Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Beastie Boys relaunch web site with Paul's Boutique theme
Beastie Boys have concluded their work on the remastered version of Paul's Boutique and launched a new web site design at Paulsboutique.beastieboys.com [DEAD LINK]. At the new site, you can listen to the remastered songs and order various packages of the album with mp3 downloads, vinyl, a crazy-big poster, and a t-shirt. (Where's the commemorative plate?) Most exciting, you can download the band commentary for Paul's Boutique immediately.
If you're a web geek, you might be interested to know that the audio at the site is coming from Top Spin, Ian Rogers' new audio venture. You can watch a video of the Beastie Boys with Money Mark that Rogers recorded yesterday and read Rogers' thoughts on Paul's Boutique at Topspinmedia.com.
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23 comments:
I can't hear any difference in the songs???
I can't hear much difference either, but I'm listening on a computer. On a real stereo I'm sure it will sound great.
I'm disappointed about the tee shirt. The design is not suitable for a woman to wear for the obvious reason.
I love the video!!
I'm contacting Yauch to install a water system & unclog my toilet.
I like Mike's ye old-time bank concept for the new album.
Beastieboys.com is changing by the second. Who are the people who posted stories? They seem fake.
Their new web site is making my computer crash :(
my computer froze when i tried to play pingpong with mike
Turning the knob to see the site is retarded.
Please send your complaints to Beastieboys.com.
For the record, I am not a fan of Flash sites.
Beastie Boys think fans are more excited about the PB reissue than we really are. It's not that big a deal to me.
The new site is not mobile friendly.
The new site is slow but I like the design
Who is Paul and why did he email me?
paul is the boutique owner
I'm more interested in hearing about the new album.
The PB commentary is all kinds of awesomeness.
Adrock is funny in the commentary.:) But I don't know who the people they talk about are. I need Paul's Boutique for Dummies to understand. Haha!
Dan LeRoy's book is a good source for learning about Paul's Boutique. You can read some outtakes that LeRoy didn't put in the book at Beastiemania.com: http://www.beastiemania.com/misc/3313.php.
The download is cheaper at Amazon than it is at the Beasties site.
As much as I love the Beastie's humor and have come to expect it in all their interviews, I was disappointed in the commentary. Couldn't they have been prepared with some material? They did tell a few stories about recording the songs, but for the most part it was them just goofin' around. Saying "I think we recorded these vocals at Matt's place." isn't that great of insight. I was hoping for a more in depth analysis of the creation, recording and mixing of the album.
As for the sound of it, Yeah it sounds like they turned it up. I was hoping maybe they'd do a more adjustments to the levels on the tracks, so certain samples would maybe stand out more and just give a different feel to the songs.
I have to agree the commentary is not particularly informative, but I think most people would be hard pressed to remember something they worked on 20 years ago with any clarity.
i haven't heard the commentary yet, but reading the complaints i'll say this:
1. don't expect much insight from them, their commentary has always been them goofin' around for the most part.
2. they did a lot of drugs during that era so that might not remember the sessions that well.
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