Blog: The Days of Lore

Paul's Boutique gets a facelift

Paul's Boutique gets a facelift 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! [...]