(THIS) POLL REVERE(S) — ILM Artist Poll #19 — Beastie Boys VOTING THREAD

yeah, i skipped "stand together" in my CYH shout-out, but it's gunning hard for a place in my 20

and "looking down the barrel of a gun" is a lock (different album tho)

looking down the barrel is all-time

Songs I always skip:

Shadrach

something terribly wrong with this picture

the brash truncation of that mountain sample speaks volumes

xp

Then, by the time Check Your Head came out, I was playing punk in my own garage bands and at least starting to hang around with stoners although not yet actually smoking pot. And it's just a mega album for that kind of aesthetic.

― how's life, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 4:19 AM (17 hours ago)

otm about this though (or was in 92)

CYH sounds like a skatepark, HN sounds like a disco

CYH still my favourite.

wait... skip Shadrach?

SAY WHAT NOW

so many great lines in shadrach, it's like the end of blues brothers but with rhymes instead of cars

oh
tee
em

also awesome dancefloor track, was a staple at all the houseparties I went to in college

vocal sample plus that bass line

I mean...

Riddle me this brother can you handle it
Your style to my style you can't hold a candle to it
Equinox symmetry and the balance is right
Smokin' and drinkin' on a Tuesday night
It's not how you play the game it's how you win it
I cheat and steal and sin and I'm a cynic
For those about to rock we salute you
The dirty thoughts for dirty minds we contribute to
I once was lost but now I'm found
The music washes over and you're one with the sound
Well who shall inherit the earth the meek shall
And yo, I think I'm starting to peak now Al
And the man upstairs I hope that he cares
If I had a penny for my thoughts I'd be a millionaire
We're just 3 M.C.'s and we're on the go
SHADRACH MESACH ABEDNAGO

Only 24 hours in a day
Only 12 notes well a man can play
Music for all and not just one people
And now we're gonna bust with the Putney Swope sequel
More Adidas sneakers that a plumber got pliers
Got more suits than Jacoby & Meyers
If not for my vices my bugged out desires
My year would be good just like Goodyear's tires
So I'm out pickin' pockets at the Atlantic Antic
And nobody wants to hear you cause your rhymes are Anne frantic
I mix business with pleasure way too much
I mean wine and women and song and such
I don't get blue I gotta mean red streak
You don't pay the band, your friends, and that's weak
Get even like Steven like pulling a Rambo
SHADRACH MESACH ABEDNAGO

Steal from the rich and I'm out robbing banks
Givin' to the poor and I always give thanks
Because I got more stories that J.D.'s got Salinger
I hold the title and you are the challenger
I've got money like Charles Dickens
Got the girlies in the Coupe like the Colonel's got the chickens
Always go out dapper like the Harry S. Truman
I'm madder than Mad's Alfred E. Newman

*Never gonna let them say that I don't love you*

Well, my noggin is hoggin' all kinds of thoughts
Adam Yoggin is Yauch and he's rockin of course
Smoke the holy chalice got my own religion
Rally round the stage and check the funky dope musicians
Like Jerry Lee Swaggert or Jerry Lee Falwell
You love Mario Andretti cause he always drives his car well
Vicious circle of reality since the day you were born
And we love the hot butter on what the popcorn
Sippin on wine and mackin
Rockin on the stage with all the hands clappin
Ride the wave of fate it don't ride me
*Being very proud to be an M.C.*
And the man upstairs I hope that he cares
If I had a penny for my thoughts I'd be a millionaire
Amps and crossovers under my rear hood
The bass is bumpin from the back of my Fleetwood
They tell us what to do hell no
SHADRACH MESACH ABEDNAGO

yes

shit yeah, my favorite lyrics on PB

now let's talk about how wrong it is to skip the sound of science

so many great lines in shadrach, it's like the end of blues brothers but with rhymes instead of cars

This analogy is so OTFM

^ yeah, i was kind of jealous of that one

And nobody wants to hear you cause your rhymes are Anne frantic

A+++++++++

now let's talk about how wrong it is to skip the sound of science

lol, yeah, descending order of nonsense

SOUND OF SCIENCE RULES

em eye cee kay to the dee, you come to see me and you pay a fee
do what i do professionally, to tell the truth i am exactly what i want to be

^ has stuck in my head for decades, dunno why

can I point out that in the sound of science they sample KRS-one, a toy that makes farm animal noises, and the f'kn beatles

Ponce De Leon constantly on
The fountain of youth not Robotron

the dregs of the earth and the eggs that I eat
got pegs through my hands and one through my feet

^ one of my favorite rhymes in rap history

I mean how much weed did he have to smoke to formulate such an elegant construction

COS I'VE BEEN DROPPING THE NEW SCIENCE AND IVE BEEN KICKING THE NEW KUH-NOWLEDGE
AN MC TO A DEGREE THAT YOU CANT GET IN COLLEGE

otm

otoh:

went berserk and worked and exploded
she woke up in the morning and her face was coated

the cornucopia of life's flavors

dregs & eggs is all-time tho

SO PISSED that outloud is down atm, as i would love to continue this discussion in the proper musical context :(

pegs line is really what gets me, best christ imagery from a jewish guy since "white christmas"

does this help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKNmLMs7ugw

eh, not really, cuz i've got it on phones already. really likef the "everybody adds tunes while we chat" thing.

The guitar(?) sound on Stand Together is fucking rad and abrasive, almost Albini-esque. Also, MCA was ON FUCKING FIRE in that one.

yeah, it's guitar, at least sometimes (kicking in at about 1:00). never would have occurred to me to call it "albini-esque", but yeah, i get you. also OTM.

Excuse me young lady I don't mean ta troubleya
But you're looking so mighty fine inside your bee em doubleya

:)

I love 3 Minute Rule but alas, I could not find room to vote for it

so I am really having a difficult time narrowing this down to 20 tracks, & being actually honest w/ myself abt it, w/o basically stocking my ballot front to back w/ 80s/90s-era singles and obv album tracks. I really want to rep for some deep cuts and one-offs here, b/c there is a treasure trove to be had, for sure, but there's no way their biggest jams don't basically own this poll hands-down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA5-t5wOXaE

Sorry to get you guys all bothered with my opinion about the 5 of 23 tracks on Paul's that I don't like. FTR, the three Paul's tracks I had on my ballot were

3-minute Rule
Looking Down the Barrel
and
Car Thief

But that doesn't mean that cutting a lot of these tracks wasn't super difficult. I would have definitely voted for "Stop That Train" if B-Boy Bouillabaise hadn't been included as one long track. I guess I have my own personal hang-ups about Shadrach though.

Also, love that Stand Together - secret weapon track on CYH - is getting talked up. Hope it shows up in the results!

Ballot breakdown:

Lti - 1
Pb - 4
Cyh - 5
Ic - 4
Hn - 3
Tt5b - 1
Hscp2 - 1
Other - 1

I was on a beastie boys listserv just prior to hello nasty, that thing fucking exploded when the album dropped.

EIII! me and stevie too!

I hadn't heard To The 5 Boroughs before. I really like it, but it's not getting much love here.

i haven't listened to it since the day it came out, when I listened to it twice and then traded it in for something else. I would totally be open to re-examining it, but I wouldn't rebuy it (like I just had to for all the bboys records I only had on cassette).

more on Hello Nasty talk:

My boss at work really broke it down, like, that's really the album that made Gen Y get on board. Dudes would have been a Gen X phenomenon otherwise. I really had it driven home at Bonnaroo (lol), 2009 when I rapped along to "Paul's Revere" and no one around me knew a word; but EVERYONE rapped along to "Intergalactic"

Bonus Beats: I'm so embarrassed too because, I was 9 when Paul's came out, and loved Hey Ladies, and would love to tell you all that I was too smart for the backlash. But my mom BOUGHT me the tape and I made her return it because I was going through a hardcore Christian phase and it had a Parental Advisory sticker :(

haw, at 11 I remember agonizing over whether or not to buy the number of the beast, then I was all like stop frontin there is no god

Sorry to get you guys all bothered with my opinion about the 5 of 23 tracks on Paul's that I don't like.

you voted for car thief so all is forgiven

o hai sic! do we have a listserv reunion thread

But my mom BOUGHT me the tape and I made her return it because I was going through a hardcore Christian phase and it had a Parental Advisory sticker :(

irl lol! So I'm guessing there was no hidden cache of NWA & 2 Live Crew cassettes in yr bedroom, then?

I recall watching a lot of television in the summer of 1989 (I was 12), when Hey Ladies & Me, Myself & I were both in heavy rotation on Yo! MTV Raps. I dug both tunes quit a bit, but I was pretty curious as to why rappers were turning into hippies all of a sudden. A little later on, when I first heard Shadrach, I was sold on Paul's Boutique, but I still didn't actually buy it until around the time Check Your Head came out.

My group of friends rediscovered Paul's around the time Ill Communication came out. I remember taking a bong load and being like "what is this album?" and when my friend told me I was like "wasn't this the one that was supposed to suck?"

Was there ever a 'rediscovery' of Paul's Boutique though? I mean in critical terms - I remember it having a reputation as commercial suicide up until they made it back to the big time with Sure Shot etc; but never the reputation as a bad album, as such.

I dunno. I mean, this is just me from ages 10-15 in the Maryland suburbs.

Other 10 year olds were telling me not to bother.