Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique Show Vinyl

So Demonoid hasn't returned yet, and the way they're taking their time who knows if they will, but for those waiting for me to repost the Paul's Boutique Companion torrent, I have some good news for you. No, it isn't online again yet, but when it is available it will be a revised edition featuring some upgrades. In particular, this post features one of those upgrades, a complete rip of the Paul's Boutique Show Vinyl!

Now, I can't say that this is a pure rip, as it is a transcode of a 320kbps set of MP3s. On top of that, the set had several very loud clicks and pops as well as a few skips. What I did was manually remove the most noticeable clicks and pops (I don't believe in using software based solutions for the removal of clicks and pops, as it usually lessens the quality of the recordings in other ways), normalize each track individually and correct the skips using the best source material I had. There are three skips throughout the set, and I'm sure those listening closely will notice at least two of the edits, as one is rather obvious and the other may be noticed upon repeated listens, but the third one will remain unmentioned as I think it's pretty well done. It's not a big secret where the skips were though, so if you notice the edits, kudos to you. It'd be nice if you could let me know what you think of the work I've done on those skips, for better or worse.

This version of the Show Vinyl will replace the instrumentals and the previous version of the show vinyl contained in the first version of the Companion, as this contains almost the complete album (To All The Girls, 5-Piece Chicken Dinner and Get On The Mic are not included for obvious reasons) in far superior quality to the previous versions I posted, but it also contains the instrumentals for Time To Get Ill, Hold It Now, Hit It, Some Dumb Cop Gave Me Two Tickets Already (!!!) and the complete version of the previously unknown instrumental, which has been identified as the instrumental version of Making Cash Money by Busy Bee. Also, I don't believe these are merely the album versions of the tracks with the vocals removed, as several of the cuts seem to continue a little longer or have slight differences. This leads me to believe that the mixes used for Paul's Boutique may not have been completely reproducible as they appear on the album, so some alternate mixes or edits were created, making this an interesting listen for more reasons than just hearing the album sans-vocals.

I'll make sure to keep everyone aware of when the new version of the Companion torrent goes online. There will be a few other changes in that version, but some things are staying the same, and I'll let everyone know what has or hasn't changed so you don't have to re-download the complete set again if you don't want to. Also, once I get this torrent back online, I'm planning to share a few other larger collections in lossless quality via torrents, and I think you'll all be very pleased with them! Until then though, enjoy this and have a good weekend!

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique Show Vinyl
NOTE: Links removed due to a DMCA complaint. Again, they didn't complain about the previous stuff so I'm assuming this is strictly Def Jam or Sugar Hill related. Sorry guys, but this stuff is still available elsewhere. At least they were nice enough NOT to completely remove the post!

01 Shake Your Rump
02 Johnny Ryall
03 Eggman
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 Busy Bee - Making Cash Money
11 Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun
12 Car Thief
13 What Comes Around
14 Shadrach
15 59 Chrystie Street
16 Stop That Train
17 A Year and A Day
18 Hello Brooklyn
19 Dropping Names
20 Lay It On Me
21 Mike On The Mic
22 A.W.O.L.
23 Some Dumb Cop Gave Me Two Tickets Already


PS - You can get the original versions of these MP3s and a bunch of other Beastie show vinyl at BeastieMixes.com. Big thanks to them for sharing these recordings! By the way, if you guys are reading this, if you have lossless copies of these recordings, I'd be more than happy to clean those up for you.

Beastie Boys - The Paul's Boutique Companion UPDATE!!!!!

The time is here Ladies and Gentlemen!!! The complete Paul's Boutique Companion has been uploaded to Demonoid and can now be downloaded at your leisure! Prepare for 2.23gb of music featuring:

1) Demos and Rough Versions (Lossless versions of the tracks already posted here)
2) B-Sides and Rarities (Lossless versions of the tracks already posted here)
3) Instrumentals
4) Show Vinyl
5) Sample Sources
6) A Lossless 24 Bit, 96 Khz vinyl transfer of the album from an original UK pressing
7) Imagery from the Paul's Boutique era of the Beasties

If you liked the abridged version of the Companion, you'll LOVE this version! So go to Demonoid or just click this link and start downloading!

We now return to our regularly scheduled programming!


PS - Is it just me or did this post come off like a commercial?

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