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

50. "GIRLS" (1986) [83 points, 5 votes]
49. "SHE'S ON IT" (1985) [93 points, 4 votes]
TIE 47. "TIME FOR LIVIN'" (1992) [95 points, 5 votes]
TIE 47. "FINGER LICKIN' GOOD" (1992) [95 points, 5 votes]
46. "FLUTE LOOP" (1994) [104 points, 5 votes]
45. "ROCK HARD" (1985) [115 points, 5 votes]
44. "SONG FOR THE MAN" (1998) [126 points, 8 votes]
43. "BODHISATTVA VOW" (1994) [128 points, 6 votes]
42. "POSSE IN EFFECT" (1986) [136 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote]
41. "3 MINUTE RULE" (1989) [138 points, 6 votes]
40. "JOHNNY RYALL" (1989) [143 points, 9 votes]
39. "THREE MC'S AND ONE DJ" (1998) [145 points, 8 votes]
38. "SKILLS TO PAY THE BILLS" (1992) [152 points, 8 votes]
37. "SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE" (1992) [157 points, 7 points]
36. "REMOTE CONTROL" (1998) [169 points, 9 votes]

is there a good beasties comp of like non-album tracks from like "Rock Hard" --> "Alive"

nope. gotta do that shit yrself

That Sounds of Science 2-disc thing from 1999 (whence "Alive" originally came) has some, but it's hardly comprehensive. The individual Capitol/Grand Royal cd reissues are pretty stacked, but you'll still have to dig around in dark corners for the Def Jam stuff.

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]

― thommys got bendz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, May 13, 2012 9:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Rock N Roll by Mos Def

ha, yeah!

i wasn't making the point that "She's On It" is obscure because it's not on Spotify or anything, to be clear (although i was surprised that it's not even collected on any of their compilations).

Out of their whopping two multi-territory, wide-release, non-instrumental compilations, half of them were compiled by the band and not Capitol, and that one does include She's On It (although as the sleeve notes point out, only because Malcolm Young still declined a personal request to allow Rock Hard on.)

The Rock Hard 12" got re-released about five years ago on the Def Jam Classics imprint btw.

How and why did that track get left off Check Your Head?

The Beasties have always been firm believers in singles having b-sides

i'd rank the obscurity of beatie boys tracks this way...

0: hit singles
1: fan-favorite album cuts and non-hit singles
2: other album cuts from their first five albums
3: other album cuts from their last three albums
4: non-album tracks and outtakes etc that have appeared on major compilations or as album-reissue bonus tracks
5: non-album tracks etc that were officially issued, but remain uncompiled (or rarely compiled)
6: outtakes and ephemera that were never officially issued and remain uncompiled, but which leaked somehow (boots, w/e)
7: stuff that has never even leaked and that basically no one outside the band has ever heard

all the shit we're talking about is at least moderately obscure, relatively obscure. seems a dumb word to get hung up on.

can you rank every song on your ballot on the 1-7 scale thanking you in advance

my head hurts

can you rank every song on your ballot on the 1-7 scale thanking you in advance

sure, i'll pm you

I've been looking at a few online lists of greatest/favourite Beastie Boys songs (Rolling Stone, three or four others), and looks like I am way off on "Rock Hard"--not a single mention, even on a list of 38. Guess I'm just lucky that my friend Peter got me interested in them early. "She's on It," a little less clear--it actually made the Top 10 in the UK, and is still their third biggest hit there.

Mr Veg started with Beasties from Cooky Puss and was all over the Rock Hard EP, he had always led me to believe it was a lot more popular than it appears it was, so I'm kinda with you there, clemenza...still, hard to believe that a huge-sounding song like that didn't just blow up everywhere, lol

If "Rock Hard" had gone #1 a year-plus before Licensed to Ill, I might never have been subjected to "The Final Countdown."

http://www.heavyharmonies.com/bandpics/europe.jpg

oof

i'd rank the obscurity of beatie boys tracks this way...

You missed the Country Mike LP in between 5 and 6, recalibrate your scale before emailing Whiney

The Country Mike album is so bad. I hope nobody voted for any tracks from it.

Posse In Effect is way too low!

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*37. "SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE" (1992) [157 points, 7 points]*

Something's Got to Give was in my top 5 - so profoundly stoned, with that spaced-out Planet Caravan vocal effect. When I first heard it I thought that another band could use this as the template for their whole sound.

The Beasties have lots of songs like that; things they never quite repeated but which you could see being worth exploring for a whole career - Gratitude being another. In fact, much of CYH is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4-F6QFcNxQ

35. "B-BOYS MAKIN' WITH THE FREAK FREAK" (1994) [172 points, 8 votes]

Aw man some of the pics on that utube are great! I love AdRock

Ad-Rock's always been the cutest.

I'm happy, though somewhat surprised, to see "B-Boys Makin' With The Freak Freak" this high. I've always loved it, but most of my friends see it as minor Beasties at best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKNmLMs7ugw&t=10m44s

34. "HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER" (1989) [202 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]

Eh, timecode embeds are a fail. Click through if you want to hear it.

How will i ever hear "High Plains Drifter"

we can sing it for u

imma

high

high

plains

plains

driftah

Can I do the drum fills

Lol @ this dope beastie boys song being carried by Don Henley's drumming #endoftheinnocence

only good thing Henley ever did imo

well he hasn't died yet so

cause I'm mello like jell-ello

cool like lemonade

xpost we wait in hope

my man turned to me and said WHY ARE YOU HERE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pKNmLMs7ugw#t=644s

made my getaway and thought that i had it made

otis seemed cool

you've got a mailbox on your bumper and bald front tiiiiiiiiire

houdini out the cuffs

OUTTA THE CAR LONGHAIR
your goose is cooked

SUUUZZZEEEE IZZZ UHH HEEAADDBAANNGGEEERR

\m/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hlMi6PvUDE

awesome

prefer Poison's cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyfV9sOhwnc

33. "COOKY PUSS" (1983) [202 points, 11 votes]

damn that's low

(I didn't vote for it)

I voted for it, but down at the bottom of my ballot. I'm known on occasion to break out with a "I said I HOUSE ya" for no good reason.

While C.P. himself was unforgettable if you were growing in up in NY/NE/FLA regions, I'd forgotten about Cookie O'Puss, who gets a passing shoutout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4TieV3QirU