The Fatback Band - Put Your Love (in My Tender Care) Sly and the Family Stone - Dance to the MusicĮlvis Costello & The Attractions - Pump It Up 2 - Because It's Coming)ĭonny Hathaway - Magnificent Sanctuary BandĭJ Grand Wizard Theodore and Kevie Kev Rockwell - Military Cut Louis Bellson, Shelly Manne, Willie Bobo and Paul Humphrey - Super MellowĪfrika Bambaataa & James Brown - Unity (Pt. (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party) “Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun” music video (YouTube)ĭiscord & Rhyme’s Paul’s Boutique playlist (Spotify) If it was going to be any album, it was going to be this one.ĭan LeRoy’s 33⅓ on Paul’s Boutique (Bloomsbury) True to the album, our Paul’s Boutique episode contains more than 120 clips, easily our record. In the 70s and 80s, it was common in sports discussions for people to debate whether the "Home Run King" title should belong to Hank Aaron, who hit 755 home runs in the Major Leagues, or Oh, who hit 868 in his career. Sadaharu Oh, as in "I've got more hits than" was a Taiwanese baseball player who played in Japan in the 60s and 70s, and who is generally considered on the short list of the greatest baseball players never to play in the Major Leagues. Phil’s passing mention of McGruff the Crime Dog and inhalants is a reference to the 1986 cassette McGruff's Smart Kids Album, where the ‘80s PSA mascot sings songs about alcohol, inhalants, marijuana, and cocaine, but not elephant tranquilizers.Īnother Star Trek connection: “Sabotage” appears diegetically (in-scene) in both the 2009 Star Trek and 2016’s Star Trek Beyond, the implication being that the Beastie Boys are among the classical artists still remembered in the 23rd century. Rich spoke of 3rd Bass in a somewhat harsh light, but The Cactus Album is actually very good, with several tracks produced by the Bomb Squad and Prince Paul, as well as acclaimed indie rapper MF Doom’s very first on-record appearance, as Zev Love X on the track “ The Gas Face.” We neglected to mention two members of the Paul’s Boutique production crew: assistant engineer Allen Abrahamson, as well as Matt Dike, who is credited with “ensemble.” In practice, the Dust Brothers worked out of Dike’s apartment as their home base, and his gargantuan record collection provided a wellspring of source material for the album. If this episode wasn’t enough for you, is an excellent, exhaustive database of every sample used on the record, as well as every reference the Beasties make. Shake your rum-PAH! MiscellanyĬontent warning: the Beastie Boys still had a lot of growing up to do when they recorded Paul’s Boutique, so we wanted to note that the album contains some instances of racism, transphobia and (especially) misogyny, all of which the group has apologized for repeatedly in years since. It blew Mike’s mind as a teenager and budding producer, and this week he’s leading Rich, Phil and hip-hop noob John through a true bouillabaisse of an album, and a great hip-hop gateway drug for rock fans. The result is a miasma of light-speed references and samples, with a sonic palette drawing from ‘70s funk, old-school hip-hop, and whatever else the Dusts had lying around. Seeking to level up as artists, the Beasties broke with Def Jam, moved to Los Angeles, and teamed up with producers and seasoned crate-diggers the Dust Brothers. So you like samples, huh? Well, have all the samples in the world! In our Deltron 3030 episode, Producer Mike waxed poetic that hip-hop “can contain the whole world,” and the Beastie Boys tried to do exactly that on Paul’s Boutique.
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