"Intergalactic" (The Beastie Boys)

By the time "Intergalactic" dropped in 1998, The Beastie Boys had already covered quite a bit of ground musically.  They had gone from being a punk band to becoming a tongue-in-cheek frat boy hip hop outfit, and then explored new dimensions in sampling with the Dust Brothers.  They also dabbled in D.I.Y. funk and acid jazz.  Then when the boys' quirky amalgam of hard rock and hip hop, which comprised a good chunk of the music on Check Your Head and Ill Communication, woefully spawned shitty imitators like Limp Bizkit and 311, they changed things up and reinvented themselves again on Hello Nasty as alt rock/hip hop futurists.  (And the future apparently had b-boys breakdancing on the moon in vintage Adidas track suits and smoky Martini bars, where the servers all were Rosie from The Jetsons...)
But little prepared the world for the vocoded robot voice dropping science in "Intergalactic's" intro.  Or the quirky sample of Les Baxter's Moog rendition of Rachmaninov's Prelude in C# Minor burbling under the track.  Or the ol' skool tag team vocal approach that felt fresh off a Sugar Hill Records joint (or just altogether fresh).
Nobody else could have pulled off a song that mixed nostalgia for 1960s budget sci-fi flicks and the Boogie Down Bronx circa 1979 with Year 2000 fervor like The Beastie Boys.
Nobody.