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

has no one done the obvious gen ilx yet?

generation lex

Best thing about TT5B by far was the CD packaging.

TT5B isn't bad but the production is so monochrome.

Is it, or is the sleeve just synaesthesiaing you?

Best thing about TT5B by far was the CD packaging.

I saw them on the tour for this album and everything was much better live.

no punk songs on hello nasty.

That’s because Aglio E Olio, which had nine punk songs* on it, had come out a few months earlier

* and a lounge cover of Light My Fire with Miho Hatori on vocals on Side D of the double 7”

isn't 33% god purely the dust brothers work?

It’s definitely NOT any of the Shake Your Rump demos – seems not improbable that 33% God and Dis Yourself In ’89 were done in collaboration with the Beasties, who did get super-into sourcing samples for the album.

one of the guys they were hanging out with on the back of IC

Those are the members of the band, dude. Even if you don’t recognise Mark or Hurricane (!), AWOL has his name on his hat.

ok the beat to An Open Letter to NYC is kinda fly.

Open Letter is 90% Sonic Reducer by the Dead Boys. The Rub N Tug remix is probably the second-best thing related to Five Boroughs (Letterman performance of Ch-Check It Out is best, Just Blaze remix of Ch-Check is third.)

sic you're my new BB guru

Open Letter is 90% Sonic Reducer by the Dead Boys.

qft (and emphasis)

prefer the album version to the rub n tug rmx, tbh

sic you're my new BB guru

super-trivia: the Gr!nn!ng Sum0 live bootleg 7" was manufactured in the same plant as the legit AEO dbl 7 (I know/knew the dude who did it)

FUCK - forgot to vote for this

*please clear the ice for the zamboni"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq6EFkPR4nc

"NEW 2007"?? that's from 1992

did everyone remember to vote for Rock Hard?

;_;

nope, but since i haven't voted yet, thanks for the heads up

Did everyone vote for Mullet Head?

(seriously this deadline is too short, still not even started a list and won't have any free time until Sunday evening)

I'm gonna extend it through the end of Saturday (US Eastern time) now because I have to work that day anyway and won't be able to roll out videos and albums until Sunday.

maybe I'll come into work for a couple of hours tomorrow then

re: that beastiemixes site, I spent yesterday listening to bootlegs of bsides and rare material and remixes and such. this morning, i discovered that they have a set of "sample sources" comps for each of the albums. super-informative.

sent my ballot:

LTI - 7
PB - 3
CYH - 4
IC - 5
non-album - 1

dude plz don't start the results roll-out on Sunday

it sounds like he's just going to do the videos/albums lists on Sunday as an appetizer? sounds like a good idea to me

Yeah, that is correct.

oh okay never mind

Sent!

LYT = 4
PB = 6
CYH = 2
IC = 3
HN = 4
HSC = 1

I'm up to date on tabulations and now we've got 29 ballots in. Wouldn't mind having more!

voted.

Licensed to Ill: 6 tracks
Paul's Boutique: 3 tracks
Check Your Head: 3 tracks
Ill Communication: 3 tracks
Hello Nasty: 3 tracks
To The 5 Boroughs: 2 tracks

balloted

Submitted. Let's get some more ballots in!

Yeah, 35 ballots now. Keep them coming.

ballot sent

lti: 7
pb: 4
cyh: 3
ic: 2
hn: 1
tt5b: 1
non-album: 2

this is either a really stupid observation or an obvious one someone's already made but doing this quick overview over the past week the beastie boys maybe kinda echo the four seasons - initial (peak) success as boys on the block out for a good time w/ perhaps not the most sophisticated take on the gentler sex and vocals some ppl find obnoxious and grating followed by a retrenchment in the face of a paradigm shit (british invasion/new school rappers) and a dip in commercial fortunes (and label change maybe? not sure when the four seasons did that)(yes i'm talking out of my ass here) coinciding w/ what would later be recognized as their most formally daring period followed by a third act commercial comeback where the group while not being a retro dinosaur act still acts a somewhat anachronistic standard bearer and has fun w/ nostalgia. eventually ppl realize this group of bratty white dudes represents new york, a very specific new york, in a way that might not have been imagined when they first hit.

lol paradigm shift rather though trading in 'surfin bird' for 'a world w/o love' might be a paradigm shit

Weird...but interesting! I'm just putting the finishing touches on my Q-Tip = Len Barry theory.

obv in this scenario https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsjcyKQpMKk = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt0LBlH3dAc

btw that latter track? that's why god invented the radio

Man, Bonehead's really swingin'.

lti: 7
pb: 4
cyh: 3
ic: 2
hn: 1
tt5b: 1
non-album: 2

― balls, Friday, May 11, 2012 5:28 PM (33 minutes ago)

see, now that's how you do it

even if i only went for six of LTI myself

this is either a really stupid observation or an obvious one someone's already made but doing this quick overview over the past week the beastie boys maybe kinda echo the four seasons

Lol, I was wanting to map them onto phases of the Rolling Stones' career upthread, mostly as a product of the recent Stones poll:

Licensed to Ill = early Stones as a singles band, snotty bratty punk shit, timeless pop hits
Paul's Boutique = Their Satanic Majesties Request, hard left that the world wasn't ready for, "commercial suicide"
Check Your Head = late-60s/early-70s Stones, Beggar's Banquet through Exile, long hair & musicianship, glory regained
Ill Communication = mid-70s, Goat's Head Soup - Black and Blue, falling into a rut but still scoring hits
Hello Nasty = late-70s/early-80s, Some Girls - Tattoo You, new sounds & audiences, mining the past, dance music
To the Five Boroughs and cetera = inevitable decline (with bright spots), eminence

finishing my ballot right now. If it is not in exactly as the clock strokes midnight, it won't be much later than that.

Deadline was extended through Saturday (same times), so no worries mang.

Paul's Boutique = Their Satanic Majesties Request, hard left that the world wasn't ready for, "commercial suicide"

but the analogy breaks down around the fact that while there's plenty of Satanic Majesties defenders (I'm one) no one considers it their best, as a lot of people (including me) do re PB.

yeah, not gonna try to pretend the analogy is watertight, just some points in common

I am however intrigued by the Some Girls-Tattoo You phase of their carer.

*career

like satanic majesties, paul's boutique was a game-changing and aggressively psychedelic album that initially "underperformed" but fans eventually came around to. that's about as far as the analogy goes, though...

is paul's boutique really psychedelic tho?

Compared to LTI, I'd say yeah!

I think so. In a different way to Eight Miles High or Sgt Pepper, obviously. I'll explain why later.