Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysRock Classics: Rock the NightVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Arcade (record label founded in 1970s by Herman Heinsbroek; use this as its universal imprint)01025422
1.6Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysTop Hits ’87, Volume 2Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Arcade (record label founded in 1970s by Herman Heinsbroek; use this as its universal imprint)01 2702 61
1.20(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)3:29Beastie BoysWow What a PartyVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
K‐tel (international budget record label)NCD 3393
1.19Fight for Your Right3:29Beastie BoysGold & Platinum, Volume 4Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Realm Records (US compilation label from Indiana)
1.4Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:30Beastie BoysDef Jam Classics, Volume 1Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Def Jam Recordings (US)CK 45035
1.1Fight for Your Right3:29Beastie BoysFight for Your Right / No Sleep Till Brooklyn / Brass MonkeyBeastie BoysSingle
Def Jam Recordings (US)654847 3, DEF 654847 3
1.11Fight For Your Right3:29Beastie BoysInternational Superhits 1980-88Various ArtistsAlbum
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)465070 2
1.9Fight for Your Right (To Party)3:29Beastie BoysMASTERS OF METAL - Strikeforce Volume 1Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Warner Special ProductsJCD-4540
1.12Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysRap TraxxVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
PolyTel840 094-2
1.12Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysRap TraxxVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
PolyTel840 094-4
1.12Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysRap TraxxVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
PolyTel840 094-1
1.1Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysSolid Gold ClassicsBeastie BoysSingle
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)654847 2
1.9Fight for Your Right3:29Beastie BoysYo RapVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)467335 2
1.15Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysDie größten Hits aller ZeitenVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
EdeltonEDL 2571-1
1.7Fight for Your Right3:30Beastie BoysMusic on the MoveVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)468490 2
1.9Fight for Your Right3:26Beastie BoysThe Lion Rocks TonightVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • DE1992-05-11
RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle)PD 75346
1.10(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:30Beastie BoysBeats Rhymes and Basslines: The Best of RapVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Fourth and Broadway Records (Island hip‐hop label)515 384-2
1.7Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
  • JP1993-07-21
Def Jam Recordings (US)SRCS 6298
1.1(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)3:30Beastie BoysHard Rocking '80sVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • -1993
2.4Fight for Your Right3:21Beastie BoysLarry präsentiert: Party Rock 4Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
1.4Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysRock Times, Volume 17: 1987-1988Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Zounds27000374 A
1.7Fight for Your Right3:25Beastie BoysThe Vorspiel Collection 1Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
The Record Collection516 460-2
1.16Fight for Your Right3:29Beastie BoysVeronica Drive‐In Show – The Rock HitsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Magnum (Dutch joint venture from 1990–1997)9548-32222-2
1.10(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)3:28Beastie BoysDirty Rock OneVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Kenwest MusicKNEWCD 736
1.2Fight for Your Right3:26Beastie BoysL’America del rock 12: Il suono delle metropoliVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
La RepubblicaAdR-12
1.8(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:30Beastie BoysRead the Hits: Best of the 80’sVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Risky Business, Sony Music DistributionA2K 57833
6.18(You’ve Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:30Beastie BoysRock CollectionVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Sounds DirectSDC697/06
2.11(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:31Beastie BoysThe 80's Collection: 1987Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Time–Life MusicTL 544/10
1.10Fight for Your Right3:26Beastie BoysWild RockVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Mercury Records (or just “Mercury”; a UMG imprint, do not use it for ©/℗ credits)516832-2
1.7Fight for Your Right3:29Beastie BoysLicensed to Ill (Remastered)Beastie BoysAlbum
  • AU1995-07-17
  • GB2000-04-03
  • XE2000
Def Jam Recordings (US)527 351-2
1.7Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
  • JP1995-10-25
Def Jam Recordings (US)PHCR‐4050
3.2(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:27Beastie BoysDef Jam Music Group Inc. 10th Year AnniversaryVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US1995-11-21
Def Jam Recordings (US)314 523 848-2
1.1(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)3:29Beastie BoysEverything ’80sVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Razor & TieOPCD-4560
1.1Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:31Beastie BoysGuitar Rock: The Heavy ’80sVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Warner Special Products, Time–Life MusicOPCD-2747, R968-18
1.10(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:31Beastie BoysSounds of the Eighties: The Rolling Stone Collection 1986–1987Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music Special Products, Time–Life MusicA-26301, R988-28
1.11(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:25Beastie BoysThe Best Rap Album in the World… Ever!Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB1996-04-01
Virgin TVVTDCD 75
1.8Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysESPN X-Games, Volume 1: Music From the EdgeVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US1996-05-28
Tommy Boy (imprint, bearing the Tommy Boy logo)TBCD 1173
2.16(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:27Beastie BoysDancing in the StreetVarious ArtistsAlbum + Soundtrack
Elite (UK, reissue label of Pickwick Group plc)30364 00162
1.7Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysLicensed to Ill (Manufactured and distributed by PolyGram Group Canada Inc.)Beastie BoysAlbum
Def Jam Recordings (US)314 527 351-2
1.4(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)?:??Beastie BoysMen Behaving BadlyVarious ArtistsAlbum + Soundtrack
  • GB1997-11-17
ReMedia Services Ltd.REP 001 CD
1.8(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:25Beastie BoysFetenhits: The Real Classics, the 3rdVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • DE1997-12-04
Polystar (Germany)555 395-2
2.10Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysDonna's Dansfolie 85-86-87Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)28-489174-10
1.7Fight for Your Right to Party3:30Beastie BoysThe One and Only Rap AlbumVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
PolyTel553 355-2
1.8Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysTotal Def Jam: The Definitive CollectionVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Def Jam Recordings (US)536 072-2
1.10Fight for Your Right to Party3:26Beastie BoysVi sparker røvTæskeholdetAlbum
Universal (plain logo “Universal” used by Universal Music and Universal Pictures), DR Multimedie (Danish national broadcasting corporation. Active from 1999 to 2002)UMD 85028
2.12Fight for Your Right3:29Beastie BoysIndie 2000, Volume 2Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • AU1998-03-23
Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)489480.2
3.1Fight for Your Right3:31Beastie BoysAddicted to RockVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Insight (Polygram sublabel)565 303-2
1.9(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:28Beastie BoysFroshVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
PolyGram565 014-2
1.13Fight For Your Right3:29Beastie BoysFulliedialedinn (Chosen by Ross Rebagliati)Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music Direct (Canadian label)TVK 24049
2.17(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)3:27Beastie BoysPartyVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
PolyGram TV (a division of PolyGram Record Operations Ltd.)565 448 2
4.9Fight for Your Right3:26Beastie BoysThe Eighties: A Decade of HitsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
565 788-2
1.19Fight for Your Right3:30Beastie BoysTijdloze honderd, Volume 4Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
PolyGram TV (a division of PolyGram Nederland B.V.)565.667-2
1.11Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysAnthology: The Sounds of ScienceBeastie BoysAlbum + Compilation
  • JP1999-11-17
Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.), Grand RoyalTOCP 65340 41
1.11Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysAnthology: The Sounds of ScienceBeastie BoysAlbum + Compilation
  • GB1999-11-22
Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.), Grand Royal7243 5 23664 2 2
1.11Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysAnthology: The Sounds of ScienceBeastie BoysAlbum + Compilation
  • CA1999-11-23
Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.)7243 5 23250 2 3, 7243 5 23251 2 2
1.11Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysAnthology: The Sounds of ScienceBeastie BoysAlbum + Compilation
  • US1999-11-23
Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.)CDP 7243 5 22940 2 2
1.11Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysAnthology: The Sounds of ScienceBeastie BoysAlbum + Compilation
  • CA1999-11-23
Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.)CDP 7243 5 22940 2 2
1.11Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysAnthology: The Sounds of ScienceBeastie BoysAlbum + Compilation
  • US1999-11-23
Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.)CDP 7243 5 23250 2 3, CDP 7243 5 23251 2 2
1.11Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysAnthology: The Sounds of ScienceBeastie BoysAlbum + Compilation
Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.)5236642
1.3Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysBiker-Jens Coast to CoastVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Universal Music (plain logo: “Universal Music”)545 379-2
2.6(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:29Beastie BoysBorn to Be WildVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Telstar TVTTVCD3012
3.5Fight For Your Right3:28Beastie BoysClassic PopVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Universal Music (plain logo: “Universal Music”)565 604-2
2.14Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysFun de siècle, Volume 1Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • -1999
PolyGram TV (a division of PolyGram Record Operations Ltd.)555 730-2
1.3Fight for Your Right3:29Beastie BoysGold '99Beastie BoysAlbum + Compilation
EMI Gold7243 8 27662 2 4
1.7Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
Def Jam Recordings (US)DP 8001
1.7Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysLicensed to IllBeastie BoysAlbum
Universal Music (plain logo: “Universal Music”)MMTCD 2152
1.2Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysDef Jam Recordings 1985-2001: The History of Hip Hop, Volume 1Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2001-02-27
Def Jam Recordings (US)314 548 486-2 IN02
1.2Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysDef Jam Recordings 1985–2001: The History of Hip Hop, Volume 1Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2001-05-07
Def Jam Recordings (US)542 951-2
2.10(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:25Beastie BoysSchool Disco.com (1st Period)Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2001-10-22
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)504879 2
2.11Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:27Beastie BoysFormel Eins: Die KulthitsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • DE2001-12-10
Brunswick News584 337-2
1.3Fight for Your Right3:29Beastie BoysAtomic 80sVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Universal Music Australia (see annotation before using)585964 2
4.13Fight For Your Right3:29Beastie BoysDance Music Chronicle ~History of Dance MusicVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
avex clubAKCK-30021~30
1.7Fight for Your Right3:24Beastie BoysHip Hop HoorayVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Dino Music (subsidiary of EMI Netherlands BV)
1.8Fight for Your Right3:29Beastie BoysI Hate You: A Brief History of PunkVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Sony Music Direct (Canadian label)TVK 24100
2.8(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)3:27Beastie BoysI Love 80sVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Virgin TVVTDCD 361
1.3Fight for Your Right to Party3:28Beastie BoysSt. Pauli UndergroundVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
1.15(You’ve Gotta) Fight for Your Right3:26Beastie Boys80er: Alternative Eighties, Vol. 01Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • AT2002-03-11
Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)COL 507550 2
1.4(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)3:30Beastie BoysFette Party – Fun‐Rock‐PowerVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • DE2002-05-06
Warner Strategic Marketing Germany (subsidiary of Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH)0927-45074-2
1.7(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)3:25Beastie BoysThe Best Air Guitar Album in the World… IIVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2002-11-18
Virgin TVVTDCD 488
3.18(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie BoysBest of Formel Eins: Die KulthitsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Universal Marketing Group (Division specialised in marketing compilations), Vector Recordings583 519-2
1.14Fight for Your Right3:27Beastie Boys100 Percent Rap ClassicsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2003-09-19
Telstar Records (UK, mostly compilations)TCD 2557
1.12(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right3:26Beastie BoysTenth Anniversary: Ongoing History of New MusicVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • CA2003-12-09
Universal Music Canada0249813630
Promotion
1.4(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right3:26Beastie BoysDef Jam Classics, Volume 1Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Def Jam Recordings (US)C 45035
1.2Fight for Your Right?:??Beastie BoysSelections From the Sounds of ScienceBeastie BoysAlbum + Compilation
Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.)DPRO 7087 6 13874 2 1
21.13Fight for Your Right to Party3:26Beastie BoysThe Radio Essential SeriesVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Promo Only
Bootleg
1.6Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysOriginal IllBeastie BoysAlbum
Blue Moon (bootleg label)BM 3000
(unknown)
1.8Fight for Your Right3:28Beastie BoysChartbreakersVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)

Relationships

engineer:Steve Ett
co-producer:Beastie Boys
producer:Rick Rubin (US record producer, former co‐president of Columbia Records)
electric guitar:Kerry King (co‐founder of Slayer)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Def Jam Recordings (US) (in 1986)
has remixes:U Gotta Fight (Soundaholix remix) (part of “Psychedelic Lover Best” DJ-mix)
sampled by:4, 3, 2, 1 by LL Cool J feat. Redman (US rapper), Method Man (of the Wu‐Tang Clan), Canibus (Jamaican-American rapper) & DMX (US rapper)
100 Miles and Runnin’ by N.W.A (US hip hop group)
Berzerk (explicit) by Eminem (US rapper)
Doin’ Time by Sublime (ska punk)
Ego Trippin’, Part Two by De La Soul
Funky Sensation (Billy "Daniel" Bunter & J.D.S. remix) by N-Zo (UK happy hardcore F. Coppola) & DJ Invincible (UK happy hardcore producer V. Nardone)
I’m the Man by Anthrax (US thrash metal band)
Johnny Ryall
Spread Eagle Cross the Block by Death Grips
part of:Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – 500 Songs That Shaped Rock (order: 4)
VH1: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80’s (compiled in 2006) (number: 49) (order: 49)
Indie 88: Top 500 Indie Rock Songs (number: 269) (order: 269)
stream for free:https://open.spotify.com/track/5NLuC70kZQv8q34QyQa1DP [info]
recording of:Fight for Your Right (to Party)

Related works

Fight for Your Right (to Party)

lyricist:Adam Horovitz
Rick Rubin (US record producer, former co‐president of Columbia Records)
Adam Yauch
composer:Rick Rubin (US record producer, former co‐president of Columbia Records)
publisher:Brooklyn Dust Music
Def Jam Music
later parody versions:(You Gotta) Fight For Your Pint (In Barnsley)
Fight for your Right to Parody
Wie zeurt krijgt een beurt
later translated parody versions:Fight for your Reis (Basmati!)
later translated versions:Party
Vi sparker røv
is the basis for:Paaarty