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- smacksaw, on 02/05/2009, -3/+47*****. Paul's Boutique was a flop when it was released. Only hardcore fans and connoisseurs picked that record up. I know, because everyone *I* played it for said it sucked, yet once Check Your Head came out and Paul's got all of the critical acclaim, everyone was like "Oh, wow, it's so great!"
You cannot just condense this story like that. Part of the charm of Paul's Boutique is no almost NO ONE got it. Literally, and figuratively. - anderzole, on 02/04/2009, -3/+26Pretty solid CD with tons of crazy samples. After Pauls Boutique, people had to start paying for samples.. a damn shame.
- roflomg, on 02/05/2009, -1/+23I f'ing love that album. Anyone else?
- level32, on 02/04/2009, -2/+22Dugg for Beastie Boys
http://paulsboutique.beastieboys.com/audiocommenta ... - TheCamino, on 02/05/2009, -0/+19
Unfortunately true about Paul's Boutique.
When I played Paul's Boutique to my friends, they thought it sucked as well, and I thought it was terribly interesting, and mostly, funny, and people weren't getting the level of cultural smartass that was required to actually enjoy the album.
They wanted something more palatable.
As I am a sponge for pop culture, and constantly make references as deep as the Ed Sullivan show, I thought it was clever, and mostly cocky/funny.
Which is what the Beasties really were.
Seriously though, Rick Rubin for the first album, and the Dust Brothers for the second.
Neither of those albums were going to suck, no matter what. - waxcrash, on 02/04/2009, -1/+19Ha ha, I have that album on cassette. Bought it when it first came out. The Dust Brothers made what that album is.
- Senturion, on 02/05/2009, -0/+16One of the most under-appreciated albums of all time.
Good to see Paul's Boutique getting its due.
It's too bad such an album can never be made again due to the ridiculous sampling laws. - sindex, on 02/05/2009, -0/+15Heh... I was coming here to say exactly this. Even Mike D talked about how no one 'got' that album when it came out and the B-Boys faded into near-obscurity. Then Check Your Head landed, people got interested again and YEARS later decided Paul's Boutique was amazing. There's a great video of him taken around the time Hello Nasty came out talking all sarcastic about how people who hated the album years later were like, "Oh it's genius! Brilliant album!"
Although I've always liked it, and really dig the B Boys, I maintain that 60% of the genius of Paul's Boutique is the Dust Brothers brilliant production. You could never make that album today. You'd sample yourself into poverty. - HanSoLow, on 02/05/2009, -0/+13This album changed my life. I used to skateboard out in front of my apartment complex in Las Vegas with a crappy boom box and this tape playing. All the brothers in the area would look at me like I was crazy. They would say they liked Licensed to Ill but they just didn't get Paul's Boutique. It was too busy they would say. This album consistently ends up on every "Best Album Ever Made" list. Glad to see it remastered.
- sindex, on 02/05/2009, -1/+14Mmmm.. it does go well with the wrong album.
- macmcraeart, on 02/05/2009, -1/+14A great album made by a bunch of corny assed Jewish guys from newyork. Oh yeah - ***** the riaa.
- GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 02/05/2009, -0/+12This site: http://paulsboutique.info Is great for answering many of your Paul's Boutique sample questions.
- 1KrazyKorean, on 02/04/2009, -3/+15Awesome, Beastie Boys are the *****
- thetanbark, on 02/05/2009, -0/+10Don't forget this album is available via digital download as DRM-free 320kbit MP3, FLAC and Apple Lossless. Support digital distribution!
http://paulsboutique.beastieboys.com/purchase/inde ... - brownsin07, on 02/05/2009, -0/+10Oh my god thats the funky *****!
- DownIsTheNewUp, on 02/05/2009, -3/+12One of the Beastie Boys sounds exactly like Gilbert Gottfried.
- OuttaLuck, on 02/05/2009, -0/+8Mmm it does go well with the chicken
wrong album :-P - thetanbark, on 02/05/2009, -1/+9Remaster doesn't mean to make it louder and compress the ***** out of it so it sounds like today's music. If you listen to this remaster, everything is more crisp and the bass cleaner and well rounded, all the while preserving the dynamic range of the music. If the music isn't loud enough you USE THE VOLUME KNOB.
- hydroplane, on 02/04/2009, -4/+12It's an epic meditation on intangibility, at the same time it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding album.
- Built4JerzyLinx, on 02/05/2009, -1/+9The Beastie Boys are the definition of what hip hop is and should be today. They weren't concerned with making money or becoming famous, they just love making music. Paul's Boutique was by far their best album and paid tribute to some of the greatest musical acts ever. I'm pretty sure it's the only time when the Beatles were successfully sampled.
- afrobuddha, on 02/05/2009, -0/+7"Hey Ladies!"...best song on that album, loved the video back in the day also.
- readme, on 02/05/2009, -0/+7This album simply could not be made today. It tested the limits of sampling in ways never before thought of in hip-hop. Once you get over the vast array of material sampled (holy *****, did I just hear a one-second drum sample drum Mississippi Queen?!?), you get into the lyrical references in the tracks themselves. There's some crazy ***** it there! Otis the drunk, Suzy the headbanger, Steve McQueen, Patty Duke, El Diario, Ms. Crabtree, etc.
This was my "coming of age" record (yes, I am old). It was heralded as "The Sgt. Peppers of our generation". While I think it fell short in that regard it's always in my top ten album lists. - JollyGoodfellow, on 02/05/2009, -1/+8Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat it.
- HanSoLow, on 02/05/2009, -0/+7The Grey Album by DJ Danger Mouse would beg to differ with the last sentence.
- inactive, on 02/05/2009, -0/+7Is your name Michael Diamond? No, mine's Clarence.
Google Street view of the intersection of Ludlow & Rivington St in Manhattan's Lower East Side:
http://tinyurl.com/ar4tpl - jerrycan, on 02/05/2009, -0/+7I bought this album on vinyl the day it came out. It was a 4 panel foldout with a full panoramic of the intersection where Paul's boutique is.
- PPCG4, on 02/05/2009, -0/+6I would argue that this is one of the best rap albums of all time. I have listened to this album a ridiculous amount of times, and each time, I love it more than the last. This is a classic.
- HanSoLow, on 02/05/2009, -0/+6Can't argue with that.
- ProfessorBooty, on 02/05/2009, -0/+6Hush your mouth. You don't know what you are talking about. That album is historic and precedent setting. The use of sampling in both volume and complexity hadn't been seen in mainstream music up to that point.
Besides it's a freakin' great album. - inactive, on 02/05/2009, -0/+6Very true. They even thought about calling it "Paul's *****".
- slimjim5811, on 02/05/2009, -0/+6I'm doin' 120, plowing over mail boxes.
Radar detector to tell me where the cops is. - mojoel, on 02/05/2009, -0/+6I bought "Paul's Boutique" from the bargain bin around 1991 for $2 and might have listened to it once or twice thru. In the late 90's I saw the "Hey Ladies" video and thought 'Wow this is great, new Beastie Boys' Needless to say, it wasn't new, just years ahead of it's time.
- PhillyOC, on 02/05/2009, -0/+5***** yeah. B-Boys freaking rock. I have (I think) every studio track they ever made loaded into my MP3 player. They are still entertaining as hell all these years later.
- bjs3171, on 02/05/2009, -0/+5I dare you to listen to Car Thief and say that again.
- sindex, on 02/05/2009, -0/+5No, it should be and is 'was.' "The Beastie Boys" refers in this instance to a single entity. Therefore, despite sounding wrong to your ears, 'was,' being the singular form, is correct. Also, they were opening for Madonna before their album dropped and there was a lot of buzz, both good and bad.
- sindex, on 02/05/2009, -0/+5I wish they'd re-release Adrock's BS 2000 stuff. My audio cassette copy is suffering and someone ran off with my vinyl. =(
- LJSeinfeld, on 02/05/2009, -0/+5Paul's Boutique is the best Beastie Boys album ever, way before its time. You need to go back and listen to it. Blows Hello Nasty away. The liner notes read like a who's who of music as well.
Licensed to Ill is a good record too. Unfortunately MTV beat the ***** out of "Fight for Your Right", which is the worst song on there. - beersk, on 02/05/2009, -0/+5I just saw these guys at 9:30 Club in DC on the night of Inauguration. It was the stuff of dreams.
- slimjim5811, on 02/05/2009, -0/+5I play my stereo loud, I disturb my neighbor.
I want to enjoy the fruits of my labor - foot2000, on 02/05/2009, -0/+5I do not Sniff the coke, I only smoke the sensimilla
- foot2000, on 02/05/2009, -0/+5it's on Paul's boutiques too.
Beasties boys are so cool they can sample themselves!! - foot2000, on 02/05/2009, -0/+4Like Fred Flinstone driving around with bald feet!
- inactive, on 02/05/2009, -0/+4The Beastie Boys became a new age legend again after the Songsmith remix.
- colourclassic, on 02/05/2009, -1/+5B-Boy Bouillabaisse would have to be the most sampled out song ever made.
- HanSoLow, on 02/05/2009, -1/+5If you think of it in the sense of the name itself being synonymous with rap then it wouldn't be grammatically challenged. The Beasties were popular on the punk scene before they broke out with Rick Rubin. They were incorporating rap, punk and funk years before License to Ill was released. Besides, are you the grammar police or something? Go do something productive.
- colasrtney, on 02/05/2009, -0/+4This is my favorite Beastie Boys album, and one of the only albums I like start to finish. If you like random stuff, you'll like this.
I play my radio loud, I disturb my neighbors. I want to enjoy the fruits of my labor.
Jethro get away from the bar-b-que!! Jethro get the hell away from there!! - o0joshua0o, on 02/05/2009, -0/+4IMO, the law should be amended to classify samples under a certain duration as "fair use", even if they're used for monetary gain. Probably 3-5 seconds would be reasonable.
Call it the "Freedom of Hip-Hop Act" or something. - inactive, on 02/05/2009, -0/+4Everyone hated this album...people were expecting another "Fight For Your Right" or "Girls" and didn't find it...they got "High Plains Drifter" and "Eggman." Hip-hop heads declared the Beasties' dead. Everyone wrote them off, other than a few hardcore fans.
The B-Boys were smoking dust during the whole production of this album. Paul's Boutique was WAAAAY ahead of its time. I'm going to download it, er, buy the remastered version right now... - Fleagleman, on 02/05/2009, -0/+4Paul's Boutique - The "Sgt. Pepper" for Gen X. I remember listening to that in my 20's almost on a daily basis in a room full of skate punks sitting around a dirty bong on an even dirtier floor.
A week ago, I listened to this album again for the first time in probably 10 years. Still got it. - Schwa142, on 02/05/2009, -0/+4Hello Nasty a "classic"...? wtf is wrong with you?
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