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

Same as the top five spots for tracks (40, 36, 33, 30, 28).

http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/beatrixkiddo79/default/10-beastie-boys-5-boroughs--large-msg-126090343544.jpg

7. TO THE 5 BOROUGHS (20014) [2 votes, 58 points]

*(2004)

http://colmhogan.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/beastie-boys-hot-sauce-committee-part-two2.jpg

6. HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART TWO (2011) [84 points, 3 votes]

http://bastonate.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/ill-communication.jpeg

5. ILL COMMUNICATION (1994) [775 points, 25 votes, 1 first place vote]

http://i3.fastpic.ru/big/2009/1023/c1/8d8f4e0ca31d4129199c19fed5eb32c1.jpg

4. HELLO NASTY (1998) [775 points, 25 votes, 2 first place votes]

Both too low!

Wow, point tally jump from Hot Sauce to Ill Comm is astonishing (but not really a surprise)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0lf0t5kTG1r7uxloo1_cover.jpg

3. LICENSED TO ILL (1986) [875 points, 26 votes, 5 first place votes]

http://img.sharedmp3.net/files/pics/1021/1020195/img_1_pr.jpg

2. CHECK YOUR HEAD (1992) [966 points, 28 votes, 5 first place votes]

http://www.chartstats.com/images/artwork/30481.jpg

1. PAUL'S BOUTIQUE (1989) [1,012 points, 28 votes, 14 first place votes]

Not exactly full of surprises, that list, but what can you do.

Sometimes things are obvious because they're right.

Okay, on to honorable mentions: tracks category...

There's a tie at #60

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XWZsSzO_Jg

TIE 60. "LIGHTEN UP" (1992) [61 points, 3 votes]

Haha, some degree of consensus on the top five then! Surprised CYH pushed PB so hard, but it is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MLwfkQcMcE

TIE 60. "FUNKY BOSS" (1992) [61 points, 3 votes]

you probably coulda done a top 5 albums and i dunno top 40 tracks, it's a little silly when these things become "their entire catalog, ranked"

Well, 118 tracks received votes, so this is only about the top half.

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

59. "SLOW RIDE" (1986) [63 points, 3 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvFcMu-AvZs

58. "HEART ATTACK MAN" (1994) [66 points, 4 votes]

Watch Yauch destroy that fucking bassline.

Well, 118 tracks received votes, so this is only about the top half.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, May 13, 2012 3:46 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

ok but c'mon the top 60 is basically the top 2/3rds of the 5 albums people actually like, isn't it

Chill, some dude. I'm just killing a rainy Sunday afternoon here. Also, the Heart Attack Man performance makes the honorable mention portion worth it imo.

yeah sorry 4 trolling, carry on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwenqnZnX2g

57. "SLOW AND LOW" (1986) [69 points, 3 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnHCX7jkAbs

56. "TRANSITIONS" (1994) [71 points, 2 votes]

Love the Heart Attack Man performance.

Transitions - maybe one of my very favourite instrumentals of all time

Heartattack Man is totally essential to Ill Communication- bursts out of nowhere, smacks you in the funnybone, leaves without trace.

Also makes me wonder why hardcore and hiphop didn't get married in this way more often. Who else did stuff like this other than maybe Bad Brains?

I voted for both Funky Boss and Heart Attack Man, so thanks for this bonus bit (and the video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ri1Yb4YKOc

71. "EGG RAID ON MOJO" (1982) [71 points, 4 votes]

fuck me

55. "EGG RAID ON MOJO" (1982) [71 points, 4 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu0dGCEXT3Y

54. "ALIVE/ALIVE AT YAUCH'S HOUSE" (1999) [73 points, 4 votes]

Alive is a track I like way more now than I did 13 years ago. Glad it crept up this high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Rs-I2K148

53. "LIVE AT PJ'S" (1992) [77 points, 4 votes]

Check the cd longbox!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSOe4VgJORk

52. "MULLET HEAD" (1994) [80 points, 3 votes. 1 first place vote]

Thanks to the bonus round, every first place vote will be accounted for. :)

Looooooooooove Live at PJ's...the way Ad Rock comes in on that is just all-time KLASSIK

Egg Raid on Mojo is fkin great too, didn't vote for it but it was on my shortlist

Also live at PJ's outro 'If you're drivin don't drink, and if you're drinkin don't drive" reminds me of my best friend's Dad - he was an AM radio DJ in my hometown & had a latenight sports-talk show, and his sign off was 'If you're going to drink and drive, drink milk and say alive' :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNB8pNqwrKw

51. "TOO MANY RAPPERS (ft. NAS)" (2009/11) [82 points, 4 votes]

Also makes me wonder why hardcore and hiphop didn't get married in this way more often. Who else did stuff like this other than maybe Bad Brains?

― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Sunday, May 13, 2012 4:29 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bad Brains had appx zero hip-hop influence afaik

I think about this alot though. I think the lineage is
• "Cookie Puss"
• The last 10 seconds of "Change the Style" by Son of Bazerk
• The first Body Count album
• The hxc tracks on Check Your Head and Ill Communication
• The Roots' "!!!!!!" [this is track three off Phrenology and YouTube is no help]

Bonus round tally

TIE 60. "LIGHTEN UP" (1992) [61 points, 3 votes]
TIE 60. "FUNKY BOSS" (1992) [61 points, 3 votes]
59. "SLOW RIDE" (1986) [63 points, 3 votes]
58. "HEART ATTACK MAN" (1994) [66 points, 4 votes]
57. "SLOW AND LOW" (1986) [69 points, 3 votes]
56. "TRANSITIONS" (1994) [71 points, 2 votes]
55. "EGG RAID ON MOJO" (1982) [71 points, 4 votes]
54. "ALIVE / ALIVE AT YAUCH'S HOUSE" (1999) [73 points, 4 votes]
53. "LIVE AT PJ'S" (1992) [77 points, 4 votes]
52. "MULLET HEAD" (1994) [80 points, 3 votes, 1 first place vote]
51. "TOO MANY RAPPERS (ft. NAS)" (2009/11) [82 points, 4 votes]

I made a mistake upthread - Son of Neckbone was a b-side from Sure Shot.

wow -- "Live at PJ's" sounds dreadful.

57. "SLOW AND LOW" (1986) [69 points, 3 votes]

^ my only vote to place so far. too (slow and) low.

plus many/much cheers & thanks to dr. johnny! looking forward to the rest of the results...

^ my only vote to place so far.

since this is a good band that I care about deeply, can we not shit up this thread with this garbage

eh, was mostly an excuse to say thanks, johnny. save your "glory days" flexing for later.

― i am the official internet police officer, and i am here to SHIT ON YOUR THREAD (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, May 13, 2012 4:01 PM (8 minutes ago)

I like the thread, I'm shitting on your shitty post

yeah, that much was clear. enjoy whatever sad thrill you get out of your internet hardman routine.

to johnnyilxfever

top tracks:
So What'cha Want
Sure Shot
Paul Revere
Sabotage
Rhymin & Stealin
No Sleep Til Brooklyn
Egg Man
Hold It Now, Hit It
Root Down
Fight For Your Right
Brass Monkey
Get It Together
Shake Your Rump
Alright Hear This
She's Crafty
She's On It
Professor Booty
What Comes Around
Pass The Mic
Gratitude

top albums:
License To Ill
Ill Communication
Check Your Head
Paul's Boutique

hah oops left part of the e-mail header in that c&p

so did everything from Paul's Boutique place apart from the intro track...?

well and that get away from the BBQ bit

the only full song from PB that did not place is bolded in the ballot i posted right before you asked that

Thanks Johnny. Loved this one more than most polls. My ballot - should have put money on the top three:

1. Shake Your Rump
2. Sabotage
3. So What’Cha Want
4. Fight For Your Right
5. Something’s Got to Give
6. Get It Together
7. Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
8. Sure Shot
9. No Sleep Till Brooklyn
10. B-Boy Bouillabaisse
11. An Open Letter to NYC
12. Egg Man
13. Root Down
14. Paul Revere
15. The Sounds of Science
16. Intergalactic
17. Too Many Rappers
18. Finger Lickin’ Good
19. Song for the Man
20. Remote Control

btw i love the deadpan tone of wikipedia entries about these songs

The lyrics made some references to popular culture, by mention: Phil Rizzuto, Rapunzel, Dolemite, Geraldo Rivera, skinheads, the song "Beat on the Brat" by the Ramones, and Doris the Finkasaurus.

lol sorry al this thread moves to fast!

What Comes Around is great

xp

Yeah, I was surprised at What Comes Around's showing.

http://home.earthlink.net/~pauletc/beastietrackresults.htm

It was the moment I realized they were great, not just punks with a lucky ticket.

I imagine this line being delivered by Jerry Orbach in a Beastie Boys biopic. "Word on the street was that these punks wuz washed up. Sure they got lucky once but this time they rolled the dice and it came up snake eyes. Heard they'd fallen in with a coupla west coast mugs name a the Dust Brothers. But then Fat Vinny played me Shake Your Rump…"

lol

Thanks for running this! My ballot:

1. Car Thief
2. Gratitude
3. Shake Your Rump
4. Hold It Now, Hit It
5. B-Boy Bouillabaisse
6. The Move
7. Intergalactic
8. Shadrach
9. I Don't Know
10. Sure Shot (Large Professor remix)
11. Hey Ladies
12. Paul Revere
13. Mullet Head
14. The Negotiation Limerick File
15. The Sounds of Science
16. Get It Together
17. Cooky Puss
18. Boomin' Granny
19. So What'cha Want
20. Sabotage

The When I'm 64 bit is SO obvious now. What a dolt.

The most ilm-consensus I've been for a while, and a fine way to bring up my 20,000th post to boot:

1. Sabotage
2. Gratitude
3. Shake Your Rump
4. Fight For Your Right
5. Hey Ladies
6. B-Boy Bouillabaisse
7. Ch-Check It Out
8. In 3s
9. Sure Shot
10. Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun

11. Intergalactic
12. Sound of Science
13. Triple Trouble
14. Rhymin & Stealin
15. Girls
16. No Sleep Till Brooklyn
17. Pow
18. Stand Together
19. And What You Give Is What You Get
20. Car Thief

Albums

1. Paul's Boutique
2. Check Your Head
3. To The 5 Boroughs
4. An Exciting Evening At Home With Shadrach, Meshah and Abednego
5. Hello Nasty

wow you really bent over backwards to snub albums with "ill" in the title

Yeah, I was surprised at What Comes Around's showing.

I'm surprised that "Time to Get Ill" didn't place anywhere. The only one from LTI not to show up in the top 60.

1. Sounds of Science
2. The New Style
3. Intergalactic
4. She's Crafty
5. So Whatcha Want
6. Sabotage
7. Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
8. Shadrach
9. Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim remix)
10. Rhymin' and Stealin'
11. Shake Your Rump
12. High Plains Drifter
13. Get It Together
14. Super Disco Breakin'
15. Lee Majors Come Again
16. Root Down
17. Three MCs and One DJ
18. Girls
19. Egg Man
20. Professor Booty

my ballot, nonplacers highlighted

No Sleep Til Brooklyn
Rhymin & Stealin'
Super Disco Breakin
Hold It Now Hit It
Hey Ladies
Sure Shot
Intergalactic
So What'cha Want
Brass Monkey
The Sounds Of Science
The Negotiation Limerick File
Egg Man
Shake Your Rump
Pass The Mic
Instant Death
Sabotage
I Don't Know
She's On It
Alive
Netty's Girl

da croupier, you got your shit to-gether!

i could probably sing it by heart

shit should've voted for Netty's Girl argh

Tracks from best to least best:

The Move
Alright Hear This
Shake Your Rump
I Don't Know
Transitions
The Sounds Of Science
So What'cha Want
Intergalactic
Song For The Man
Futterman's Rule
Beastie Revolution
Egg Man
Get It Together
Instant Death
Heartattack Man
Picture This
Johnny Ryall
Son Of Neckbone
And Me
Hold It Now, Hit It

Albums
1. Hello Nasty
2. Ill Communication
3. Paul's Boutique
4. Check Your Head
5. Licensed To Ill

As short as it gets:

1. "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" (40)
2. "Rock Hard" (36)
3. "She's on It" (33)
4. "Rhymin and Stealin" (30)
5. "So What'cha Want" (28)

The truth is, Paul's Boutique was a letdown for me at the time, and from that point forward I only heard the singles, and not even all of those. But Licensed to Ill had a huge effect on me when it came out, and the first four songs above can still take me back to that moment.

Pleased to see Futterman's Rule just bubbling under in the countdown

I've never really got the hang of Check Your Head. IllComm always struck me as a much much stronger record

my ballot

1. pass the mic - 40
2. paul revere - 36
3. shake your rump - 33
4. brass monkey - 30
5. she’s crafty - 28
6. sure shot - 26
7. cooky puss - 25
8. looking down the barrel of a gun - 24
9. rhymin & stealin - 23
10. sabotage - 22
11. jimmy james - 21
12. hold it now hit it - 20
13. gratitude - 19
14. mullet head - 18
15. remote control - 17
16. hey ladies - 16
17. no sleep til brooklyn - 15
18. car thief - 14
19. triple trouble - 13
20. fight for your right - 12

five fave albums
1. dj green lantern presents new york state of mind
2. licensed to ill
3. check your head
4. paul’s boutique
5. ill communication

five fave videos
1 fight for your right
2 sabotage
3 no sleep til brooklyn
4 body movin
5 hey ladies

My Ballot:

High Plains Drifter
Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun
Sabotage
So What’cha Want
Shadrach
Egg Man
Hey Ladies
Shake Your Rump
Pass the Mic
Gratitude
Professor Booty
Fight For Your Right
Girls
Rhymin and Stealin
Finger Lickin’ Good
Sure Shot
3 MCs and 1 DJ
B-Boy Bouillabaisse
Jimmy James
She’s Crafty

Thanks for putting this together!

Albums:

1. Check Your Head
2. Paul’s Boutique
3. Ill Communication
4. License to Ill
5. Hello Nasty

Tracks:

1. Shake Your Rump - 40
2. So What’cha Want - 36
3. Root Down - 33
4. Rhymin and Stealin - 30
5. Professor Booty - 28
6. Car Thief - 26
7. Pass the Mic - 25
8. Get it Together - 24
9. Paul Revere - 23
10. Gratitude - 22
11. Something’s Got to Give - 21
12. Sounds of Science - 20
13. Sabotage - 19
14. Eugene’s Lament -18
15. Jimmy James - 17
16. Intergalactic -16
17. High Plains Drifter - 15
18. Lighten Up - 14
19. Flute Loop - 13
20. Stand Together - 12

Shake Your Rump was my own #1, and has been since pretty much the first time I heard it. I may not have fully understood Paul's Boutique when I was 15, but I understood that Shake Your Rump was otherworldly great.

btw I saw this yesterday

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m46re32dRV1qzopi5o1_1280.jpg

I submitted 5 videos but I guess I'm not super bummed if no one else did.

In re Shake Your Rump (which was also my #1), lots of talk itt about great lead-off songs, but SYR is a perfect #2 song, a sucker punch after the drifting intro. You get that quick rattling snare fill, and then NOW I ROCK A HOUSE PARTY AT THE DROP OF A HAT...

I submitted 5 videos but I guess I'm not super bummed if no one else did.

I'm gonna tabulate the video votes soon. Just haven't done it yet.

i didn't post my vid votes cuz I knew they were still to come

Thanks for running this poll, Mr Fever. It's been awesome.

yes, thank you! the only silver lining about MCA's sad passing is that my enthusiasm for the BBoys has been completely renewed.

Great work JF, really enjoyed this. 'Shake Your Rump' is a nice surprise #1.

Tracks:

1. So What'cha Want
Jimmy James
Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
Shake Your Rump
The Sounds of Science
Flute Loop
Pass the Mic
Get It Together
Car Thief
Gratitude
Skills to Pay the Bills
Something's Got to Give
High Plains Drifter
Sabotage
Remote Control
Egg Man
Rhymin' & Stealin'
Ricky's Theme
Hey Ladies
Song for the Man

Albums:

1. Check Your Head
Paul's Boutique
Ill Communication
Hello Nasty
Licensed to Ill

and then NOW I ROCK A HOUSE PARTY AT THE DROP OF A HAT...

Possibly the greatest single moment in their catalog. Sonic grenade.

http://sickmouthy.com/2012/05/20/how-is-pauls-boutique-psychedelic/

been busy all of last week, so i've only just caught up with this. terrific poll!

hey dom, where'd you see that mural? <3 it so much.

voted negotiation limerick file as my #1. when i was 17, i used to try and buy 2 copies of 12"'s and mess with 'em, and I played w/ NLF for hours upon hours and never got sick of it. still shit at dj-ing mind.

i fucking love the beastie boys.

Just noticed the other day that “Car Thief” samples “I’ll Bet You.” Think it’s the Jackson Five version but not 100% sure.

Yeah its not the Funkadelic version

And it’s certainly not the Theresa Lindsey version.