What's The Most "Unique" B-Boy Track For You?

[Jazz Martian]

They have quite a few that really stand apart from the rest. But the most out of the ordinary one, for me, is definitely Instant Death. It's unlike ANYTHING they've ever made, and to me is they're track that really cuts the deepest to the core for me. For these reasons it's probably my favorite B-Boy song, even though it's not my most listened to track by them.

I once played this track with a friend, with the lyrics showing (largely as it can be tough to hear/understand the lyrics), and he said to me something like "this is you". Amazing song, and I wish they had made more like it, yet at the same time, I'm glad that it's the only one like it.

[Guy Incognito]

I dont know.

cant think of anything remotely similar to that. totally different mood and feel from anything else. I loves it.

[Uru-Nitro]

i'd say "I dont know" too, but maybe you can find "20 questions" a similar style. I also love "instant death", the perfect finish for a perfect album.
Dedication and picture this are tracks that I really feel, but my choice is "sneackin out the hospital". Adrock made an amazing work there (y)

[fatlip]

Dope thread. I would have to say Song for Junior. But it's funny they are all from Hello Nasty so far. I think it's fair to say that all the deep cuts from that album are. Prob why it is my favorite record by them.

[Nicodemus]

The first thing that popped in my head as far as unique was Hail Sagan. Oddly enough, also from the Hello Nasty era. Not a favorite, but definitely unique.

[pesto pizza]

And then I
its style of hip hop and rapping flow is almost house and very unique for the b-boys.
I wish it was on the tt5b album with brr stick em, they are much better cuts than - we go the...

[pm0ney]

No artist in history has ever made a song that sounds like Jimmy James so I'm going to say that. Oh, it also happens to be my all time favorite Beastie track.

Rock rock rock
Rock on

[Micodin]

I always thought Putting Shame in Your Game sounded out of place on Hello Nasty (in a good way).

From the first listen it instantly became one of my fav Beastie hip-hop songs.

[Brother McDuff]

I dont know.

cant think of anything remotely similar to that. totally different mood and feel from anything else. I loves it.


if you're referring to the song 'i dont know' then i agree. if not then i nominate 'i dont know'. :p

[Lyman Zerga]

instant death, i dont know, dont play no game, flowin prose

[MCScoobyT]

The Lisa Lisa/Full Force Routine

[Jay Stone]

I've always thought B-Boys Makin' With the Freak-Freak was some ill shit

[Brother McDuff]

I've always thought B-Boys Makin' With the Freak-Freak was some ill shit

because it most certainly is, friend

[beasties#1fan]

I've always thought B-Boys Makin' With the Freak-Freak was some ill shit

good choice for unique-ness

[Guy Incognito]

if you're referring to the song 'i dont know' then i agree. if not then i nominate 'i dont know'. :p

yeah, i struggled with that post. i meant the song. its so different. but i suppose its similar to some of the mix up stuff with the band feel but it strikes me that the song just came to them in a jam but i dont think they have produced anything else with vocals like it before or since

[Brother McDuff]

yeah, i struggled with that post. i meant the song. its so different. but i suppose its similar to some of the mix up stuff with the band feel but it strikes me that the song just came to them in a jam but i dont think they have produced anything else with vocals like it before or since

wow, i never realized how much of a mix-up sound that song had, sans the vocals of course. especially the drums. its like TMU's missing ballad. the string arrangement on 'i dont know' is insanely beautiful. i also like how yauch muffs a bunch of notes, sings out of key, and they didnt bother re-taking it or tuning it. punk rock. (y)

[Jiberish]

Pretty much any of the rap tracks off of Hello Nasty that aren't Intergalactic or Body Movin'.

[fonky pizza]

I heard Freaky Hijiki on a jazz radio station some time ago. It just popped up on my little 80's radio casette player between a jazz tune and another...perfect. The mix up sounds timeless and unique(y)

http://youtu.be/WBDNKaKaJAc

[Bernard Goetz]

First thought: Eugene's Lament. Although that one structurally is in line with a lot of their instrumentals. It's the strings that does it though.

[Jazz Martian]

I'm seeing a lot of stuff off of HN, and for good reason. 'I Don't Know' is another great example of a really unique track by them. So many on that album. While there's also quite a few choices off of CYH and IC, I think there would probably be more from those albums if there weren't other ones on them that are often in the same vein. Plus those albums are basically like Part 1 and Part 2 of the early 90s era. But for sure there's some songs that def stand out from the rest on them.

Oh and to give props, B-Boys Makin' With The Freak Freak deserves credit no doubt. The whole beat and vibe of that song changes up like 5 times, seamlessly. I didn't really even get what they did there, until well after I had listened to it into the ground. It's like they played some sort of Jedi Mind Trick with that one haha.

[JoLovesMCA]

I am going to have to go with OK and Tadlocks. Those two tracks slay my life.

And I do think they are super UNIQUE. :)

[tt5brevisited]

Tadlock's Glasses I guess. Wouldn't mind an album worth of tracks in that vein.

[JohnnyChavello]

Netty's Girl?

[Micodin]

5 Piece Chicken Dinner.

[abbott]

I love the BB because so many unique songs.

Like as a kid I always had a new weekly Beatles or Rolling Stone favorite. I always find a new Beastie Boys favorite.

[abbott]

My BB favorite today is not the same as yesterday.

[Jazz Martian]

5 Piece Chicken Dinner.

You do have an excellent point there, but can we really call that a song haha. It's def a unique interlude for them to have used no doubt!

[beasties#1fan]

5 Piece Chicken Dinner.

get away from the vodka man

[pesto pizza]

the blue nun makes me smile every time

[Jay Stone]

Tadlock's Glasses I guess. Wouldn't mind an album worth of tracks in that vein.

I wish Tadlock's Glasses was longer...

[Brother McDuff]

Tadlock's Glasses I guess. Wouldn't mind an album worth of tracks in that vein.

agreed

[Guy Incognito]

Tadlock's Glasses I guess. Wouldn't mind an album worth of tracks in that vein.

i always thought of that song as being a distant cousin of pass the mic and makin with the freak freak. think thats just the distortion though

[abbott]

Drunken praying mantis

Right now

[Brass Monk]

Some Dumb Cop Gave Me 2 Tickets Already

[facedownfall]

The Scoop
I Don't Know
Instant Death
Drinkin' Wine

[Sir SkratchaLot]

Some Dumb Cop Gave Me 2 Tickets Already

I'm pretty sure that's what MCA would have answered!:D

[Michelle*s_Farm]

Cooky Puss

[Guy Incognito]

actually whilst i think about and i am being a bit mischievous here. FFYR is up there in uniqueness. Sure, some of LTI sounds like it , but lets face it, its still one of their most well known tracks and they spent the next 20 years trying to sound anything like it!

[JohnnyChavello]

We Want You For The Desert Storm

[Mr. Smacktackle]

it's interesting to see b-boys makin' w/ the freak freak being mentioned here several times already as the most unique!

but it can be also said (at the same time) that it's an archetypal beastie song too, right?

it's got everything you can expect from their 90's era. from the bullshit mic sound, the loops of them playing, to the old school and comedy samples. even the lyrics are the usual beastie rap braggadocio.

having said this, i actually also think it's their most unique!
(version with the french intro being preferred)
maybe just because. beacuse it's kinda the core beastie style distilled into one jam that just works perfectly.

[Kid Presentable]

This is a great thread, with great choices. I've been exclusively listening to the Boys this past week and have had opportunity to reflect on the question.

Without a doubt, Hello Nasty was the most experimental era for the group, and they created some ultra unique stuff around this period. Any and all of the choices from that album are good choices (although I'm surprised Dr Lee hasn't been mentioned - or has it?).

What's interesting is that uniqueness works on a continuum. Girls and FFYR are unique in a vaccum, sure. But A Year and a Day was unique for its time, and then the Yauch solo became a welcome staple. Barrel of a Gun and 3 Minute Rule had live bass, which made them unique-ish. But then came CYH.

Time for Livin was unique for its time because all three are playing the music (which sort of only works in hindsight if you consider AWOL wasn't drumming on it) on a hardcore track, let alone the uniqueness of the broader concept of playing live instruments being the unique feature of CYH at that point in things or having a hardcore track on a major label album of theirs and performing hardcore in concert. Which then became somewhat of a staple.

On that, Alive was sort of unique at the time (minimal sampling, restraint compared to Hello Nasty, overtly positive message) and then kind of became the staple for TT5B. In many ways it's the proto-5B.

But I get that it's actual uniqueness, and so accept that I'm just carrying on for no reason. Instant Death is a trip. I consider Electrify to be pretty unique, and underrated at that.

[Guy Incognito]

Hello Nasty is their White Album. i.e just record evrything they write and then work on it as a band.

better cover though.

[abbott]

Boomin granny today

[Jazz Martian]

(version with the french intro being preferred)


For sure. I hadn't heard that version 'til a few years ago, or so. I instantly loved it and it's essentially listening to the edited version, to hear IC without that version on it.

Alive

One of my favorites by them! I love it that one of the local radio stations 'round here played it regularly.

Hello Nasty is their White Album.

No doubt. I think, like "The White Album is with many Beatles fans, it might not be their most listened to Beatles album, or even favorite...but it's generally regarded as probably their best.

Boomin granny today

Like Free Bird, I was waiting for that one :P. No, I can see why one would legitimately throw it up there. Also Netty Girl was thrown out there. Yep that one belongs there as well especially!

[abbott]

In the front

In the back

Kip. Pop. Pow.


Only in my mind. I'll have to review what was really said. Regardless. One of the best