The Pagemeister Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique Reissued by Kate Harper (CHARTattack) Beastie Boys will reissue 1989's Paul's Boutique on Feb. 10 to celebrate its 20th anniversary, but you can download it now from their website. The download costs $11.99 U.S., but you can also buy a deluxe edition with five music videos and an album commentary from Mike "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz and Adam "MCA" Yauch. If you'd just rather download the commentary for free, you can do that here. You can also order the album on CD or 180-gram vinyl, and both formats will come with the download. If you're a Beastie Boys super-fan, $129.99 will get you a commemorative package that includes the album on CD, vinyl and as a download, a T-shirt and a limited-edition eight-foot poster of Paul's Boutique's fold-out cover art. In case you forgot what they sound like, you can hear Paul's Boutique tracks "Shake Your Rump," "Hey Ladies," "Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun" and "Shadrach" on the Beastie Boys' MySpace page. The Beastie Boys had been written off as a joke when they released Paul's Boutique. MCA described the album as "a record with no fucking single" in 1988. It received critical acclaim for its use of more than 100 song samples. Paul's Boutique is widely considered the Beastie Boys' finest album, and Blender, Rolling Stone and Time consider it one of the best ever. You might be able to see the Beastie Boys perform songs from Paul's Boutique when they headline a day at this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 That is one hell of an album. I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 That is one hell of an album. I love it. Yes it is. Hello Nasty is pretty good too. Bit different but I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JethroTull Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 The Beastie Boys were the final nail in my musical coffin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 The Beastie Boys were the final nail in my musical coffin. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JethroTull Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Why? It made me feel old and I couldn't relate. Plus I was pissed off. Although I'm only familiar with the MTV videos, several articles I read compared them to my heroes, The Dictators, who sang about and celebrated junk culture years before, but never attained near the status. To me the only similarity was that both bands were comprised of jewish musicians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 It made me feel old and I couldn't relate. Plus I was pissed off. Although I'm only familiar with the MTV videos, several articles I read compared them to my heroes, The Dictators, who sang about and celebrated junk culture years before, but never attained near the status. To me the only similarity was that both bands were comprised of jewish musicians. You should check out some of their albums. Don't know how they made you feel old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfman Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 By far, my fave album by them. To really appreciate this cd, you must listen to it with headphones. There's a lot of little things you'll miss otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docron Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 The Beasties are the shit. Innovative, period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 They did have a little help from the Dust Brothers. But yeah, I liked the Beasties from the start...saw them open for Madonna in ummm, was it 1985? 1986? To be honest, they were a little rough and raggedy then...you couldn't tell that they were about to become huge. Little girls and their mums in the crowd didn't know what hit them, haha. A bit like when Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees. When Licensed to Ill dropped, it was pandemonium. Awesome Hollywood Palladium show with Fishbone in 1987 and with Run DMC at the Greek for 4 nights...beer all over the stage with all the boys slipping and sliding on the stuff...just wild and crazy hedonistic good-time party shows. Good times, man. One of the few rap acts that could deliver the goods live in concert. And if they made you feel old, then you probably were old, hehehe. What clinched the deal, though, was when they delivered "Paul's Boutique"...just an amazing platter from start to finish, and not what most people were expecting for the follow-up to "Licensed to Ill", especially their record company, Capitol. Which is why it didn't sell that well. But like the Velvet Underground, the people who did buy it were the right ones, and the influence of "Paul's Boutique" spread far and wide. There's an interesting site that annotated the lyrics to "Paul's Boutique"...here it is: Paul's Boutique annotated lyrics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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