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

Root Down is just so goddamn funky I love it. Even when I think I'm tired of it, it's still got...somethin'

"Root Down" is dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Y0cy-nvAg

17. "NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN" (1986) [368 points, 15 votes, 3 first place votes]

"No Sleep" is actually the song i like that i've gotten a little weary of from rock radio overplay over the last few years (whereas "Fight" has actually grown on me more). voted for both, though.

Love the intake of breath to start.

MCA's in the back cuz he's skeezin' with a hoo-wah

well, at least "no sleep" went top 20

While you're at the job workin 9 to 5, Beastie Boys at the Garden cold kickin it liiiiii-iiiive

not a huge "no sleep" fan but it's got better rhymes than "fight for yr right"

our manager's crazy, he always smokes dust, he's got his own room at the back of the bus

another plane another train another bottle to the brain

<3 car thief and new style

I wanted so much to show the "No Sleep" video to my grade 6s. Couldn't do it. I hope it takes second place for videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB0NM6reiRE

16. "HOLD IT NOW, HIT IT" (1986) [450 points, 16 votes, 3 first place votes]

there it is

1st place votes = me + whiney + ?

Don't beat me to a bloody pulp but something about the whistle-noises in this track makes it kinda grate on me a little? I love the rhymes but unless I'm listening to the album as a whole I don't listen to it on its own much at all.

I forgot how much I love "the new style"

i am okay with this "new style" that is going on

<3 car thief and new style

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Hold it now's "I come from Brooklyn cos that's where I'm FROM" is all-time

now that I do agree with

New Style and Hold It Now still blow me away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5e70Q8mw

15. "GRATITUDE" (1992) [496 points, 22 votes, 2 first place votes]

I didn't vote for it but it is def classic

Don't beat me to a bloody pulp but something about the whistle-noises in this track makes it kinda grate on me a little?

never go to a latin DJ night

gratitude such a weird song, also great

xpost lol okay

I hate alarms and whistles and shit like that

awesome! who else gave it first place? this song is such a slice of molten bass fuzz. first rifff i learned after a friend taught me about pentatonic scales.

yeah that riff is killer

"gratitude" is a weird song, and a great one. on relistening, i was struck by how distinctive the beastie boys particular rap/rock fusion was circa check your head and ill communication. nobody else was writing songs like "gratitude", "stand together" and "sabotage", much less mixing those hybrid sounds up with rap, straight hardcore and funky slow jams. surprises me that this approach wasn't more directly copied.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g

14. "INTERGALACTIC" (1998) [505 points, 22 votes]

most ppl mixing rap and rock failed miserably

xp

kinda pleased "Intergalactic" missed the top 10, never liked it

this always make me think of the BBs on "celebrity deathmatch"

planetary intergalactic

I still kinda like Intergalactic but it's nowhere my favorite off HN...def not a top 10 for me

i always think I must be sick of this, but then i hear it and it turns out i'm not.

i mostly just like when the robot has an erection

but then it's one of only 2 tracks i like on HN

mario c like to keep it clean
gonna shine like a sun beam
keep on rappin cuz that's my dream
got an A from kool moe dee for STICKIN to THEMES

this is my fave

When I wrote graffiti my name was Slop
If my rap's soup my beats is stock
Step from the tables as I start to chop
I'm a lumber jack DJ Adrock

the phrasing on that section is just DOPE to me, I love it

in general, though, hello nasty lacks nasty

I'll stir fry you in my WOK

i do have a fondness for the Biz Markie-inspired pronunciation of "Beatsie Boys"

otm

Gratitude was my #2. I don't find it weird or distinctive as such, it just hits the buttons as a cracking pop tune.

most ppl mixing rap and rock failed miserably

I really, really wish I had been into Check Your Head when I was at school. They would've improved my life condiderably. My band was always trying to do Rage songs, veering off into the miserablism of grunge. The Beastie Boys' playfulness, and indeed way with a pop hook, would've been so way cooler. Not to be embarrassed to have fun.

I never even noticed that at this point they were a rock band 'til we did this poll. Even Sabotage, it never clicked 'til now what they were doing. I guess because they looked so different and their personas were the flip of everyone else's.

Ah, if only.

Gratitude was my number one, iirc.

Despite its mid-careerness and the falloff in mic skills, I thought "Intergalactic" would be top 10 for sure. Possibly their best single after LTI, though not the best song. "Shake Your Rump" is a better song, but a worse single, I think. Not gonna get into my reasoning there, but I'm pretty sure both were top 5 on my ballot anyway.

"shake your rump" was top 5 for me, but "intergalactic" came in fairly low. cool and catchy pop tune, but the rhyming just isn't their best, and and it lacks the manic energy of my favorite BBs tracks.

the day after MCA died I was at a kentucky derby party and I asked the host to put on some beasties. he played "intergalactic" and everybody danced their asses off. after the line "like a pinch on the neck from mr spock" me and my 8yo daughter threw up the live long and prosper sign. ah, life.