Paul's Boutique

Paul's Boutique
Studio album by Beastie Boys
Publication (s)	July 25, 1989
Label (s)	Capitol Records
Format (s)	LP , CD , MC
Genre (s)	Alternative hip-hop , plunderphonics
Title (number)	13
running time	53:03
occupation	Michael Diamond - MC Adam Horovitz - MC Adam Yauch - MC Mike Simpson - DJ
production	Beastie Boys, Dust Brothers , Mario Caldato Jr.
Studio (s)	Mario G's, Los Angeles The Opium Den, New York City The Record Plant, New York City
chronology Licensed to Ill (1986) Paul's Boutique Check Your Head (1992)

Paul's Boutique is the second studio album by the American hip-hop trio Beastie Boys . It was released in July 1989 and is considered a milestone in the genre, especially due to the innovative use of sampling .

history

The album was recorded in Los Angeles and New York City in 1988/89 . After the first album, the band was written off as a one-hit wonder by some . The band signed with Capitol Records / EMI . With the second album, the band focused on releasing less commercial song material. In the background stood the Dust Brothers . A total of 105 songs were sampled on the album, which is why it completely redefined the hip-hop approach to sampling . Songs from musicians and bands such as The Beatles , Commodores , The Isley Brothers , Johnny Cash , Pink Floyd , Curtis Mayfield , Led Zeppelin , Ramones , Sly & the Family Stone , The Band and James Brown were sampled . Paul's Boutique was one of the last Golden Age albums to contain unlicensed samples. From the early 1990s, the sampling of copyrighted music was heavily regulated by law.

reception

source	rating
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
Pitchfork Media

The music magazine Rolling Stone leads Paul's Boutique at number 156 of the 500 best albums of all time . The German edition chose it as number 16 of the 50 best hip-hop albums. In the selection of the 500 best albums by the New Musical Express, the album ranks 32nd. Pitchfork Media chose it as number 3 of the 100 best albums of the 1980s. Paul's Boutique is one of the 1001 albums You Must Hear Before You Die .

“After the trio had established themselves as funny party rappers, as Jewish punks who understood hip-hop, the next level came: a psychedelic collage full of funky beats and blatant stylistic breaks. Nevertheless everything fits together like a dream, even the whining voices. To be black is clearly a question of attitude, not of skin color. "

- Rolling Stone

Track list

1. To All the Girls - (1:29)
2. Shake Your Rump - (3:19)
3. Johnny Ryall - (3:00)
4. Egg Man - (2:57)
5. High Plains Drifter - (4:13)
6. The Sounds of Science - (3:11)
7. 3-Minute Rule - (3:39)
8. Hey Ladies - (3:47)
9. 5-Piece Chicken Dinner - (0:23)
10. Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun - (3:28)
11. Car Thief - (3:39)
12. What Comes Around - (3:07)
13. Shadrach - (4:07)
14. Ask for Janice - (0:11)
15. B-Boy Bouillabaisse - (12:33)
    1. 59 Chrystie Street
    2. Get on the mic
    3. Stop that train
    4. A year and a day
    5. Hello Brooklyn
    6. Dropping Names
    7. Lay it on me
    8. Mike on the mic
    9. AWOL

literature

• Dan Leroy and Peter Relic: For Whom the Cowbell Tolls. 25 Years of Paul's Boutique , Akron & Beaver Falls, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may05/articles/dust.htm
2. ↑ Whosampled: Beastie Boys on whosampled.com (accessed March 18, 2018)
3. ↑ Dimery, Robert (ed.): 1001 albums - music you should hear before life is over, 8th edition, Edition Olms Zurich 2015, p. 613.
4. ↑ 20 Years Ago Biz Markie Got The Last Laugh on npr.org (accessed March 18, 2018)
5. ↑ Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine on allmusic.com (accessed March 18, 2018)
6. ↑ Review by David Handelman on rollingstone.com (accessed March 18, 2018)
7. ↑ Review by Nate Patrin on pitchfork.com (accessed March 18, 2018)
8. ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time on rollingstone.com (accessed March 18, 2018)
9. ↑ ^{a b} Rolling Stone, edition 9/2015, issue 251, p. 62.
10. ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time on nme.com (accessed March 18, 2018)
11. ↑ Top 100 Albums of the 1980s on pitchfork.com (accessed March 18, 2018)