The Days of Lore

Beastie Boys give Fallon what he wants

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 | musiX | 3 Comments

The Beastie Boys dropped by “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” last night to plug the reissue of Check Your Head, which is a very(!) close second to Paul’s Boutique for my favorite B-Boys record. I will say this, though—”So What’cha Want” is definitely one of my favorite all-time cuts. Period. And this rendition with The Roots—very tasty. After watching it, though, I feel they should be called the Beastie Men. C’mon, they’ve earned it!

Ad-Rock, MCA and Mike D will release the reissue of Ill Communication on July 14—also a great disc. But bugger all that; the Beasties will release a new record in September called Hot Sauce Committee. Mmm … sounds delicious. Where do I sign up?

Beastie Boys performing “So What’cha Want” on Jimmy Fallon

Tags: Beastie Boys, Check Your Head, Hot Sauce Committee, Ill Communication, Jimmy Fallon, The Roots

Paul’s Boutique gets a facelift

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 | musiX | No Comments

I used to have an ‘82 Mazda B2000 with a tape deck, and I’d listen to cassettes for weeks at a time before switching them out. Paul’s Boutique was one of them. And the beauty part was there was so much going on that it never got old. Produced by the Dust Brothers and released in July of 1989, it’s easily the Beastie Boys’ best record—a sample-happy smorgasbord of sounds that showed the Boys were becoming men. Now that 20 years have passed you’ve gotta re-release the damn thing!

The remastered album is available for download now at the Beasties’ Web site for a chill $11.99. If you want to have something you can touch and caress, the CD is $18.99 and a vinyl version is $23.99 (both come with a download of the album and are available Feb. 10). If you’re a superfan, you can dish out $129.99 for the package that comes with posters and T-shirts and vinyl and this and that and what-have-you. I guess they assume the kids who grew up with Paul’s Boutique must be making some real bread these days.

I do love the record. I don’t think I love it that much. Nothing wrong with a hissy, muffled cassette … gives it character.

Beastie Boys, video for “Shake Your Rump”

Tags: 20th Anniversary Edition, Beastie Boys, Dust Brothers, Paul's Boutique