I just scanned through the releases I own and went with my heart, i.e. the ones I remember enjoying the most at 17.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'm trying to track down a digital copy of 33% God; has anyone got it?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:19 (twelve years ago) link
Skills To Pay The Bills is on my list.
love "33% god", but it's basically an instrumental version of "shake your rump", and i prefer the latter (know this one cuz i had the love american style EP way back when). wish i could point you towards a digital copy, SM, but i had to youtube it.
and "skills to pay the bills" is awesome, thanks for the tip.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:27 (twelve years ago) link
Aha, if it's basically just instrumental SYR, I'm less bothered about tracking it down. That'd be cool to hear, obviously, but I'm not feeling like I'm missing out on a whole new song I've never heard.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:28 (twelve years ago) link
Also this - <i>well, it's a lot easier to get your mind around a handful of albums than three decades of history in one of the most vibrant and active pop genres. plus ILM rap, R&B & dance music heads are super territorial and dismissive of incorrect/inexpert opinions. takes the fun out of those genres for me (at least as they exist on this board)</i> - is completely OTM regarding why I didn't / wouldn't vote in a straight hiphop poll. (Plus I seldom vote in polls anyway.)
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:34 (twelve years ago) link
Balls to html and bbcode.
contenderizer and sickmouthy, there is a place called beastiemixes. they have a bootlegs section.
― i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:44 (twelve years ago) link
if folks have b-sides or other strays that they think go toe-to-toe with the best album tracks, then pls to post (or at least mention) them here pls! and thank you
I voted for "Some Dumb Cop" "Egg Raid On Mojo" "Cooky Puss" and "Bennie and the Jets."
― billstevejim, Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:57 (twelve years ago) link
Final breakdown is:
1 - Cooky Puss2 - License To Ill1 - Love American Style EP6 - Paul's Boutique1 - An Exciting Evening At Home With Shadrach, Meshac And Abednego EP2 - Check Your Head5 - Ill Communication1 - Hello Nasty1 - The Mix-Up
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:59 (twelve years ago) link
Voted Beastie Revolution too, which is like a reggae pastiche, but played too retardedly to count as full-blown racism.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:01 (twelve years ago) link
"33%" and "And What You Give Is What You Get" is on my list. "And What You Give..." is a rework of "Shadrach" with five hundred more samples crammed in it (head exploded when I first heard Black Flag and The Jam in it). I just realized that I had both "33% God" and "Shake Your Rump" on my ballot, but who cares as they're both fucking brilliant.
Also had a track from "The Mix-Up" that isn't earth shattering, but I just like a lot.
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
I need to get The Mix-Up.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:12 (twelve years ago) link
I will explore beastiemixes tomorrow too.
Same here, I finally bought the mp3 of this at the weekend having first heard it on the 'Sabotage' VHS compilation about 14 years ago.
Just sent my ballot, works out as:
Licensed to Ill - 1Paul's Boutique - 7Check Your Head - 5Ill Communication - 4Hello Nasty - 2Other - 1
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 10 May 2012 12:01 (twelve years ago) link
Ballot pending another listen to To the 5 Boroughs.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 May 2012 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
just sent mine! skipped the albums thing but glad i caught the "favorite videos" poll
― da croupier, Thursday, 10 May 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
I've got a 4 disc bootleg called the paul's boutique companion. worth getting lost in if you wanna OD on PB...
Disc 1 - Demos and Rough Versions
01 3-Minute Rule (Rough Version)02 Hello Brooklyn (Rough Version)03 Johnny Ryall (Demo with Mike D Scratch Vocal)04 Johnny Ryall (Rough Version)05 Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun (Rough Version)06 Egg Man (Rough Version)07 The Sounds Of Science (Rough Version)08 33% God (Get Off The Mic)09 Full Clout (Shake Your Rump Demo)10 Dust Joint (Car Thief Demo)11 Car Thief (Rough Version)
Disc 2 - B-Sides and Rarities
01 Shake Your Rump (Video Version)02 Hey Ladies (Single-Video Composite)03 33% God04 Dis Yourself In '89 (Just Do It)05 Shadrach (Live @ The Country Club)06 Ask For Janice Pt. 208 And What You Give Is What You Get09 Some Dumb Cop Gave Me Two Tickets Already10 Shadrach (Live @ Soul Train)11 Your Sister's Def12 Ask For Janice, Pt. 313 Some Dumb Cop Gave Me Two Tickets Already (45 RPM Version)
Disc 3 - Instrumentals
01 Shake Your Rump02 Johnny Ryall03 Egg Man04 High Plains Drifter05 The Sounds Of Science06 3-Minute Rule07 Hey Ladies08 Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun09 Car Thief10 What Comes Around11 Shadrach12 59 Chrystie Street13 Mike On The Mic
Disc 4 - Show Vinyl
01 Shake Your Rump02 Johnny Ryall03 Egg Man04 High Plains Drifter05 Time To Get Ill06 The Sounds Of Science07 3-Minute Rule08 Hey Ladies09 Hold It Now, Hit It10 Untitled
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
They're being sued by Trouble Funk now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buXt-yyZEss
― i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
forgot how much i like the sad indie solo guitar hello nasty tracks
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
Instant Death, Picture This and I Don't Know = all voted for by me.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
I had completely forgotten about the loungy one with the female vocal.
― i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that's Picture This, with Luscious Jackson.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
think it's gonna go down like this:
licensed - 6PB - 4CYH - 5illco - 2nasty - 3other - 0
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
'I Don't Know' was one of the 2 HN tracks I voted for, thanks in part to Vegemite Girl reminding me of it on this thread.
― pandemic, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
you are confused imo.
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
"I Don't Know" is on my ballot too.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
yeah "picture this" has brooke williams not luscious jackson... was just listening to it!
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, May 10, 2012 7:09 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
Good bass line too.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
They're being sued by Trouble Funk now.
More accurately, they're being sued by the label that now owns the rights to Trouble Funk's recordings.
― da croupier, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
hello nasty is so weird, it's one of their most diverse albums stylistically, covering every impulse they dabbled in up to that point, yet still sounds integrated and of a whole
also feels way more controlled than CYH or IC, like they're effortlessly steering this massive musicmaking starship through the universe
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
I got some shit right here, if you could <bleurgghhhhhh>I hooked my turntable to a wah wah pedal
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
well colour me wrong, i always thought it was one of the luscious who sang on picture this...
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
no punk songs on hello nasty.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, May 10, 2012 7:29 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also, in looking out to other pop styles and back at their own career, nasty seems the least tied to a particular moment in time. not "timeless" (i'll reserve that adjective for licensed to ill), but still surprisingly fresh sounding, ditching the weedhead rap-rock oppressiveness of CYH and illco. the only aspect of its sound i might call dated are the cibo matto-esque psychedelic indie pop touches, and i like those too much to complain.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
i think that was the most mindblowing thing for me, at 16 upon first putting on Ill Communication and hearing Tough Guy and thinking "Woah, I thought this was a rap band!"
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
weedhead rap-rock oppressiveness
― i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
isn't 33% god purely the dust brothers work?
― the late great, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
Hello Nasty was the first major incident of eighties-retro that I can remember. The music press made a big deal out of it; a hole "remember the 80s" spread in Select etc... Although now the influence seems quite muted.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
*whole
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
i love check your head, but there's definitely a broishness there that they scrape away completely for hello nasty
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
Hello Nasty was the first major incident of eighties-retro that I can remember.
Maybe you missed Elastica?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
The Menace? I never listened to it.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
who's doing the "it's the joint" vocal?
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
Weirdly great indie-lounge song from Hello Nasty I'd forgotten all about until yesterday: 'Song for the Man'. Have had it in my head all day so I gave it the #20 spot on my ballot.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost If you mean the first album and the Wire influence, that's something that never really went away. Blur were also doing a few 80s new wave things, but it was Hello Nasty's old-skool vibe that I remember kicking off the whole eighties nostalgia wave that marked the following decade. Jurassic 5 were also part of that I guess, and then the resurgence in 80s rap led to electro and breakdance etc...
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
CYH and, to a lesser extent, IC both seemed like they were about joining the Beasties' gang; like by buying, listening, and getting into those records you became a Beastie Boy friend by proxy, one of the guys they were hanging out with on the back of IC, or one of the people in the photos in the sleeve of CYH.
Hello Nasty seemed like the gang had gone, and they were ready to be friendly with the whole world. Or something.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
Song For The Man was on my ballot. Love the ending; totally incongruous (with the Beastie Boys I knew up to then), and totally great.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
Song for the Man is like an alternate universe in where Smashmouth have got ahold of themselves.
― i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link