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

that is a big surprise

but back on Get It Together I love Q-Tip cracks up & starts laughing, it's so great

and now back to Paul Revere

raaaaaaaaaaaagh

can live with "paul revere" outside the top 10. it's great, but not one of my 10 favorite beastie boys tracks, so...

so...

I see what you did there.

if we end up with some To The 5 Boroughs ish in the top 10 I will stab someone

wtf Paul Revere should totally be top 10. I had it at #3

http://youtu.be/pKNmLMs7ugw?t=40m33s

11. "B-BOY BOUILLABAISSE" (1989) [561 points, 22 votes, 3 first place votes]

i think at this point it's pretty certain that the entire top 50 is devoid of any 21st century tracks

I had no idea what to do with Bouillabaisse, it's so unlike anything else. Love some bits, other bits are just okay. Ended up with it at #6.

Actually I'm perfectly fine with the overplayed LTI tracks sliding out of the top ten, it would have been boring and predictable if it was just a parade of those tracks at the end of the poll.

my number 1. the Boys' prog epic.

A Year And A Day was always my favourite, all beautiful and manic at once.

I should have voted for this. Would have if it were busted down into its component parts. HATE the thing about thrwing the mattress in her face.

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

10. "SHADRACH" (1989) [569 points, 24 votes, 2 first place votes]

I think this poll's starting to PEAK now, Al.

thought you were talking to me for a sec

WINE
AND WOMEN
AND SONG
AND SUCH

i thought 'brass monkey' was crazy low but wtf at 'paul revere' not making top ten. good lord.

lol I feel like we already covered shadrach in great detail

Had no idea what the hell they were saying other than "Shadrach", i.e., "Meshach and Abednago" always tranlsated as nonsense to me (I had never seen the lyrics until the voting/campaigning thread). Made it really difficult to sing along to this song, but as it is so infectious I sure tried anyway.

the Book of Daniel?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadrach,_Meshach,_and_Abednego

some monotheist you are, grandavis!

have never really understood what the Book of Daniel has to do with loose booty

it has everything to do with fly rhymes.

:D

I remember in high school sitting around with dudes trying to figure out who did the female vocal hook and eventually we all agreed it was Lady Miss Kier.

http://youtu.be/pKNmLMs7ugw?t=14m58s

9. "THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE" (1989) [585 points, 24 votes, 2 first place votes]

Hah, yeah, and I even had to go to Sunday school as a kid. Needless to say it did not ring a bell. Hated Sunday school.

voted for it on the basis of KA-KNOWLEDGE

^^^
YES, that bit rules

the funny thing about the Shadrach hook is that it makes more sense in the context of the Beasties (3 MCs on the go! okay!) than it does in the Sly song the sample is from, where it's just nonsensical

Shea Stadium, The radium

Last one for the day. Top 7 revealed tomorrow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpsvBvwRuf0

8. "PASS THE MIC" (1992) [614 points, 24 votes, 2 first place votes]

Sorta related story: My mother-in-law once told me that as a kid, she thought the priest was telling them about two guys, one of whom was black: Shadrach and Meshach, a big negro. I can't hear the song anymore without thinking of that story.

the funny thing about the Shadrach hook is that it makes more sense in the context of the Beasties (3 MCs on the go! okay!) than it does in the Sly song the sample is from, where it's just nonsensical

_the funny thing about the Shadrach hook is that it makes more sense in the context of the Beasties (3 MCs on the go! okay!) than it does in the Sly song the sample is from, where it's just nonsensical_

Agreed but personally, I've never been able to get with this bc it feels like little more the Sly song being rapped over.

got an A from kool moe dee for STICKIN to THEMES

i never knew this was the line. thats fucking unbelievably great

i heard the beastie boys track first, but love them both. the fact of "loose booty" doesn't take anything away from "shadrach", afaic.

It took me ages to realise that Sounds of Science was actually When I'm Sixty Four. Genius.

it feels like little more the Sly song being rapped over.

well there's Black Oak Arkansas in there too y'know

How the fuck is this noise above Paul Revere WTF x 1 million

I mean it's not bad or anything but for serious?

yeah Pass the Mic is one of their weaker singles imho

yeah, i love CYH, but don't much care for "pass the mic". do like the delivery of certain lines though:

i'm like jimmy walker, i'm dynomite!

a lot of people get jealous, they're talking about me
but that's just cuz they haven't got a thing to say

M-I-K-E to the D
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

but for now i'd like to ask you how
you like the feel of the BASS in your FACE in the CROWD

EVERYBODY'S RAPPIN LIKE IT'S A COMMERCIAL
ACTIN LIKE LIFE IS A BIG COMMERCIAL

During my first summer job in '92 our black manager and hip-hop aficionado used to cite those lines, rolling his eyes, as what was wrong with the album.

It's not a favorite but it's awesome they're confident enough to use the same rhyme.

there are a bunch of lazy rhymes in that song, a few gems

really the funniest thing about it is Ad-Rock spelling out his name in the video

i almost want to say that's it's a knowing collection of lazy, familiar rhymes, but it's not quite ott enough to really convince on that level

what the fuck are you people talking about? this song is great! I ranked it #3, but would have put it at two if not for one of my token License to Ill tracks. I mean, with that flute sample and the bad brains sample in the intro and the way that MCA just busts out of the gate there? If you can feel what I'm feeling, etc... This song is so vital; it breathes like the wallpaper breathes when you take acid. I honestly don't give a fuck if you don't think the raps are good.

If you think that you're slick you'll catch a brick y'all.

coulda done a whole Native Tongues REKKID together

Beastie Boys weren’t the white group in Native Tongues (or “in”)

Adrock did propose forming a supergroup called Nasal Tongues with him, Tip and B-Real though

I should have voted for this. Would have if it were busted down into its component parts. HATE the thing about thrwing the mattress in her face.

Voted Sounds high but would have voted A Year And A Day higher

i never knew this was the line. thats fucking unbelievably great

You didn’t know that was the line? You fail at rapness, son.

in case anyone doesn’t know, here’s why it’s especially funny to boast about a decade later:

http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/tt78/ucallthatlove/KoolMoeDeereportcard.jpg

It's not a favorite but it's awesome they're confident enough to use the same rhyme.

They weren’t confident – Mike D fucked up his take and repeated the rhyme by mistake, but didn’t notice; the others didn’t tell him because they wanted to see how long it would take him to realise.