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Super creative.
Classy.
Not for me
Not my taste
Beastie Boys = National Treasure
4.5 If you made a top 25 list for Hip Hop, the Beastie Boys would be an honorable mention.
Not for me but props for not being boring
Honestly, I've always found this band pretty annoying. Would rather listen to just the Dust Bros without the annoying shouting
3 It felt somehow repetetive, some songs had it charms, but mostly no
Solid album
a classic
I love the Beastie Boys but...this album ain't it.
I am somewhat hesitant to admit that I have never heard this entire album. I quite liked the first two-thirds, but it got a bit raucous towards the end. I would definitely listen to this again!
I mean. I’m 52 years old. This is the easiest 5 star yet.
bursting with annoying 20 year old kid creativity
Funny at times
Not a fan of their debut but from Pauls Boutique through Hello Nasty there was no better hip hop group- maybe The Roots would be considered superior by most but I totally vibe with these three Jewish white boys from NYC. Teo of my all time favorite BB songs on here: Shake Your Rump and Hey Ladies. Its true they basically sampled everything on here but I give them props for the transformation of their sound and the funky tunes. A+++.
Surprising, I don't recognize any of these songs.
I don't know enough to gauge its historical or cultural impact, but I know I didn't really enjoy it or find it compelling
Ok
Licensed to ill over this.
a tad grating to thine ears at times, but mostly surprisingly enjoyed
Legends
I've never been sold on the Beastie Boys, atleast not on their lyrics and screaming party-rap. They're way too noisy and improvised for me. Listning to Paul's Boutique just confirmed me. My favorite album by the Beastie Boys is the instrumental album "The In Sound from Way out!" It has no lyrics and I really love it. I think that says a lot of my oppinion of the Beasties.
Hip hop has come a long way from 1989 and in that year the Beastie Boys had come a long way from their debut album with their second offering, Paul’s Boutique. Some of that evolution came from lyrics that were starting to move away from misogyny and homophobia and the whole frat boy rap sound they had on the first album, there’s still hints of it here but it’s still oceans away from where they were. The other major change was the involvement of the Dust Brothers as producers replacing Rick Rubin. This resulted in a more lush sound than the previous release. The funny thing is this was originally going to be a Dust Brothers instrumental album but the Beasties convinced them otherwise. This is was once the album containing the most samples ever, only to be eclipsed later by DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing and The Avalanches’ Since I Left You, both incredible albums that are pretty high on my all time favorites. I have a lot of memories attached to this album but it’s not my favorite Beasties album, that would probably go to one of the following 2 albums Check Your Head or Ill Communication. I would really like to hear Paul’s Boutique as an instrumental Dust Brothers release since the music is my favorite element. Otherwise a great moment in the constantly evolving world of Hip Hop.
Not my favorite album from them (Check Your Head is my favorite). It still has some of the fun, party style of Licensed to I'll, but this one is more mature. Shadrach is my favorite.
While I'm listening to Rush and Genesis in middle school, my friends were listening to Kid N' Play and Technotronic (if anything at all). Beastie Boys' License to Ill was an album that united us. I was surprised my dad didn't need much convincing to buy the record for me at Jamesway; I think this Air Force veteran was just happy to see that there was a plane on the cover. A couple of weeks later, my sister tried to get me in trouble for owning the album; as evidence of its inappropriateness, she showed my father the inner gatefold image where Mike D wore a pin that said "Oh Shit!" and the album sleeve showing the Boys and Rick Rubin dumping what looked like beer on their heads. I got a talking to, but ultimately could still listen . . . but I kept it on very low so it wouldn't be heard outside of my bedroom. Fast forward to 1989. I have my own money now, and the local BX carried Paul's Boutique on CD in the full cardboard sleeve (often times I would have to special order the music I wanted from them and wait some weeks for it to come in, but it was worth it for $10.25 per CD). Right there front and center, they slapped one of those new Parental Advisory stickers onto it. The idea at that time was that stores would not sell an album bearing that sticker to someone under 18 years old. I NEEDED this album (and to be the first in the crew to know all the new lyrics), but how would I convince some random stranger to buy this for me in the electronic department while my folks were in another department? Certainly after the License To Ill fiasco, my parents wouldn't buy it for me, especially now that it had the Parental Advisory sticker. Obviously my sister wouldn't be any help. Could I peel the sticker off?? It's just a sticker on shrinkwrap. Long story short, I go to the counter and attempt to buy it as is, heart racing and feeling like a criminal. It was a transaction like any other; no request for an ID or an adult. I was in the clear, and my parents didn't question what I bought when we left together. Owning this CD was a bit of a secret, and I kept it hidden in the very back slot in the CD drawer. I made sure to only listen to this on my headphones. What was THIS?? Certainly not License To Ill rhymes over metal guitars and bombastic drums. And they are openly cursing, talking about dicks and drugs. But also . . . breaking the beat for out-of-time samples, soulful backup singer vocals, banjo pickin' and rodeo calls, droppin' science, Disco Dave's new wave guitar sounds, Donald Trump and Donald Tramp living in a men's shelter, and somehow finding a way to rhyme with Horowitz. The last track is "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" but this whole album is a bouillabaisse mixture of everything from everywhere. I didn't care for the adult content where I couldn't openly listen to it in front of my parents--or even now, in front my kids--but I seemed to enjoy it before the rest of the world. It didn't matter that I learned the words, none of my friends had this album. MTV dropped "Hey Ladies" from their rotation and didn't touch other videos from this album (which I didn't know existed until the YouTube playlist). This album came and went but somehow earned its deserved respect in retrospect as the Beasties kept reinventing themselves on subsequent albums, adding punk and relaxed instrumental grooves to their growing bag of tricks. At the time I didn't see this as a workshop on cultivating and layering samples from a wide array of genres and media; I just liked all of the sounds at face value and not what they represented or the deep reference from where it was pulled. Over the years since, I would catch glimpses of some of these samples in the originals on the radio. (I actively sought out the opening sample, and discovered a love for the jazz of Idris Muhammad.) It's funny, listening back now to "59 Chrystie Street," I have a different interpretation of this song of a girl with long brown hair undressing before them. I've always thought the unmentioned thing they saw when her pants were removed was a vagina (shock-factor enough for middle school me), but now late-40's me interprets it as a penis. Does this say something about the times, an expansion of worldview, or just about me personally?? Personal favorite is "High Plains Drifter," but there's really not a miss on this album; Paul's Boutique keeps the groove coming with enough funky and trippy sidesteps to keep your attention. A needed departure from the rude and disrespectful drunk-party-boy collective persona presented on License To Ill, Paul's Boutique reasses what these three are capable of and sets them off in the right direction for the remainder of their career.
Pros: 1) The sampling, beats, and mixing is off the chain--kaleidescopic! 2) They "got more rhymes than Jamaica got mango." (Speaking of Jamaica, it's easy to see how much West Indian influence there is in early Hip Hop via this album.) 3) They are moving away from their bratty immature frat boy image that was so prevalent on Licensed to Ill. Cons: 1) The flow and delivery is, shall we say, of its time, reflecting the rap style of that era. But I feel like they kind of held on to that over the years and it's part of their signature. 2) Their voices can be a bit shrill and grating (okay, not Yauch). But it is what it is; they are young, Jewish Brooklynites. This also kind of became their signature. 3) They haven't quite moved away *enough* from their immature vibe. A lot of "cutie with a booty" "ya wife" "ya girl," etc. This is before they had Kathleen Hanna and Free Tibet come into their lives and it shows. But the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and I feel like this album is that first step to where they would eventually go. All the awesome sampling and everything that's good about this album (all done pre-digitally!) overrides any flaws. 3.5
When hip hop was hip hop. I liked this one. It's my least listened to Beastie Boys album. It's a throw back in time to fun, innovation and just making crafty rhymes. I feel like this is a transitional album where you see what they are about to become. The big ones on here for me are 'Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun' and 'Egg Man'. This one made me realize that sampling seems to be a lost art in mainstream hip hop today.
I think this is their best--still find it exhausting to be hollered at by three dudes for an hour, but the beats are 100% dope on this one.
This is the one album I started on this list and just couldn't get through.
Aye these boys can rap! I never listened to a full Beastie Boys project because it just never crossed my mind to. I came not expecting much and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this music. Especially the B-Boy Bouillabaisse section of the album. It kinda showcased their ability to rap on a variety of different beats. Solid project!
I may have liked this if it came out when I was 10.
Was never a huge fan. Gets monotonous. Can only take a couple of songs
eins der Drei grossen BB Alben, aber nicht Top-1
Didn’t like this as much as Licensed to Ill and wasn’t familiar with any of the songs. Definitely sounds like the Beastie Boys! I think I would have been really into them if they had been popular when I was a teenager. 2.5 rounding up to 3.
Although I liked License to Ill a bit (grade of 3), this wasn’t as good. A small dose of this goes a long way.
One of my favorite albums ever. If I remember the 33 1/3 correctly, the dust brothers recorded all the samples on the album (104 of them, according to Wikipedia) directly to tape, meaning they’d have to rewind the tape and line up the timing exactly right to layer another sample or vocals on top of it. The care that went into this production is incredible. And they almost got sued by the Beatles, so they’ve got that going for them. Favorite couplets: There’s more to me than you’ll ever know / And I got more hits than Sadaharu Oh Washing windows on the Bowery at a quarter to four / ‘cause he ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s Farm no more I’m doing 120, plowing over mailboxes / radar detector, to tell me where the cops is Cash flow getting low, so I had to pull a job / found a nice place to visit, but a better place to rob Because it’s all high spirit, you know you got to hear it / Don’t touch the mic, baby, don’t come near it Because I got more stories than JD’s got Salinger / I hold the title and you are the challenger
Way too shouty but liked the instrumentals (not that much tho so I rate it 1.7)
Too shouty, some interesting samples tho
Not the best beastie boys
Jarring as hell but some songs decent
Tuvo bueno pero sentí que escuche la misma canción como 15 veces, not my cup of tea. 5/10
I am not a fan of hip-hop and never will be
Masters of sampling. This album is often overlooked.
Love this album, even with (or because of) all the sampling. Just a lot of fun.
It remains the same, whether black, white or any other shade, I only like hip hop in exceptional cases. I just don't understand it. It's the same here. The aggressive shouting of the kids makes me aggressive myself. I was surprised when I read that the Dust Brothers produced the album. Their film music is one of my favorites. This album is far away from this. 1/5
Love it.
The Beastie Boys make fun music with great production. You can just feel the connection between all the boys. There's also some pretty innovative production through sample choices and the beats that they rap over. I can see the influence in modern rappers like Denzel Curry's production. Best Songs: Egg Man, Hey Ladies, What Comes Around, B-Boy Bouillabaise Worst Songs: Johnny Ryall, Shadrach,
Like the samples, fun to recognize a handful of them. Still not a huge BBoys guy though. Very song-dependent.
100/1001 🌕🌗🌑🌑🌑
5/24/24. Big fan of the Beastie Boys, some standouts on this one. However I don’t think it’s among their best.
I listened to this literally the day before this for the first time because it was on apples top 100 💀 Surely the frat boys at the time ATE this up
fire record, no skips, energetic and interesting through it all
I know it's genre defining and all but there's lots of Beastie Boys stuff I much prefer.
A pioneering alternative hip hop release that still slaps front to back.
So good, masterclass in sampling.
No notes!
01) To All the Girl - 7,5 02) Shake Your Rump - 7,5 03) Johnny Ryall - 7,5 04) Egg Man - 7,5 05) High Plains Drifter - 7,0 06) The Sounds of Science - 6,5 07) 3-Minute Rule - 7,0 08) Hey Ladies - 7,0 09) 5-Piece Chicken Dinner - / 10) Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun - 7,5 11) Car Thief - 7,0 12) What Comes Around - 7,0 13) Shadrach - 7,5 14) Ask for Janice - / 15) B-Boy Bouillabaisse a. 59 Chrystie Street - 6,5 b. Get on the Mic - 6,5 c. Stop That Train - 7,5 d. A Year and a Day - 7,0 e. Hello Brooklyn - 7,0 f. Dropping Names - 7,5 g. Lay It on Me - 6,5 h. Mike on the Mic - 6,5 i. A.W.O.L. - 6,5 TOTAL: 7,05 (71/100) Current ranking: 124/189 Not really my type of music but in any case they are better than gangsta rap. And they are waaaaay better than Drake :-P
I've never really gotten into this one, but have always been intrigued by the critical acclaim. Listening to it again now, I can see why it's considered so influential. It has great production and samples, but the lyrics are still painfully immature in places. It's a big improvement on Licenced to Ill though. Shake Your Rump, Egg Man Shadrach and A Year And A Day are definitely the highlights for me. Hey Ladies is definitely a lowlight. I had a second listen on my good headphones, and the quality of the production and sampling is incredible for the time, considering it would been all analogue (I think). It's amazing that they were able to secure some of these samples..."Sounds of Science" for example, contains multiple Beatles samples. The production bumps this up to a 4 for me - would be a 5 if the lyrics were less sexist and cringe.
Not bad, pretty classic hip hop
Vriament du fun à écouter, catchy et très bien réalisé, très créatif, je comprend pourquoi c'est un landmark album.
I smoked up a bag of elephant tranquilizer.
Still fun, still in your face. Wonderful in small doses
Not my bag but it is objectively good
3.75
Too much of an OK thing. A landmark in sample-based production, the problem is it is full of reminders of cool soul and jazz and reggae and bluegrass tracks I'd rather be listening to instead.
The Sounds Of Science really kicked in this album for me. dude this album GOES places.
I didn't know that I didn't need this in my life until I listened to it. Their timing is good it's just not really for me. Kind of reminds me of a parody. Like, I could (and have) listen to Weird Al songs on a regular but I don't have any interest in listening to an album to straight through..if that makes sense.
So good
eu não faço a menor ideia do que eles tão cantando mas o instrumentais são detalhados de uma maneira q meu amigo
I can acknowledge that the production is great and also feel like I just didn't enjoy listening to most of it. I think I like the Beastie Boys stupider than this!
I love the Beasties. Like with most of my listening, I have rarely sat down and listened to their albums. Paul's Boutique is interesting. They've done their "we want to be punks" thing and have realised hip hop is where it's at for them. So this very distilled hip hop. Like they're trying to find that balance of their particular brand of noise. I really enjoyed it. Very lo-fi, they sound like they are loving the process of it all. It's not wall-to-wall bangers, but it's a very good album.
I believe I know a couple songs off this album. Don't really remember too much of it. I do recall listening to this album a couple years back, listening to Beastie's discography.
Solid album. The cadence of all 3 guys it’s truly cool. No bangers, but solid songs.
I liked it. Apple Music had a great long spiel about how they were just ahead of their time and that’s why no one liked it. But we are now ahead of that time so I did like it.
Vocally I found it a bit much, awesome music
Enjoyed much. Just not a form of music I go for often.
Some is ok. So.e sound like high school kids goofing around in their basement.
I know this album well and like it a lot. It’s a classic but I’m lopping a star off because some tracks don’t feel that essential.
I’ll admit, back in the day it took me a while to get into this. After repeated listens it really grew on me and is now one of my favourite albums by them…
Samples, witty lyrics, edgy rap, great pace and catchy bass riffs
The Beastie Boys SUCK and that's a FACT, I think they are fucking WHACK! Seriously though, there has never been a hip-hop act with less swag than these guys, Gen X can keep them.
Classic And Best Beastie Boys Album.
Of all the albums described as the “Sgt. Peppers of XYZ genre,” this is hands down my favorite. But I’m as a girl who gets weak at the knees whenever she talks to some quirked up white boiz with a penchant for just saying whatever stupid shit comes to their brain, so I’m a bit biased.
own
Gotta love the beastie boys
Sampling: 5 Beats: 5 Production: 5 Performance and vocals: 1 Too much screaming!
tre politico perché queste due canzoni carine, ma decisamente troppo sbatti cercarmele tutte
un'altra mina hip hop. ho adorato le tracce con le basi rock/punk, sapendo che loro erano un gruppo punk che si è spostato verso l'hip hop ha molto senso ed è super efficace. bello bello bello.
Bel sound + ironia. Ci sta. Non mi dispiacerebbe essere loro amica, sembrano simpatici.
Non so cosa sia successo, sono stato stregato dal fascino dello scapestrato
How did I not have this album committed to memory when I was in high school? Great stuff.
Ugh Shouty middle class american brats. 'Oooh but the samples are the best' Listen to the originals that they sampled then!"
4-
I almost cried because all I wanted was to see them perform this album. That will never happen. Dreams don’t come true 4.8
I'm a sucker for rap duos
As far as Beastie Boys albums go this sounds like what it is: a transition album. But it also has its own huge merits. It is quite unique in that this is the one record where they pushed themselves to experiment with sampling as far as they could at the time. And far they went. There is no way this record could be done today, with this amount of sampling. It would cost a fortune (which apparently it did, by the way!). These are a bunch of snotty kids from NY, raised on bad jokes and underage drinking, and this sense permeates the record. It's funny, full of energy, it's all over the place, it's often really dumb (Johnny Ryall?), inappropriate (Hey Ladies?), and it borders on chaos. But it's also incredibly tight and cohesive, sonically speaking. It is relentless in its experimentation. It is urban music. Chaotic, hot, loud. It often feels like standing on a street corner and having all the sounds of city swirling by you. People run around, bump into you, everywhere you look there is something interesting and weird going on, and many stories are happening at the same time. Characters come and go, say one word and disappear. It's as disorienting and attention competing as modern life. It's also sunny and unthreatening. And there are the Boys, trying their best to help us keep up with their experience in this world. There is a deep love and reverence for the music that brought them here and the characters that opened to them the doors to this strange and fascinating world. After this one they went back to their instruments and brought back their hardcore roots into the mix, finding the sound they came to be most known for. But they would build on the seeds planted here, where they positioned themselves as serious artists in their own right. This here is a classic. I have been visiting for close to 30 years and will definitely be back.
I don’t quite understand the beastie boys. And this albums all over the fucking place. Some pretty entertaining songs though.
Ended up dragging on a bit too long. I think I just don’t really like the Beastie Boys, but I understand the relevance of this album
Fantastic album
Eh
Different vibe to their other stuff
Didn't need the whole album
Vibrantly creative and full of bravado, this album is so much fun to listen to. Snotty and irreverent and smarter than it has any right to be. This is about as rich and eclectic an album as you will find in hip hop, with some of the most nimble uses of sampling ever recorded. Fave Songs: Shake Your Rump, Egg Man, Hey Ladies, Shadrach, Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun, Car Thief
B-Boys at their best
Beastie Boys are great!
Ok
Not their best, still decent
I haven’t listened to this is years, but it’s a ton of fun. Hip hop isn’t usually in my wheelhouse, but this one is hard to resist.
Honestly a damn good record. Loved the sampling and even though i hated the shouting or rapping , it came around to me eventually
So Sporadic but So loveable 🔥🔥 the synergy between them are rarely matched.
Absolute chaos with a superfly sample
some of it is great. it loses me in other places gets a bit wacky.
Yeah this was quite good. Early hip hop album I guess and it all works quite well
This is a really good album , i really enjoyed it
Important if you like hip hop. I don’t.
Favorite track: Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
Heaps of fun but at some point becomes too much of a good thing.
Ton of fun, not deep in any way but it doesn't need to be. Just guys having a good time and I had a good time with them
I enjoyed this much more than I expected to- many memories!
Nope
This is a lot of fun! It's not what I particularly want to get out of music, but I can see why a lot of people love the Beastie Boys. If I was being purely honest, I'd probably give this 2 stars. But that feels lame. Also, I feel like Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping would exist without the Beastie Boys, so this earns that bonus star. I'm a Style Boy for life!
This album is just incredible. I can't imagine how much it would cost to use all these samples if it were made today.
Always fun
“It’s a trip, it’s got a funky beat and I can bug out to it”
- love the jammyness of the syncopation - vocals kinda give musical theatre rap - some rlly cool percussion parts w woodblock and bongos
You know you’re listening to art when they say ‘humpth dumpty was a big fat egg’ Some cool rhythm bits buts cannnnootttt enjoy this type of vocals. Somewhat enjoyed ‘looking down the barrel of a gun’.
pretty memeish funky music.. would be elite if it wasnt so american like his voice is annoying in a similar way to the hilltop hoods. lol they both white kinda cringy hiphop groups thats probs why. feels bad they dont get to say the n-word unlucky boys https://youtu.be/Kppx4bzfAaE?si=F-Nu7UZnq1zxKlfL big genre range… 5-piece chicken dinner is like hill billy music and the next song has metal guitar and like bongo drums!? opening song is saucy jazzy horny intro song i bet they just put in so they can make the crowd cheer during concerts
Really enjoyed this album, especially the samples and grooves. Although the delivery can be grating at times, the vocals are on the whole enjoyable and the interplay between vocal parts is cool. Fav tracks: shake your rump, hey ladies, looking down the barrel of a gun, shadrach Rating: 4/5
innovative and very enjoyable to listen to!
Not my cup of tea
Lacks any real hooks or truly memorable moments, but has a distinctive style/flow.
I can see the appeal, but BB isn't generally something I'd listen to much
It's not the best Beastie Boys album, but it's good. It's definitely them from beginning to end. Tons of energy, in you face lyrics, and a lot of whimsical interjections.
Den vanliga beastie boys energin fast med bättre produktion och beats än de andra albumen ja hört av dem
Only so much People Shouting into the Microphone I can take
Fun
Favourite track: Egg Man/The Sounds of Science
loved it. and it's my bf fav band so :)
This is one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time and a master class in sampling. Easily the best Beastie Boys album. The was they wove so many different songs and styles together that there are web sites dedicated to listing the little snippets and phrases; there are just too many to catch otherwise. It is also astounding how seamless some of the transitions in B Boy Bouillabaisse are. Just a great album from start to finish.
Yo yo yo .. hell no
Musically liked this. The backing tracks were great. The Beastie Boys' *whole thing* doesn't need more than 35 minutes, however. Took a break around that point. Went back to it begrudgingly, but ended up liking the back half.
Sufficiently different from the other beastie boys albums on the list to be interesting, but idk that it holds a candle to either of them
The more Beastie Boys we listen to, the less I enjoy it. I did really like that multi-part song at the end though because I liked the variety. But I'm just sick of this group.
I guess this was a departure from License to Ill in that I didn't find any of these songs particularly fun. Without as much entertainment value, this means it feels more fratty and less compelling to me, although it seems critics disagree.
It's an okay album. I can definitely see the appeal to it. I really liked the instrumentals and the backbeats, but the rapping got quite annoying quickly. The lyrics were fun but yeah, it was pretty underwhelming.
Thesis 2022, Unreal
Classic Beastie Boys. Great if you're into them but the yell rapping can get old after a while. 5/10 (2.5/5)
Thoroughly enjoy the Beasties. Paul's Boutique has a smoother, more musical feel with less frat-boy anthem efforts. A favorite.
Fun! Beastie boys rock
So if you had never heard the Beastie Boys before, or maybe more interestingly if you had never heard music before, and were coming at this totally blind with no preconceptions at all, I feel like your first thought would be "wow this is terrible". And objectively I think I kind of agree. I don't think novel production methods and recording in random apartments in LA make a good album. Sure it was different for the time, that doesn't mean it's good. But then I remember this list is 1001 albums to hear before you die, not 1001 good albums to hear before you die. So should this be on the list? Yeah I guess so just because it was different at the time it was made. Do I enjoy it? No. It's too bad because I do like some of the Beastie Boys other stuff, but I am not a fan of hip hop at all, and I suppose this counts. I'll give it a 2/5 because it's not terrible to listen to like a lot of other hip hop but it lacks anything that would make me want to listen again.
Feeling generous giving this one 4 because I can’t stand how the Beastie Boys sound, however the use of samples on this album is absolutely fantastic. Made me forgot for a good portion how utterly awful the vocals sound.
Meh. Fairly boring.
Strongly agree with the all caps review
Seminal album from the Boyz. has a few real surprises. Glad I took a listen.
Not my kind of music but I was entertained. Songs had a good start but the songs droned on.
Een verlate review, maar dit album is zeker niet even snel beluisterd. Hier is de tijd voor genomen, want dit album is van top tot teen een sample tempel. Van James Brown tot de Beatles tot Sly and the family Stone, de Dust Brothers en de joodse boys hebben aardig lopen cratediggen. En daar ligt voor mij ook het voornaamste plezier in dit album: het ontdekken en opzoeken van alle gebruikte samples. Los daarvan komen de stemmen weer keihard op de nummers met raunchy en ruige teksten. Dat het album geweldig in elkaar zit is mij duidelijk geworden. Wat ik echter niet verwacht had is dat ik eigenlijk Ill Communication nóg iets beter vind. Het luistert net wat makkelijker weg, en heeft net wat meer punk geluid dat vaak naadloos overgaat in de hiphop. Dat is hier wat minder, dit album is een frankenstein: een aan elkaar genaaide monster van een plaat. Rating: 8,5/10 Highlights: Shake Your Rump, Egg Man, Looking Down Rhe Barrel Of A Gun
De titel van de song 'The Sounds of Science' slaat de spijker op z'n kop bij het omschrijven van dit album. Uit dat nummer blijkt dat Beastie Boys zich er echt wel van bewust waren dat ze het Hip Hop genre bijna met academische precisie naar een hoger level tilde. Als je het hebt over evolutie van het rap-genre en urban music in general, dan is dit mogelijk de belangrijkste pioniersoort die als één van de eerste het habitat der sampledelia betrad. Waar de golden age van de Hip Hop, die zijn hoogtijdagen vierde eind jaren 80, gedomineerd werden door een MC en een sidekick DJ, was dit een verschuiving naar meer sonische experimentatie met MC's die zich aanpaste aan de tot in de precisie uitgemeten lagen aan samples. Het is daardoor niet alleen een Hip Hop album die geroemd is door mensen in de gelijknamige scene, maar kent ook vele fans uit de Trip Hop, de funk, de jazz, de rock en de electronica wereld. Ik denk alleen dat hij daarin al uniek is. Waar ik bij 'Ill Communication' soms m'n vraagtekens had bij de dynamiek tussen de eentonige stemgeluiden en de samples, rijden die twee nu echt perfect op de zelfde golflengte. De wacky lyrics vol absurde (onvolwassen) humor matchen eigenlijk over de hele lengte van het album met een eclectisch palet aan samples. De meerlaagse productie houdt de uitbundige vocalen in toom, en geeft de luisteraar ook voortdurend even rust om te genieten van een jazz-passage of een funky bassline. Vooral in die tweede excelleert dit album. Je hoort de dooddoener "je kunt niet stil zitten bij deze muziek" net iets te vaak, dat lukt me eigenlijk altijd wel, maar deze barst van de aanstekelijk energie. Weinig momenten waar de groove echt onderbroken wordt. Het klinkt raar, maar de kracht van dit album is de absentie van een 'Fight For Your Right' en een 'Sabotage'. De plaat leeft van z'n consistentie, waar een absolute banger ook andere songs kan doen verbleken. Ik heb wel echt persoonlijke favorieten, maar vraag het 100 mensen en je zult een hoop verschillende antwoorden horen. Het is een museum van de samplekunst, zonder een Nachtwacht die alle aandacht trekt. Het is die ene zaal waar het wat rustiger is, waardoor je alle ruimte hebt om élk schilderij van dichtbij te bekijken. De schilderijen waar ik wat langer bij blijf staan zijn dan wel ten eerste 'Shake Your Rump', P-Funk van de bovenste plank die de briljante chemie tussen de boys etaleert. En dan naar 'Sounds of Science', een Beatles mash-up par excellence zoals letterlijk alleen zij dat kunnen, ongekend in de Hip Hop wereld en onnavolgbaar groovy. Vervolgens naar 'Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun', met de metal riff waar je smerig van gaat kijken en de moddervette proto-Trip Hop drums. En als laatste nog even blijven hangen bij 'Car Thief'. Geen idee wat daar allemaal gebeurt qua geluiden maar ik hou van elke seconde. Alternatieve Hip Hop wat pas echt furore ging maken eind jaren 90 onder leiding van DOOM. Pioniers, niets meer en niets minder. In conclusie, het genre dat absoluut gedomineerd werd door de zwarte urbanite, kwam op dat ene moment in 1989 eventjes in handen van 3 witte Joodse jongens uit New York. Een korte wisseling van de wacht met verstrekkende gevolgen. 9/10 Highlights: Shake Your Rump The Sounds of Science Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun Car Thief
Zondag organiseer ik een fietsevenementje Ik heb DJ Youri gevraagd daar wat plaatjes te komen draaien. Als hiphop 'connaisseur' heb ik hoge verwachtingen van de plaatjes waarmee hij op de proppen zal komen om de taaie heupjes van al die wielrenners toch wat te laten bewegen. Ergens zie ik een soort Beastie Boys show voor me waar DJ Youri de ene rock-sample na de andere door elkaar mixed en lekker scheutig is met scratcher. En waar hij over de beats heen schreeuwt zoals Adrock naar Mike-D. Ik weet dat het wat teveel gevraagd is, maar tijdens het luisteren van Pauls Boutique staat dat beeld op mijn netvlies gebrand. En toch is het een bijzonder knap werk van de 3 witte joodse jongens uit New York. 8/10
The Beastie Boys make some of the most restless music I've ever heard. They rip through samples of other songs like kids in a candy store. I thought the sample of "Superfly" was bold on "Egg Man" but then they top it by sampling The Beatles on "The Sounds of Science." So much fun to listen to these songs and get constant whiplash. I'm enjoying reading about the making of the album on Wikipedia. The Dust Brothers are apparently the geniuses behind the music and they apparently thought the beats would be too dense for anyone to rap over. The lyrics are the usual goofball antics from The Beastie Boys but the vocals are all about attitude and style. And the music is so consistently interesting and exciting that I don’t care if the lyrics are silly and juvenile. 4.5
What an impressive fade in to start track 1. I'm not listening on headphones (and low volume sounds are more prominent on headphones than speakers naturally) so unless I'm missing something there, it doesn't really have audible sounds until around 30 seconds which is a crazy long amount of time. Then it gives you a smooth jazz type groove to start? That is such an interesting but fun idea. The production is so good, the performances are so good, the lyrics are so good. But the one facet that stands out to me every time I hear this band is their energy. It's more than their coolness, their swagger, their volume. It's this bubbling excitement that threatens to appear in the verses and then explodes in the choruses. It's just easy to get pumped up when this music is on. For me it's a hard rate because I think it could be either a 4 or a 5 and it probably lives somewhere in between those two points. It's one of the better rap albums around but to me it's obviously not as monumental as "Licensed to Ill", which is my favorite of theirs. So if that is a 5, then this is like a 4.5. Still a bonafide classic.
Not exactly my bag but I remember a lot if these from when I was a kid.
loved the samples
Amazing production
Great hip-hop album. Really fun and great production. A classic for a well deserved reason. 4/5
...dafür bin ich nicht nur zu alt, sondern froh...
80s white rap? Kinda? This doesn’t seem like music I should enjoy, but I did. The voices should sound annoying, but they never bothered me. To be honest, the whole album sounded like one song, but it kept me engaged the whole time. I can’t quite pinpoint what made it so much more enjoyable than Limp Bizkit. The layering is really interesting and diverse. Very fun album. I don’t know what the B-Boy Bouillabaisse are supposed to be though.— After finishing the album, they’re short raps over cool beats— Standouts: Johnny Ryall, High Plains Drifter, 3-Minute Rule, Hey Ladies, What Comes Around, and Shadrach.
Hip hop yoo
Rating: 10/10 Classic album, one of the best hip-hop albums of all time. The sampling and production on this album is legendary, so diverse and fun to listen to. The amount of samples that were used is incredible and the fact that it all meshes so well is even more incredible; nothing on here feels forced. The Beastie Boys are having fun throughout the entire album, nothing serious lyrically but their interplay is fantastic. This is an album that was groundbreaking back then and still sounds amazing today; a timeless classic. Favorite songs: pretty much all of them. Least favorite song: High Plains Drifter.
a premier example in sample-based beats. Experimental, innovative, somewhat psychedelic, but also just a ton of fun. The sonics here are outstanding and the music is as essential to this album as the rapping. Samples come from a wide variety of sources and really make this a particularly interesting and unique album that’s both insanely dense but also smooth and not overwhelming. The Beastie Boys are in top form on this one - some people may not like their sound but if you do, this album hits all the right notes. Plus, it has 5-Piece Chicken Dinner. An essential album for anyone who enjoys hip hop. It’s great on a first listen, and the appreciate and respect just grows the deeper you dive - infinitely rewarding.
Got more hits than Sadaharu Oh. God this is just wonderful, wonderful stuff. Just listening to B-Boy Bouillabaisse again just slaps such a bigass smile on my face. No unexpected bangers. Just sheer genius and flow. Shake your rump-a!
Hey Ladies, that’s one fun ride! Crafty and clever, liked it from start to finish. I think I heard more than one guest appearance by The Pest… (3.6*s)
The sampling, beats, collaging of styles, and energy here all deserve high marks. If there were an instrumental version of this album, I'd love it because the Dust Brothers crush it. That being said, Mike D.'s voice is so f-ing annoying I really can't take much of it. For this reason, I've never really liked the Beastie Boys. I can't get past a bunch of white boys shouting nonsense rap burns at me repeatedly. Truly a shame because they definitely have some good points and are very original. I liked some tracks on here better than their usual comedy rap ballads so I'll give them that.
Pretty fun album. Always felt most of the Beastie Boys material sounds like a parody of hip-hop so not my fave. Highlight here is the Dust Bros mixing/production. Mike D is kind of annoying and I think I would like this better without the BBoys. Major influence on 2 Skinnee J's
I dug it. A little all over the place but a lot of fun. I'll always give credit to BB for doing something original and carving out a niche that worked for them. Love the various sampling sprinkled all over the place. I've been exposed to plenty of Beastie over the years through pop culture but I should definitely give the rest of their collection a good listen. This only piqued my interest in them further. 3.51 stars
4,5
Classic nostalgia from the 90s
Super fun
Great for the time but man it all just sounds so lame now. The beats are wildly simplistic and repetitive. Does not age well. Really sounds like one of those groups that would 100% sound better live. Their remastered albums sound hyper clean, flat and one dimensional. Same problem I have with some of the Ramones, and even Rage Against the Machine for example. Less of a critique on the artists tho, idk.
ITS VERY FUCKING NASAL ISNT IT.
Beastie Boys are always a fun time. I don't necessarily have a favorite song, but I love their sound. Favorite tracks: - Shake Your Rump - Johnny Ryall - Egg Man - The Sounds of Science - Hey Ladies - Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun - Shadrach
I really don't like the Beatie Boys' yelling rap style, or the way they finish each other's sentences. The sequence of short songs at the end of the album particularly grates. If this was an instrumental album, it would probably earn 2 more stars from me.
Solid album, was not really aware of this one before. Great sampling and beats, definitely ahead of its time.
I like the beastie boys but listening to an entire album of theirs is a bit much.
I cannot help but cringe. This sounds just like a bunch of teens desperately trying to be cool. Thinking, "It's hip hop as long as there is a beat and the lyrics somehow rhyme".
Pretty fun listen
I always considered myself to be an `Ill Communication`/`Hello Nasty`-era Beastie Boys fan, and a recent listen of `License To Ill` actually cemented that view even more. I enjoyed this listen of Paul's Boutique much more than I thought I would and also more than I remembered from my last listen (which would have been some time ago). Easy 4 star rating - could edge into a 5 on the right day!
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A great album to get dressed to after a night of poor sleep. Not so good when trying to meditate. I liked the first track best and would happily have listened to more like this. The rest I found a bit high-energy, but that's more a reflection on my current mood than the music of the Beastie Boys. I particularly enjoyed reading the lyrics whilst listening, wondering what would come next. Overall, not bad, will probably listen again some time.
not as good as other albums, but still solid. listened 3x. 4.0/5
Brilliant throughout
Hip hop rock jazz funk. Te hace mover la cabeza. Este album de ellos no me ha aburrido al final como "Ill Communication". Así que 4.
This album is an insane powerhouse of sampling and just pure confidence, but not in a way that comes off as smug, rather something more fun to be around that knows its hot shit and you agree. Nothing like this could be made today, and even if it was, it would cost millions to clear, and ain't no way there would be a whole song of Beatles samples. Despite it being a party album through-and-through, just like Licensed to Ill, it has a new sense of maturity to it that comes with the expert level production and flow of each verse that's shared so perfectly between Mike D, Ad Rock, and MCA that it doesn't have the choppiness issue many rap groups tend to have. Everything here is so professional despite how loose it is, and it just feels like the pinnacle of hip-hop in the 80s. Everything changed after this record, sadly for better and worse, but the fact that we got something so funky just in time really feels like a gift more than anything. Flaws include that it feels a tad long, and due to its nature it can feel repetitive tonally, but the change-ups instrumentally are well worth seeing this album through, especially with some of the best beats coming from the last stretch in B-Boy Bouillabaisse. I can now see why this is considered Beastie Boy's crowning achievement.
Sounds of Science
Not their best album, but I am not objective about the Beastie Boys and they would never get lower than a 4 from me. Great album!
Absolutely wild in the best way. I was a little skeptical when I read that this album has a heavy use of samples, but I love how smartly they are woven into the songs. Almost feel like easter eggs. Every song is enjoyable and fun
It’s a great album. 4
Super fun record. So many cool samples. Production absolutely slaps on a decent stereo with subwoofers. A few tracks I'd throw on at a party but tbh probs won't listen again front to back any time soon.
Wanted to like this one a lot more than I did, but it wasn’t a bad experience at all!!! It feels like the kind of album that I would love to hear at a house party rather than something for dedicated listening. The music and the sampling are fantastic, and I know the lyrics are meant to be nonsense but… I’m past the point where I go out of my way to seek teenage shouting about made up gangster encounters and wild nights out. Put this stuff at a party though and you’ve got me hooked.
Fun early Beastie.
Unfortunately I didn't like it
The samples are nice, as a classic rock fan there's always something familiar. But the voices... one hour of shouting in my face... really not my thing.
Nostalgic. Fun. 4/5
2/5
I really like the samples here, they're really cool. The only thing I dislike about this album is that is repetitive sometimes and a bit of the shouting. Cool album.
No music, just rap and noise
favourite song: looking down the barrel of a gun i enjoyed this quite a bit but the only drawback is that it gets fairly repetitive
BBs walked so Lonely Island could run.
Best Beasties album. It's Leo pointing at the TV except it is actually just Ricky yelling out classic rock samples. Vinyl is definitely worth it for the production quality of this one. 4/5
"Paul's Boutique" is the second album by American hip hop group Beastie Boys. It was produced by the Beastie Boys and the Dust Brothers and extensively uses samples drawn from funk, soul, jazz and rock. In fact, 105 or more samples are used which had a far less licensing cost than in today's world. The album is considered a landmark in the golden age of hip hop and a seminal work in sample-based production. It was commercially unsuccessful compared to their debut hitting #14 in US and #44 in the UK charts. The first full song is "Shake Your Rump." A hip hop beat and groove. The rapping is quick among the three Beastie Boys. Layered samples coming right after each other. A personal favorite of mine is "Johnny Ryall." It has slower beat and is about a homeless man. 11 songs are sampled including Pink Floyd. Who knew the Eagles "Those Shoes" could be incorporated into a good song? The Beastie Boys did in "High Plains Drifter." The boys go gansta here. They get a great groove going in "Hey Ladies" with apparently had 20 samples including the Commodores. Their second single "Shadrach" gets the groove going also with some scratching included. It's only a matter before you need to call on James Brown for some samples. It's a modern retelling of the biblical story of three men refusing to kneel before a king and are saved by angels after being thrown in a kiln. The album closes with the epic "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" and its nine suites. The music constantly changes as we get a world-wind tour of NYC. 26 or so samples were used including memorable ones of the Isley Brothers' "That Lady" and Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues." This is a great album. There is just brilliant use of samples. Some of the samples are one-second brief with others carrying throught the whole song. They're also layered and musically over over place (rock, soul, jazz, blues). You could listen to this album multiple times and hear something different each time just given the sheer volume of samples. The lyrics are in-your-face, fast, funny and clever...lots of pop references. I'll say my most overused word this week again: a classic.
hmm... mixed bag. the songs themselves were kind of similar but i did enjoy the vibe. looking down the barrel of a gun especially good though. their voices are kinda of high pitched and annoying but ... i think I'll give bonus points cause i was kinda grooving 3/5
Classic!
Paul’s Boutique is better than Licensed To Ill. Fight me.
Not my favorite Beastie Boys album but still great. Creative sample use and wicked flow.
Love the sampling but too much shouting for my taste
Tough one. The mixing is amazing. Fantastic use of sampling makes some tracks really fun to listen to. It's a shame I just don't gel with their style of "shout-rapping" and reminds me why I could never really get into the Beastie Boys. I gave this album two listens and definitely really enjoyed some songs. I was originally going to go 3 stars but I think by the end of the second playthrough I'll go 4.
"Humpty dumpty was a big fat egg". What a fun and unique album. Definitely embodies a unique sound of the 80's.
Look, I even bought Licence for Ill. And I'm sure the samples are very clever and the lyrics socially aware. If I were to cite a rap artist as being important I'd probably choose somebody like the beastie Boys or Run DMC. But thirty five years on this just makes my head hurt. The first 90 second sugegsted a more grown up and bluesy feel to things. That lasted 90 seconds. Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun adds the hard rock samples that made the band famous. And gets it a star. There are many records offered which I wish I could give no stars to. But I'll never listen to this again.
Love me some Beastie Boys. Such a unique sound. One of the few bands who are immediately recognized.
Banger of an album. Interesting dichotomy between the late 80s rap feel of this album and Snoop's 'Doggystyle'
I would probably give this 4 1/2 if I could. Rounding up.
God I fucking hate the beastie boys
Not me piece of music
Such an innovative album.
Decent album. There are some random sporadic elements to this that don’t always work and some of the songs are a little flat. But, enjoyed the delivery from the group and some of the songs are pretty good. 3/5 Might listen again
One gets why it wasn't quite the hit that earlier albums were. But it's still pretty impressive, esepclally with the layered samples (the Superfly Curtis Mayfield on "Egg Man" is a highlight, as are the Beatles, Incredible Bongo Band and Mountain drops) and silly-to-genius name drops (DJT, Yosemite Sam, Ben Franklin, Scorcese, Gabe Kaplan, Chuck Woolery, Dicken, Mario Andretti, Saduhara Oh, anyone?) if too-clever-by-half at times. It's accurate, if overly flattering of Beasties, to call this the White album of hip-hop. Maybe the London Calling is more apt. "The Boullabaise" is the top section.
I felt like I was listening to the same song for the entire album
Went into this knowing I would hate the album. Came away tapping my foot. Not too bad.
It’s the boys! Like come on! Pauls is not my favorite album from them, but it is rising. Used to be a bottom 3 album, it’s a top 3-4 for me now
yeahh.,... Drop! miss these guys so much. one of my most memorable concerts.
Goes hard but a bit too aggressive for listening to it for hours
Beastie boys are a unique group and I can respect the influence they had on the genre (not at first) but there were only a handful of songs I enjoyed. Maybe if I listened again I would rate higher, but for now I give it a 3.
Without the Beastie Boys, there's no Slim Shady, RATM, Limp Bizkit
Ferocious from start to finish. Star of the album was the sounds of science - can’t say I’ve heard a song quite like that before. Trev Tench went to see them play a Co headline show with Run DMC at Brixton when he was younger. 4/5
4.5 A masterclass in sampling. In a time before the digital age, you can only imagine how on earth the Dust Brothers put together this album. It’s jam-packed with creativity, flowing from one song to the next, which the Beastie Boys pair with excellently. Then just as you think they can’t fit anymore into a densely filled album, they drop a 12-minute song, split into 9 sections that have 24 samples spread across it. HOW DID THEY MAKE THIS?!
Still goes hard in the paint.
This IS great
Beats are sick, Voices are kinda meh and annoying. There is (way) better hip hop.
Typical beastie boys fashion but without the banger lyrics. Still, rhymes are tuff and the beat is to be jammed to. Always loved their style and always will but it’s so good it’s hard to judge. Under the right advertising this could’ve been one of the most influential albums of all time, but it isn’t. I couldn’t imagine giving them a 4 but also I can’t give it any criticism so maybe it deserves it 4.3/5 AMAZING album Favorite track: HEY LADIES, Johnny ryall Least favorite: prettt much non Thé sampling is crazy good LOVED IT
Not very familar with beastie boys, but enjoyed the album. Egg Man favorite song on the album.
(4,8/6) Funny but still not my cup of tea 8,10,13
Not a fan, just not… I tried I really did but for me it was a nails on the Chaulk board experience….NO, Just NO… but to each their own…
not bad
fun to listen to, unexpectedly good, but there’s music i like better out there. 4.5/7
It's OK
Paul's Boutique was not as commercially successful as Licence to Ill. But sonically this is a far superior record in all regards and it established the Beastie Boys as legitimate hip-hop musicians. Now when I say hip-hop, I do so with a grain of salt. I find that the Beasties have a hard rock and punk kinda vibe as opposed to several other hip-hop records in this list. I would classify this more as Alt hip-hop. The Beasties started as a punk band and the music and attitude of punk musicians shines throughout this record. The lyrical interplay is top-notch, and the lyrical content is very amusing even if it has an angry adolescent quality about it, same as License to Ill but, rawer and introspective. There are some shining stars on this record, Johnny Ryall being a particular favorite.
Yeah it was interesting. A lot of it felt fun to listen to, but wasn't really big on it.
Yay!!!
Really not my cup of tea. Very of its time - I get the feeling the Beastie Boys were a breath of fresh air back in 1989 hence the acclaim in hip hop circles. Fave song for me was 3 Minute Rule. Least fave was
Lots of shouting.
Really great. I like check your head better but this was revolutionary when it dropped.
Hell yes. This album rules, and so do the Beastie Boys.
Possibly a perfect album. A prog rock record of party hip hop. Lots of things blending into each other. Love it.
Disappointing how the songs don’t transition cleanly from one to the next. Funky grooves will keep you interested, but doesn’t blend well with their hip hop style.
Well, it's Beasty Boys, hilarious at times, always groovy, and just fun to listen to... Maybe not my favorite album of theirs, but still really good.
When I first heard this as a teen I was expecting License to Ill, which this album was not. The older I got, the more I appreciated this album, when it came up today I had no complaints about a re-listen. Much like Paul’s Boutique itself, there are so many quotable lines and riffs on this album. High Plains Drifter is a weaving lyrical masterpiece. Hey Ladies and Barrel are fun and gangster at the same time. The only reason this is not a 5-Star is the massive Rick Rubin overproduction is not my personal preference (favorite B-Boy album is Check Your Head). Some say it is the one of the best albums of the Golden Age of Rap. I can’t disagree that it might be.
Oh, this album. I think I was vaguely aware this album came out in 1989 when I was 12 years old. I kinda remember Hey Ladies playing on MTV while thinking this doesn't sound like anything from License to Ill. Apparently critics and others dismissed this album at the time too. At least I have the defense that I was 12 years old. Fast forward to circa 1997-1998, and this was a staple CD for driving around with my friends. We appreciated it all, especially the super awesome samples of the Beatles among other very cool and very numerous samples. This album was a last of an era (no one can sample this liberally anymore) but also so ahead of its time it did not get the proper recognition it deserved until decades later. Shake Your Rump with its "disco call" and "The Sounds of Science" are stand outs. Hats off to you Beasties for making an ignored classic, and here's to more money to Sir Paul for all samples on the record.
I like the bass, it has an interesting beat, not a fan of their voices tho :( I already had listened them years ago and kinda knew I wouldn't listen the entire album :S I really liked High Plains Drifter and Looking down the barrel of a gun :)
It’s a classic!
4/5 The beats are great. The lyrics, meh. Not as catchy as other stuff but the music hits.
Terrible, I listened to about half of it and couldn't stand it anymore.
We already heard this.
I enjoy this album. When I was in New York Sept '23 the street corner from this album was dedicated "Beastie Boys Square." Was a great time
Listened before. Enjoyed it, iconic. Defiantly hear the influence in later music
I really wanted to give it a 4. It's so good and it's a classic for a reason.
За интересное звучание
Crude, brash, immature, and sometimes a lot of fun. More of my favorite Beastie Boys songs come from “Licensed to Ill” but there’s some wild stuff here. Loved the example of pioneering crate digging/sample work, and fun to learn that after producing this sample-heavy album, the Dust Brothers took what they learned, spun it in another direction, and produced Beck’s fantastically random “Odelay” album. I just can’t get over the raucously hedonistic nasal wail of Ad-Rock and how all three practically alternate words in a single sentence. This album is all over the place lyrically and musically, but ends up showing a crazed tapestry of early experimental hip hop and exploration of the sample genre. Misogynistic and sexist lyrics and jokes don’t sit well here or anywhere, and gratefully the Beastie Boys grew up a bit and publicly apologized for their attitudes later on. Fun but possibly not my favorite from the Beastie Boys, it was good to listen to this all the way through because it shows up on greatest lists all of the time. Three stars here.
I have never been a fan of the Beastie Boys and I despise that so many modern movies feel like they need to have a Beastie Boys moment where they play the soundtrack. Looking past my distaste for the Beastie Boys it was as bad as I thought it would be. Still not something I really like to listen to but not the worst. 2 stars
Unsurprisingly, I could as well rate it based on the other two Beastie Boys albums I listened to before
Fun album. Some classic but the beastie boys always sound the same. 2 stars
beats are cool, so are the samples. I'm not super sold on their flows or voices
I love the Beasties and this album is a classic, but I prefer the boys a little older and wiser. Starts really strong but begins to drag long before the 12 minute suite of leftovers that close the album.
Oh, mein Urteil scheint schwankt anscheinend: morgens fand ich gar nicht gut, nachmittags konnte ich es durchhören
Nearly a 5 for me, this album is a party and a sampling heaven bringing forth a new level of sound to the time. It released in '89 but was helped usher in that new decade.
Good stuff. Love BB. Love the 80s/90s hiphop.
They like saying fun and making surprisingly catchy songs.
I never listened to this in high school. Man I wish I had now. This was great
Pretty great, I have listened several times.
Easiest 5 I've given thus far. A masterclass in hip hop production.
Shake Your Rump still the best track. 3/5
God, I hate this band. The vocals are so grating. It doesn't matter if they did innovative stuff with sampling when this is the music you make. I hope I don't have to listen to the Beastie boys anymore.
Their best album
I love me some Beasties. This i not my favorite Beastie’s album but is still phenomenal. It still has the “party rap” feel that was prevalent in their earlier work.
Not my vibe at the moment at all. Good prods and original ambiance. Annoying voices. Probably interesting to have a look at why it is considered to be an important album and why it had a big impact.
I like some songs and I’ve owned this album in the past, but I can’t really see myself listening to it. I may listen a couple tracks, but even a low probability of that unless they come up on random. I know it’s a classic.
Har tænkt mig at lytte til den igen når jeg bliver caught up men behøver ikke høre den igen for at rate den! En af mine alltime yndlings!!
Det her må være en af de sidste hiphop plader der stadig kunne sample nogenlunde frit, og what a way to go out. Højdemålet for samplebaseret hiphop tbh
Det er sgu meget sjovt! Relativt rodet og ikke helt min stil.. Det bliver lidt meget af det samme for min smag.
Shake Ya Rump is 5 stars, everything else is 2.
No Thanks
It's fine
So swag 💪 Beastie Boys don’t miss
Chilled out men gillar deras första mer
Somehow, this might be my favorite beastie boys album despite having never heard of it before now. Licensed to ill is great but this one feels a lot more experimental and quirky with endless random samples making each song sound distinct from each other. I don't have much else to say except that I really liked johnny ryall, a year and a day, and hello brooklyn.
Paul's Boutique is both a perfect album and one whose feats can never be recreated. Truly 1 of 1, and maybe the greatest hip-hop record of all time.
A classic? Undeniably. The beats? Amazing. To my ears, the vocal delivery of all 3 Beastie Boys? Still grating.
This album is where's waldo for a music fan, trying to find all the samples.
All over the place (complimentary)
Never have liked the Beastie Boys. Just something about the typical cadence of the rapping and the tone of their voices. I don't appreciate the artistry that I read from the critics. I still don't understand why they are so popular/beloved. That being said, the increased sampling on this album was enjoyable (from songs I actually enjoy). Don't think I'll listen to this again but it's tolerable.