Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Beastie Boys
Paul’s Boutique
(Capitol, 1989)
Before Dangermouse, who sampled The Beatles?
They’d had strippers on stage, ladled on bass and puerile humour and even caused a riot in Liverpool on the tour promoting 1986’s Licensed To Ill album. But Paul’s Boutique was the quantum jump where New York’s sincere rap parodists Beastie Boys showed what they were really made of. Named for a possibly fictional Brooklyn gentleman’s outfitters and later giving a name to an eaterie on the same site, listened to now it gives a bracing and wondrous view of a world where producers could sample anything without anyone getting legal on them; the quite unbelievable raw materials used here include The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, James Brown, Sly Stone, Pink Floyd, Chic, Jimi Hendrix and The Sweet, all collaged into richly funk-powered rap tracks of seemingly unending texture and variety. Added to this was high-turnover splurges of pass-the-mic Beasties verbiage, name-dropping the likes of Raymond Burr, Alfred E Neuman and Captain Kirk, and variously hailing rockabilly street drinkers, blasting “All the wife beaters and all the tax cheaters / Sitting in the White House pulling their peters” (Car Thief) and demanding everybody shake their rump-ah. And now in this internet age, nonplussed limeys can get hip to the cultural references that activated the Beasties’ brainstems, like basketball ace Hawthorne Wingo, the supa-fine Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham and game show host Chuck Woolery. To understand the true tao of Paul’s Boutique, we say, go here, and then find the Foghat 8-track on the video for Hey Ladies (it’s at 0.36).
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 24/09/2008
Further Listening
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication (Capitol, 1994)
De La Soul – 3 Feet High & Rising (Tommy Boy, 1989)
Beck – Mellow Gold (DGC, 1994)
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
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Before Dangermouse who sampled the Beatles ? Justified Ancients Of MuMu's first single 'All You Need Is Love' , 1987.
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The Residents- Beyond the valley of a day in the life (1977)
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The Residents - Beyond the valley of a day in the life (1977)
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and yet they always sound the blinkin same. always
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all you need is love on the first faust album
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lolumad?
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