Volume 19, Track 1

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“To All The Girls” & “Shake Your Rump” by Beastie Boys (1989)

“To All The Girls” is the track that begins Paul’s Boutique and it bleeds right into “Shake Your Rump.” The former has a long fade intro (which is weird, considering it is only a minute and a half long) whereas the latter starts with very loud drum samples courtesy of Alphonse Mouzon’s “Funky Snakefoot.” Both set the tone for the album as a whole—”To All The Girls,” a foreshadowing of any reference/joke about girls and sex; “Shake Your Rump,” ditto, but also a tone-setter for the type of in-depth sampling that appears on the album throughout, as well as the lyrical cornucopia of frat humor and other intermittent absurdities.^[1] “Shake Your Rump” also has a terrific, exaggerated bass line at each of the breaks that was sampled from a Rose Royce song (I think). A fitting way to start a classic album, and a fitting way to get this volume started.

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[1] For example, “Like Sam the butcher bringing Alice the meat/Like Fred Flintstone driving around with bald feet/Should I have another sip?/No, skip it/In the back of the ride and bust with the whippet”

Category: Volume 19
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A series of 14-track (and sometimes 29-track) volumes that consist of songs that either time forgot about or are overshadowed by the artists' other work. Some of these volumes are artist-specific while others are simply eclectic; either way, they would make for good mixed tapes.