Favorite Yauch Joint?

[Bernard Goetz]

Think I got 'em all there...

[JoLovesMCA]

Damn that's hard but I voted. ;)

[Nicodemus]

Does DRUM MACHINE count, or was that just a side project with that Burzootie person?

[JoLovesMCA]

Does DRUM MACHINE count, or was that just a side project with that Burzootie person?

If you count Drum Machine then I will definitely change my vote!

I must add, not sure how many fans like the very early Beastie era but they sounded so seasoned and fresh in those songs. Drum Machine is pretty amazing!

[Micodin]

A Year And A Day.

Fast tempo raps on sick breakbeats.

[beasties#1fan]

Does DRUM MACHINE count, or was that just a side project with that Burzootie person?
i would say thats a side project, cause then you would have to add "rock this", "suspicion" etc.

[Turchinator]

the bodhisattva path is one of power and strength

[dave790]

Stand Together, though I do like 21 Questions.

[cj hood]

MCA & Burzootie or that dance track from '85...take me out!

[rhymesayer211]

Nothing beats Yauch's verse in Prof Booty but with this list the Vow has it in my book

[Kid Presentable]

Namaste doesn't really qualify, surely?

Anyway, Year and a Day. Stand Together is a close second since he played the guitar on that. And Resoultion Time has been a long-time personal favourite also.

[JoLovesMCA]

Nothing beats Yauch's verse in Prof Booty but with this list the Vow has it in my book

Yeah this could easily go off topic because I immediately thought about Prof Booty.... but if it's just for Beastie Boys song solos then Flowin Prose is my pick.

[Bernard Goetz]

Namaste doesn't really qualify, surely?

I don't see why not - he's not rapping, but like all the others it's just his vocals through the whole thing.

[Brother McDuff]

I don't see why not - he's not rapping, but like all the others it's just his vocals through the whole thing.


word. totally qualifies. (y)



p.s. glad to see 'I Dont Know' collecting some votes. underrated in my opinion.

[Kid Presentable]

I don't see why not - he's not rapping, but like all the others it's just his vocals through the whole thing.

But it's not like he does vocals at all on the live version on 'Sabotage'. And it's his vocal on Lighten Up also but that's missing. And on the same token you'd have to include To All The Girls for being pretty much the same type of thing as Namaste. Just saying; there's vocals and then there's vocals.

[MCScoobyT]

But it's not like he does vocals at all on the live version on 'Sabotage'. And it's his vocal on Lighten Up also but that's missing. And on the same token you'd have to include To All The Girls for being pretty much the same type of thing as Namaste. Just saying; there's vocals and then there's vocals.

Shit I'm voting for 'To All The Girls' then, it fucking book ends their best LP!

[Micodin]

Ha. It's funny how a nice attempt at a little pole gets picked apart by what's considered a song, solo, side project, etc. Christ. No one can be content.

Just vote you fucking slags. Stop the whinging.

Sheesh.

[pm0ney]

Year and a Day.

[beasties#1fan]

Just vote you fucking slags.


what a sweetie pie:)

[Kid Presentable]

I was just saying; it's neither here nor there. Not like there's much else to talk about.

[fonky pizza]

Gratitude:cool:

[dirtydan11]

year and a day had to get my vote, but it was stand together and the update fighting for it. can't believe the update is getting no votes

[Kid Presentable]

Gratitude:cool:
(y)

[Bernard Goetz]

But it's not like he does vocals at all on the live version on 'Sabotage'. And it's his vocal on Lighten Up also but that's missing. And on the same token you'd have to include To All The Girls for being pretty much the same type of thing as Namaste. Just saying; there's vocals and then there's vocals.

I thought about Lighten Up - but I do believe the others say stuff in it..."shine like the sun" plus I don't think he's the only one saying "lighten up, gotta lighten up..."

To All The Girls is a legit option - I realized I forgot it after it was too late.

I don't get the Sabotage reference.

[MCScoobyT]

Add To all the Girls and Lighten Up and you have a noice, weird little mellow album worth of tracks.

Making a playlist right now, I just have to figure out the right track flow for sequencing.

[cj hood]

YINAD and Stand Together

[Brother McDuff]

But it's not like he does vocals at all on the live version on 'Sabotage'. And it's his vocal on Lighten Up also but that's missing. And on the same token you'd have to include To All The Girls for being pretty much the same type of thing as Namaste. Just saying; there's vocals and then there's vocals.

I'm going to have to disagree. 'Namaste' is more of a poem, whereas 'To All The Girls' is a straight up novelty. One is artsy and philosophical, the other is goofy and flippant.

[JoLovesMCA]

So Year and a Day and Stand Together have the top votes. (y) It’s interesting being such a big Yauch fan and Stand Together is one of my least favorite B-boy tracks! I decided to list them from most favorite to least. Another cool thing I found out about I Don't Know is that many young folks are making their own youtube videos singing or playing the music to that song. That song could be used for so much more... it's a hidden gem!

Flowin Prose
The Update
I Don't Know
Resolution Time
Bodhisattva Vow
Stand Together
A Year And A Day
Namasté

edit: glad to see I don't know get a vote! ON MCA doing it all, not sure. All I know is that he mentioned the idea came to him when he was in the studio.. I know they hired those musicians to play on it too soo...

[Guy Incognito]

I voted for I dont know. Why?

I dont know.

What i mean is i really love that song, its one of my all time favourite songs, let alone favourite bboys songs. It means a lot to me but i havent really thought of it belonging to Yauch, obviously i can hear his influence sure but i just love it cos its great not thru anybody's contribution to it.

(Is this where someone tells me MCA did everything on that track?)

[dave790]

I thought about Lighten Up - but I do believe the others say stuff in it..."shine like the sun" plus I don't think he's the only one saying "lighten up, gotta lighten up..."

To All The Girls is a legit option - I realized I forgot it after it was too late.

I don't get the Sabotage reference.

I think Yauch joint should be either Yauch rapping alone or singing alone. Namaste is basically an instrumental with a softly spoken poem over the top. I can see the difference.

That said I wouldn't include Lighten Up as it seems like more of a 'band' effort. Incidentally, I think the 'Shine like the Sun' line is a sample.

In any case, it's all up for debate. Sabotage is a good case in point. It's Adrock on lead vocals throughout, but it would be weird to call it an 'Adrock joint.'

In any case, as KP put it, there is really isn't much else to talk about... I always found it interesting to read in the Anthology booklet how vocals were decided. Some of those Yauch cuts are obviously his lyrics throughout, and sometimes the style i.e. the bossanova shit, seems to come from his inspiration. He also gets far more 'solo' turns than the others... In any case, I'll stick with Stand Together. Worked very nicely as an opener in unison with the others too.

[LuciferHam]

A Year For A Day was for me a highlight of not just Yauch's solo vocal tracks but of the whole of Paul's Boutique. And probably their whole catalogue. So it gets the vote for me.

[Kid Presentable]

I thought about Lighten Up - but I do believe the others say stuff in it..."shine like the sun" plus I don't think he's the only one saying "lighten up, gotta lighten up..."

To All The Girls is a legit option - I realized I forgot it after it was too late.

I don't get the Sabotage reference.

It's all good. On the Sabotage VHS there's a live version of Namaste, played as a straight instrumental (minus some Hurra adlibs). It's dope. There would be no way he would or could do the 'poem' and play uprights to a reasonable standard, hence why I've never considered it a Yauch joint. The other tracks, he could probably perform as recorded.

You'll also note they stripped the vocal off Namaste on In Sound (and I can concede they did the same with Lighten Up if I recall correctly). Again, just saying.

I know it's too nerdy a point for its own good (and I apologise, this is how I kill time - I like this band but I'm an appalling geek), but I hope it's at least based in some form of reason and not just disagreeing for the sake of it with flimsy subjective counter-points.

[Guy Incognito]

A year and a day would have been awesome whoever vocalized it. because of the sample, its all about the sample.

[Micodin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEbVuO3Or5E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ksapf6YUug

That is it.

[fonky pizza]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEbVuO3Or5E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ksapf6YUug

That is it.

YES!!! Thanks for those live versions, never heard before!

My all time favorite Paul's Boutique Yauch joint!!!!!!!(y)

[fonky pizza]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEbVuO3Or5E

The posters are terrible on that one...I have a few but someone hook me up with the Bruce Lee one!!!!!:p(y)

[Bernard Goetz]

I know it's too nerdy a point for its own good (and I apologise, this is how I kill time - I like this band but I'm an appalling geek), but I hope it's at least based in some form of reason and not just disagreeing for the sake of it with flimsy subjective counter-points.

(y)

[Bernard Goetz]

Bumping this one - maybe more votes will come in.
(Weird that I had to Google to find it -- this forum only goes back through four pages of threads)

[YoungRemy]

thanks for the bump. I added I Dont Know. but that's just because of the circumstances.

p.s you can go way back if you go down to Display Options, "Sort By"-Last Post Time, "From The" -Beginning

[MCAadROCKMiKEd7]

I've listened to "a year and a day" up to 12 times in a row sometimes. Tried so hard to learn all the lyrics myself but it was hard so I looked it up, I then loved listening to it flow knowing it word for word.

[beasties#1fan]

what a sweetie pie:)
hahaha i crack myself up..

[beasties#1fan]

I've listened to "a year and a day" up to 12 times in a row sometimes. Tried so hard to learn all the lyrics myself but it was hard so I looked it up, I then loved listening to it flow knowing it word for word.
it is hard to understand him!!! its the mic

[MCScoobyT]

I made a MCA mixtape... download it after the jump http://bbs.beastieboys.com/showpost.php?p=1785176&postcount=45

[MCAadROCKMiKEd7]

hahaha i crack myself up..

Hahahahahahaha

[benchillin]

yea, i think it was the professor booty lyrics that really made me start paying attention to his flow and skill back in the day.


nice thread.

[laurie_hammy]

Nothing beats Yauch's verse in Prof Booty but with this list the Vow has it in my book

Yes ! And also hos 3-Minute rule verse.

[benchillin]

A Year And A Day by a mudslide...

[Gabriely]

I dont know - first song I heard when I found out about Yauch :(

[benchillin]

thats a great song, i am going to put on hello nasty after i finish Gimme Shelter Benefit

[Billy Corbitt]

(lb)(lb) I found the compolation cd that we were allowed to make thru beastie boys right about the time or before the anthlogy was being released, and i rediscovered this Yauch joint:

Beastie Boys-Resolution Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTr8oZ4p9rA


Actin' like the last generation on earth
You're gonna fuck up a place for new birth
You're cutting the last of the forests on the planet
Only a few hundred years since Columbus landed
Well it's due time that we look and pay attention
As the windows who knows show the knowledge with us
'Cause it's the one that we prayed for, from on the earth
I give the wisdom to folks, you know whole worth
In these great times we still neglect
When they invent this land, don't give the due respect
'Cause the FBI and the CIA
The whole federal government, the FDA
Well, the system doesn’t work and it must be changed
And there's more people in the pen everyday
So I visualize resolution
Yo, everyday is in a state of evolution

Evolution time
Evolution time
Revolution time
Revolution time
Revelation time
Revelation time
Resolution time
Resolution

We come a long way with the peace in the East
But on the home front, they're wild in the streets
As it gets got hear a changing in same
And this is the Millennium still felt today
I hear the same stories time after time
The stories of fear, through violent crimes
Committed by hatred by satient beings
Who shall loose by kindness and it's plain to see
Now we don't have to stand for this oppression any longer
If we stand together, there's nothing stronger
We must interconnect it as though we sure have won
If we want to avoid planetary destruction
So I work and I work because the hate in my mind
Has assumed the truth and I know I'll find
And I visualize resolution
See it all as a state of constant evolution

Evolution time
Evolution time
Revolution time
Revolution time
Revelation time
Revelation time
Resolution time
Resolution

The world leaders were terrified of loosing their pride
Their spoiled children tellin' little wack lies
Vanishing numbers of unimaginable destruction
Sure as we boast they're at their last production
Threatening and challenging nature against nation
Walkin' down the road of total annihilation
Sprouting threats is insecure
Guns are for the fighting and they're immature
And it all stems from self-important police
Thinking that we're better than our fellow human beings
So I wanna empower the limit I can
And pass it along so we can do pass the pan
Some times I sit and I watch my mind
Watchin' my thoughts as they reel and wind
And stop and visualize resolution
For everyday is in a state of evolution

Evolution time
Evolution time
Revolution time
Revolution time
Revelation time
Revelation time
Resolution time
Resolution

[Kid Presentable]

^ The transcription is wrong. But yeah, I used to call my local university radio station pretty much every weekend when I was 14 and ask them to play Resolution Time, as there was no way for me to get the CD single it came on way down in NZ. I fucking loved it. Still do. (y)

[fonky pizza]

"Che cazzo fai? Come stai?"

[Friis gal]

I have given The Update some love.

To me it's just so much Yauch and what I love about him - and then with the mic effects it just gets better :)

[Brass Monk]

MCA on "The Scenario" , his 2nd recitation of the same verse.
So ill when he says "Smoke my crack and sayin' my rhymes/Count my bank just to pass the time!"

and

"Shot homeboy in his fuckin' face!"

*cue the prudes on this board that will be personally offended for appreciating an un-PC Beastie Boys lyric.

In any case, I'm off to Japan now for 2 weeks. I will be actively searching for Japanese Beastie Boys merchandise. I'll try to post a pic if I find something particularly unique.

[Brass Monk]

Back from Japan. I found a lot of Beastie merchandise but nothing particularly Japanese or anything I couldn't get in the States. But interestingly enough the 1st day I was there I flipped on the TV and heard a snippet of "Girls" during some commercial for a TV show (I think it was some sort of game show).

[bigfatlove06]

Add To all the Girls and Lighten Up and you have a noice, weird little mellow album worth of tracks.

Making a playlist right now, I just have to figure out the right track flow for sequencing.

You, sir, got idea jacked. Here (http://www.ebay.com/itm/BEASTIE-BOYS-Adam-Yauch-MCA-Tribute-LP-NEW-VINYL-colored-wax-/190703749807?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item2c66d44aaf)

[MIKEtotheD]

You, sir, got idea jacked. Here (http://www.ebay.com/itm/BEASTIE-BOYS-Adam-Yauch-MCA-Tribute-LP-NEW-VINYL-colored-wax-/190703749807?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item2c66d44aaf)

Did anyone else notice "Yaunch" on the cover?
Fail.

[bigfatlove06]

I did when I bought one, but it's corrected on the actual cover when I received it.