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

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

spotify playlist

1. Gratitude
2. Slow and Low
3. Pass the Mic
4. The New Style
5. Get It Together
6. Professor Booty
7. Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun
8. B Boys Makin' With the Freak Freak
9. Car Thief
10. So What'cha Want
11. Time For Livin'
12. Something's Got to Give
13. 3 minute rule
14. The Move
15. I Don't Know
16. Stand Together
17. The Scoop
18. Sabotage
19. Putting Shame in Your Game
20. Negotiation Limerick File

Albums

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

1. Egg Man
2. Get It Together
3. So What'cha Want
4. Paul Revere
5. Live At P.J.'s
6. Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun
7. Fight For Your Right
8. Sabotage
9. Shake Your Rump
10. Sure Shot
11. Hey Ladies
12. Shadrach
13. Root Down
14. No Sleep Till Brooklyn
15. Putting Shame In Your Game
16. Time For Livin'
17. Rhymin & Stealin
18. Super Disco Breakin'
19. Lee Majors Come Again
20. In 3's

Five favorite albums:
1 Paul's Boutique
2 Check Your Head
3 Licensed To Ill
4 Hello Nasty
5 Hot Sauce Committee

(sabotage is not really my 18th favorite b-boys song. I just figured lots of y'all would vote it up the ladder.

TRACKS (bold didn't place)

Professor Booty
Rhymin' And Stealin'
Shadrach
The Negotiation Limerick File
Shake Your Rump
So What'cha Want
Hold It Now, Hit It
B-Boy Bouillabaisse
B-Boys Makin' With The Freak Freak
Dust Joint [Car Thief Demo]
Jimmy James
The New Style
Sure Shot - 19
The Sounds Of Silence
I'm Down
Rock Hard
Dis Yourself In '89 (Just Do It)
Cookie Puss
Futterman's Rule
Remote Control

TOP 5 ALBUMS

Paul's Boutique
Check Your Head
Licensed To Ill
Ill Communication
Hello Nasty

46 ballots were sent, btw. I don't think I ever mentioned that up top.

didn't keep track of what placed but I know "the scenario" didn't

Hold It, Now Hit It
Posse in Effect
Car Thief
Professor Booty
The Sounds of Science
The New Style
B-Boy Bouillabaisse
Rhymin & Stealin
Body Movin'
3-Minute Rule
Bodhisattva Vow
Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
High Plains Drifter
Egg Raid On Mojo
Scenario
Gratitude
Sabotage
Intergalactic
The Grasshopper Unit
The Negotiation Limerick File

My ballot:

1 – Gratitude
2 – Hey Ladies
3 – Sabotage
4 – So Whatcha Want
5 – Sure Shot
6 – Intergalactic
7 – Shake Your Rump
8 – Lighten Up
9 – Sabrosa
10 – (Fight) For Your Right (To Party)
11 – The Skills To Pay The Bills
12 – Jimmy James
13 – Super Disco Breakin’
14 – Pass The Mic
15 – Johnny Ryall
16 – Song For The Man
17 – Nonstop Disco Powerpack
18 – Ch-Check It Out
19 – Root Down
20 – To All The Girls

1 – Paul’s Boutique
2 – Check Your Head
3 – Ill Communication
4 – Hello Nasty
5 – Licence To Ill

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