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

I didn't vote for it either. I was making a point, but I've already forgotten what it was.

Hold It Now is great. In my top 10.

it is great, don't get me wrong. if was gonna vote for 10 songs off LTI, it would totally be #8.

I could've happily put all of LTI on my ballot

time for your nap, clemenza

Please--I'm very sensitive about my (nods off mid-sentence).

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"Hold It Now, Hit It" is my second favorite LTI track.

what's your favorite?

"Rhymin' And Stealin'"

nice

I didn't vote for Hold It, tho I get the appeal. Paul Revere placed the highest from LTI for me

Rhymin has to be in my top 5 of all-time awesome album openers --- and one of my LTI faves

I'd heard "Fight For Your Right" but when I got the album and the Levee drums kicked in I was all WHOA.

Kicks like a mule. Gets me every time.

ali baba and the 40 thieves, ali baba and the 40 thieves, ali baba and the 40 thieves, ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES, ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES, ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES

I actually like Fight for Your Right more now than I did when it came out, but I really didn't like it when it came out. Took me hearing more of the album to decide they weren't no-talent jerks.

"Brass Monkey" otoh was in my top 5. On the soundtrack to countless college parties.

ali baba and the 40 thieves, ali baba and the 40 thieves, ali baba and the 40 thieves, ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES, ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES, ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES

^ why it ranked so high on my ballot

SKIRT CHASIN FREE BASIN KILLING EVERY VILLAGE
WE DRINK!
AND ROB!
AND RHYME!
AND PILLAGE!

More Spotify:

Licensed to Ill samples http://open.spotify.com/user/nathanwoolls/playlist/7DG1SXpa10VXL5ZUsPegdj

Ill Communication samples http://open.spotify.com/user/nathanwoolls/playlist/1fs0cieI8XM9LO0F39xDgr

The flute sample from Sure Shot is crazy, never heard it before.

Hold It Now.. really predicts Paul's Boutique imo. had i heard it back in the day i doubt i'd have been startled by PB you know?

ali baba and the 40 thieves, ali baba and the 40 thieves, ali baba and the 40 thieves, ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES, ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES, ALI BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES

^ why it ranked so high on my ballot

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Hold It Now Hit It was my #2.

I had Paul Revere & Fight in my top 10 and No Sleep & Rhymin in the bottom 10. Cut the New Style and She's Crafty at the last minute, so depressing

my top 5 were from LTI tbh

listening to Rhymin' right now and it still gives me goosebumps. I am most chill cuz I'm rhymin' and stealin'.

PISTOL IS LOADED I SHOT BETTY CROCKER
DELIVER COLONEL SANDERS DOWN TO DAVY JONES LOCKER

that line and the delivery following makes me want to break and throw things, I love it so much

I wouldn't give up on seeing "hold it, now hit it"

"fight for yr right" was not one of my favorite tracks on LTI, it was OK but seemed like a "she's on it" retread and, compared to the other stuff on the album, was punching below their weight. then the single hit and it became really annoying really quickly. at this point I don't hate it and get the cultural significance but also never need to hear it again.

Hold It Now is my #1, easy

oh ed you're just jealous it's the BEA STIE BOYS

ha

did you vote whiney?

it was OK but seemed like a "she's on it" retread

Perhaps. I prefer to view it as a refinement of a previously attempted style.

ha

did you vote whiney?
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I mean, "Fight For Your Right" and "Girls" are barely rap songs, which is why they rank so low for me. Even alt-rock stuff like "Sabotage" and "Gratitude" have more rapping on them!

"Hold It" and "New Style" were probably the purest "of-their-era" rap songs in the entire Beasties discography, which is why its probably been sampled the most by rappers!

my appreciation of "fight for your right" has nothing to do with how rap it is or isn't. i just like it.

but that's me. don't suppose there's anything wrong with rapness rankings.

I feel like Sabotage and Gratitude have equally as much rap as FFYR, but get the rock thing so much more correct.

Cosign.

my appreciation of "fight for your right" has nothing to do with how rap it is or isn't. i just like it.

― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 12:18 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but that's me. don't suppose there's anything wrong with rapness rankings.

― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 12:19 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll get this out of the way before JF gets back to his countdown...So "I just like it" is okay, but "I just heard it too often" is cause for the third degree; and "don't suppose there's anything wrong with rapness rankings," but there is something wrong with basing your list on what you happen to like best when you make up the list? Just trying to get this straight.

FFYRTP was on my list, but relatively low. I was 7 when it came out. I'm not really fussed by LTI much at all. PB through HN are "my" Beastie Boys, and that's cool with me.

rapness

read this as rapanese

I didn't vote for 'FFYR' but that's only because there are 20+ other BBs songs I prefer - I still think it's great. Think I mentioned in the voting thread but 'Intergalactic' is the only one of theirs I actually got sick of - I loved it when it first came out but I just heard it so many times in crap bars/rock clubs and it wore thin in a way that their other big songs didn't. It's not like I think this means it was actually a crap song all along but my ballot was based on what I like *now* and right now it'd be nowhere near my top 20.

Dug out the Sounds of Science anthology and the sleevenotes are great - each song gets discussed by one member.

Yauch on Fight For Your Right: "It was a joke that went too far… So I guess that the story could have a couple of possible morals. One might be, 'Be careful of what you make fun of or you might become it.'"

Yauch on Song for the Man: "Listening to the lyrics of this song, one might say that the Beastie Boy 'Fight for Your Right to Party' guy is a hypocrite. Well, maybe; but in this fucked up world all you can hope for is change, and I'd rather be a hypocrite to you than a zombie forever."

(xpost) Same here. Sorry for even bringing it up again--yesterday's detour around "Fight for Your Right" just struck me as really strange. But I know the Top 20 is today, so I won't mention the matter again. Final irony: I actually almost voted for "Fight for Your Right" (on a very abbreviated ballot), but instead went with a couple of the other metallish songs on Licensed, both of which still hit me full-force when relistened to some stuff (trying to figure out what I could and couldn't play for my students when I discussed MCA's death).

I feel like Sabotage and Gratitude have equally as much rap as FFYR, but get the rock thing so much more correct.

― how's life, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 4:53 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you don't think Sabotage has more actual rap than FFYR, then I don't know what

did you vote whiney?

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― thommys got bendz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, May 15, 2012 11:29 PM (Yesterday)

then I think that guarantees "hold it now hit it" placing :)

not to be all "old deej" about it too, but before "FFYR" and "No Sleep" were all over rock stations and MTV, "Hold It Now" was the song that actually resonated on rap radio in the 80s. Lots of Elvisy stories about dudes not knowing they where white etc etc. It really is the "heads" choice if that means anything to anyone, and it obviously does every time D-40 makes fun of me for liking "Cadillacs on 22s"

^ this is all true but I voted for "hold it now" cuz it was a jam then and it's a jam now, the bass hits on that are superb for alltimes

and not to pull some losing my edge shit here but really whiney how old were you in 1986?

I'll get this out of the way before JF gets back to his countdown...So "I just like it" is okay, but "I just heard it too often" is cause for the third degree; and "don't suppose there's anything wrong with rapness rankings," but there is something wrong with basing your list on what you happen to like best when you make up the list? Just trying to get this straight.

― clemenza, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 3:20 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i gave you a hard time because i was (not really) incensed at the low placement of "fight for your right", and i suspect that a lot of people elided or slighted it due to its onetime ubiquity and/or obviousness. wanted to strike a small blow for "first love best love", not that any of this really matters.

with whiney, i was just lolling at the absurdity of rating beastie boys songs according to their rapness.

It's a good thing all your suspicions were wrong and you apologized for it.