{"id":18352,"date":"2026-07-10T13:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=18352"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:40:19","slug":"sunday-afternoon-vinyl-beastie-boys-pauls-boutique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/sunday-afternoon-vinyl-beastie-boys-pauls-boutique\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Afternoon Vinyl – Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Beastie<\/a><\/p>\n

Beastie Boys<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul’s Boutique<\/strong><\/p>\n

Discogs:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/47802-Beastie-Boys-Pauls-Boutique<\/p>\n

Year Of Release: <\/strong>1989<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s impressive just how ignorant I was about Paul\u2019s Boutique<\/em> until I bought a copy on CD in a Virgin Megastore in France in late 1994. I\u2019d owned Check Your Head<\/em>, and heard most all of Licensed To Ill<\/em>, but wasn\u2019t at all aware of Paul\u2019s Boutique<\/em>. I know it seems really ignorant, but in the olden days (before the Internet, and Discogs for that matter) the only way I heard about albums was via magazines like Thrasher, Countdown (!), or Rolling Stone. Or maybe in the giant catalogue that they kept behind the counter in my local Chandlers and let me scour through from time to time. So I really was clueless.<\/p>\n

In any case, I think this is a fantastic album, and it should have propelled the Beasties to even greater heights, not bombed like it did (at least, that\u2019s the way the story is told now). It\u2019s a sophisticated concoction of samples and rhyming lyrics and humour delivered in the Beastie Boys\u2019 inimitable style. The whole album feels like they\u2019re really going for it, but at the same time it\u2019s also an experiment in testing the limits of their abilities (and the equipment they were using). The Dust Brothers<\/a> had a big hand in the production, and they went on to do some pretty influential stuff too.<\/p>\n

There\u2019re a tonne of samples in this record, and this site<\/a> has done a fantastic job of putting together a comprehensive reference of the samples used in the tracks, as well as what the various references are. I\u2019ll admit that I didn\u2019t realise Machine Gun<\/em> by The Commodores was the backbone of Hey Ladies<\/em> until last decade (mainly because I was unfamiliar with The Commodores back catalogue). Standout tracks for me are Shake Your Rump<\/em>, Johnny Ryall<\/em>, The Sounds Of Science<\/em>, and the aforementioned Hey Ladies<\/em> (mainly for the video clip<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I also highly recommend Dan LeRoy\u2019s book on Paul\u2019s Boutique<\/a> (part of the 33 1\/3 series) for a comprehensive overview of the album, the production process, and insight into the Beastie Boys at that point in time.<\/p>\n

Rating:<\/strong> 8.5\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique Discogs: https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/47802-Beastie-Boys-Pauls-Boutique Year Of Release: 1989 Review It\u2019s impressive just how ignorant I was about Paul\u2019s Boutique until I bought a copy on CD in a Virgin Megastore in France in late 1994. I\u2019d owned Check Your Head, and heard most all of Licensed To Ill, but wasn\u2019t at all aware […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1459],"tags":[1443,791,1460],"class_list":["post-18352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-sunday-afternoon-vinyl","tag-beastie-boys","tag-music","tag-sunday-afternoon-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18353,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions\/18353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}