Paul's boutiqueBEASTIE BOYS.
Paul's boutique
by BEASTIE BOYS. · first published 1989
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>> The Beastie Boys were never out to change things Musically there is pre-Paul's Boutique and post-Paul's Boutique. They changed things. If you haven't listened to it for some reason, listen to it.
on “Rage Against The Machine’s explosive debut album changed everything” ↗…limited ways because they have to negotiate expensive licenses each time. If not for copyright, we'd see amazing innovations. To get an idea what would be possible, listen to the Beastie Boys album "Paul's Boutique", which has been called "The Sgt. Pepper of Hip Hop". It liberally samples all kinds of sources (including Beatles), and the results are amazing, even with that limited 1989 technology. Unfortunately,…
on “Can Beethoven send takedown requests?” ↗Same here. I got into Sly after hearing the Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique" album, where he was heavily sampled - like this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Z7HwDnuNI Side note: Sampling is/was controversial, but I'll always be grateful to hip hop and sampling for introducing…
on “Sly Stone has died” ↗Fun. In case you didn't know: KEXP occasionally does breakdowns. Here they played every song sampled on Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique. https://www.kexp.org/breakdown/paulsboutique/
on “Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” synth sounds” ↗> A lot of these tracks were also recorded over unlicensed beats/samples That's the killer, right there. For example, the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique probably could not be released today as it samples an incredible number of other artists.[0] [0]https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7kI8XoDoiHcrG0aGmtvq1g
on “The Hip Hop Historians Who Are Racing to Preserve Its Story[50 Years of Hip Hop]” ↗When I was younger, I was told that the album from Beastie Boys called Paul's Boutique was the straw that broke the camel's back! I have no idea if this true, but that album has a batshit crazy amount of recognizable samples. I doubt very much that Beastie paid anything for the rights…
on “OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?” ↗…previous works. As I understand, the definition of "the right to produce original works influenced by previous works" has been a slowly moving target in my lifetime. Think about the effects of the album Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys. They went wild with sampling and paid very little (zero?) to license those samples. Then, there were a bunch of court cases in the US that decided that future samplers needed to license…
on “Extracting AI models from mobile apps” ↗Mmm Bop was brought to you by the Dust Brothers, responsible for the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique.
on “How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill?” ↗