Choice Is Yours Vol. 86: Slippery When Wet vs. License to Ill
Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet (1986)
Vs.
Beastie Boys – License to Ill (1986)
The Game is simple… if only one could exist which would it be? What’s more important… personal relevance, cultural significance, or simply being the better album all other things aside? Choice is yours…
- My Pal the Crook
July 13th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Uh… License to Ill.
July 13th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
1986 party starters!
July 13th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
You seriously can’t live without every hearing Liscence to Ill again? Seriously?? Do you understand how non-stop Slippery When Wet is or are just going to be getting a bunch of people who see this as Beasties vs Bon Jovi and not the two albums pitted against one another?
July 13th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
July 13th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
As undeniably successful and instantly recognizable Bon Jovi’s album is with cuts like “You Give Love a Bad Name” and “Livin’ On a Prayer”…I have to give this one up to Beastie Boys. I did think about this long & hard, but Beastie Boys win for taking sampling to a whole new level in rap & disseminating it to a wider audience. It’s the first full album I heard where I had to work to dissect just what was going on in those cuts. Granted, that’s more Rick Rubin, probably than Beastie Boys…but they built upon that & Paul’s Boutique is a masterpiece of that technique & aesthetic.
Seriously? Check that tracklisting for the sample credits…
And Kerry King from Slayer??
- The artist formerly known as cunei4m
July 13th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
^^ i agree!.
July 13th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Slippery When Wet. Chicks put out more when hearing that album.
July 13th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
^^^Totally.
July 13th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
when you squint your eyes… Bon Jovi kinda looks like a MILF
with that being said
LICENSED TO ILL (without question)
Brass Monkey, Fight For Your Right, Paul Revere, Posse In Effect,
No Sleep Till Brooklyn!!!
This album is WITHOUT A DOUBT one of my favorite debut albums of all time.
I might have chosen Bon Jovi… if I was snorting coke in a trailer park!
July 13th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Licensed to Ill is a record of anthems for cool dudes, Bon Jovi is anthems for weirdos and dads.
I’m no dad.
July 13th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
seriously though… Jon Bon Jovi looks like a MILF
July 13th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
they’re both rad in their own ways. license to ill introduced me to new york so i gotta go with it. however jammin out to jovi while playing tiger-heli at the arcade is a top memory.
July 14th, 2010 at 12:48 am
I really only need “You Give Love a Bad Name,” and even then I could never hear it again and be okay. Licensed to Ill by a a longshot.
July 14th, 2010 at 10:48 am
definitely would be a happier person if I never heard Bon Jovi at ALL!
License to Ill had a way better influence on music.
What did Bon Jovi inspire, feathered pubes?
July 14th, 2010 at 11:27 am
Bon Jovi inspired Rock ‘N Roll sl00ts and that’s A-OK in my book!
July 14th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
I got both from my grandma along with a Sony ghetto blaster for my 15th birthday. True story.
July 15th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Worst choice is yours battle ever. Might be time to put this puppy out of its misery. I wont even dignify it with a choice
July 15th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Ok dude… take the stick out of your ass maybe? Life’s more fun that way.
July 15th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
I really don’t understand how this is supposed to be so lopsided toward the Beasties. For me, the standout track—by a mile—on both albums is ‘Wanted…Dead or Alive’. I think that in order to truly pit these albums against each other, you really only need ‘Wanted…’ vs. ‘Paul Revere’.
And! As endearing and party-starting as the latter is, the former takes the cake, as it likely generated more royalties on it’s own than Licensed to Ill, Paul’s Boutique, and Check Your Head’ combined.
I grew up listening to Slippery When Wet…and I think that’s what does it for me. I was COMPLETELY uncool in 1986, so I was at the mercy of whatever MTV fed me. As such, BJ gets my nostalgia vote AND my actual vote.
@Danny Boy: You’ve got it wrong. This is one of the BEST ones.
Rock Sluts.
July 15th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Here here Hateball. Anyone who can’t look past “Bon Jovi” of today and listen to Slippery When Wet and just accept it as a great fucking rock album, i feel really really sad for.
The thing is just non-stop balls to the wall fun… much like Lisence to Ill. Yeah yeah, we all know the Beasties are the cooler band and will earn you all the scene points you desire. But lets step into a vacuum here for a minute where all things are equal. If you truly can’t see why this is a fair match-up and in now way lopsided, you have some growing up to do.
Hating on Bon Jovi or rather Slippery When Wet is like when people hate on AC/DC. Really?? Really? Come on.
Bon Jovi were the hair metal Springsteen and what’s not to love about that?
July 18th, 2010 at 10:07 am
Looks like I touched a nerve. I doubt Bon Jovi even wrote there own songs. It was probably handed to them on a silver platter. All they had to was grow there hair out and learn two chords. Also the Beasties were super talented and original(playing there own instruments!!). Bon jovi not so much and definetly not in the realm of Springsteen. Too many nostalgia points for Bon Jovi just because @Crook and @Hateball both lost there virginity to Livin on a Prayer.
July 18th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
1) Jon Bon Jovi & Richie Sambora write all of Bon Jovi’s songs. Who doesn’t know that? They’re not Shakira over here… And even if they didn’t “write the songs” how does that make this album any less enjoyable?
2) License to Ill is what the Beastie’s 4the best album? And play their own instrument??? They didn’t touch a single instrument on that album. It’s a fun party starter of an album, nothing more.
3) Both Hateball and I are too young to have lost our virginity to anything off of Slippery When Wet. I was 8 when album cam out.
4) You didn’t strike a nerve, you just don’t capable of backing up or arguing a point. I also don’t think you have any clue what these posts are about. This isn’t who’s better: Beasties or Bonjovi!?Ots solely between these two albums, something you’re clearly not grasping I’m afraid.