![]() ![]() ![]() Much as Girl Talk’s Gregg Gillis has done using modern software tools, the Dust Brothers magically weaved together-sometimes within the context of a single song, such as the album’s hit, “Hey Ladies”-snippets from artists as disparate as Sweet, Kurtis Blow, Cameo, Kool & the Gang, Zapp and James Brown into a cohesive statement, one unimaginable beforehand and impossible to repeat since. ![]() Mike” Simpson and John “King Gizmo” King), who stitched no fewer than 105 samples together to form the crazy-quilt of sound that gives Paul’s Boutique its cratedigger’s soul and musical backbone. What made it so was the difference between Rick Rubin’s metal-meets-pedal, bare-bones production style and the richly evocative cut-and-paste sampling favored by the Dust Brothers (Mike “E.Z. To this day, it remains the finest selection in the Beastie Boys’ catalog, not to mention one of the greatest pop albums of all time, right up there with OK Computer, Revolver, Pet Sounds and Blonde on Blonde on the scale of universally recognized rock ‘n roll righteousness. So by the time 1989 rolled around, it was anybody’s guess as to what was going on within the group’s ever-clowning but tightly-knit internal dynamic.īeneath the goofy frat-boys-in-da-hood posturing and clouds of cheeba smoke, the answer to that question was Paul’s Boutique-hip-hop’s first “headphone album” and a masterpiece of massiveness. Their early success had prompted them to leave Rick Rubin’s Def Jam Records to sign with Capitol (resulting in a hailstorm of lawsuits/countersuits), which ultimately served as the catalyst for their decision to leave their beloved New York City altogether, relocating to the sunnier but less hospitable environs of Los Angeles in an effort to start somewhat afresh. Their Liverpool show had erupted in a riot that resulted in Horovitz’s arrest on assault charges. These achievements notwithstanding, they’d taken a few knocks, too. Perhaps most notable of all, they fought (via heavy rotation on MTV) for your inalienable right to party. They introduced the world to the joys of “Brass Monkey.” They conducted a bacchanalian world tour complete with cage-dancing girls and a giant inflatable penis borrowed from the back pages of the Rolling Stones’ playbook. They released the first rap album (1986’s Licensed to Ill) to go to #1 on Billboard’s charts, becoming the first relevant white hip-hop act in the process. They’d started out as a punk band (The Young Aborigines), opening shows for the likes of Bad Brains and Dead Kennedys. Hip-hop’s first headphone album gets remastered, reissued and reimaginedīy 1988, the Three Hip-Hop Stooges in the Beastie Boys-Adam “MCA” Yauch, Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, and Michael “Mike D” Diamond-had already accomplished much in their short careers. ![]()
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