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The Great Albums

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (w/ guest Dan LeRoy)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3749 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2017

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Dan LeRoy, the man who literally wrote the book on Paul's Boutique (both the 33 1/3 entry and a follow up For Whom the Cowbell Tolls), joins Bill and Brian to talk about the Beastie Boys and their 1989 sophomore album. Dan talks about discovering the band as an early adopter of rap and then loving this album in his college days. Dan also shares his experience of writing his books and working through the many samples present on this album. Dan, Brian, and Bill discuss the Dust Brothers and Matt Dike's influence on the album, the maturation of the band, the importance of (or lack thereof) a hit single, Adam Yauch guiding "A Year and a Day," Mike Diamond disavowing how important their contributions are, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. What are we talking about today, Brian?

0:04.4

Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys.

0:07.7

Time and money for girls covered with honey. You know I aspire to be as cunning.

0:11.8

Bill and rock and a roll a B-size D. Come order the quarter of the lust. Why don't you wake up? What we do here every week on the podcast is take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great.

0:23.3

We're going to kind of jump in by talking about how we got into the music and then what makes it kind of generally cool.

0:30.7

And then we're going to do a track-by-track review.

0:33.1

Ooh, you know how I love my track-by-tracks.

0:36.3

And we're not going to do it alone, Brian.

0:38.1

Nope, not this week.

0:39.5

And really, you know, I know I say that every week, but it's pretty much not, we don't do this alone much anymore.

0:45.2

No, we have a guest pretty much every week.

0:47.2

You know, it's every now and again we'll have just us and hopefully we'll have a few more in the future.

0:52.4

I know some people like them. And I like doing them just me and you too, because we can really get into the nitty-gritty.

0:58.6

Take it back to the roots a little bit.

1:00.4

And if you really like hearing just me and Brian talk to each other, check out bonus song Thursday.

1:04.3

You know, every week we do another episode where we just do one song.

1:08.3

And we also read a lot of listener emails there.

1:11.2

So there's kind of a little bit more of like a breakdown of the ins and outs of the great

1:16.1

albums podcast on bonus song Thursday.

1:18.9

And you can hear your name on the radio, kid.

1:22.4

And so we're not going to do this alone today.

1:24.4

We actually have Skyping in with us was the person who literally

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