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

Ha. Can't find my ballot but I suspect this was my #1. Awesome.

You guys listen to a very different version of the Beasties from me. I was sure The Move would be top ten.

can't argue with this, it's one of the greatest of all openers

when my girly shakes her hips she sure gets FUNKY!!

By the way, I still haven't tabulated the video votes. When I find the time (this weekend?) I'll share those too.

Looking Down the Barrel of A Gun is STILL so full of so much power, the cadence and that big-ass riff...

IMMA DIE HARDER LIKE MY MAN BRUCE WILLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS

Hey Ladies is pretty-much all time - especially the video. The Paul's Boutique commentary has them telling the awesome story about how they came into those incredible outfits they wear in the video, it's hilarious

I'm just gonna quote myself here:

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

me too

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

love the Mountain sample

"Looking Down the Barrel" was the one I most regretted not voting for, so I'm glad everbody else did.

the brash truncation of that mountain sample speaks volumes

xp

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, May 9, 2012 12:33 AM (1 week ago)

also can I just

she's got a gold tooth
you know she's hardcore
she'll show you a good time
then she'll show you the door

I was listening to Barrel this morning and the lyric "24 is my age" made me think that this was pretty much the most fun thing you could be doing at 24. And then I got to thinking about being dead at 47 and I got bummed out again but still, what a record. One of my all-time favourite breakbeats.

6. "CH-CHECK IT OUT" (2004) [695 points, 26 votes, 4 first place votes]

Best poll deke yet.

spent the walking around part of yesterday with the beastie boys on shuffle. just the first five albums plus all the non-album tracks i could easily get my hands on, some 150+ songs. only track i was tempted to skip was "girls", and after a minute, i was into that and happy to listen through (was disappointed when it didn't kick into "fight" afterwards, though). wasn't all great, but i enjoyed every minute. i think i just like the beastie boys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhqyZeUlE8U

4. "SURE SHOT" (1994) [786 points, 34 votes, 1 first place vote]

this is a weird top 10. no idea what number 1 will be. I assume Shake Your Rump and Jimmy James are up next somewhere...

"4 first place votes" was the part where i thought i'd tipped my hands as to wha-wu-wu-wu-what's it all about

"Jimmy James" was #25

If Alright Hear This doesn't place I'm gonna be pissed off

man you're in some fantasy land

xp I've been doing the same contenderizer. It makes me sad that I let them drift into the background after Ill Communication. I loved them at Glastonbury in 94 but barely remember the other times I saw them (Wembley 98 and Coachella 2003) - I felt like they'd run out of ideas and their MCing had gotten monotonous. Sometimes it's not the concerts I missed that I regret but the ones I saw but took for granted because I was in the wrong mood or talking through the whole thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE

3. "SABOTAGE" (1994) [827 points, 33 votes, 5 first place votes]

^^^overrated

^^^the "it" i can't stand

I know two of the top 3, blanking on the third...

Oh, ha, that was #3. nevermind!

Cool, at least the first four albums each place a track in the top 5.

So top 2 will be the same as the top 2 on my ballot. But in WHICH ORDER?

love the Mountain sample

Yes! One of the best samples ever. I thought Looking Down The Barrel... wouldn't make it, so glad to see it so high. It was my 2

This is some bullshit!

Sabotage is like the most fun song ever. My no.1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru3gH27Fn6E

2. "SO WHAT'CHA WANT" (1992) [903 points, 33 votes, 2 first place votes]

"Sabotage" is like the most fun song ever. My no.1.

my #3, but yeah

*holds breath*

*gets ready to post ch-check it out again*

eatin crazy cheese like you would think I'm from paris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BptQHAW2T5M

1. "SHAKE YOUR RUMP" (1989) [1,055 points, 36 votes, 6 first place votes]

Solid #1. Thanks for running this JF.

haha I was going to ask if shake your rump had placed yet

hand on my stump-ah

wow

I am all kinds of surprised by these results. I mean, I love Shake Yr Rump but I would never have called it as #1. So What'cha Want rules forever, I'd take it anywhere in the top 10 but I'm glad it made #2

I'M THE ILLEST MUTHAFUCKA FROM HERE TO GARDENA

shake your rump really is pretty great tho, my #2

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.

Shake Yr Rump, Hey Ladies, and Shadrach all kinda rotated in and out as my favorite PB track over the years... but lol in the end B-Boy Bouillabaise was my no. 1

I def had Shake Yr Rump in my 20, I think...it's a good'un

i like the year & a day/hello brooklyn part of BBB, but it's not one of my favorites, overall

At first, "So Whatcha Want" was going to be an easy pick for #1, but as I listened to Paul's Boutique for the first time in maybe 10 years, a flood of memories came back.

I remember seeing the "She's on It" video about 95 or 96, and being confused if it was the same Beastie Boys I knew from ads in fanzines hawking the Polywog Stew EP. As Licensed to Ill hit, and I realized they were the same, I had this weird pride that some hardcore kids had made it big. As it blew up into a phenomenon, I had to wonder if it had gone to their head.

I was as skeptical as anyone that they could follow their own act. Read an interview, before Paul's Boutique was released, where they were bragging about the number of samples on their upcoming record. But it already seemed too late to try to catch up with the variety and subtlety of 3 Feet High and Rising. There was the video for "Hey Ladies", and I thought, "well, the 70s schtick is cool. But I'm getting the feeling they are just a novelty act." Soon afterward, a friend showed me the Paul's Boutique cassette, and slipped it in his boombox, and just let me listen. And when the first scratch guitar sample hit, my jaw dropped. These guys in it for the long term. It was the moment I realized the were great, not just punks with a lucky ticket.

Before this past week, I had a rank for the first five albums, with Check Your Head on top. But I think I like 'em all about the same at this point. I love how they learned on the job, and gradually expanded their sound but never discarded any of it.

my ballot:

The New Style
Hold It Now, Hit It
Brass Monkey
Posse In Effect
Paul Revere
Three MC's and One DJ
B-Boy Bouillabaisse
Pass the Mic
Rhymin & Stealin
Oh Word?
Hey Ladies
The Scoop
3 The Hard Way
Professor Booty
Do It
Shake Your Rump
Body Movin'
The Move
Jimmy James
Sure Shot

Licensed to Ill
Check Your Head
Hello Nasty
Paul's Boutique
To the 5 Boroughs