Paul's Boutique

Great album with some insane sampling. 8/10

I'd rather go to Paul's Boutique than listen to this again. Favorite Track: "Hey Ladies".

Vintage Beastie Boys with some of their best beats.

Landmark hip hip record for it's production and use of samples but can't help but feel it's not dated well

Not listened to it for years so happy that it still absolutely slaps, production is insane, an easy 5

Really didn't enjoy this

Shake your rump incredible but the rest got a little...claggy?

Probably first time listening to this cover to cover actually, production (and everything else) is psychedelic and incredible. What a trip

Some funky moments, but it doesn't hit all the way through for me. Generally the Beastie Boys flow wears thin pretty quick, relying on the instrumentals to carry it through. That Car Thief bass line 😍 It's wild how much sampling you could get away with back in the day.

Rap album. Nice production for the time. What would you expect when technical meets rap.

Normal disclaimer, rap-hiphop not my thing. That said, it was an interesting collaborative effort between group members to tell the story.

If my generation had their own White Album, this would be it.

Þessi er oftar en ekki ansi skemmtileg.

Not as crazy as "Shake Your Rump" seemed to have promised but just for showing what sampling could allow everyone to do, I respect the hell out of this album.

Good but little bit boring. Nice intro have a "Stop That Train" from the namesake song from Clint Eastwood & General Saint.

My ears are bleeding!

3.5

C'est tu vraiment bon? Oui. C'est tu mon préféré? Non. Trop de tracks un peu plus faibles, surtout vers la fin, l'album s'étire aussi. Par contre, la production des dust brothers est vraiment le fun, certaines chansons sont ridiculement inventives et amusantes. Les Beastie Boys sont en forme, c'est un gros saut qu'ils ont fait entre License to Ill et Paul's Boutique

Mon préféré des BB! Du génie! Un monument d'échantillonage, qui fonctionne au niveau musical et aussi au niveau geek, pour ceux qui veulent s,amuser à trouver l'origine des samples. Un album trippant fait par des trippeux.

Jeté par terre. J'ai été jeté par terre. Découvrir Paul's Boutique à mon âge. Waoh. La recette est bonne. Tout plein d'idées géniales. Des bons grooves. Un excès d'énergie. Ça nous embarque dès le départ et on ne décroche pas.

Cet album a un cool factor intemporel. Les Dust Brothers sont des savants fous. C'est 7 ans avant Odelay mais ça pourrait être 2 semaines tellement c'est des prods hors du temps. Un peu long, la séquence finale est pas nécessaire. Ben du fun pour le reste.

Production is unbelievably crisp. This is so listenable, could have been made yesterday. The Beastie Boys go kinda hard on this?? Like, they’re still the Beastie Boys but the rhymes are a little more intense? I dug it!!

Greatest!

I've always liked the Beastie Boys. I liked them, but not loved them. They have a certain appeal, you know? I was even privileged to see their last performance at Bonnaroo. So, I'm familiar with Paul's Boutique. I also understand that the Beastie Boys are nasally, grating, and somewhat annoying white rappers. However, they're all so fun, and have some lyrical prowess. Most of all, though, is the beats. I didn't realize it until I read the Wikipedia article (I always thought this was Mid Master Mike's work), but apparently the Dust Brothers produced this album. in any case the beats, largely produced by samples, are phenomenal. Each track blends into the next, get you moving, and sets the backdrop for some interesting and often hysterical Beastie Boys lyrics. Beastie Boys aren't for everyone, but for those who "get it", this album is fire.

To call this simply a Beastie Boys album is a bit of a misnomer, because Paul's Boutique was a team effort between the boys and the Dust Brothers to create a fresh and innovative venture in the world of sample-based hip-hop. The production takes center stage as they got wildly creative with the many samples and how they are interweaved in these tracks. Having listened to a fair amount of tracks beforehand, it was fun to follow along and pick out different elements that were inserted, chopped, spliced, slowed down, sped up, and manipulated in other such manners. The bassline from Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly" with the string arrangements from the themes of Psycho and Saw on "Egg Man", the multiple Beatles samples on "The Sounds of Science", the opening drums of Led Zeppelin's "Moby Dick" into a combination of riffs from Gene Harris and The Three Sounds, "Put On Train," and Alice Cooper's "It's Hot Tonight" on "What Comes Around", the back masked guitar play from the Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Are You Experienced?" on "B-Boy Bouillabaisse: 59 Chrystie Street", ending the album on a scratched-out sample of Chic's "Good Times" on "B-Boy Bouillabaisse: A.W.O.L.", I could go on. The samples are even incorporated as ad-libs in the Beastie Boys' rapping, such as the titular phrases for "Shake Your Rump" and "Hey Ladies". Even the Beastie Boys themselves are sampled from their first album, such as the "Kick it" line from "Fight For Your Right (To Party)" on "Johnny Ryall". If this album were just instrumental like the Dust Brothers originally intended, it would have been an underground classic already. Adding to the experience were the Beastie Boys themselves, with such tight lyrical focus as MCA, Mike D and Ad-Rock effectively bounced off each other's flows. Between the numerous lyrical references, the aforementioned sample ad-lib incorporation, witty humor and self-awareness of the image they garnered from Licensed to Ill, they made the most of their rhymes over the foundation they created with the Dust Brothers. Between the lyrics and production, never once did Paul's Boutique get stale or overwhelming for me. This is an astounding record from the golden age of hip hop, before copyright laws caught up with sampling. In a word, game-changer.

Frickin amazing album. Incredible songs, insane production. Such a great headphones listen.

Mi provoca il nervoso, ho smesso di ascoltarlo senza neanche sentirlo tutto

i liked it when they sampled the song

Sounds like it would be played in a modern day street market in NYC. Not my vibe per se. Feel like I would have to do a lot of reading to fully digest the album.

I still laugh.

Pretty good on focused listen. don't know how much of the vocals I could take, but the drum beats were fun to focus on.

ok sound but not in the mood 3/5

Banger after banger after banger after banger. 4.7/5

Love me some Beastie Boys

The growth these guys display here from the adolescent joyride of Licensed To Ill is stunning. Off the top of my head, I can't think of another band that grew this much from one album to another. Beatles grew maybe even more in a similar timeframe but they recorded so frequently that to our ears now it's a more gradual evolution over 5-6 albums. Paul's Boutique was literally the next recording project for da Boyz. They're still twerpy goofs but one (small) notch more mature and with a broader view of the world. The beats are HARD and the layers of samples on top of samples were very different from how DJs put beats together prior to this. They weren't the only ones heading in this direction - De La Soul's densely delightful debut was right around this same time - and Paul's Boutique didn't make the biggest splash when it first came out, but eventually it got its due as one of the very most creative and, over time, influential hip hop albums ever. It's also worth mentioning the growth from this album to the one that followed it, Check Your Head, was similarly stunning. That's a 1-2-3 punch I would put right up there with any band or recording artist ever in terms of sequential artistic development. Behind all the jokes and hi jinks are 3 fellas who took their work a lot more seriously than it sounds!

And thus this concludes the Beastie Boys trilogy (although not chronologically, I know). I like it that this is sort of a bridge between the other two albums in this collection, with some of the frat-style hip-hop of "Licensed to Ill", but also occasionally more interesting collections of sounds and instruments as on "Ill Communication", but clearly *much* more sample-based than the latter album. They hadn't quite graduated beyond occasionally sophomoric lyrics, but there's a nice groove flowing through the album, accompanied by some of the most dense and satirical lyrics you could ever ask for. I felt like their strongest tracks were probably "Shake your rump", the second half of "Sounds of science", "Looking down the barrel of a gun" (another RATM-sounding track), and "Shadrach", with honorable mention to the concept of "B-Boy Bouillabaisse", even if it doesn't consistently deliver on the concept. I was also really impressed by how this sounded much later than 1989, and doesn't really feel dated in many ways, amazingly (but also glad to read that they were able to clear most of the samples and at affordable rates due to the early date of this album). I had never heard of the Dust Brothers before reading about them in this album's Wikipedia entry, but I'm glad I read about them given how many songs, albums and artists I've enjoyed that they collaborated with. (And I loved finding out that they got their start at Pomona College's radio station!) The Beastie Boys chose well in getting them to work on this album--an amazing collaboration.

As great as Shake Your Rump is, this album really starts to explode with Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun and then doesn't stop schooling us until the end of the B-Boy Medley. UNESCO needs to recognize these guys as intangible cultural heritage or whatever it is.... Amazing.

I've always enjoyed Beastie Boys singles, but had never really sat down and listened to a whole album. I didn't expect I'd enjoy it, given that it's 80s hip hop and as a rule I tend to find it boring. I didn't find this album boring though, in fact I listened through all the extra 20th anniversary material as well. Great beats, fun vocal flows, music that's sort of all over the place.

For the most part, I find the Beastie Boys annoying (mainly the voice of the main guy) but there are still some songs that I've enjoyed. I was pleasantly surprised with the album and found there were some instrumentation sections that were really cool and well done. It suffers under the same problem (at least with me) with most hip-hop albums which is repetitiveness. I enjoyed the first half, and then the second half, while vibing, I was done with the album when it wrapped up.

Not the biggest rap fan, but sample "The End" by the Beatles and your album automatically gets to 4 stars. Other than that though this album is really good!

I liked this album, but it felt like they were still searching for their unique voice

A disappointing experience for me. This is my favorite Beastie Boys album, so I was very excited when this was revealed as my album of the day. However, it was not the perfect experience I had foreseen; this album has some flaws when listened to from beginning to end. Still a four-star album for me, though.

3 white boys screaming sporadically at the mic might have been fine for the 80s but this does not age well.

What a banger. If I wasn't being given another album I would probably just go back through it again

Juvenile, grating, and I just don't enjoy the beastie boys triple-headed rap-every-other-word thing I'm glad they had more fun recording this than I had listening

I didn't go in thinking this was going to be good, but it ended up really impressing me! The songs were pretty varied, the sampling was pretty impressive, and I loved the rock elements that really came in on the second half of the album. 3.7/5 -> 4/5

10/10 classic.

3.5 Fun but repetitive. Fav. Looking down a barrel of a gun

No idea what this guy’s rapping about but the beats and tunes are cool. Decent background music for the bus. His voice gets repetitive after a while tho

Ein kreatives, verrücktes und zeitlos gutes Album, das richtig Laune macht! Man kann fast nicht anders als mit dem Groove mitzuschwingen und die Arme gekonnt in die Luft zu werfen. Definitiv ein cooles Album, wenn man sich in Stimmung bringen möchte Unfug anzustellen :D

Ich muss zugeben, dass ich bei Beastie Boys finde, dass der Gesang immer gleich klingt. Deshalb hab ich jetzt mal versucht mich auf die Beats zu konzentrieren. Ganz schön viel Chaos auf dem Album - und deshalb ganz schön schwierig. Weiß auch net „Car Thief“ ist ein groovy Song aber ansonsten war das Album eher langweilig. 2/5

I love the bestie boys and I honestly wasn’t sure what it would be like to listen to a full album, but I really enjoyed this! It was a teeny bit jarring to listen to in the morning, but the different variety of songs made up for it. I liked the songs egg man, shake your rump, and what comes around. Also 5-piece chicken dinner gave me a laugh and was unexpected. I really loved this and it made me like the bestie boys even more. I love their creative use of sounds and beats and it’s so fun and unique!

This one was pretty polarizing imo, and I’ll start w the bad. I can’t stand the beastie boys’ delivery, I’m not a fan of yell-rapping, especially when it’s all they do. I’d be able to stand it more if they changed up their flow at all. Lyrically, it was pretty ok, some really clever lines in there from time to time which are a plus. The only thing that kept this from being a 2 was the production. It’s crazy they were able to use that many samples in an album back then, and it was really cool to hear samples layered from so many different genres. 3/5 Fav song: Lookin down the barrel of a gun

I loved this album. The lyrics were so clever from Sadaharu Oh to the Torah and all the satire laced throughout. The production was head an shoulders above any hip hop we've had so far, but knowing what is potentially coming, still not quite a 5.

I still think it's weird that they rap the lines together? Like I know that Run-DMC did the same but it feels weirder when the Beastie Boys do it. Also "Humpty Dumpty was a big fat egg" from Egg Man is the beginning of the best beef in rap

The production is really good, lots of interesting and creative samples used across a range of genres. However the lyricism is middling, lacking depth or subject matter, which is not a killing blow by itself, but the ridiculously homogeneous delivery saps all the interest out of most lyrics on most songs. At a glance, and at it's worst, it's hard to tell where one song ends and another begins.

From what I know of the Beastie Boys, I was prepared to hate this album, but I get why people like this. I don't know who the Dust Brothers are, but they do good work. I still don't like the group. The album as a whole isn't entirely unlistenable, and that's really the highest praise I can give.

Hey Ladies

DUh

Simply awesome. Coming from the De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising, there's a clear contrast on how raw this album is. The funny lyrics and kinda reckless and silly style won me over

Some decent beats but WHAT are these lyrics

Autant les samples sont incroyables, autant le beat répétitif et l'ambiance fratboy sont terribles.

This is certainly more enjoyable AND more interesting than Licensed to Ill. The instrumentals are a big deal; you can hear their influence echoing over the next decade. I still mostly find the Beastie Boys themselves obnoxious. Their voices are not pleasant. The lyrics can be funny and clever sometimes, though.

Maybe white guys can rap. lots of shouting but groovy and had some good rhythm/baselines

Not my favorite Beastie Boys album, but still solid.

One of my favorite bands thanks to this project. This album is the most classic Beastie Boys sound. Some strong hits, although the lyrics aren't particularly deep. I prefer later era Beastie Boys when they got more instrumental and funky.

What a blast - the production on this thing is actually insane. Seeing these dudes team up on tour with RUN DMC must have been all-time. 4.5/5 (but I can't because of how the rating system works)...

I actually really fw the beastie boys

9/10

1. To All the Girls - too short N/A 2. Shake Your Rump - 10 3. Johnny Ryall - lite 9 4. Egg Man - 10 5. High Plains Drifter - lite 9 6. The Sounds of Science - strong 9 7. 3-Minute Rule - decent 8 8. Hey Ladies - lite 9 9. 5-Piece Chicken Dinner - too short N/A 10. Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun - 10 11. Car Thief - strong 8 12. What Comes Around - decent 8 13. Shadrach - strong 8 14. Ask for Janice - too short N/A 15. B-Boy Bouillabaisse - Collection of Tracks N/A Favourite 3 Tracks - 1. Shake Your Rump 2. Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun 3. Egg Man - NOTE RATINGS ARE FROM A FIRST LISTEN -

The ultimate album to start listening to hip hop from. Beastie boys walked so Eminem could run. Very good dance beats. The beginning part felt light but eventually the end beats made up for it.

Not for me

They are always fun with a driving beat.

What’s to say. I grew up listening to the Beastie Boys. My Dad was a huge fan. It wasn’t until I was older that I got in to them on my own - specifically their older stuff, this stuff. It’s iconic. Nobody sounds like this, and if they did they’d be told they’re just ripping off the Beastie Boys. Instant 5 stars, no questions. I had a great time listening to this a couple times today, even though it’s a regular record pull in our household. “Shadrach” is one of my all time favorite Beasties song.

Great album musically, but not for me!

This was made in the 80s?!!!! Jokes aside the sound design on this album is insanely good. As a thousand people have commented before the sampling and production on this is fantastic and ground breaking for the genre. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this album with its in your face attitude, catchy bars and some funny jokes. However for me the rapping style wore a bit thin by the end and the album dragged a tiny bit. Still an incredibly important and impressive album from the group. A lot of these tracks are in my playlists, just not sure how often I’d listen to the whole album in one go again. 3.5/5

Hip hop staple. Samples go crazy on this thing. 10/10

So good!!!!!!!

Great album full of interesting samples. Looses energy in the middle a little

What a cracker!

One of the greatest albums of all time.

batidas boas, lyrics que ficam na cabeça, energia contagiante. nota 4

the sampling and beatmaking on this record is incredible, hugely influential. another album that gets better as the tracklist goes on, which i always love. however, i think the beastie boys get stronger lyrically in the coming albums, this one is still a lottttt of girls and parties rap. lots of fun but i don't consider this their best- but it's still a damn beastie boys album so it's always in the rotation

i really do hate the whole "you can't make Blazing Saddles today" thing people do, because it's both true (you don't really need to make fun of cowboy movies anymore) but for the wrong reasons (Evil Woke Liberals). however, i say this will all of my heart: you cannot go to Capitol Records, tell them "hey, I want to make a record with these new producers just starting out using 100 samples" and expect them to just let you do it. nowadays they'd ask questions like "do you know how much money it would cost to clear all of that" and "i don't trust these guys, why don't we go with Rick Rubin" and "who the hell do you think you are?" everything just feels so fun and creative here, from the production to the flows (a lot of the bars goof around, but don't fully lean into novelty), and the cover even reflects that. it's messy, colorful, a little grimy, but not scary. just a fun time.

solid Beastie Boys album, have a few notable tracks off this and for it being after Licensed to Ill it's interesting how they were able to keep influence without sacrificing style.

Can't fault it

Pretty goofy, best songs are the bouillabaisse

Sampled The Beatles. No notes.

⭐⭐⭐⭐– 3[.9] of 5 stars. I'm gonna be honest, this thing gives 90's frat party so much. Like seriously. The beats are really goofy and weird, but in a good way. I honestly enjoyed listening to this album, and will probably listen again. Also, I really love their vocal style - it's absolutely iconic. Overall, a really fun-to-listen-to, slightly goofy hip hop album. Favourites: Looking down the barrel of a gun⭐, What comes around, Shake your rump, The sounds of science, The B-Boy bouillabaisse collection. Dislikes: High plains drifter, Hey ladies.

Rating - 2.8/5 . > Let me preface this by saying I DIDNT FINISH THE ALBUM. Dont get me wrong, beastie boys were a staple back in the day but i absolutely very much dislike the way they sound. I listened to like. 3 songs. And they all sounded the same. I just dont think i would ever listen to this willingly. I like the instrumental tho its sooooo late 80s early 90s. Thumbs up: couldnt even tell ya cus i barely listened to it WOOPS.

Bonus point for good sampling

тяжело, не дослушала

если бы все треки были как первый было бы 4. хороший продакшн для того времени (возможно заслуга ремастера, за счет чего хорошо так звучит). не люблю подобный олдовый рэп, не резонирует с чувствами почти никак.

Production is very musically rich when compared to today's hip hop.

The sampling is cool, but i probably wouldn't choose to listen to this again.

One of the rappers is SO annoying but the others are pretty good. Beats are a bit mixed but some are amazing. Favourite songs: shake your rump, 3-minute rule, looking down the barrel of a gun, car thief, a year and a day (this one could be my favourite overall). overall around 7/10

Interesting album.

Amazing. Gold.

I’m in a 80/20 split with not liking the beastie boys. You decide

The group gets high marks for their clever and sometimes funny lyrics. Almost every track contains a sample of older music; I recognized Curtis Mayfield, the Beatles, and the Isley brothers in here. Otherwise, this is just more hip hop in my opinion.

Fun album. Often had me being amused at the lyrics.

Sometimes described as "the Sgt. Pepper of hip-hop", eh? Probably by Jim Shearer, former host of the MTV2 Rock Countdown! The main Beastie Boys association I have is "that man sure loves the Beastie Boys". For me, they're kind of nostalgic, I guess, but that feeling only sustains me for a few minutes, and this album is much longer than a few minutes. Not really my thing, Jim Shearers aside. Lotta egg talk. Highlights: the phrase "bald feet".

beastie boys nunca foi mto minha praia, mas não é ruim não

os beat e o uso dos samples aqui são absurdo demais. muito bem produzido e mixado, fiquei supreso. mas é só isso mesmo. não piro mto no hiphop deles não, mas eles mandaram muito nessa produção aqui. o bom uso dos samples carregou o album nas costas papo reto

I'd recommend skipping the song Three Minute Rule because of its' vulgarity but the other full length songs on the album are great listens. Paul's Boutique is a great mix of hip hop, rap, soft rock, hard rock, blues sounds and electronic music with some truly hyper aware, non linear and precise production to carry this wide color palate selection. Many highlight songs such as The Sounds of Science and Shadrach show how these guys dimensions far deeper than the frat boy images their most well known for.I'd say that I haven't heard any rap/hip hop quite as flexibly eclectic as Paul's Boutique and it's a listen that pleasantly surprised me for the most part.

I’d clearly heard that ‘Sgt Pepper’s of Hip-Hop’ cliché as a younger man and repeated it somewhere as I remember being told it was the whitest thing I’d ever said. Probably a fair call. While clichés are often unimaginative and reductive, there is sometimes truth to them and the fact is, this is as groundbreaking and phenomenal an album in many ways as Sgt P was in its time. The production and sampling amount to an absolute masterclass and while you can question the Beastie Boys’ lyrical themes and maturity, they truly nailed the delivery and execution. It’s a belter and one of my all-time favourites.

Objectively I think this is a really cool record. Beastie Boys are a generational talent and pioneers. Favorites: 3 Minute Rule, Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun, Car Thief

Classique Garçons Bestiaux, pas mauvais mais un peu pogné entre leurs deux meilleurs albums

I hope these get better

Definitely didn't age great

Decent but not for me.

Good stuff

Man what a blast!

I didn't get them back in the day when my friends liked this band, and still it's just drums beats as men take turns yelling words into mics. Every now and then there is a riff. I didn't hate it but no tracks really make me want to listen to anything more from them.

Ehh, it sounds good most of the time, but generally I don’t care too much. It’s okay

drei bis vier

this was great! i could see it growing into a five star record for me over time

Look I like the Beastie Boys as much as the next but surely 3 albums out of 1001 is too many?

NY by way of LA. Loose, fun but groundbreaking.

This album was great. This sound sets the foundations of DnB and other dance music

So, an album constructed with myriad samples, plus the usual braggadocio vocals. This all makes for an album which sounds a bit like a single track on repeat. And what's more, my music streaming service only appears to have an extended 20th anniversary version. This isn't a musical style that appeals to me.

The Beastie Boys were a group I thought were cool back in the ‘90s, but as the years go by, their appeal has worn off, and at this point, they just kind of get annoying. That’s probably a good sign that their music didn’t really stand the test of time, or at least not for me. As for this album, this was one I never got around to back then, so a lot of these tracks are new to me. But honestly, no matter which Beastie Boys album you’re listening to, they always pretty much sound the same.

As soon as a saw the Beasty Boys, I rolled my eyes. I find them obnoxious and overrated. That being said, knowing what I was getting into, the beginning does not seem nearly as bad as I thought it would. It's typical Beasty Boys stuff but it helps that their popular songs aren't in this album so don't have any experience with these songs. Some good beats but overall I feel a little gross listening to it. Not exactly sure why, but the lyrics feel immature and no matter the song, the rhythm of the lyrics is the exact same. Da-da-da- ba ba ba- (insert background vocals) repeat. Tolerable but definitely won't be on the regular rotation. My perspective on this group is a little improved, but not by much. I'm torn between giving it a 2 or 3, but given the fact that I probably won't listen to it again minus maybe two songs im adding to my 'history of music playlist' Ill give it a 2.

No me resultan interesantes.

Gunnar Nu har været en tydelig inspiration for Beast Boys på dette album. Jeg kan faktisk ikke lide stakato rap... Hvor blev min punk rap af?

Hvis bare mere Hip-Hop havde Beastie Boys’ legesyge og kaotiske tilgang… Kendte kun Shake Your Rump, men var vældig godt underholdt hele vejen, og konstant nysgerrig på hvad de fandt på som det næste. Objektivt set burde den nasale skingre måde at rappe på ikke være godt, men det fungere bare for dem.

I much prefer their rap rock sound over this. There were some good samples, but some annoying ones as well.

Classic. Maybe not my fave but I get it.

I've listened to a few Beastie Boys albums but not this one for some reason. It's cool that somebody managed to make an album like this before record labels got so greedy about sampling The amount of samples is just ridiculous, I was going to try and pick out as many as I could but I couldn't be bothered. Because of the amount of samples, this feels very dense and pribably needs a lot of listens to really peel back the layers, especially because the vocals are weirdly somewhat low in the mix Some parts can feel a bit repetitive, like Johnny Ryall, as did High Plain Drifter a little bit (the weird moaning sample on that one is pretty annoying) It's probably not my favourite Beastie Boys album, I prefer their punkier style which there isn't much of on here. I did feel a little bit of fatigue too, but that's probably partly due to how dense it is like I mentioned Highlights: Car Thief, Egg Man

I like em. So unique and just some guys taking some risks and paving ways for others.

Not my favorite of theirs

Amazing B-Boys

Рэпчик чисто старенький. Бит прикольный, но сейчас уже не о чëм. Слушал и по лучше вещи

Beastie Boys were always meh to me, I'd probably rate a greatest hits album higher, but when you have to wade through the crap tracks for a couple gems it just ain't worth the time.

Did not put its hooks into me and my sense of nostalgia like License to Ill did. I didn't particularly dislike anything about it, but didn't love anything about it either.

this album was a fun ride from start to finish. the boys from NYC really brought their “A game” with this one and it shows. many people consider this to be their best album, and it’s hard to argue with that.

Darn near perfect

I don’t like the beastie boys

Solid

still don't really like this era of hip-hop, but this is a really fun album. really creative production i fw it

Awful

Jumpy

Probably my favorite album of all time and I will never get tired of listening to it. In fact, as I listen to more music I end up liking this album more because I can recognize more samples after each listen. Pristine production and some of the best rapping chemistry you'll listen to. Love this.

brabo

I ended up making a nyc playlist.

I can respect how good and important this album is but it is not something I would seek out again. I did recognize quite a few samples which was cool but I would rather hear the original of every one I recognized.

classic

Kaleidoscope sample rich 2nd album from the BBs. A massive landmark in The genre.

I was never a huge Beastie Boys fan, but some of my friends who do like often say that Paul's Boutique is their favorite album. I think the grooves are solid. I don't tend to pay attention to lyrics so I'm probably missing a key part of the album.

Classic. I might have more fondness for Ill Communication or even Check Your Head, since that's when I feel like I "discovered" them, but people who argue that this is the better/more seminal album are likely correct.

I gotta admit that the nasal style wears thin over the course of 53 min, but there's no denying the catchiness of many songs (Shake Your Rump, Egg Man, Hey Ladies, Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun, Shadrach), driven by so many fun samples & beats. So while I personally think this could have benefited from some trimming (or listening in smaller doses), can't deny the brilliance here.

I can't say I dislike the Beastie Boys, but my god is a whole album of this unbearable. Every song sounds exactly the same.

Not their best but not their worst.

An excellent album, but one that I'm not fond of. Sorry.

Now I rock a house party at the drop of a hat, yeah I beat a biter down with an aluminum bat A lot of people they be jonesin just to hear me rock the mic They'll be staring at the radio Staying up all night So like a pimp I'm pimpin I got a boat to eat shrimp in Nothing wrong with my leg just B-boy limpin Got arrested at the Mardi Gras for jumping on a float My man MCA's got a beard like a billy goat Oowah oowah is my disco call MCA hu-huh, I'm gettin rope yall Routines, I bust, and the rhymes that I write And I'll be busting routines and rhymes all night Like eating burgers or chicken or you'll be picking your nose I'm on time homie that's how it goes You heard my style I think you missed the point It's the joint One of the top 20 best albums of all time. Yeah, its that good. 5/5

Yea pretty good. Some nice background beats. More than just yell rapping.

It all blended into one song for me.

This album launched modern hip hop fight me

Paul's Boutique has way less rock than I'm used to with the Beastie Boys, though to be fair, most of what I know is Licensed to Ill. Still, a lot of these tracks just make it impossible not to nod along. I'm not about to get up and dance to it, but if you're just kicking back with a beer or something, it's fucking perfect.

Excellent beats, great trade-off rapping, unbeatable sampling! New things to discover for every listen, and I still haven’t unwrapped everything

5/5 - Paul's Boutique remains to this day a timeless classic hip hop record. After the success of the extremely commercial hit that was 1986's Licensed To Ill the Beastie Boys cemented themselves as the best in the game with their next record which was 1989's Paul's Boutique. The sampling is insane and way ahead of it's time. When you have that and the counter punch lyricism from Mike D and Ad Rock you know you have something special on your hands. Or should as say as cool as lemonade!

Every time I listen to the beastie boys I remember how top tier the production is.

Irritating bullshit. The entire album is the same song. That song wasn't good the first time even.

Millie asked me to turn it off!

I just think that Licenced to Ill is much better and this is okay but not great 3/5

a lot of beastie boys. started while cooking dinner, which was a vibe, but finished before bed and lying down while listening is less of a vibe. anyway, before listening to the album the beastie boys were mainly linked w GOG 3. listening to the album, they're v consistent w their thing - and i like car thief and get on the mic but it's a lot

Great album

Terwijl spotify van het ene nummer naar het andere nummer gaat merk ik dat de kleine pauze in nummers mijn oren goed doet. Alhoewel dit album kennelijk een 'landmark' in de hiphop scène was, met veel bekende samples waar mensen lyrisch over zijn, merk ik dat het gegil me veel afleidt. Misschien zou ik dit wel vet vinden in een film, er zitten absoluut sterke nummers tussen. Vanaf hey ladies durfde ik verder te luisteren dan het gegil en kwam ik er stiekem toch wel in Favorieten: The sounds of science (de tweede helft), hey ladies

I heard one song from this once and forgot to listen to whole thing but liked it more than I thought I would

Love Beastie Boys. But unfortunately not this album as much as I wanted to. Solid beats and did enjoy listening to it but to me Ill Communication just blows them all away. So raw and so good. I listened to almost all the songs and only skipped a couple. But overall I did not feel that this album should be ranked as high as a lot of others.

I love the Beastie Boys, but this album like a white male, average. I really enjoyed the first few songs into the album and I really enjoyed the flow into each next song. This album is what I imagine it would sound like if Pauly Shore was able to implement all of his internal voices that keep him up at night into music. I still vibed to the album and I did feel like a young kid in the 90’s wanting to make it in New York, but it still wasn’t my favorite compared to their others. Heard before: None Favorite: Shake Your Rump Least Favorite: To All the Girls Sleeper: 5-Piece Chicken Dinner

While Woody Harrelson helped prove that white men can in fact jump. The beastie boys only prove that white men from Brooklyn can maybe rap. One of a kind (repetitive) sound combining hip-hop with creative yet sometimes corny lyrics and a whiny sound that works but starts to sound identical throughout a full album. Head bopped for most of the album start to finish but that has more to do with the beats than the lyrics themselves. The ironic country riff on 5-piece chicken dinner is a hilarious way to start the B-side of this record and sums up with how this group treated music. Heard Before: none (probably a few but no clue) Favorite: Egg Man and Johnny Ryall Least Favorite: To all the girls Sleeper: BBoy: A year and a day

Love this one.

Ik kan hier echt niks mee. Heb hem niet eens afgeluisterd…

3.5

Þeirra besta verk.

Couldn't even listen until the end.

The album is okay here and there. Some good sampling. However, beastie boys have always sounded like a group of friends that are constantly interrupting each other and laughing at themselves. A group of friends that you don't hate to run into, but just weren't really in the mood to see at most moments. A full album didn't change that feeling

I'm a bit concerned that the Beastie Boys are actually quite annoying. They're definitely good, but it's terribly abrasive. For the second album running (and for the next few), I listened to it on a sun lounger, and really I just wish they'd have some dim sum and a bottle of Singha and chill out a bit.

I’ve been listening to this album on a regular basis since the 1990s and I never get tired of it.

Too much for me. I think I’ll stick with the favorites

Didn't get into it

Pretty good, fun album. 7/10 i liked A.W.O.L and ask for janice and shake your rump.

Meh

Not the kind of Beastie Boys I like. best: the cover photo 1,5

Beastie Boys really confuse me. Like they sound so good, and yet so bad..?

I guess I don't like the Beasty Boys. It's just too much

it's the beastie boys, good, happy to start with music I think is good. what came first, samples still used today or the bb?

Interesting that I haven’t listened to this album. Definitely early sounds with a lot of samples. Good and funky, but doesn’t sound like a cohesive album.

Beastie boys are always a sign of quality. But it's hip hop so meh

pretty good but i didn't like their voices idk ? fav song - a year and a day

Not bad, didn’t finish completely

Culturaly important. Would not listen again.

Garage album - grunge vibes but not really at the same time.

Catchy rhythms which I enjoyed but probably not ideal in the work environment!!

This album is a time capsule. I press play and I’m sitting in the back of my dad’s pickup truck. The windows are rolled down because he’s smoking a cigarette. We’re on our way to my brother’s little league game, and the bass is up so high that the whole car vibrates during “Shake Your Rump.” Of course, when I was 10 I could easily disregard all of the violence and misogyny. And you know what? I still can.

3, мега криво звучене, но очудващо готини за слушане

Като ги слушам и в главата ми излиза Зуека от Куку облечен като идиот, който прави същия "рап". За времето си може да са били супер интересни, но към днешна дата са жалки

it was very raw and loved the engery in group vocals

9/10 Favorite Song: High Plains Drifter Least favorite Song: A Year And A Day

Won’t be confusing these guys with The Beach Boys again! Not my preferred sound, but it was expanding.

I expected to like this more. Cool beats and production but the songs didn’t really jump out and grab me.

Did a whole lot of jolly head banging, some giggling, and no skipping.

I got more stories than JD’s got Salinger - Definitely the album where they changed the game in terms of sampling with almost collage-like backing instrumentals. they’re still one album away from refining their vocal rhythm out of the 80’s; these songs aren’t quite as cohesive and diverse as what’s to come but we’ve got some bangers here nonetheless.

i like some of the sounds and beats, but i really don’t like listening to hip/hop. i gave this a go because not every song is marked explicit. i did enjoy the jump from “hey ladies”, to a short country song, to the rock sound of “looking down the barrel of a gun” 😆 i do not enjoy the shouty vocals, even if that is their trademark.

Petition to ban Wiggers from making music

It's alright. It drags on and feels too long. I respect how much this pushed the limits of sampling at the time but it also feels too gimmicky for me to get all that into and I will probably never listen to it again

they were so cool

Dug all of the samples , made me think of interesting ways to start using samples when I’m playing music, the synth bass in shake your rump, before the slap bass sample was super cool, and the key change, and the different drum feels from the syncopated ride feel to the Latin drum, back into the 4 on the floor groove with the synth was rad, high plains drifter had that cool (1e bass not that I dug) I need to write a riff in my 404 with that

Again, like with Run DMC, this is not my type of music. These are some rather basic words that form an introductory opinion about hip hop and Beasty Boys. I have read that this album, these tracks lack direction, not as a negative, meaning that they failed to obtain it, but rather that they didn’t try to, instead opting for the flow and lyric wit. I can accept its importance in the early hip hop days and the umf behind the change of style between their first and second album, but I cannot recognise it. I have to state that my type of music is more of a storyline. I find it easier to spot the purpose that way, call me lazy. Having said that, this is again not my cup of tea twice as much cause they do not try to have a purpose full storybuilding, this is actually senseless rhyming and I hate that. This is my general problem with hip hop. It always feels like flow over everything. This takes it one step further with the whole album laking a general direction, it is a negative for me even though, again, I can accept that this is what they were going for. It feels like an album meant to be sampled, to be a basis for something that will come later. This is fitting for its era. I cannot call its lyrics witful and articulate. I refuse to believe that the standart should be that low. Everything sounds like the type of music that you make from home, by a bunch of new-in-the-scene artists that have not yet earned the right to be called artists. LACKLUSTER One thing that I have to admit, though, is that the little that they try to do in rhyming, it is flowless. The album, production wise, is not too bad and I can hear the hours put behind the sampling and piecing together part. I just do not think the end product is that great.

Not for me, every song was pretty similar but I can understand why people enjoy it.

Mucho se ha escrito sobre este álbum: su imparable reconocimiento a lo largo del tiempo, su avalancha de samples, su influencia, su equilibrio... Beastie Boys son uno de los grandes del Hip Hop y siendo blancos nadie les ha puesto en duda, lo cual ya es un mérito. Licence to ill es el disco que mejor condensa su música, pero cualquiera y sobre todo este rayan a enorme altura. 1989: Stone Roses de Stone Roses, Playing with Fire de Spacemen 3,New York de Lou Reed, Doolitle de Pixies, On Fire de Galaxie 500, Disintegration de The Cure, Paul´s Boutique de los Beastie Boys, Technique de New Order, Freedom de Neil Young, Let Love Rule de Lenny Kravitz, The Seeds of Love de Tears for Fears, Automatic de Jesus and Mary Chain, Love and Rockets de Love and Rockets, Dum-Dum de las Vaselines, Spike de Elvis Costello, Rhythm Nation de Janet Jackson, Mind Bomb de The The, Mothers Milk de los Red Hot Chili Peppers, Full Moon Fever de Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Ojalá Que Llueva Café de Juan Luis Guerra, Shahen-Shah Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, The Raw and the Cooked de los Fine Young Cannibals, Primal Scream de Primal Scream, The Whitey Album de Ciccone Youth, Lōc-ed After Dark de Tone Lōc, 3 Feet High and Rising de De La Soul, 101 de Depeche Mode, Like a Prayer de Madonna, Nick of Time de Bonnie Raitt, No More Mr. Nice Guy de Gang Starr, Raw Like Sushi de Neneh Cherry, The Real Thing de Faith No More, Liquidizer de Jesus Jones, Heart Shaped World de Chris Isaak, Bleach de Nirvana, Velveteen de Transvision Vamp, Pump de Aerosmith, The Healer de John Lee Hooker, Crossroads de Tracy Chapman, Hats de The Blue Nile, All Hail the Queen de Queen Latifah, Done by the Forces of Nature de los Jungle Brothers, Back on the Block de Quincy jones, Me and a Monkey on the Moon de Felt, Ninety de 808 State, Hallelujah EP de los Happy Mondays o Pump Up the Jam de Technotronic, If I Should Fall From Grace With God de The Pogues, Soul II Soul- Club Classics Vol. One, Nick of time de Bonnie Raitt… Y como placeres culpables: Cuts Both Ways de Gloria Stefan, Foreign Affair de Tina Turner, ...But Seriously de Phil Collins y Neither Fish Nor Flesh de Terence Trent D'Arby

This was another good beastie boys record. Dust brothers produced I always thought Rick Rubin did all beastie boys records. I’m going give this 4. That maybe generous but that’s ok.

A masterclass in sampling by the Dust Brothers. The Beasties don't have an armchair ride though - I can't imagine any other act from the time sounding good rapping over wherever the Wheel-of-Sampling landed on. It's goofy, corny, of-its-time, yet nothing else sounds like it.

Solid. Like the development in sound and production post Licensed to Ill. The Bouillabaisse might have been my favorite.

Not their fault but too much BB. If we were on better terms I would've given this a more charitable listen. Even tho they evolved their sound, at their core BB is unserious music made by/for white boys who want to jump on couches and party. I suspect my toddler will love these tracks and that's probably where they belong

Lotttta B Boys. Kind of cool to listen to these so close to one another - one of the more impressive progressions of a band we've seen. This is the rawest/most intesnse album of the three. Feels more like art compared to the other two. Considerable improvement over their first album and feels like the purest form of the their sound. It is impressive this was made in 1989 and it really shows the possibilities of hip-hop. It also makes we wonder why more artist didn't push the boundaries . We have a few, but compared to this 90% of hip-hop feels lazy. As much as I've enjoyed our Beastie Boys journey I'm ready for a new deep dive.

I think that’s enough beastie boys for now.

Hahaha, im quite surprised that we have had 3 BB albums so far. I made it through the entire album. I wouldnt put this above the other two One song that I thought was good was Looking Down The Barrel (Mississippi Queen sample?). Other than that, this album wasnt for me

Okay not terrible. Fun sampling, but still kind of annoying. And that’s the Beastie Boys, moving on!

The music is really interesting, but the vocals are way too much for a full album. Especially because I don't have nostalgia to balance them out in this case. 3.

I thought the sampling was very interesting, but the vocals blurred together after a few songs. Personal enjoyment: 3/5 Relevance to this list: 3/5

I enjoy later Beasties more than this one but it is a major achievement. O wonder how many records from this list are sampled on it.

Not my thing

I like the Beastie Boys. They were fresh and funky, blending humorous and irreverent lyrics with a fusion of rap, rock, punk, and funk elements. So much better than the gritty, angry, crime-focused gangsta/hip-hop rap of so many others. It's still not my overall preferred style of music, but it's a high 3 for me.

Run of the mill hip hop rap. Not a fan and gave up after a few tracks.

Mér hefur oft fundist Beastie Boys vera skemmtilegir en þessi plata var bara helst til löng og endurtekningarsöm þannig að ég var kominn með mikinn leiða á henni undir lokin. Svo voru textarnir skrítnir oft á tíðum, t.d. ég er með meira af einhverju en JD hefur Salinger. Hvað þýðir það?

I had no idea that Beastie Boys sounded like that, for some reason I kept thinking that they have some Beach Boys vibes, but this is some 1989 rap where they mainly just talk, which I am not a huge fan of, but I know that a lot of people really enjoy. I would say that it was a bit meh, as the whole album seems like one long song when you're not really paying attention to it.

++: To All the Girls, Egg Man, The Sounds of Science, 3-Minute Rule, 5-Piece Chicken Dinner, Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun, Car Thief, What Comes Around, Shadrach, B-Boy Bouillabaisse: A Year and a Day, B-Boy Bouillabaisse: A.W.O.L +: Shake Your Rump, Johnny Ryall, Hey Ladies, Ask for Janice, B-Boy Bouillabaisse: 59 Chrystie Street, B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Get on the Mic, B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Stop That Train, B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Hello Brooklyn, B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Dropping Names, B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Lay It on Me, B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Mike on the Mic +-: High Plains Drifter 7,7/10

I’m no fan of hip-hop, and this is nothing more than fine. It’s very shouty and very brash, but it’s not terrible, and rhythmically it is really good. Still, I’m not likely to head back.

Nervig

This album is so much fun. I love the Beastie Boys, but I never got around to listening to this one. It's too bad, as I missed all of this good stuff for so long. Liked Songs Added: Shake Your Rump Johnny Ryall Egg Man High Plains Drifter Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun Car Theif What Comes Around Shadrach

Some cool beats and funk but If I wanted to be yelled at for 45 minutes I’d talk to my mom

Perfection! Not much more can be said about this album that hasn't already been said, so creative, so fresh, it's timeless! The more you listen the more new sounds you hear! Probably a few lyrics that didn't exactly stand the test of time but what do you expect from the crew that were licensed to ill?

The last few songs saved this for me

This is alright. The Beastie Boys aren’t the best rappers and are pretty one note with their flow, but damn the production on here is immaculate and really kinda makes the album. It keeps it fresh and interesting even when the flows can’t.

Samples and music are great, but unfortunately I can't get past the vocals.

Loved this. Sample heavy, funky, witty lyrics. What's not to love?

A patchwork of sounds and samples, it feels like a wild collage. The energy is loose and unpredictable, but it never fully settles. It's an experiment you appreciate more than love.

Have not listened to this in ages and had forgotten how good it is. Stand out track is Sounds of Science

Not my genre, not my sound, but something about the Beastie Boys is just plain fun.

I confused the Beastie Boys with the Beach Boys so this was a surprise. The album didn't make a strong impression on me. I listened to it while playing League.

Top-tier

If you've ever wanted to get a group of adults together to jump rope for an hour but are sick of the same old skipping-rope rhymes, this is the album for you. Great beats, fantastic use of samples, the vocal delivery... leaves something to be desired. I think I heard some triplets in there, that was nice. The vocals sound best at higher tempos.

3.5

3.75

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Favorite Track: Egg Man

This album fell flat commercially back when it was released, mainly due to the fact that it moved away from the rock influenced sound of Licensed To Ill. Listening to it now it's easy to see this was ahead of its time. The sampling is insanely good. Lyrically it has moved away from the juvenile a lot, although it still rears its ugly head.

Not a fan of this one. A bit too shouty and riotous for my taste.

Just an absolutely killer record. Some of the flows are a bit redundant, but the production might be the best of the whole decade.

Another classic, no beastie tats tho

I've heard Licensed to Ill before but not this one. Similar to that one, I can't decide if the Beastie Boys are great or terrible. There's parts of this that are really, really good but it does get very grating at other times.

I don't tend to like rap. Somehow the old school ridiculousness of the Beastie Boys works for me *in small doses*

2 - Getting a bit bored of beastie boys now

Much better than the other two BB albums. Still don't really like the shouty vocals but the beats/production are real nice on this one. Fave Tracks: To All the Girls, Hey Ladies 3.6/5

Not at all into rap or hip hop, but don't mind this at all. Quite inventive and like the rock undertow to some of the tracks. That said, will probably never listen to this again

Hip-Hop, good but Hip-Hop

I’m surprised Beastie Boys are not on my controversial list. I hated III Communication but quite liked Licensed to III. Both these appeared on my list at the beginning of this year and at the start of my 1001 quest. Unfortunately this album reverted me back to what I originally thought of them. I never knew of this album and now really need to forget it. 1/5 25/11/24

I’ve almost viscerally disliked the Beasties for my entire 40 years breathing, but I decided that an endeavor like this 1001 album thing is my (possibly final) chance to see if I can’t come around on them. And while I respect their place in hip hop history, and enjoy some of the production, I just can’t do it. The rap-rock-frat boy-white guy delivery will always be like nails on a chalkboard to me and I blame them for every white rap-rock I’ve hated in the decades that follow. Not for me. Just give me the actual rappers.

Shouty and repetitive. But i can see the significance though.

Respect but more of a greatest hits guy

5/5. Each time I listen to this album, there is something else I notice or another song becomes my favorite. It's a crazy collection of songs and crazy Licensed to Ill came right before this. The silliness and nonchalant attitude is here yet the production is the work of experienced professionals with intention. If you like hip hop at all or even interested in music at all, this is a must listen just for the sheer audacity they brought to the studio after already establishing themselves. Best Song: Shadrach, Shake Your Rump, B-Boy Bouillabaisse (feels like cheating, and in response, eat it squareheads)

What a shit album. I stopped 6 songs in. Why is this on the list instead of Licensed To Ill? I mean if you consider Beastie Boys to be "must listened to before you die" why chose Paul's Boutique? Licensed To Ill at least brought something to the scene, packing a punch with those gritty guitars against their crap rap style and genuinely has a couple of bangers on there like "Fight for your right" and "No sleep til Brooklyn". Paul's Boutique is just crap rap.

The Good: We learn that Paul, so it seems, has a boutique! The Bad: We never really find out why we are informed about his boutique… The Ugly: I guess that means that I am not allowed into the secret club… I am no fan of drum machines. I am no fan of sampling. I am no fan of rap music. For me 1989 was a transition year, so I was listening to “old” records and not spending too much time listening to new product being released… for now, it seems like I did not miss out on anything. 2* because I didn’t hate it entirely

Not my first listen. This is some goooooood shit!

Good album just not my cup of tea really.

Good overall, got some bangers, just held back by too much filler.

With the disclaimer that hip-hop and rap are not my favorite genre, I loved this album. The vocal style is not my favorite but the magic here is the amazing use of samples. These guys were truly some of the early pioneers in sampling and they get it right. The layers going on behind the vocals here are amazing. And the lyrics are creative and catchy. I like it best when they alternate lines as you get a true sense that they could rip, mix, and burn on the fly as well as anyone. But really, the sampling is what pushes this whole album to the 5/5 range for me.

i got this and was over the moon when i recognized the isley brother's sample in 'a year and a day' from kendrick lamar using it on his song 'i'. what a great birthday album

Just when I thought I'd never hear an album that samples both "The Ballroom Blitz" and "Folsom Prison Blues"

That was a tasty listen

Ik ken de Beasty Boys van hun hit in de jaren '90, maar in het algemeen is dit wel een heel saaie rap-groep. Tenminste, als ik dit album moet geloven, is het moeilijk om het niet af te zetten. De beats voelen goedkoop en de stemmen gaan na een tijdje ook vervelen. **

First listen. Not a fan of hip-hop. Better than expected. Sounds like they were having fun. Doubt I would listen to it again.

Paul’s Boutique It already feels like a big step forward from Licensed to Ill just from the organ sample on To All The Girls, a bit of instrumentation and a sense of musical influences beyond the frat boy party rap of the first album. Shake Your Rump then kicks in, initially a little like something from Licensed to Ill, but then pulls the rug with a cavalcade of samples as the track careens brilliantly all over the place, all with their customary sense of humour. Things continue in that vein; meticulously layered tracks based around brilliantly eclectic samples, all tied together with fun, excitement and just an overall sense of sonic inventiveness. It’s worth going track by track through Who Sampled, as the list is incredible, Macca and Dylan on Johnny Ryall, Superfly, Bernard Hermann and Jaws on Egg Man, Eagles, The Band, Star Wars on High Plains Drifter, and of course 5 different Beatles songs on The Sounds of Science….I mean I could go on. Lyrically it’s also a major step forward from Licensed to Ill, they still have the same sense of humour, but the scope is much wider, full of stories and characters and it has a real sense of New York. I don’t think there are any particularly weak songs, but the run from To All the Girls to The Sounds of Science is particularly superb, barely putting a foot wrong with great stories, great samples, beats and grooves. It hardly lets up after that though, Hey Ladies is excellent, I love the the heavier Mississipi Queen sample on Barrel of a Gun and the Jackson 5 sample on Car Thief gives it a great funky atmosphere. Shadrach is great too, a brilliantly diverse set of samples all adding up to a brilliantly percussive track. And then B-Boy Bouillabaisse is a musical and production tour de force in sampling, like a mini concert. Things that were very innovative and influential at the time can often sound dated, but this doesn’t at all, 35 years later it still sounds fresh and exciting and is just a great album. Maybe because sampling at this scale became prohibitively expensive not long after this was never imitated or diluted to death, so it remains along with 3 Feet High and Rising as the apogee of this type of thing. Anyhow t’s rightly a classic and a seminal album, nothing but a 5. 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚 Playlist submission: Could be a few, but Sounds of Science for the Beatlesness.

So good to listen to the Beastie Boys again. I think many people still think of Beastie Boys as idiots but this is quality. Stunning production, sampling, bass, percussion.

it was super fun to listen to but thats it for me

funny album but hard to tag along. lot of funny noises but also it feels a bit messy. i mean i know it’s supposed to be, but if you don’t pay 100% attention all songs feel the same. suddenly there’s a cartoon noise and you’re back to paying attention

Just a couple years from the best two albums of the 90s and this is still a 5 star albbum

I love hip-hop and what the Beastie Boys did for it. The album features excellent production, innovative sampling, and solid lyrics, but suffers from a lack of variety in the flows.

I get that it's influential and all, but really not my thing, in retrospect. A little abrasive on the ears with all the shouting and random mixed-in bits.

Fun!

Such an interesting and inventive album. There are a couple of great songs on here that stand well on their own but this is an album that works better as a unit. It's not something I'd want to listen to all the time though.

Legendary! Sophomore release, a tough act to follow after the success of their debut. Not my favorite BB album but the good stuff is GOOD STUFF! This is a great blend of hip hop, party music & innovation, and this is the album that forced the industry to take them seriously. Less frat boy party driven than their debut but it includes classics "Hey Ladies", "Shake Your Rump", "Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun", "Shadrach" & "Johnny Ryall". I blew a speaker back in the day cranking "Shake Your Rump"! The percussion, bass line, samples & in-your-face delivery. "I'm like Sam the butcher bringing Alice the meat", "Like Fred Flintstone driving around with both feet", so many good lines in one song! The only truly weak song is "3-Minute Rule, otherwise it's a fun romp. I've read about the sampling and the fact that no record before (or since?) has ever had as many samples from other artists woven in. Innovation and influence, plus all the fun songs. Solid album!

Today I learned I really dislike the Beastie Boys. They've got 3 good songs (none of which are on this album), and the lead singer is incredibly annoying. The lyrics are foul, but if there was a purely-instrumental version of this album, I'd probably like it.

Mid. Catchy but mid.

Decent am sure their other album is better

This gets better with each listen.

Really enjoyed it.

Slaps. Sick beats that take sampling to it's upper extreme. Jam-packed rhymes with all three members jumping in to flow together. Over-the-top facetious macho bravado that is hilarious. Super creative. Understandable why it wasn't a commercial/pop hit like their debut album but it's still so good regardless. Standouts are "Sounds of Science" (really the second half of that track), and "Shake Your Rump", with a shoutout to the goofy banjo-driven "5-Piece Chicken Dinner" interlude.

Decent

Complete rubbish...start to finish. Waste of time.

Following up a release such as "Licensed to Ill" is no easy feat. And I'll start off by stating that this does not quite match that debut effort in terms of individual track quality in my opinion. However, I will say that "Paul's Boutique" does feature some truly unique sampling all throughout. Apparently 105 songs are sampled in total here, which is absolutely astounding to me. We're talking samples of classic funk, soul, rock, etc. Now I know that the Beastie Boys are known for their heavy rock influence, but I can't think of another album that incorporates so many diverse song samples. The Beastie Boys really were their own act during this "golden" age of hip-hop, and "Paul's Boutique" showcases that. Looking outside of the plentiful sampling work, you've got the usual goofy storytelling and lyricism from Mike D, Ad-Rock, and MCA. While there are a lot of tracks, it doesn't really feel that bloated. The last "track" (which is basically a ton of bite-sized raps) showcases some of their breakneck & clever rhymes well, but I also enjoyed "Shake Your Rump", "The Sounds of Science", and "Shadrach". Looking forward to getting "Ill Communication" whenever it comes.

Beastie Boys are one of the most FUN groups to ever exist. fun, exciting, funny songs in every album. never boring - you can just feel how much fun they have recording all this stuff. also basically musical geniuses with the samples and stuff

Incredible beats and production for an '80s hip hop album. The lyricism and flow is not incredible, and the lyrics are sort of inane and sexist, but the energy and personality that they're delivered with makes them enjoyable nonetheless.

Nunca había escuchado a los beastie boys, no esperaba que fueran Hip Hop, la verdad disfruté bastante

I've heard more interesting sampling feats but I got to admit that the sampling here is quite a flex.

Classic golden age hip hop

This one brought back memories of being in the Navy chipping paint in a fan room listening this Beastie Boys cassette out of a boom box.