Top Ten Songs that Were Sampled on the Album Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys
Paul's Boutique is famous for using a tremendous wealth of samples (105, to be exact), which were put together by producers The Dust Brothers. The drum grooves themselves were mainly derived from mid to late 60s and 70s R&B and funk, but The Dust Brothers threw in a variety of samples from other sources as well; some of which were used for effect, and some of which were used for humor. I decided to start with ten songs from different tracks that represented some of the elements of what they were sampling. Please feel free to add more items to the list; at any rate, I will make sure that the list grows beyond ten items.
This is the synthesizer noise you hear in the breakdown of "Shake Your Rump." It samples two other songs from the Car Wash soundtrack.
From "The Sounds of Science," which is notable for sampling FIVE Beatles songs, including this one, "When I'm Sixty-Four," "Back in the USSR," "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," and "The End."
I've heard this particular Beatles song many times, and it never occurred to me that the drum intro would make the basis of a rap song, but the Dust Brothers did. They saw a possibility and took it, despite the risk.
This song forms the basis of "High Plains Drifter." The Eagles are another one of those bands that you would never be able to sample nowadays.
This song forms the main drumbeat for "Shadrach." "Funky Drummer" is notorious for being sampled by almost everybody, and this album is no exception.
Another example of the group's sense of humor. This piece is known as the music that plays in the shower murder scene from the movie Psycho.
The Dust Brothers sampled this in "Egg Man," which is a song about how the Beasties spent their free time egging people. Putting this piece in a song about throwing eggs makes the horror seem silly and ridiculous.
The Dust Brothers used the "Scratch Mix" of this song for the choruses of the song "Johnny Ryall." The Dust Brothers would later use it again in "Where It's At" by Beck, which is also famous for its eclectic use of samples.
From "Car Thief." As Ad-Rock says, "I'm a busted old gummy hurdy gurdy man," the drum fill from this song plays. A good example of the song matching the lyrics.
A short snippet of John Bonham's intro drum fill is used sporadically as a fill throughout "What Comes Around."
A brief snippet of the introduction can be heard throughout "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun." It's not as obvious as the other ones, but it's definitely there.
The last line in the song "High Plains Drifter" is "Suzy is a Headbanger," which is said by using a sample of The Ramones song.
In "Hey Ladies," the phrase "She thinks she's the passionate one" appears after Ad-Rock says, "Walking high and mighty like she's number one."
One band that the Beasties were never opposed to sampling was themselves. The intro to "The New Style" ("And on the cool check-in, center stage on the mic, and we're putting it on wax...") appears at the very end of "Johnny Ryall," rearranged to say "Check the cool wax."
The song's brief drum fill appears in the middle of "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun."
The backwards drums and guitar scratches were sampled on "59 Chrystie Street," the opening section of "B-Boy Bouillabaisse."
The phrase "You're gonna get yours" appears in the middle of "Egg Man."
The intro forms the basis of the "A Year and A Day" section of "B-Boy Bouillabaisse."
Sampled twice: once in "The Sounds of Science," and again in "B-Boy Bouillabaisse."
The intro is sampled in the breakdown of "Egg Man."
A brief snippet of the wind noise from the beginning of this song appears at the beginning of "Johnny Ryall."
The phrase "Out of the car, longhair!" appears in the middle of "High Plains Drifter."
"'Out of the car, longhair!' Your goose is cooked."
The phrase "Now they got me in a cell" appears in "Egg Man."
"'Now they got me in a cell,' but I don't care! It was then that I got caught catching people out there."
The intro to this song was sampled at the beginning of Egg Man and continues throughout much of the song.
The phrase "Who do you think you are?" in the chorus is sampled in the second verse of "Johnny Ryall."
"Louis Vuitton with the Gucci guitar. Johnny Ryall, 'Who do you think you are?'"
The phrase "Good Times" is sampled (via record scratching) in the intro to "A.W.O.L.," the last section of "B-Boy Bouillabaisse."