Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

Paul's Boutique
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Artist: Beastie Boys
Edition: Music CD
Published: 1989
CD Release Date: 1989-07-19
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
  1. To All The Girls
  2. Shake Your Rump
  3. Johnny Ryall
  4. Egg Man
  5. High Plains Drifter
  6. The Sound Of Science
  7. 3-Minute Rule
  8. Hey Ladies
  9. 5-Piece Chicken Dinner
  10. Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun
  11. Car Thief
  12. What Comes Around
  13. Shadrach
  14. Ask For Janice
  15. B-Boy Bouillabaisse

Free Music Notes for Paul's Boutique

Free Music Review: A genre-busting masterpiece. It doesn't get any better than this.
Hit: 5 Stars

You can't have a "10 Greatest Rap Albums Of All-Time" list without including this one. It's one of those albums that you hated the first time you heard it, but as you listened to it more and more, it began to grow on you, eventually-becoming an addiction you can't shake. I can't go far from home without bringing a copy of this CD. I even go through periods where I'm completely-addicted, listening to it every day, for weeks on end.
Co written/produced by The Beastie Boys and The Dust Brothers, "Paul's Boutique" (Ask For Janice) has more in common with classic rock/pop albums like "Abbey Road" or "Pet Sounds" than your typical rap album. It's a lot like a hip-hop soundscape or a piece of fine art. The Beasties and the Dust Brothers put together a mammoth-sized collection of samples culled from a veritable mountain of funk, soul, and even classic rock and pop references, and used these different musical colors, mixing layer upon layer together with some of the greatest rhymes ever heard in rap ("I'm throwin' up signs like Dolomite!"), to paint a hip-hop masterpiece of infinite proportions. "Paul's Boutique" is one of the last great rap albums (like Public Enemy's "It Takes A Nation Of Millions...") recorded before the rules changed regarding sampling. Back then, rap artists had free-reign to sample whatever music they wanted, and the Beastie Boys left no musical stone unturned. This album is LOADED with samples from all sorts of classic artists such as the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, and other classic rock/pop bands, along with funk and soul artists like James Brown and the Meters (WAY-too much to really go into any kind of detail). Trust me, if you are one of the few people left on earth who hasn't experienced the genius of this classic album, then do yourself a huge favor and buy the CD. Take it home, do whatever you have to do to "relax", play this CD through a fine-sounding home stereo, and sit back and close your eyes. I assure you, you won't be disappointed. This one's a keeper.
(By the way, if this CD seems to be a bit on the quiet side, that's because it was mastered long before the days of "brickwalling" (Nowadays, engineers use mastering compression to push the volume to the limit, at the expense of dynamics). Back in '89, dynamics were still considered an important thing in music, so if it's not loud enough, then turn it up)

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After the out-of-nowhere success of Licensed to Ill, the Beasties had to prove they were more than one-album wonders, and they hit it out of the park with this follow-up. The Boys' lyrics are a hysterical deluge of cultural allusion (Ponce De Leon, Sadaharu Oh, and Love Connection's Chuck Woolery all get name-dropped), compressed wordplay, and adenoidal snottiness, but the real stars are the Dust Brothers, whose production is a hip-hop landmark. Their music tracks sound like the history of rock and funk radio boiled down to a pure concentrate--monster jams built out of thousands of unexpected samples (Johnny Cash! The Sweet!). It's a killer party album, kinetic and dense, and it never slows down. --Douglas Wolk

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