Check Your Head > Paul's Boutique???

No, Paul's Boutique is a masterpiece. Check Your Head is the Beasties second best album.

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Paul's Boutqiue is not just a masterpiece, it is (along with 3 Feet High and Rising) a masterpiece that can never be duplicated. Literally. The sheer number of samples on that record would be prohibitive these days now that we have codified the laws regarding sampling (a system which has generally kept De la Soul's back catalog in the vault due to the inability to clear all of the samples).

I mean, listen to the layering on Eggman. They spliced the violins from Jaws and Psycho, put them at the same speed, and rhen looped them over a beat from Kool and the Gang. That is just an insane level of depth to their sound.

Not to mention just how great the flow and interplay is between the Beasties. This was each MC at their cocky height. They were so gifted with rhymes, MCA ended the Sound of Science on the word "orange" just to bring your attention to it. Orange has no rhyme in the English language, and they not only ended a lyric with it, they ended the song with it with all music dropped out behind it. It is a total mic drop of a band at its cocksure best.

Paul's Boutique isn't just the greatest hip hop album, it is arguably the greatest album in pop music. And it was so far ahead of its time (to a time that would never come, so really out of time), that fans didn't get it at the time of release. They made the audience catch up to them, not vice versa.

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Paul's Boutqiue is not just a masterpiece, it is (along with 3 Feet High and Rising) a masterpiece that can never be duplicated. Literally. The sheer number of samples on that record would be prohibitive these days now that we have codified the laws regarding sampling (a system which has generally kept De la Soul's back catalog in the vault due to the inability to clear all of the samples). I mean, listen to the layering on Eggman. They spliced the violins from Jaws and Psycho, put them at the same speed, and rhen looped them over a beat from Kool and the Gang. That is just an insane level of depth to their sound. Not to mention just how great the flow and interplay is between the Beasties. This was each MC at their cocky height. They were so gifted with rhymes, MCA ended the Sound of Science on the word "orange" just to bring your attention to it. Orange has no rhyme in the English language, and they not only ended a lyric with it, they ended the song with it with all music dropped out behind it. It is a total mic drop of a band at its cocksure best. Paul's Boutique isn't just the greatest hip hop album, it is arguably the greatest album in pop music. And it was so far ahead of its time (to a time that would never come, so really out of time), that fans didn't get it at the time of release. They made the audience catch up to them, not vice versa.

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Wow...one of the best posts I've ever read on this site! I agree with it all.

Oh, me too. When this came out, it was light years ahead of where I was. I was pissed there wasn't another Fight For Your Right. Took me a few years to get it.

And, yes, I've unintentionally crossed us over to a Jets to Brazil conversation! Another great album.

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They spliced the violins from Jaws and Psycho, put them at the same speed, and rhen looped them over a beat from Kool and the Gang. That is just an insane level of depth to their sound.

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When you say they, you mean the Dust Brothers. Even the Beastie Boys will tell you the genius of that albums was them, they just sometimes don't get the recognition they deserve. This isn't to poo poo on the Beasties but it was a collaboration of all involved. And your statement about the audience had to catch up to them couldn't be truer.

Me and my posse were one of the few it seemed that got it back then. I wore that cassette out but I was doing more burning to it while many wanted another beer slamming party playing soundtrack. The sonic depth of that album was mesmerizing at the time.

I go between the two though depending on the mood. Check your Head was truly them in their artform though and another departure from the previous album and in a new direction. It hits everything from punk, rap, hip-hop, funk, alternative, it's got it all.

I actually had mine typed out to the Check your Head part and then had to take a call ,send out an email and come back to finish it.

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