Paul's Boutique Demos

TRACK LISTING GENERAL INFORMATION

CD #1
1. 3-Minute Rule Demo
2. Hello Brooklyn Demo
3. Johnny Ryall (Vocals by Mike D) Demo
4. Johnny Ryall Demo
5. Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun Demo
6. Egg Man Demo
7. Sounds Of Science Demo
8. 33% God Demo
9. Shake Your Rump Demo
10. Car Thief Demo
11. Car Thief (very different) Demo


Title: Paul's Boutique Demos
Date Of Recording: 1989
Length: 1 CD
Source: Digital Encoding
Quality: 100:100 ( )

Product Details

* Audio CD (July 19, 1989)
* Original Release Date: July 25, 1989
* Number of Discs: 1
* Label: Capitol
* Catalog Number: 91743
* ASIN: B000002UUN
* Other Editions: Audio Cassette | LP Record
* Average Customer Review: based on 187 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,409 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
Yesterday: #4,068 in Music

Track Listings

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

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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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67 of 69 people found the following review helpful:
An absolute masterpiece, September 23, 2000
Reviewer: "littleoldme" (Fort Collins, CO United States) - See all my reviews
Every time I listen to this album (and that would be almost every day) I can't help but be awed by one simple thought: by all conventional rules of music, this album is not supposed to work. How many of you could add rhymes like "Tom Thumb/Tom Cushman/or Tom Foolery/date women on TV with the help of Chuck Woolery" over samples of the Commodores AND a cowbell? Can you drop Jean Knight's "Mr. Big Stuff" into a rockabilly groove about a homeless guy? I didn't think so, and it's a testament to the talent of the Beastie Boys and the Dust Brothers that this album not works so well, but that it works at all.

Lyrically, this is probably the most inventive album I've ever heard, as the Beasties will rap about ANYTHING. Pop-culture references include "The Brady Bunch", "The Flintstones", Donald Trump, Humpty Dumpty, Houdini, Ben Franklin, Ponce De Leon, Jack Kerouac, Vincent Van Gogh, Rapunzel, and "Amazing Grace", among others. They're simply hilarious. However, the real highlight of the album is the music, which is unbelievably rich and creative. "Paul's Boutique" contains a mind-numbing **400+** samples, including: Johnny Cash, the Ramones, the Beatles, Isaac Hayes, the Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Chic, Public Enemy, Curtis Mayfield, Bob Marley, the theme from "Psycho", Sly Stone, Alice Cooper, James Brown, and so many more. The samples are layered and used so creatively that they're never simply theft; instead, they create something new out of something old.

"Paul's Boutique" is not just one of the best rap albums of all time, or one of the best "alternative" albums of all time, or one of the best dance albums of all time. It is one of the best albums ever, period. If you don't own it, it needs to be the next CD you buy. ( )