Beastie Boys albums poll

Ill

can we just say paul's boutique and call it a day?

licensed to ill >>> pauls boutique >>> ill communication

i'll be the one voting hello nasty

This new instro one seems pretty promising from the two things I heard on youtube.

But seriously, Paul's.

took me years to realise they were sampling 'Who's That Lady' on that chunk of 'B-Boy Bouillabaisse'

Dust Brothers pwn

loc'ed after dark >>>>>>>>>>> pauls boutique

check yr head

there are songs on licensed to ill that are greater than anything on paul's boutique, but the filler on paul's boutique >>>>> filler on licensed to ill.

I think a pretty good campaign could be mounted for hello nasty. I've heard it more than any other beasties album, mainly due to the year and a half my wife spent listening to it once a day like vitamins.

loc'ed after dark >>>>>>>>>>> pauls boutique

haha... maybe

Not a fan at all of these guys, but I did have the opportunity to see the Dust Brothers DJ("play"?/reconstruct?) an instrumental version of Paul's Boutique at an outdoor party which was pretty amazing.

loc'ed after dark >>>>>>>>>>> pauls boutique

-- and what, Friday, May 25, 2007 12:17 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

check yr head

-- Jordan, Friday, May 25, 2007 12:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

jordan otm

CYH is just a cool sounding album, it feels real loose and the live instruments are integrated really well (and sound great).

xpost

CYH maybe has the best sound of any of the albums. It's also maybe the worst of all the albums.

It's also maybe the worst of all the albums.

Nooooooo!!!! Dude, Live at PJ's???! Gratitude?!?!? I'm going to admit it now, I posted this poll in hopes that Check would win, and that everyone would somehow forget that Licenced exists.

admit you like cyh 'cause you were too stoned to get off the couch and put something else on.

Close. I listened to it all day at work yesterday, wishing I was too stoned to get off the couch.

Live at PJ's???! Gratitude?!?!?

we're talking about albums, not songs

check your head is the worst, though i havent heard that last one

to the five boroughs takes the cake when it comes to the suck.

I was part of the hipster crowd that chuckled, "LOL, Beasties" until Check Your Head became a sleeper hit, then I went backwards and got Paul's Boutique and my mind was summarily blown. I still think that there's rarely been a one-two punch as powerful as License to Ill and Check Your Head, one from which the Beasties themselves have yet to recover, although they came close on Hello Nasty (in retrospect an uneasy merger of CYH and PB).

I mean, I'm a fan of the slow-awakening, rubbing the schmutz out of the eyes of consciousness vibe of CYH, and it's the place where these dudes originally clicked for me (via Gratitude in particular), but it's not nearly as songful as its stoopider predecessors or its more sentient follow-up

I'm glad that it captured the moment it did, though

it's not nearly as songful as its stoopider predecessors or its more sentient follow-up

OTM. Beasties revisionism that started around CYH posited that there were a "serious" act because they were "finally" playing instruments (ineptly.

*(ineptly)

PB is the uneasiest one for me, easy

there's some thread on ilm where I launched a vigorous defense of hello nasty. wonder if I can find it.

hello nasty would be great if other rappers were rapping on it

it's not a rap album

The worst part about CYH is that you just might be able to blame it for 90s rap-rock.

i remember jess repped for this
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1. Intro
2. Hold It Now (Green Mix)
3. Triple Trouble (Green Mix)
4. Hey Ladies (Green Mix)
5. Shake Your Rump (Green Mix)
6. Open Letter To NY (Green Mix)
7. So Whatcha Want (Green Mix)
8. Pass The Mic (Green Mix)
9. Paul Revere '04 - Busta Rhymes f. Labba & DJ Green Lantern
10. Rhyme The Rhyme Well (Green Mix)
11. Sureshot (Green Mix)
12. Body Movin' (Green Mix)
13. Shadrach Interlude
14. No Sleep Til Brooklyn '04 - M.O.P.
15. Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun f. The Notorious B.I.G.
16. The Clipse Freestyle
17. Redman Interlude
18. Intergalactic (Green Mix)
19. Root Down (Green Mix)
20. Check It Out f. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

xp most 90s rap-rock >>> check your head

ha

intergalactic would be sick with chamillionaire on it

it's not a rap album

Why not?

they're rapping has gotten progressively shittier since CYH - altho I've always been surprised by people preferring Ill Communication to CYH, since the former is basically a retread of all the ideas first put forward on the latter.

they're = their gah

nice try (xxp)

i prefer ill communication because it has 'get it together' on it

check your head doesnt have any good songs

get it together is one of the worst songs on ill communication

The 1st Rage album was also '92. Judgement Night soundtrack was soon after.

that's JUDGMENT NIGHT

man what an abortion of a sdtk that is

Well just saying, dont blame Beastie Boys for shitty rap-rock

funk flex used to play get it together back in 94

nice try (xxp)

Nice try ... what? Are you high?

Actually I can't remember any lyrics from CYH, mostly snatches of beats. I like the drum break in Pow!.

it's not a rap album

-- gabbneb, Friday, May 25, 2007 5:00 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

is this like your imaginary snob distinction between 'humor' and 'comedy'??

i'm not an imaginary snob! it's a punk-rocktropicalismo album.

Some Old Bullshit, all the way!

(I love 'Egg Raid on Mojo'.)

check your head doesnt have any good songs

uh, "professor booty"?

So Whatcha Want is on Check Your Head, and if you think that's a bad song, you are wrong.

i'm not an imaginary snob! it's a punk-rocktropicalismo album.

It's still a good rap album though.

here's that hello nasty thread, deja vu style

Does anyone still care about The Beastie Boys?

hello nasty lyric haterz are crazy. so many great lines on that album.

keep on rappin cuz that's my dream
got an A from kool moe dee for sticking to themes

that green lantern mixtape is still pretty hot

i voted for paul's. still as good as it ever was.

Ill Comms, tho its close between the first four. i as 18 when ill comms came out tho, and it ruled my world for a month or so, so...

i could probably recite all four of those albums off the top of my head. i remember during driving lessons, i would get lines from Nation Of Millions stuck in my head.

in my head i think i prolly only really like the first two, but looking at them all again, i got time for the first four. i dunno about raprock, i think 89-94 they kinda remind me more of st etienne than anything else

has to be ill communication, the title song of which plays in my head a few times a day every day even though I haven't really listened to the album in years

ill comms here. it was the first one i heard and it changed my life.

Hello Nasty was my favourite album of '98, caned it. The Lee Perry track still makes me laugh.

Licensed To Ill, over Paul's Boutique. I've never understood why anybody cares about any albums they did after that. (Though I do understand why people care about "Rock Hard," "She's On It," "Cookie Puss," etc. Not the early hardcore stuff, though.)

this isnt really apposite to the beastie boys as such but i think it kind of reminds me of something. chuck, would you characterize your music taste as jerky or jagged? it definitely seems to be the defining character of what you like. you dont seem to be a fan of languid things particularly?

or on the other hand maybe you bust out the deodato when you're off duty

Um...maybe? (I dunno, I'm sure a couple people have called me a jerk before. And given the choice, yeah, there's almost definitely more jagged than languid on my shelf. But I doubt it characterizes most of my listening.)

xhuxk likes to dance

Paul's Boutique (along with De La Soul's "3 Feet High and Rising", I suppose) took rap in a totally new direction and showed everyone it could be more than just simple drum beats and James Brown samples. It was such a complex and arty album, that I've seen it called "the Sgt. Pepper's of rap" (whether that's a fair comparison or not is up for debate).

check your head = greatest rap album ever.

but PB=best Beasties album.

1989 De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising Tommy BoyRap

Ah, sorry, not what I meant to post at all - ignore that.

check your head is the worst, though i havent heard that last one

-- and what, Friday, May 25, 2007 4:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

WHAT u are mental!

i like them all in their own way. licensed to ill is a bit hard to listen to though, the production is very trebly and every so often the snare sounds actually hurt my head. it's a fun album though. paul's boutique is unlike any other record ever - totally deep and intricate and the absolute opposite of licensed and sounds fresh even today. check your head? well i heard it after the instrumental "the in sound from way out" which was a shame because knowing half the tracks already kinda split up that album for me at the time but i listened to it the other day and it canes. ill communication honestly blew my mind when i first heard it - rap, punk, funk, jazz - everything. like blueski, hello nasty summed up the whole of 1998 and was THE soundtrack of my year. incredible and underrated record. i can allow the 5 boroughs. quite shitty as far as things go, although i am interested in this new album they're going to release.

I voted Paul's Boutique

I love 90% of their stuff. It still sounds fresh when played at a party.

Cool results. CYH haters can eat it. :)

Everybody's rappin' like it's a commercial
Acting like life is a big commercial

To the 5 Boroughs 0

lol

"Stuck up your ass is an electrician". They don't write rhymes like that anymore.

I got busted at Mardi Gras for jumpin off a float

"We went into the studio and we did the song 'Cookie Puss' as a joke. We were making fun of Malcolm McLaren and the whole downtown art scene that was exploiting hip-hop" - Adam Yauch, 1987

"I am not sure if the Beastieland tapes still exist, but it is quite possible that there are still cassettes of it. I myself had the masters at one time as well as cassette copies. At the moment, I can't even remember any of the other song titles, but I know the concept very, very, very well. You know that picture of the band skipping hand in hand across the cover of the Cooky Puss picture sleeve? That was shot in New York's Washington Square Park. It was one photo from a fairly large series which were taken for what was going to be the first full length Beastie Boys album on Ratcage Records, with Polly Wog Stew having on been an EP. It was going to be a major affair. The name of the finished LP was going to be Beastieland. The packaging was going to feature a gatefold sleeve and a game. The game was designed somewhat along the line as the popular children's boardgame Candyland, but with all the downtown spots featured in it. The concept of the LP was all the band's idea. It was very clever and cool and the songs were a considerable departure from the Polly Wog Stew, but carried that same sense of humor as a one can tell by listening to Cookie Puss." - Dave Parsons, 2002

I gave Hello Nasty a few spins over the weekend. Back in 98 I quite liked it, but thought it tried to do too much; it's actually pretty wicked, nine years later, isn't it? There's a lot of variety, obviously, maybe too much, and too long too, but there's a lot of... heart in it? It's quite a sensitive record. Very... 'musical' too. Not quite 'Geir-friendly' but a lot of tracks don't rely on beat & shout. I enjoyed it more than I ever did at the time.

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The Beastie Boys audiobook is their best album.

Hello Nasty is not better than Ill Communication or even close to as good, the problem is that only 40 to 58 people voting in this poll had any sense

I think Hello Nasty is their best album

Ad Rock makes a sincere case for Hello Nasty as their best in the new book.

yes but he is still wrong

I really like Hello Nasty and the rhymes are a blast but i still think it's only their fifth best. PB is an endlessly fun listen, and it's maybe the best NYC album ever, while HN gets to feel a little stiff after awhile.

Artists are often the worst judges of their own work.

I get that he had the best time making it and it was where all of their various approaches coalesced into a coherent whole but at the same time the songs just aren't as good imo, it felt predictable in a way the first three albums def were not.