Paul’s Boutique

Not quite as good as Licensed to Ill but they seem pretty comparable

Really good samples, but it was a lot of shouting for a Beastie Boys album. That said, it's grungy, "We don't give a shit and we got good rhymes" hip-hop.

If you like it, you like it.

It's pretty upbeat and funky. I'm liking the beats and sampling going on. Overall I liked it.

Wildly exuberant, inventive and exciting, possibly the Beasties best effort. Still know most of this inside-out after endless plays as a teenager. 5*

This is a fantastic album by the Beastie Boys; their second studio album. This album didn't get the praise that License to Ill did, but it is just as fantastic.

Beastie Boys are a hip hop group from New York. This music, at the time, was trend setting because the Boys mixed rock and hip hop seamlessly. This album is full of samples from various different artists, and the way they blend it into their beats, and make it their own, many of them pass by and you don't even notice the sample.

The lyrics are amusing by times, a few noteworthy phrases include:

From the song 3-Minute Rule: "I was making records while you were sucking your mother's dick"

From the song What Comes Around: "Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair, so I can climb up and get into your underwear"

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this album. Excellent beats, great rhymes. Will definately listen again!!

Favourite songs: Egg Man, Hey Ladies, Shake Your Rump, Johnny Ryall, 3-Minute Rule, High Plains Drifter, What Comes Around, Shadrach

Least favourite songs: Car Thief, To All The Girls, The Sounds of Science

4/5

Having previously had license to III I wasn’t expecting much from this. But this is much better, the sampling clearly set a high bar for future hip hop records.

Really fun album. Love the Dust Bros production...very similar to one of my all time favorites Odelay. Part of me wonders what the Beastie Boys trajectory would have been if they would have made subsequent albums with this duo. 4.5/5

I have heard for years how amazing, groundbreaking, influential, and brilliant this album is. And .... I just don't get it. Maybe it's because I'm not really a fan of music made up of samples, and that's what this is. It's fine, and I get why it's on the list, but I have no desire to listen to it again.

fuckin belter. classic.

Digging the beats, sampling and groove. But I'm kinda disappointed that the album wasn't called Lee's Sportswear.

Had this on cassette back in the day. It's where I really start liking The Beastie Boys. They are transitioning out of their earlier sound into something much more complex. Bursting at the seams with samples. Love the flow of the tracks, almost especially when they suddenly smack up against one another, culminating in the collage-like "B Boy Bouillabaisse." The album moves along at a good clip while covering alot of different moods/sounds, but mostly exuding contagious excitement and fun. Wish more contemporary hip hop had this kind of manic ADD energy.

Such fantastic sampling on this album. The cover is iconic too. Not my favorite album of theirs but I love it still.

Not much genre per se, but entire album shows the amazing craftsmanship they had

hip hop