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

*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

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