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

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

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