Paul's Boutique

Yeah, so finally grabbed this little gem - sounds absolutely great, with the sort of punch you always wanted the album to have but it never quite did.

Bass comes through nice and thick and everything just sounds like, well, the production fidelity most everything including/post Check Your Head.

Had a lotta love for this back in the day, really nice to hear a well done remastering job . . . unlike the "re-release" Radiohead albums which aren't even remastered. wtf?

Check it out, hot shit, hot shit

I just went for the CD, personally. Although I love vinyl, not necessarily worth it for that. . .

Cheap CD

good album but the original, flawed or not, will do me just fine.

I've been meaning to hear this!

I suppose that's a recommendation then. I'll grab it at some point.

Yeah - I mean, I love the album but it just felt like something wasn't quite "all there." Like listening to an album in 128 kbps. Now there's that full depth and definition - totally worth it if you are at all a fan (incidentally, also a sign of how absolutely ahead of their time the Beastie's were)

  T35513R said:

(incidentally, also a sign of how absolutely ahead of their time the Beastie's were)

And the Dust Brothers.

  maantecaaa!!! said:

This is a good book about the story behind the production of Paul's Boutique. The surprise is: the Dust Brothers were getting their beats from a reclusive genius type in L.A.

Damn's that pretty cool - I checked out the reviews and it sounds like this is one of the better books in the series . . . thanks for the tip man-tek-"nine"-a

i say bollocks to all these remasters

  T35513R said:

  maantecaaa!!! said:

This is a good book about the story behind the production of Paul's Boutique. The surprise is: the Dust Brothers were getting their beats from a reclusive genius type in L.A.

 

Damn's that pretty cool - I checked out the reviews and it sounds like this is one of the better books in the series . . . thanks for the tip man-tek-"nine"-a

I've read this book in it's entirety and it really is fascinating. The last half of the book chronicles where all the samples come from. Great read, made me love the album even more. So ahead of their time.

i always liked ill communication better than paul's boutique; ill communication is my favorite beasties boys record

THIS ALBUM IS QUIET FUCKING AWESOME ON THE REMASTER ! ONWARDS AND UPWARDS!

you think it's mastered quiet chris moss acid? you'd hope they'd get it right 2nd time. (sry)

  LUDD said:

i say bollocks to all these remasters

exactly

thanks for the tip. my original cd is scratched to hell and I was debating whether or not to shell out the $25 bucks on this

i havent heard the remaster, but i always thought the original was mastered way too low

i ordered the vinyl as well. great to sit down and get stoned to on a weekend.

  aron said:

i havent heard the remaster, but i always thought the original was mastered way too low

I've got the original on vinyl and it's easily one of the worst sounding records I have, and no amount of eq'ing can prevent it from being painfully obvious in the context of a set

quite

:(

Just downloaded this from soulseek and listening to it (already bought the album twice, not about to buy it again) - pretty impressive the samples/lyrics that you can actually hear now - like the call outs to all the girls on the first track and the pingpong at the beginning of 3-minute rule

  Bob Dobalina said:

Just downloaded this from soulseek and listening to it (already bought the album twice, not about to buy it again) - pretty impressive the samples/lyrics that you can actually hear now - like the call outs to all the girls on the first track and the pingpong at the beginning of 3-minute rule

how were you listening to it before ?

on longwave radio?

lol i was thinking the same. the original vinyl sounds pretty bad, but not that bad

wow that book looks like a good read, thanks guys! Oh neat, there is a DJ Shadow one too!

Just finished reading the Paul's Boutique 33 1/3 book, great read thanks for the suggestions.

Visual Companion to the album for the 30th anniversary:

http://www.paulsboutiqueavc.com/?fbclid=IwAR3x6pYOX1-u50nScEkb9pKAVGzTtL-xuA3Gbp1zNY3uImARHXwohgZnRB4

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