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.

Steely Dan - The Royal Scam Sessions

In this months mixtape, I included Steely Dan’s Green Earrings, a favorite of mine from one of my favorite albums they made. I know a lot of people love Aja and consider it a favorite, and while I do count myself among those who love it, The Royal Scam speaks louder and clearer to me. It’s got some of their most straight-forward yet still cryptic lyrics (see Haitian Divorce or Sign In Stranger) and the band still wants to get funky (Green Earrings, The Fez), all the while sounding like a cohesive unit despite a rotating cast of hired guns. It was a little smoother than Katy Lied yet not quite as serious as Aja, making it a perfect starting point for the uninitiated, barring the purchase of one of their greatest hits comps (if you’re gonna go that route, get A Decade Of Steely Dan. It’s a great selection of classics to whet your appetite without throwing you straight into the fire.).

Much to my bliss, there are some interesting Dan rarities to be found online, but I wasn’t sure how much studio content might be out there. The Dan are notorious for erasing outtakes and unused performances if they don’t deem them worthy of potential release. So, I was truly pleased to find outtakes and demos from for the under appreciated Gaucho as well as these instrumental basic tracks from the Royal Scam sessions. I’ve seen these labeled as rehearsal tapes of one sort or another, but apart from Don’t Take Me Alive which does have vocals, they sound far too professionally recorded to be merely rehearsals, especially since they so strongly resemble the finished tracks.

If you’re not a fan of The Dan or familiar with their works, this isn’t where you want to start. That said, fans and the unfamiliar will still find these recordings enjoyable as they are fun, funky and sound like a million dollars. Put this on while you’re doing housework or making dinner and you’ll be boogieing the whole way, especially through Green Earrings! Bernard “Pretty” Purdie is on drums on that one, and he’s worth whatever they paid him and then some!

I can’t give you any Steely Dan stories that haven’t been told elsewhere so I’m going to refer you to The Steely Dan Internet Resource, a very detailed site that will lead you to countless stories about the Dan and their cohorts. The Dan may be classified as overly mellow, yuppie music by some, but they are way too funky and creative to be boxed in with such a negative description. On top of that, they’re far crazier than many could ever imagine, so do yourself a favor and pay the The Steely Dan Internet Resource a visit, I’m sure you’ll be entertained and enlightened.


Steely Dan – The Royal Scam Sessions

01 Kid Charlemagne
02 Sign In Stranger
03 Everything You Did
04 Green Earrings
05 Don’t Take Me Alive