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Really good
Oh hell yeah dawg, you think you know hip hop? These dudes made it
Veel vette beats, samples en raps. Wel veel hetzelfde, en te weinig grote hits
in my humble opinion this isn't the greatest Beastie Boys record but still scores 5 stars, imagine how good the other ones are!!! go listen to To The 5 Boroughs and Hello Nasty, you can thank me later.
One of Beastie's best, may be the best
interesting good in the background
OK. I'm a 12 yr old schoolboy and I'm writing shit lyrics with my two friends, and then someone offers us the chance to put them over 4 million samples and make a record. Cool! There's some great sampling work in this - can't believe at one point I found myself thinking, "Is that really a bit of Musique du Burundi??". But none of it makes up for the fact that the songs, as with all Beastie Boys songs, are puerile garbage. I hated this so much. I'll reluctantly give it one star for the samples, and because I can't give it zero. It also explains why I hate Lonely Island so much, because this is all I hear.
Well that was all very silly, wasn't it? Right off the bat, I'm going to say 3 stars is usually my "no strong feelings" category, but that's not the case here - but every time I was thinking this is rubbish, two stars, their flow and general enthusiasm (and a few oh so choice lyrics) brought it back up to three. And every time I was like, maybe this should be four? The sameyness of the songs and the themes dragged it back down... So a lot to like, just as much to hate, three stars. Bonus round - you can play a game of "how many other albums from this list can you hear sampled?" (I got at least eight!) Faves: Shadrach; Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
Old school rap. Fun
1. "To All the Girls" 2,5 2. "Shake Your Rump" 3 3. "Johnny Ryall" 2,6 4. "Egg Man" 3 5. "High Plains Drifter" 3 6. "The Sounds of Science" 3,4 7. "3-Minute Rule" 3,1 8. "Hey Ladies" 3,2 9. "5-Piece Chicken Dinner" 3,4 10. "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun" 3 11. "Car Thief" 3,3 12. "What Comes Around" 3,2 13. "Shadrach" 3 14. "Ask for Janice" 3 15. "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" 3,5 Average 3,08
extremely funny and silly of me to wonder where g love, beck, and soul coughing all sprang up from and literally roll the beastie boys a couple days later lmao. owned by the RNG machine! kind of a funny contrast to g love cuz the beastie boys' delivery style is even more monotonous and theoretically way less conducive to an album of this length (and tbh im not Completely sold on it in a 10/10 classic way still) but where g love kinda dragged me across the finish line, this flies by. kinda gives me vertigo...rly kaleidoscopic, with their frantic trade-off style and weird combinations of words making even the non-sampled parts fit in with the Bottomless Pit Of Collage aesthetic. expectedly, very stimmy. may throw this on a bit when i need to drag myself out of bed for an early shift in a couple days lol
Man what a record. While previous Beastie Boyd albums were good - this was the first truly awesome album out of quite a few.
excellent bbq music!
Ok. So, it's perfectly obvious to me that NYC in this era was a big bang of culture, creativity, art -- so much life. I'd even call it beauty or magic. But if I'm honest it does kinda feel almost like a religion, where maybe 'coolness' is the god. Or is it just youth? Sometimes I get swept up in it all, but the day after, looking back, I can't help but but have doubts in that god.
Not a fan. There was Mabye one hood one.
Aghhh
I'm sure if this had been part of my youth I'd have loved it. But coming to it now, it's so shouty and grating that I have trouble uncovering the genius. I can see why it's on the list, but it's a skip for me.
Oh wow - a second Beastie Boys album in the span of 3 days? Wasn't expecting that. Luck of the draw, I guess. While I always enjoy listening to an artist's discography from start to finish to hear all the highs and lows of their body of work, and their evolution from the early days onwards - it can also be interesting to go from a slightly later album to an earlier project. In this case, two days ago I got the Beastie Boys’ brilliant ‘Ill Communication’, which presented a hip hop group that had their fleshed out sound all figured out. Their second LP ‘Paul’s Boutique’ sees them at a more primitive level. That’s not to say this album is bad. It shouldn’t be compared to a later album; but it’s hard not to do it. ‘Paul’s Boutique’ is a much more conservative effort; the band is hitting all of the braggadocious bravado they're known for, but it's missing the energy and anger that almost makes you want to punch the air while listening. And the production is missing the daring variety in musicality. The beats are fine and serviceable, and the musicianship is nice on the ears, but it's missing that wide experimentation. Simply put, 'Paul's Boutique' is the foundation for what was to come later on down the road. It's a fine hip hop album and it does stand out when you compare it to what was popular at the time it was released. However, there are just mere hints at what this group could do, rather than it being a full showcase. It's also a little too bloated for its own good. With the lack of variety it actually feels longer than 'Ill Communication' even though it's slightly shorter in length; and at times it felt like songs were kind of blending in to each other. Regardless, it's not a bad album. It's actually really enjoyable, and it feels like I am unfairly comparing it to stronger efforts that were released years later. But I also feel it's kind of fair to judge it based on the Beastie Boys' overall discography. And although it is a slight evolution from their debut 'Licensed To Ill', it is still very much a blueprint album that the group would later springboard from to create much more diverse and daring work. 3/5
Another masterpiece. Trying to think of other artists who did anything like this - MAYBE Run DMC? - just can't think of any. Killer rhymes, sweet-ass grooves, so much funk, always tongue-in-cheek, pure entertainment. A huge step from their first album, which was a blast in its own right. Loved it.
For some reason that I can't explain, I was not looking forward to listening to this. I think it is because I feared it would not hold up to Il Communication. Even I was prepared to give it a lesser rating... and because of that it took time for me to get into. But then I did. It is a little more explicit and the lyrics are just as fun, the energy is there, the spirit, the sillyness but still high musicianship... What's not to like?
Okay, not great
They named this album after my boutique. Ill. 5
Had me grooving only the way beastie boys can do
I don’t recall listening to this album as much as some others, but it is classic Beasties. The rhymes are solid and clever.
All I have in my head is Shake your Rump stuck in my head because of the Goldbergs
Twas a fun little album. Does it have the deepest lyrics, no. Is it profound? Also no. But is it just fun to listen to? Absolutely and that’s the appeal. Nobody takes the Beasties seriously, not even them. That’s the joy and what makes this album so fun to listen to.
sampling done at its finest. it adds to the track, but doesn't overshadow. lyrics are fun, irreverent, and Beasties don't take themselves too seriously. fantastic album. love this album
Sampling is on-point here. The construction is quite coherent, varied, and interesting. The boys seem like hilarious people to hang out with, the lyrics falling dangerously close to parody. Enjoyable, but not something I'd really choose to listen to. The voices get pretty grating at times, like they're shouting at me the whole time.
Ok
Banging record. I had listened tonnes of times to 'Licensed to Ill' but was unaware of this album. Beastie Boys never letting anyone down. Even though this record doesn't have as many hits as 'Licensed to Ill' it is so fun to listen to and just so good. The samples here are out of this world. Somehow Beastie Boys are above any hip-hop record I listen to.
These are great when they pop up in a playlist but after two or three back to back sound like whinging nerds.
I was never one for hip hop. But ok, credit for teh party vibe BB are creating here..
Not for me, rap silliness
Absolute classic. I love this album from start to finish.
Not their best album but still glorious
best beastie boys album
Many of the reviews have praised the use of sampling on this album, and I heartily agree. Mostly, however, because it is the only thing notable about the album. In the end, it felt more like a rap version of mystery science theater: three guys rapping over other media as if providing commentary. For MST it works. Not so much here.
I've been wrong my whole life about these guys. I still don't like their vocal style, but this is brilliant. It's an absolute master class in sampling.
Classic
Highlights: Egg Man, Hey Ladies, Shadrach. In a nutshell: writers, poets, and geniuses. And they know it. Overall: 5/10
Very much a Beastie Boys sound
An instant classic. The rhymes, the beats, classic BBs.
This was a fun listen, as expected with a Beastie Boys album. Great production, performances, writing, and sampling to be found here. Among the Beastie Boy’s best work, and this probably is their best. I recommend it!
to all the girls- 5 shake your rump- 6 or 7 johnny ryall- i wish i was the leader of the homeless. 6 or 7 egg man- 7 high plains drifter- 6 or 7 the sounds of science- 6 the three minute rule- 5 hey ladies- 6 5 piece chicken dinner- 7 looking down the barrel of a gun- 5 or 6 car thief- 6 what comes around- 5 shadrach- 6 ask for janice- 5 idk if its a 3 or 4
Eh
This started out great but wore a bit thin by the end. The energy is infectious though and I like this style of hip hop a lot more than some of the other stuff.
Not their best (yet)
The deeper we go on this list, I have even less of an idea of what kind of hip hop I like. Well, at least now I know that beastie boys aint it.
Fun to see the "finish each other's thoughts" thing a bit unpolished, before they perfected it on albums like Hello Nasty. Overall, it drags on for too long, but still fun.
I really hate the Beastie Boys. All of their music is just noise. This album suuuuuuucks.
* Cool use of the guitar sample of the Beatles "The End" (or whatever the track is before that haha) in the Sounds of Science track * The drum intro from Led Zepplin's "Moby Dick" on What Comes Around
I like some of the Beastie Boys stuff, but their music is pretty juvenile and simplistic. 1.5
Really fun to try and recognise as many of the samples as you can. I really like this album, but it's not the Beastie Boys album I keep coming back to. Lots of great music on here though.
don't like that style
One of the greatest early hip hop records, one which happens to be at its best when the elements of the band's hardcore punk past are seamlessly blended with the new sounds they were experimenting with.
Not my favorite Beastie Boys album, but still a really good/strong album. Exactly what you expect it to be.
Egg Man is a personal highlight
Catchy nonsense! Love it.
Full of 90’s nostalgia but as hard as I tried, I just don’t like the Bestie Boys :/
bad
One of my favourites of all time. So inventive and interesting.
This is some of the worst crap ever recorded
Not on Spotify
Супэр. Как альбом лучше, чем уже упоминавшийся в списке Ill Communication. Интересно, как к этой группе относятся хип-хоп пуристы. Лучшая песня - The Sounds of Science.
Lots of cool samples
Great funky beats and rhymes. I've always known a few tracks off of this but it was great to finally listen to it all.
No. 258/1001 To All The Girls 3/5 Shake Your Rump 2/5 Johnny Ryall 2/5 Egg Man 2/5 High Plains Drifter 2/5 The Sounds of Silence 2/5 3-Minute Rule 3/5 Hey Ladies 2/5 5-Pieces Chicken Dinner NR Looking Down the Barrel of A Gun 2/5 Car Thief 2/5 What Comes Around 2/5 Shadrach 2/5 Ask for Janice NR B-Boy Bouillabaisse 2/5 Average: 2,15 Just not my taste. To me this only sounded like some guys shouting into a microphone.
Too good. Not my favorite Beastie Boys, but still amazing.
Really enjoyed the lyrics and the mixing. Fewer hits than "License to Ill," perhaps, but more consistency throughout.
No big hits on this album, but still pretty solid overall
Absolute classic. Great production. Lots of fun.
I was 16 when this album came out and I hated it back then. I wish I could go back in time and punch my 16 year old self for not realizing what an absolute masterpiece this album is. All the samples hit hard. The beats are dope. The rhymes are the bomb. This works so masterfully that it can't be duplicated. And this isn't even their best album. Check Your Head is beyond incredible and somehow didn't make this list. Still, 5 stars and then some for this glorious recording.
Hip hop. I don’t really like the Beastie Boys. It’s mostly the style of rap, just gets on my nerves. It’s a shame because the beats and sound is good.
I have enjoyed this as much or more than any hip-hop/ rap album that I have listened to. Musically it’s more than just a beat- fun lyrically and It actually has a bit of complexity.
Fantastic - haven't listened to it in a long time and that was overdue, I won't make the same mistake again.
Exceptional album so full of beats, samples and wild rap imagery. Very nostalgic for me as well. I remember my friends rejecting this album because it wasn’t Licensed to Ill. They missed it is 1000x more nuanced than that first album.
Over 100 samples, layered together into 1 album. Great stuff.
So many bangers
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.
Pretty cool. Love all the samples. I really like the Beastie Boys and I know this one is a critic favorite but probably not my most favorite.
Nunca me habían gustado los Beastie Boys hasta que he escuchado este disco. No sé si es cosa de la edad.
Still not my cup of tea.
HEY LADIESSSSSS
good, high energy
no puedo no mover la cabeza. es imposible. automático.
A ground breaking album, but not even the best beastie boys album.
GREAT music. AMAZING songs. OBNOXIOUS vocals. I'm impressed by the range of influences and genres they draw from. This is a sampling masterpiece. But the drunken teenage shouting every song is unbearable.
I’m partial to the Beastie Boys from the billboard hits I’ve heard, but going into this I expected to get annoyed after the ~20 minute mark. I did not get annoyed at all, in fact this album’s sound matches its packaging completely - the feel of walking around a New York City boutique and sampling an eclectic range of sounds. It’s just rhyming. But it’s some seriously creative rhyming at that, bolstered by some stunning sampling.
I read recently that it is possible to breathe through your anus. This album proves that it is also possible to sing through it.
Catchy
The beats are great, and the rapping is on point, but there's some cringey 90s-ness about this that I have trouble getting past for whatever reason. I'm not certain the lyrics aren't problematic in some regard either. Nevertheless, I like it, and might come back to it here and there.
So this is how I find out I don't like the Beastie Boys. Well, it was bound to happen eventually.
An incredibly impressive feat of sampling wizardry that pins together the Beasties classic style of rapping. There are a few bangers on here with Shake Your Rump, Hey Ladies, and Shadrach. There’s a song that samples Curtis Mayfield, Funkadelic, Psycho, and Cheech and Chong and is about throwing eggs at a bald man, so that’s fun
I have never been a fan of the Beastie Boys, but my friend who is a big fan implored me to listen to this record as it is a "masterclass in sampling." He wasn't wrong. This is certainly the best Beasties I've heard. Their voices still sound like nails on a chalkboard for the most part, but the production quality and their rap content makes it tolerable. The beats are soulful, dingy, and raw. Their raps capture the moment of NYC in the late 80s and carries some of the sounds from that era, while also introducing the transition to the Golden Era of 90s hip hop. This was much better than I expected.
Old school rap. Much better than the rap crap of today. Long live Beastie Boys.
love beastie boys but this isn’t their best
could i write poetry to this? y
A masterpiece. The mash-up of genres, samples, and fresh lyrics make for something truly original.
This album is all about the production. The rapping and lyrics are not as important as the beats and samples.
Dude. This was so awesome. The sampling is a masterpiece and I definitely recommend this to all people who consider themselves hip-hop fans or are fascinated by the art of sampling. Also, almost every song is full of fire bars. Easy 5/5
I know this album has a cult following, but honestly, I don’t get it. Compared to Licensed to Ill, this just feels all over the place. The beats are weird, the flow is messy, and none of the tracks hit the same way. There’s a lot going on, sure. Tons of samples, inside jokes, and deep cuts. But clever doesn’t always mean good. I spent more time wondering what was happening than actually enjoying it. Definitely not for me.
energetic and fun album. Not a big beastie boys fan, but they did their thing for sure.
Mum they’re shouting at me
I have (and love) Licence to ill, student days and all that. One of the first albums that got me interested in hip-hop too. But I didn't know Paul's Boutique. I loved it. It doesn't have the hits of Licence to Ill but is more coherent and just sounds great (I love the basslines too). The use of samples is very clever. My only slight gripe is that the vocals are a bit too omnipresent for me (and quite samey). A more restrained use of vocals and a greater emphasis on the music would have been a 5* for me. Still a great album and worthy of the 1001 list.
Day248 - the best beastie boys album. sure doesn’t seem like it’s 35 years old
Easy 5
a chef's kiss of glorious nonsense
A romp.
Die Band, zeigt einen innovativen Einsatz von Sampling mit genreübergreifenden Einfluss. Es ist kein völlig misslungenes Werk. Der etwas aggressivere Gesangsstil verleiht dem Sound eine musikalischere Note. Dennoch fehlten für mich die Highlights, und es entstand kein gesteigerter Wunsch, das Album erneut zu hören. Insgesamt bleibt es hinter meinen Hoffnungen zurück - zu wenig für den 3. Stern.
Not that great
Would have liked them to switch up the flow, but pretty good
Just one of the best.
The swagger sounds laboured and false. Not my cup of tea.
It grew on me
Some great beats, but after a while the shouting and whining starts to grate.
Very much an album of its time. Really don't know what else to say. It's almost more a pastiche of how rap music was back then, except it is the genuine article. It was an interesting listen to be reminded of that era's music. Would I buy it? No. Part of me wants to give it a 3, but part of me says is it worth that? I'll decide on Monday. Aaarrrggghhh! This is really difficult, for all I've said about this album, it's still head and shoulders above Bonio and Big Jobbie, but I just can't give it a 3.
For all of the clever little samples, this is just Beavis and Butthead trying to be hard.
I assume is supposed to be clever satirical stuff or an immature joke. Which ever it intended to be was lost on me. It was not remotely funny or engaging. Basically a mess.
Holds up really well after over 30 years
I love the beastie boys. Their style, their cool, their message, the sampling/scratching, their fashion, the guys are funny and talented, i watched the doc/talk from apple tv and cried. They have made some of the most amazing songs across 20 years of my youth. But ill be honest and say that ive never really loved their albums. When it works it works, but it can descend into slightly annoying audio collages that don't draw me in. A bit like donuts, i love the idea of them and the first 3 bites are heaven, but a full box is to much
B- boys be rockin on and on. It’s no intergalactic…but solid
This is a stone cold classic. Dismissed on release. So many samples used so well. Shake your rummpaaa.
Production is great. Some of the changing of verses feels a little corny.
En ollutkaan kuullut tätä Beastie Boysia ennen. Kyllähän tämänkin parissa ihan viihtyi! 3/5
joo tokaa levyä tätä bändiä ei kyllä jaksais. ihan hauska se eka mutta tää kyllästyttää jo puolen välin kohdalla. 2/5
The one guy is whiny and annoying but the weave it all in to make it work somehow
Another one from the 1989 club. This is a nice companion to the De La Soul album from the same year; I'm not well versed in the genre but these were a great starting point. Really great production and appreciate the sampling. Very close to a five.
Total flop when it was released because it was so different from Licence to ill, but rightly now considered a classic. Appropriately samples from the 2nd half of Abbey Road (one of a million samples that would cost a fortune only a couple years later, but labels hadn’t caught on yet) as the whole album feels like one big medley. I’ve probably listened to the album 100 times but I’m not sure I’ve ever just put on one song, they don’t really work in their own but altogether its a one of a kind 5-mic album
4.5 I think if your a true Beastie Boys fan (im not a fanatic or anything but appricate the work) this album would be your favorite . I remember listening it to it the first time and wondering what the big deal was about. Subsequent listens have improved that opinion. Brett is right it really should be viewed as an enitre album as opposed to a collection of songs.
According to all sources, this record is probably pretty clever and packed with endless wit, but the first listen left me cold and uncomfortable.
TLDR; first half is meh, the second half is God-tier good; 4. But why did the Beastie Boys copy Mr Beast when picking their name???????? What I love about the Beastie Boys is their recognisable sound, they're one of those artists you can immediately tell it's them, even if you're not a fan - which I'm not generally. That's not to say I dislike the Beastie Boys, I just never took time to sit down and listen to them outside of a select few tracks which I love (So What'Cha want is such a bop it's unreal) and License to Ill. I genuinely think the first 5 songs or so in this album are a letdown just in terms of scope, I found them a bit plain and uninteresting. The instrumentals on this album are absolutely phenomenal from start to finish. I couldn't stand the first half of The Sounds of Science, but after that, shit got real and the song actually rocked. From there, 3-Minute Rule really started to pick things up for me. Instrumentals picked up, until 5-Piece Chicken Dinner. What the fuck was up with that? Anyways, this album is good. It wasn't a life changing listen, but it's fun, interesting, and honestly I'd definitely throw this album on when going for a drive.
Probably the most fun listen outside of MJ or Animal Collective so far. The samples used for their beats in this one are a real standout. Their style of yelling out one liners you feed the substitute teacher doesn't really grate on my nerves like it seems to with others but can make the album a bit samey in places. I feel like a lot of my favourite songs from this band come from other albums on this list. Highlights Shake Your Rump: ****1/2 Very bombastic opener, maybe their most underrated song. great lyrics and beat throughout Egg Man: **** Goofy ahh song, very catchy despite using psycho of all things as a sample lmao B-Boy Bouillabaisse: **** What even was this? a 12 minute mashup chopped up? its own mini album? I liked how a lot of it felt less over-produced than a lot of the other songs. It was basically a little demo reel of Beastie Boys. It starts a little slower but really picks up between stop that train and hello brooklyn.
To All The Girls - I identified with the lyrics of this song in a big way. This review goes out to all the Oriental girls. Shake Your Rump - A really fun one, really liked the instrumentals and samples. Johnny Ryall - Another really fun one, really liked the instrumentals and samples. Egg Man - quite wild and even frenetic in parts, but I still liked it a lot High Plains Drifter - not a fan of this one, samples were all kinds of fucked up, and the vocals were not as good as the others so far The Sounds of Science - this song is is all over the place, better after the midpoint. The Beatles guitar sample was an great choice. 3-Minute Rule - loved the bass. I liked the tempo on this one. Solid beats and samples. Lyrics are better than many of the others on this album so far. Hey Ladies - immaculate track, everything going for it. Instrumentals going very hard. Vocals are more my speed. Lyrics are fun and have a great energy. Samples are on POINT. 5-Piece Chicken Dinner - pretty neat I enjoyed it, stick out pretty hard and was quite jarring off the back of Hey Ladies. Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun - HARD. Really cool track. Not sure if I enjoyed this one because of the rock samples they picked or if it was just really well mixed but this was good stuff either way. Car Thief - fantastic instrumentals, enjoyed the lyrics a lot. What comes around - really fun lyrics, but the instrumentals were a bit more lopsided than others, not as sharp as others on this album. Shadrach - I liked the Mario Andretti reference. Track was standard fare otherwise. B-Boy Bouillabaisse - I really liked A Year and A Day, Hello Brooklyn. Didn't really like AWOL. The rest were all pretty good. I've listened to only a couple Beastie Boys tracks before, nothing from this album. I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected. A few tracks I saved for really hitting the spot. Not a genre that is really my speed but I've got to recognise a great album when I hear it. To summarise, this album is a trip, it's got funky beats, and I can bug out to it!
beastie boys is one of those bands were i love when one or two of their tracks come on but when i start to listen to them i realize that a bunch of shrill white boys being vaguely funny/absurb gets really fucking annoying after a while. good album, one of the artists where the best tracks are generally the ones with the most plays, but gets real grating after too long
An interesting treatise from professors emeritus Dr. Michael D. Phd., Dr. ADROCK Phd., and Dr. MCA Md., which asks such thought provoking questions as: which ethnicity of woman in New York is the baddest, What would happen if I threw eggs through the windows of passing cars, and perhaps the most novel question of all, is it possible to sound any more Jewish?
Where beasties boys and where hear to say we had a horrible influence on music in a major way! This is my first front to back beastie. Boys and there's a lot to like. But God damn can these guys and only these guys get away with a flow like this and it's influence and widespread adoption in the mainstream has drilled a Hole in my skull with its usual shithouse execution that took multiple listens to even remotely allow me to appreciate it. Which I did end up doing. It's just a massive shame that the sampedelia production wasn't what was widely accepted and instead it was a flow that no-one else can effectively replicate and then ruins it for everyone. Understandable if you love this one, if it was an instrumental would would be an 8 or 9 Fav tracks - Shake Your Rump, Johnny Ryall, Egg Man, High Planes Drifter, The Sounds of Silence, Hey Ladies, Looking down the barrel of a gun, What comes around, Shadrach Least Fav - 3-Minute Rule
Oriental Girls. Look gotta be real I liked it but not for any deep reason, music is fun and the rap is not bad I think they have better albums. Short review on this one but I liked it. 3/5
As a fan of Frank Zappa's wackier comedy albums and stupid songs I feel like I should have enjoyed this album a lot more than I did. I had very limited exposure to Beastie Boys before this, I could only really say I have listened to Intergalactic and Sabotage which are fun novelty songs that I usually won't skip if they come on shuffle. But a whole album of that kind of music just doesn't work for me. This album has good production with the Dust Brothers who also did the production for Hanson (music to sacrifice children to) and Guero by Beck. Songs like 3-Minute Rule have some okay lines and fun lyricism but overall this album wasn't able to hold my attention primarily because I just really don't gel with the vocals here at all. As I said before, fun for a single track, grating when you have to listen to 57 minutes of it. The vocals especially on songs like Hey Ladies really had me checking how long the album had left. I imagine this is what Woody Allen would sound like if he decided to make rap music instead of raping his step daughter. The most enjoyment I got out of this album was recognising the Mississippi Queen sample on Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun, which is also one of the only songs I wholeheartedly enjoyed. I gave this album a couple of goes and unfortunately my feelings on it didn't change. Also these guys did a concert for Tibetan 'freedom' lmao
Huh. I dug this more than License. Less shouty and annoying and posturing. Better produced.
More than 100 samples? Really?
Deze moest voor mij er niet per se in. Beastie Boys hebben twee goede albums gemaakt die wel eens tot de top 1001 beste albums zouden kunnen horen, maar deze is 'm niet. Niet per se slecht, maar gewoon, een 2.5. Erdoor is erdoor hè.
This is a touchstone album. A turning point for the band and hip hop. It’s like Pet Sounds or the first Velvet Underground album, it wasn’t a runaway hit (although its flop is overstated) but its influence is remarkable. Ill Communication is my favorite Beasties record but this is arguably the most important.
Love TBB. While this album has some sweet songs, it’s not my favorite by them. But it’s a great follow up to Licensed to Ill. I could listen to TBB everyday.
Wild and fun!! Those samples and beats were insane, I was bouncing all over the place!! Love the way the b boys play off each other!!
Sounded like a bunch of year 7's showing off and trying to be hard I never want to hear this album again 1 ⭐️
A lot going on, and good samples throughout, but not as enjoyable on the second listen. 3.5
Very fun.
yes, it's the beastie boys. they're okay.
boring
Not a big Beastie Boys fan...but this wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. 3/5
It’s alright just not my cup of tea
6/10…80‘s Beastie Boys Hip Hop
To all the people who are like “tHeY’rE jUsT sHoUtInG??”: 1. I’m sorry, are we in a library or something? 2. As resident of the Tri-State Area, I can tell you with 100% certainty: They are not yelling, they’re just from New York. 3. Really? Your biggest criticism is that they are shouting during this upbeat and raucous party music? Go listen to the National or something…
What comes around
Not their best work but still decent Favorite Track: 5 Piece Chicken Dinner
2.5
AHHH YEAH. I really, really regret selling this record. I don't care what you say, this shit is BADASS.
Well that was a bit of fun. Innovators? Cultural appropriationists? Beastie’s are complicated but always in yo face. Great mix of old school and what would become their signature guitar-wailing rock fusion. Always love the three-headed flow and absurd lyrics. NYC surrealist hip-hop that paved the way for Nü Metal and a thousand terrible dad raps. Definitely culture shifting. I know top notch MC'ing is always going to have a gross amount of bravado and machismo but the sexist lines do cause 2024 cringing. Made me feel 12 years old trying to smoke home-rolled cigarettes and riding BMX’s into a lake. And you don’t stop...
Cool jams from back in the day
Interesting album, it went to so many different types of genres. Will likely listen again/check out their other stuff
I think there's a bit of a divide in the Beastie Boys output between this earlier stuff, which was puerile and misogynistic, and later work, where they even apologised for being dicks. They have to be one of the few bands that actually grew up. Not that this is bad, some of the arrangements here are mint, and I completely forgot about "Barrel of a Gun." But it's also hard to ignore its more sexist elements.
Non so cosa sia successo, sono stato stregato dal fascino dello scapestrato
It sounds like a collection of Smosh songs (2005-2009 Smosh). My recommended music on Spotify is never recovering from this.
Sick beats, hilarious lyrics, great production. A classic.
I think one significant benefit to joining this project is learning that there is more to the Beastie Boys than "Fight For Your Right". This is the third lp I've listened to by them and enjoyed them all.
Not my favorite songs by the Beastie Boys, but the production with the layered samples and how well they work together is pretty astounding. This is one of the few albums on the list that I think truly could not be made today, just based on the licensing costs it would incur alone.
The "Sgt. Pepper of hip-hop" according to some, but possibly drags a little unlike the Sgt. Pepper of rock. Very very good, and an absolute cornerstone of modern rap music - especially in the way they used samples. The "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" suite, while overlong as one song, shows a whole other way of doing hip-hop, more akin to the end of the second side of Abbey Road
Classic
Was thinking about the lyric "Humpty Dumpty was a big fat egg" for the rest of the album
I've heard of the Beastie Boys but I thought they were a rock group. So I was very surprised when this album started playing! The album started alright but the second half wasn't very good.
как-то быстро устала, много крика. буду слушать их по одной песне в час и заряжаться
Loved every second of this album. Listening back, I really enjoyed hearing all the different samples these guys used.
A classic of the genre just for the layers of sampling alone. I love me some Beastie Boys. Easy 5.
I believe Paul's Boutique is an absolute gem. Every single track on here is packed with fitting samples, witty lyrics, raunchy and edgy rap, great pacing and extremly catchy bass riffs.
Fine
Enjoyed the sampling
Bardzo dobre. Kilka dobrych kawałków. Czuć klimat starego, pionierskiego hip-hopu.
Pretty good. Some very nice moments on here. It’s fun catching samples of other artists (at least one I recognized from a recent album on this project).
This week is on fire! For sure the best Beastie Boys album, it’s weird this flopped so hard considering how much it paved the way for hip-hop to come. On the other hand, the failure of this album led the band to start playing their instruments again, and because of that we have Sabotage. Win-win.
A lot of fun, a great album, absolutely deserving to be in this list. These guys were so good. All the samples and production was done really well, and their personalities really come through.
The way that hip-hop has opened up and allowed itself to become one with so many other genres is a beautiful thing. And its producers are largely the reason that this has happened. It’s why I have so much respect for those people. Beastie Boys definitely stand out. Because as much as it pains me to admit, white people don’t have the strongest track record in rap history. The ones that have made a name for themselves are few and far between. Vanilla Ice really doesn’t represent us very well. But these guys are different. Three of New York’s rowdiest white boys. Licensed to Ill definitely highlights that rowdiness in a juvenile way. Paul's Boutique doesn’t abandon that aspect of their music. But it evolves their sound in the best way possible. The sample work here is pure excellence. It’s another one of those situations that makes me question why people scoff at sampling so much. This is a precursor to fantastic albums like Endtroducing..... and Since I Left You. It may not be as complex as those, or have nearly as many samples, but they still use them creatively to their fullest extent. And talk about not limiting yourself. The variety of works they are pulling from here is vast. They chose to not be bound by any preconceived ideas of what hip-hop instrumentals should sound like. Especially in the late 80s, where everyone sort of sounded the same, but certain people were finally starting to branch out. This took a little warming up for me, but once it clicked, I was having a great time. It’s crazy how much this impacted the sound of experimental hip-hop. I don’t think artists like Danny Brown or Earl Sweatshirt would have the same style of production if it weren’t for this. It still generally sticks to funk and rock samples, but I’m sure there are dozens I can’t identify just off of one listen. I also love the integration of the samples themselves. Producers create the beats that act as avenues for artists to express themselves over. But they rarely feel like more than just a backdrop. The way the samples, particularly the ones containing vocals, are laid out on this record, and then built upon by all three MC’s with their verses is so cool. Their rhyme schemes often match up with the sample, which implies the instrumentals were made first, and then the lyrics were written to support them. It’s honestly genius. There are less interesting songs here and there. But overall this is pretty great throughout. It’s the perfect example of pure hip-hop ingenuity. And of course it came from the guys with the goofiest sense of humor and lyricism. Rating: 8/10
Despite the fact that a lot, and I mean a lot, of Beastie Boys songs sound very similar to one another, I still find myself loving them. Some of the most genuinely fun music that I can think of. I don't think this is as quite good as their debut album, but nonetheless it's still got some great songs, interspersed with weird interstitial material. This album gets a solid 4 simply for Egg Man alone.
Can ikke holde deres stemmer ud
Shake Your Rump, Johnny Ryall, and Shadrach are the Standouts here.
Nah
Don’t really care for the old rapping style
There's a really dirty bass riff in Shake Your Rump that was great. I quite like the beats but some of the rapping takes a bit of getting used to. Constant sampling. The Sounds of Science started off weird but gets going in the second half and 3 Minute Rule has another real grimy bassline, digging it. First verse is particularly good. Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun might be the best track here, menacing heavy stuff. Car Thief also good and the multi part finale is a pretty strong finish. Not everything hits, but this is important stuff.
I really don't pay enough attention to this album. I'm a casual Beastie Boys fan and like them in small doses only normally. But this is really a perfect album. The Dust Brothers extensively layers sampling style fits like a glove to their vocal style (which admittedly isn't for everyone). It's a messy collage of samples from any genre you can think of, but it's still incredibly accessible. 'Paul's Boutique' shouldn't work but it does. It should feel like an assault on the senses but it's more fun than it is work to listen to it. The 100+ samples couldn't have been sampled so easily today, when record labels realized that there's good money to be made from licensing 3 seconds of a song. That alone keeps 'Paul's Boutique' unique and years later such famous samples would need to be used extensively to make it worth the cost. But in 1989, this all flew under the radar of pop culture and kept the commercial failure of the Beastie Boys a hidden secret for the few who connected with it at the time. The secret's been out for a while though and it's now recognized as a classic of hip hop, and one of the best in the genre.
Beastie Boys brilliance
I don't even like hip hop but I like this. Great production and a stylish use of samples combined with witty lyrics. Actually a must-hear.
Ok
hmmmmmmmmmm high 3 low 4 76/100
I don't think it has the hooks or "in-your-face-ness" of the other few Beastie Boys albums I've had, but still a very quality listen with tons of hilarious or silly lyrics from the Boys. 7/10
jake peralta would listen to this right after streaming folklore by taylor swift why is the second part named after tomato fish soup????
Kinda crazy going into this as somewhat of a very casual Beastie Boys fan already, but literally having never heard of this album This album ASKS the question "how many samples is too many samples?" The Sounds of Science is a truly INSANE track that contains MULTIPLE Beatles samples. Also I believe this is my third time mentioning Pink Floyd only 10 albums in, but Pink Floyd samples occur on two tracks on this album I THINK. There's also some Hendrix and also apparently some self-referential stuff which is very silly and I love it. I know very few tracks on Licensed to Ill, To The 5 Boroughs, Ill Communication and Hello Nasty, but know at least 3 tracks off of each that I genuinely enjoy and I think this contributes to my opinion of Beastie Boys as not an "album group". It's very overwhelming to sit down and listen to an album in full with this kind of energy behind it especially if you do not enjoy the whiny, shouting delivery approach that is a feature of basically every track on this album or any Beastie Boys song at all. There's something vaguely..cringe about the Beastie Boys in a modern sense, but I feel that that's exactly what I enjoy about them. Besides Hello Nasty, all of their projects feel so far removed from serious and clean-cut, rooted in sample choices, delivery choices and some of the just AWFUL lyrics (besides the misogyny, just genuinely confusing lines) "I was making records while you were sucking your mother's dick"????? or just ALL of '3-Minute Rule'. It's not a terrible album in any capacity, but it becomes a bit tired and the gimmick (same flow, yelling etc) dies off about halfway through. While I like them, I fear the 'frat hip hop' title given to them is entirely true and this album doesn't do a lot to disprove that. I still enjoyed it, specifically The Sounds of Science, Hey Ladies and Shadrach, because I like the Beastie Boys, but they definitely have better I also enjoyed most of B-Boy Bouillabaisse suite, but I think it did not make sense both in the order of the tracks and also within each of the tracks. It was weirdly disjointed, and I feel like a lot of it could've been left off the album. 2.5/5
I was feeling a lot of trepidation about this album. The only song I really knew by Beastie Boys is "Fight For Your Right" and was struggling to imagine enjoying a whole album of that sound. This really blew me away though. The skill in the sampling is something else. I felt like I never knew what I was going to hear next and I think on relistens I am going to keep noticing new things for a while. The humor in the lyrics is sharp imo and I enjoyed that and the style of rapping too. The beat also was great, it made me want to dance. All just layered together to make a fantastic album. Shocked to be giving this a 5 star rating, but that is what is fun about going through this list.
Claaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassic
I liked this a lot at the time and still love the best Beastie Boys songs but no longer enjoy a whole album of them.
not for me (shouty rap is annoying) but good for what it is lol
One of those albums that was innovative and influential, and still holds up and still goes hard. I thought the egg man bass was cymande for a while, but I guess it's superfly? The rappings really good too, unlike Run-DMC's album I got on this list on which I feel I could easily pull of the swapped words/lines without rehearsing, theres a lotta complex interplay. Perfect mixture of dumb and clever. More stories than JD's got Salinger.
I both loved and hated this album. There are so many great ideas here, but they’re held back by what feels like sloppy execution. Some songs feel great and polished, and some feel like they were just being lazy. None of the “skits” or the intro really add anything to the album. They’re just…there. It’s all over the place. I didn’t get the suite at the end, what was that? What was cool were the samples, some of the hooks, and the great flow the best songs had. It was a little hard to listen to (as it is with the Beastie Boys), because they sound kind of whiny and cartoonish at times. But it’s the Beastie Boys. I actually really like them. I don’t know, man. This is a weird one. I love “Sabotage” and “Sure Shot” but those aren’t here and nothing that is reminds me of those song’s energy. I know that they were blurring the lines between rock and rap/hip-hop, like any experiment that’s going to create some odd results until perfected. I’m surprised that this is the Beastie Boy’s album that gets included. I hope there’s another here because this cannot be the best they have to offer. Two stars. Standout Tracks: Egg Man, 3-Minute Rule, Hey Ladies, What Comes Around, Sadrach, Stop That Train
Life changing. 6/5
An absolute masterclass in sampling. Without a doubt, it's my favorite sampledelia album of all time. Like, seriously, the breadth of the samples used, and the way it all weaves together... I wish records like this could still be made. But short of releasing it independently, without clearing them beforehand... And I like what the Beasties are doing, too, by the way. I love how they rap, and the way they work with the samples is amazing. But the Beasties are the Beasties, y'know? Call me dumb for not catching the intricacies, but to me they don't sound terribly different from album to album. So for me, it's all about the beats, and I can hardly think of an album with better beats—not just sampled-based, honestly—than this. So, y'know, thanks for screwin' all this, Gilbert. Thanks a lot.
The album that showed that the Beastie Boys are more than a one album wonder, with immaculate sampling technique that could never be replicated today given modern copyright law. Easiest 5 I can give.
I’m at a 4, which is kinda disappointing, somehow. I dunno, I guess I was really prepared for a 5, but a few tracks here and parts of the big medley at the end just didn’t quite grab me. Regardless of that, I did enjoy most of this album. Other than the revolutionary sample usage here, which is an incredible triumph for 1989 and an incredible tonesetter for rap production in the future… …honestly, I just don't think there's a lot to wax poetic on. Don’t get me wrong; the beats are great, the flow is great, the lyrics are pretty good, and I think for the most part, the energy stays at a good point throughout. This *IS* the Beastie Boys, and they’re doing great work on most of this album. There’s just something about a few tracks that I simply felt weren’t too captivating or engaging enough for me to really like them like that. It could just be fatigue from its length or the fact that there’s not any breaks like on Ill Communication. It’s honestly really weird, because I’d probably normally just look past it, but for some reason, when you just know something isn’t as good as you want it to be, you can just feel it. This album is still very good, but it falls short of hitting that 4.5 mark, and even if it had, I’m not quite sure I could bump it up. Regardless though, it’s no less than a 4 – it’s a super fun album that just kinda fell short for me in a few spots, but it’s a great listen and a great way to cap off 1980s rap.
Pelkkänä instrumentaalilevynä tää ois saattanut nousta jopa neljään tähteen. Nyt piti kuunnella 50+ minuuttia huutoräppiä ja naukuvalta kissalta kuulostavaa MC:tä yhhh.
More groovy.
I enjoyed this album all the way down to the same of the Eagles. Definitely surprised me. 3.6 with the benefit of rounding up to a 4!
Beastie Boys never missed. Paul’s Boutique is my least favorite in their catalog, but it’s a great one. 105 samples was unheard of! Nobody was snarky and creative with their rhymes like the Beasties.
This is their best one so far
I enjoyed this album. It is good beats and fun. Tailed off a bit at the end for me. Thought it was bonus tracks but it was not -1
Just meh. Felt like the beats were the primary star and the lyrics were just secondary and mailed it. Best song: Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
All songs have the same 8 year old rhyming style. 2 guys shouting alternatively. Not as epic as I thought it would be, based on their influence over all these years. Disappointed.
Shake Your Rump
I really enjoyed this album. There's just an originality factor that I love.
Not a big fan of the boutique.
Decent, most songs sounded very similar though. Maybe the fact that rap is fairly text based.
The Boys have always been overrated, but thanks to their genre, plus pale pasty appearance, they’ve been anointed some cult fame, with plenty of fortune. A couple of good songs. Otherwise, nothing close to special. Just another long list of shit music in a slow era.
meh
im sure the sample work is impressive but their voices are so grating i can't take it the b-boy bouillabaisse part was a little more fun tho!!
Rap, 1989 -> 1
Some sounds totally shouldn't be there. 3.4/5
This is a fun album, but it's really missing GREAT songs that carry an album. Hey Ladies is as good as it gets on here.
Over rated
This album is great. The tracks go hard and there is so much charisma and style to this. These boys should be held in the same regards as NWA or the Wu-tang clan. The style and punchiness stands out and begs you to listen. It's great, the way the group bounces off each other with clever and interesting lyrics are great. The sampling and broad sonic pallet is great. It's the Beastie Boys at their best.
The beats are great.
The sample work absolutely out does (and probably hides some of the inadequacies of) the lyrical content and style of the whole album. What a masterpiece of beat manipulation, and I guess it suits the three styles that the actual Beastie Boys have. The dust brothers must’ve spent an eternity creating this stuff, and it’s really great. Their rapping style is a real “you like it or you don’t”, but I did find it growing on me, like it does for all their other albums. It always takes me 2 or 3 songs to get in to it. I do love how they pass off the mic to each other within the verses rather than trying to do individual ones like so many other groups do, and they’ve always done it this way. “Car Thief” is my favorite here, and in addition to the way they rap it, the best lines are in it too (“The godfather of soul in the belly of the beast/smokin that dust at St. Anthony’s feast”). The B Boy suite might as well be a different album, and I feel like it’s the cuts they didn’t want to make in to a full song but were too good to drop. I like “Hello Brooklyn” the most out of it though the fast paced nature of it makes it all good. None of it feels over cooked for that reason. Fun record to revisit.
I loved Paul's Boutique. I've never heard a track from this album, the majority of my Beastie Boys exposure is through Intergalactic PLANETARY. The beats are infections, the rhymes are simple enough to help you catch on. I'm in the fan camp for sure.
Can be cool but gets to be annoying and boring. Feels more like they're trying to rhyme for the sake of rhyming instead of actually saying anything meaningful - same energy as people who complain that "ugh too much of rap is just about violence and drugs". Well, nerds, this is what you get when that isn't a topic in rap: a trio of jewish men screming in your ear for an hour straight.
ikke lige min kop te, der er nogle okay sange dog. har hørt nok "NYEAAAAH!!" for i år. 2.5/3
It's the Beastie Boys
This isn't the most virtuosic CD I've ever heard. But it's just fun. They sound like they're having an awesome time. A lot of the best moments are the "skits" (for lack of a better term for them) - the first half of "Sounds of Science" and "5-Piece Chicken Dinner" (the latter of which caused me to laugh out loud), for example. It's also super-fast paced - they just launch into it and barely set the mic down for the rest of the CD. The beats are pretty good too - definitely a step up in quality vs. previously-reviewed "Ill Communication". I especially like what they do on "Egg Man", and of course it's impossible to object to what I think are two distinct Beatles samples on the 2nd half of "Sounds of Science". I have a really hard time giving a high grade to a piece of music where half of it, including all the melodic, harmonic and rhythmic elements, has been written and performed by someone else. But I liked this and would listen to it again.
3/10. Far too whiny for my taste. Also, I'm not really a fan of rap music.
I'm not much of a Beastie Boys fan to begin with but I found this was really good! not much else to say except its a must listen.
Top 3 Beastie Boys album. The samples on this album sent me on such a wonderful musical journey as a kid. It shaped a lot of my musical taste. Also I lip synced “Hey Ladies” for a church youth group lip sync battle when I was too young to understand how horrifying that must have been to the adults in the room. I did not win
Feels incredibly transitory from old "party" beastie boys to their next evolution. Very good.
Liked it more than I thought but still not really my thing.
Transcendent and mind blowing! Top 50 record all time!
Hi quality beats manufactured in NYC.
I don't fully know what this is but it was a lot of fun. Favourite track: Johnny Ryall.
Absolutely incredible. This came out in the 80s?
Catchy for sure
8.5/10
This release shined on their incredible connections to rhythm and beats.
One of my all-time favorites. To really appreciate this album, listen to KEXP’s breakdown, here: https://www.kexp.org/breakdown/paulsboutique/
Doesn't really suit my taste in music. Didn't follow the lyrics carefully.
Nicht mein Ding! Rap crap
my favorite Beastie Boys album, a step up from Licensed To Ill. More sampling and less hard rock than their first record. great production by the Dust Brothers.
Highlights: Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
the beastie Boys are, you'd never guess it, pretty irritating to listening to for an album length period of time. but Paul is pretty good ain't he. some of the most masterful lectures in creating punchy, sample-based bangers hip hop ever produced
i liked it.
Wow, how many Beastie Boys albums will be in this list of albums I "must" hear before I die. This album is a bit more mature than their first recording, but they are still not a big deal to me.
Not really a rap listener, but this is one of the best rap bands I’ve heard.
Thanks to the 1001 list, I think I realize that I'm a fan of the Beastie Boys. However, I don't think this is their best album (as the Wikipedia page appears to argue) since it's too unorganized and doesn't look coherent. Not all albums in the world should be coherent, but all the Beastie Boys albums I got here were, so it's a problem for me. An expectation problem, but still. Great album, though!
I don’t think this album could be made now. So many samples through all the tracks the copyright lawyers would have had a field day. Very consistent.
beastie boys... altijd goed om de boel in gang te zetten... maar een hele plaat is echt wel van het goeie teveel...
For years and years I listened to this very regularly, but for whatever reason it's long not been anywhere near the top of the list of Beastie Boys albums I think of to first put on. Still, I know this record like the back of my hand, and not having heard it for a while, it was great to really get deep in to the vibe of revisiting something you love. 5 stars all the way.
Changed the game.
Nice beat. Whiny. 2
Tricky one, I do love the Beasties but I’ve never really spent much time with the this album, I probably should, it’s very dense. I want to give it a 5 but there just aren’t any amazing tracks on here for me. I think if I had it over a weekend it would be an easier decision but I’ve not got the time to really get into it today. Let’s give it the benefit of the doubt and make sure I find the time to listen properly when this silly list is behind me.
what i imagine darty music was like in the 80s
Beastie Boys are a treat as usual, could see this becoming 5 star with repeat listens
Fun record!
I think if I listened at a park or something I would feel differently. Like the music, hate the vocals
Beastie Boys always deliver - incredible energy
It's fun. It's boisterous. It's got some of the best sampling I've ever heard. It's one of those albums that I keep coming back to constantly. Simply put, it's a classic.
This absolutely rips. I've always been a fan of Licensed to Ill, but never super crazy about it. This one shattered that sentiment. I now understand the Beastie Boys in my soul. Whoever first coined this as the "Sgt. Pepper of Hip Hop" literally could not have been more correct.
I hate copywrite law for preventing us from receiving more masterful uses of samples such as this. Just incredible from start to finish. So ahead of its time.
Amazing album! But very hard to listen to all in one sitting, I've never tried that before. I'm impressed by just how much they have managed to put together with the samples and sounds here. Quite a few I've heard before, and so many completely new ones!
Classic Beastie Boys. I feel like I've slept on the lyrics of a lot of their songs, mostly because their constant volley of bats can become somewhat disengaging for me. I like it with other bands like Run the Jewels, but sometimes with the Beasties it becomes too much. Beats are good.
The sampling alone would be worthy of five stars, and then of course the rhymes match that in complexity and quality.
Few do it like the Beastie Boys. This oozes cool, great listen
Free flowing, full and funky. One of the Beastie boys best be sure.
American rap.
I’m just not a fan of Beastie Boys. This album didn’t change my mind.
The songs all sound the same. Despite the ad-libs and the different openings, once they really start, they sound the same. I like the Beastie Boys though. They’re not my favorite and I’d rather throw on something else if I wanted to listen to rap but you cannot deny they have some really good hits.
a bit too repetitive for me but it is cool
it was interesting but not as cool as liscense to ill
This is a hell of a ride. The production is incredible - more samples than I could ever hope to recognise and somehow it's pulled together into something cohesive. Reminds me of something like the Avalanches in more modern times, in now skilfully they meshed all these different elements without ever being reliant on any of them. The Beasties clever interplay and tongue in cheek lyrics are really on show, but the beats would stand up as an instrumental album, they're worth 5* alone
I think many would agree that this is possibly the best hip-hop/rap album of all time.
I loved this.
Non è che mi piacciano molto i Beastie Boys, e lo sapevo
stop YELLING at me!!!!! in all seriousness - cool samples, but the screaming gates on you after, say, 2 songs? i like Sabotage as much as the next star trek fan but it seems the beastie boys are best enjoyed in very small doses.
another decent album but nothing truly remarkable IMO. the sampling was impressive and definitely my favorite part of this, though I only caught a few notable ones. I checked their whosampled and there were like 3,000 samples listed for them, which is the highest I've ever seen, so credit where credit is due. too bad I had to listen to three obnoxious white guys yelling over it for an hour, though. favorites: shake your rump, hey ladies
This is the beastie boys sound, baby.
Probably this and Check Your Head are my favorites
enjoyable album kinda my shit i cant lie 3.8/5
Already very familiar with the BBoys. Where Paul's Boutique suffers from its somewhat dated juvenile subject matter it makes up for with being the penultimate example of sampling. So goooooood.
such a fun album i'm obsessed. egg man especially, what an experience. the sounds of science has to be a fave (although i must say his voice does get to you after a bit...) overall a delightful listen but i don't think may of the songs I would just casually listen to
I've heard the beastie boy's first album and thought it was impressively mediocre- while each of the members are outspoken activists nowadays, 'Licensed to Ill' was just a bunch of clearly-talented edgy white kids spewing misogynistic vitriol That said, this album is leagues better- a massive improvement on all fronts. I genuinely think this is fantastic, and might be one of my favourite hip-hop albums of the 80s. Is it entirely devoid of the misogyny of the first album? Certainly not- though it's vastly vastly more muted, and they wouldn't really move towards making amends for another half a decade. However I do think that especially with the context of growing up, apologising (famously) and decades of activism since, this album stands Very well on its own. 4 stars
Album decente. Infelizmente rap tem um problema recorrente de fazer albuns muito compridos sem variação o suficiente dentro dele, deixando tudo enjoativo.
I understand why so many people like this and I can see the influences taken from this album. At the time it would have been groundbreaking but it's now a historic album that has been outdone.
Great
Actually some good tracks here
Not as good as Licensed to Ill but still solid overall.
One of the bedt
Certainly not my favorite Beastie Boys album, but still good
Paul's Boutique has a new admirer. Holy shit I loved this. The wiki is worth a read. The way the Dust Brothers used sampling - insane. I found a video on YouTube with a clip from every song that was sampled followed by a snippet of how it was used in the song. I recognized the Beatles sample of The End in The Sounds Of Science, but there's other Beatles songs sampled in that track as well. It would be ridiculously expensive to (legally) make this album today. The sample that fades in at the start of the album is the same that fades out at the end - but that's not the only reason I immediately want to play it again. I'm so geeked, that was such a fun listen.
no….
It’s a trip, it’s got a funky beat, and I can bug out to it.