the beastie boys sample heavy 1989 album "paul's boutique."
crap/not crap?
album: paul s boutique
2I'm 30 and from New Zealand... it's against the law not to like the Beastie Boys... but I only really like this one and the two after, and even then only really Check Your Head.
NC lots of WF
NC lots of WF
album: paul s boutique
3It's an absolute masterpiece...rap should have stopped after Paul's Boutique was released. With the exception of Wu Tang/RZA
album: paul s boutique
7pretty amazing. right up there with de la soul's '3 ft high and rising' as far as intricate sampling work. matt dike & the dust brothers did a stellar job - all of those loops were tape-based. once they got a decent match between two loops, the recorded match would then be dumped down. totally ridiculous in this age of ableton and one-click timestretching.
not crap at all.
not crap at all.
album: paul s boutique
8One of my favorite albums ever.
Not only is it a headphone warrior album, it's a nice lyrical onion.
The next time they did a record even close to this good is Hello Nasty.
Also, if you were a college student in NY, you got issued a copy of this with your little "welcome to college" kit.
Well, it seemed like it, anyhow.
Not only is it a headphone warrior album, it's a nice lyrical onion.
The next time they did a record even close to this good is Hello Nasty.
Also, if you were a college student in NY, you got issued a copy of this with your little "welcome to college" kit.
Well, it seemed like it, anyhow.
album: paul s boutique
9Beastie Boys
NOT CRAP 57% [ 32 ]
Paul's Boutique: Crap/Not Crap.
Crap. 60% [ 6 ]
How this is possible is beyond me. I would consider the Beastie Boys waaaay crap on the whole (everything after Pauls bores me, and I don't listen to Ill that much) but Pauls is one of my favorite records ever and I couldn't imagine someone who even slightly likes hip hop disliking it.
People like to point to the production on the record and say its greatness is attributable to the Dust Brothers alone. This is balls. I don't know how much the Beasties collaborated on the beats for this one, but even assuming they had nothing to do with it, they were also at the top of their game musically on this one. Their lyrics went from anthemic and childish (Ill and previous) to hilarious, witty, and marvelously delivered. They never performed as well as on Pauls lyrically -- there was the dip in the boring socially conscious Buddha period, then the half-n-half return to form with Hello Nasty and finally To the Five Boroughs (which I haven't heard). Pauls is the shit, through and through.
Not crap. BUT... I can imagine voting crap if you only heard it after all the hype and didn't give it much of a chance. I remember being totally underwhelmed the first time I listened to it, if only because I was expecting it to be a colossal wall of sound and it seemed so bare and simplistic. Of course now I don't know how they managed to fit so many samples in one place.
NOT CRAP 57% [ 32 ]
Paul's Boutique: Crap/Not Crap.
Crap. 60% [ 6 ]
How this is possible is beyond me. I would consider the Beastie Boys waaaay crap on the whole (everything after Pauls bores me, and I don't listen to Ill that much) but Pauls is one of my favorite records ever and I couldn't imagine someone who even slightly likes hip hop disliking it.
People like to point to the production on the record and say its greatness is attributable to the Dust Brothers alone. This is balls. I don't know how much the Beasties collaborated on the beats for this one, but even assuming they had nothing to do with it, they were also at the top of their game musically on this one. Their lyrics went from anthemic and childish (Ill and previous) to hilarious, witty, and marvelously delivered. They never performed as well as on Pauls lyrically -- there was the dip in the boring socially conscious Buddha period, then the half-n-half return to form with Hello Nasty and finally To the Five Boroughs (which I haven't heard). Pauls is the shit, through and through.
Not crap. BUT... I can imagine voting crap if you only heard it after all the hype and didn't give it much of a chance. I remember being totally underwhelmed the first time I listened to it, if only because I was expecting it to be a colossal wall of sound and it seemed so bare and simplistic. Of course now I don't know how they managed to fit so many samples in one place.
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album: paul s boutique
10The production is pretty cool, but the rapping grates on my nerves.
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