Beastie Boys - The Paul's Boutique Companion

The Beastie's Paul's Boutique is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's an easy desert-island disc pick and should be heard by everyone. I like to tell my girlfriend that when we have kids I intend to play Paul's Boutique as often as possible. I might have to make a clean edit of the disc as I wouldn't want them hearing all the dirty language, but I honestly believe Paul's Boutique is an album that can be enjoyed by young and old alike. I genuinely find the album enjoyable from start to finish and can't imagine my life without it. That said, I'm sure you can imagine how psyched I was when a deluxe reissue was announced last year. Initially, the official Beastie's website featured the cover of their Love, American Style EP and a vinyl-only remix of Shadrach. I, like everyone else, assumed that the album's reissue would have a second disc featuring all the b-sides and remixes featured on the Boutique-era singles, but we were all pretty disappointed when the reissue only contained the album. That said, the reissue was fantastically remastered, featured amazing packaging restoring the photos from the original gatefold vinyl release, all versions came with a free audio commentary by the band themselves and the deluxe digital release came with all the music videos for the album and a high-quality pdf with the album art. All of this was really great, but those non-album tracks are really needing a reissue. Information started circulating about the lack of bonus material and it may stem from legal issues surrounding the samples used in the album. It's been said that the album, if reissued, would not be able to contain any bonus material if a lawsuit was to be avoided. I'm not a lawyer but this sounds plausible enough, so we probably won't see an official reissue of these great non-album tracks, at least not officially.

The official part is what makes services like the internet so great, as people with the necessary technology can now make beautiful, digital replicas of great items like these Paul's Boutique leftovers. I've had a good number of these tracks for some time but decided it was time to put them together for my collection. Of course, one of the first things I thought about posting when I started this blog was this collection of Paul's Boutique rarities and so, finally, I'm posting an abridged version here for the time being. Sometime in the near future I will be posting a significantly larger, mostly lossless version of this collection on a popular torrent site. That version will feature a lot of goodies that can't be included here due to space limitations, and I will let everyone know as soon it is made available and where to find it, but until then, I'm sure you will find this a very enjoyable collection.

I can't take credit for transferring these tracks myself, but I have done a little bit of work to some of the instrumentals and show vinyl. As for the original sources, part of the torrent version is provided courtesy of Miscreant Productions (sorry, not included here), but the instrumentals are taken from the Flavor For Your Ear compilation that is quite popular within the Beastie community. No one seems to be able to find the person who actually compiled the set, but I bought mine from him directly quite a while ago so my copy is second generation to his, which is probably third or fourth. They are said to be taken from a promo cassette that Capital Records produced to possibly be included as a bonus with a reissue of the album in 1989, but nothing came of it and I can't seem to find a better quality copy of them anywhere, apart from the versions on the show vinyl. To make them sound a little nicer I normalized both channels so they would be as close to equal as possible. Now, for purists, I'm sure I've messed up the chain of custody from the original source to now and I've done all this with a lossy copy of the recording, but beggars can't be choosers and I'm sure you'll agree, if you've heard the original mp3s, these sound much better. As for the Show Vinyl, I tweaked it slightly as well due to some skips in the recordings. I won't bother noting these changes as I don't believe you'll notice them, which is how it should be. They were taken from Professor D's site and are lossy sourced, but they sound very nice. You should check his site for other Beastie rarities. As for the rest of the recordings, the b-sides and remixes are taken from excellent quality FLAC rips of the singles that were posted on Oink back in the day. I can't be any more specific than that, sorry, but if you were responsible for posting those, thanks a million! Otherwise, there are slight tweaks on the Hey Ladies composite and the Country Club version of Shadrach, but everything else is untouched.

It's worth noting that the original demo tape presented to Capital is most likely featured as part of the first disc of this collection. The demo consisted of Shake Your Rump, then titled Full Clout, and Car Thief, then titled Dust Joint. These tracks are in the zip but I'm posting them separately in case anyone wants to check these out without downloading the whole set, although you'll want to grab them all after you check these two out!

One last thing, if you're as in love with Paul's Boutique as I am, you should get Dan Leroy's excellent contribution to the 33 1/3 series of books and is dedicated to Paul's Boutique and it's creation. You can find it at Amazon or order it at any of your favorite book stores. Don't think, just buy it! You'll thank me later!


Beastie Boys - The Paul's Boutique Companion (Abridged Edition)
Part One
Part Two
Part Three


Disc 1: Demos and Rough Versions
01 3-Minute Rule (Rough Version)
02 Hello Brooklyn (Rough Version)
03 Johnny Ryall (Demo with Mike D Scratch Vocal)
04 Johnny Ryall (Rough Version)
05 Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun (Rough Version)
06 Egg Man (Rough Version)
07 The Sounds Of Science (Rough Version)
08 33% God (Get Off The Mic)
09 Full Clout (Shake Your Rump Demo)
10 Dust Joint (Car Thief Demo)
11 Car Thief (Rough Version)

Disc 2: B-Sides and Rarities
01 Shake Your Rump (Video Version)
02 Hey Ladies (Single/Video Composite)
03 33% God
04 Dis Yourself In '89 (Just Do It)
05 Shadrach (Live @ The Country Club)
06 Ask For Janice Pt. 2
07 Caught In The Middle Of A 3-Way Mix
08 And What You Give Is What You Get
09 Some Dumb Cop Gave Me Two Tickets Already
10 Shadrach (Live @ Soul Train)
11 Your Sister's Def
12 Ask For Janice Pt. 3
13 Some Dumb Copy Gave Me Two Tickets Already (45 RPM Version)

Disc 3: Instrumentals
01 Shake Your Rump
02 Johnny Ryall
03 Egg Man
04 High Plains Drifter
05 The Sounds Of Science
06 3-Minute Rule
07 Hey Ladies
08 Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun
09 Car Thief
10 What Comes Around
11 Shadrach
12 59 Chrystie Street
13 Mike On The Mic

Disc 4: Show Vinyl
01 Shake Your Rump
02 Johnny Ryall
03 Egg Man
04 High Plains Drifter
05 Time To Get Ill
06 The Sounds Of Science
07 3-Minute Rule
08 Hey Ladies
09 Hold It Now, Hit It
10 Untitled



Beastie Boys - Capital Records Demo
Full Clout
Dust Joint