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Paul's Boutique [Explicit Lyrics]

Beastie Boys Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (16 Aug 1993)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Explicit Lyrics
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B000002UUN
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 12,082 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  7. 3-Minute Rule [Explicit] 3:39£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Hey Ladies 3:47£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. 5-Piece Chicken Dinner0:23£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun 3:28£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Car Thief [Explicit] 3:39£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen12. What Comes Around [Explicit] 3:07£0.89  Buy MP3 
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Listen14. Ask For Janice0:11£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen15. B-Boy Bouillabaisse: 59 Chrystie Street/Get On The Mic/Stop That Train/A Year And A Day/Hello Brooklyn/Dropping Names/Lay It On Me/Mike On The Mic/A.W.O.L. (Medley) [Explicit]12:33£2.99  Buy MP3 


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After the out-of-nowhere success of Licensed to Ill, the Beasties had to prove they were more than one-album wonders, and they hit it out of the park with this follow-up. The Boys' lyrics are a hysterical deluge of cultural allusion (Ponce De Leon, Japanese baseball legend Sadaharu Oh, and Love Connection's Chuck Woolery all get name-dropped), compressed wordplay, and adenoidal snottiness, but the real stars are the Dust Brothers, whose production is a hip-hop landmark. Their music tracks sound like the history of rock and funk radio boiled down to a pure concentrate--monster jams built out of thousands of unexpected samples (Johnny Cash! The Sweet!). It's a killer party album, kinetic and dense, and it never slows down. --Douglas Wolk

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Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique [Audio CD]

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece 12 April 2003
By Alex
Format:Audio CD
Just where to start with the Beastie Boys? With the drunken frat-boy anthem packed Licensed to Ill behind them, in itself a gloriously obnoxious party record - and full to the rim with hip hop classics - the Beasties returned in 1989 with something not only unexpected, but undeniably briiliant, groundbreaking, and as far away from Licensed to Ill as possible.

Well, maybe not too far away; for the 3 MC's - Adrock, MCA and Mike D - still rap in and around each other to splendid effect, only with about a zillion references to various tv shows, characters, films, musicians, or really whatever suits them in a free flowing lyrical extravaganza.

And the music? Damn, the music! Regrouping in LA with the Dust Brothers, taking a step away from Rick Rubins basic, albeit big sounding, beats, the Beasties rhyme over sample upon sample, be it the various percussions (Shake Your Rump alone samples about 4 different rhythms) or the various sounds - Egg Man emplys a 70's funk bass line over some classical stabs. Sounds of Science meanwhile emplys various moments from the Beatles back catalogue.

And the thing is, it all comes out as the Beasties own work. Such is the imagination and depth in this record, it really is deep enough for you to infintely catch something new every time you play a select track, yet alone the whole album.

Along with De La Souls 3 Feet high and Rising, Paul's Boutique not only showed early signs of the Beasties creativity and willingness to try new things, but groundbreaking sampling techniques that really form something of a one-off album. This record would never make it out today - it would cost millions!

Before the return to instruments, on the following record, Check Your Head, the Beasties re-defined their hip hop sound whilst taking it in another direction. Highlights come by in the way of the excellent Car Their, a real gem, with the Beasties rhyming over a mellowed slice of funk. Elsewhere, the aforementioned Shake Your Rump is a bombastic opener, with clattering drum rolls, hot bass lines and the Beasties on real form rapping wise.

Everything about this record, from the chilled intro and outro, and so much music in-between, is perfect. And not just in hip hop terms, but for any style of music. It really shows the creativeness that real hip hop can bring to music, from people who clearly love their music. Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun for instance, is essentially fierce rhymes over metal guitars, whilst the excellent story telling of High Plains Drifter uses all of one bass note, but it's effectiveness is supreme.

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5.0 out of 5 stars paul's boutique? c'est fantastique! 26 Nov 2001
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Format:Audio CD
this is and album that sounds like no other. well certainly not anything else at the time. if you like odelay by beck then this is an absolute must. by far and away the best album that the beasties ever did, and that's not to say that most of the others aren't top. hearing paul's boutique was what inspired james lavelle to set up mo'wax too. i agree that the appeal lies in the out of this world production but the rhyming is the kind of wise guy type stuff that you'd expect from ad rock, mca, and mike d. pure class basically
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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Beastie Boys Album! RIP MCA :( 4 May 2012
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One of the best Beastie Boys albums, that was so far ahead of its time on release. Full of humour and energy - a great counter point to what Hip Hop was becoming. RIP MCA.
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5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEATLE BOYS
Paul's Boutique is a STUNNING album,bursting at the seams with sound,ideas,dizzying samples from Jaws to Pyscho,an unbelievable achievement from a group that was in their... Read more
Published 12 months ago by mister joe
5.0 out of 5 stars Best album ever... and I don't even listen to rap.
Bona-fide, stone cold masterpieces are hard to come by, but this is the masterpiece of all masterpieces. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Trompe Le Monde
1.0 out of 5 stars So boring
Most people have never heard of this album but it has a bizarre cult status amongst 'real' Beasties fans; a status that goes well beyond what it deserves. Read more
Published on 5 April 2011 by Mr. M. Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Infectious
If it doesn't grab you immediately, keep listening. There's enough going on to bear repeated listening. Increasingly infectious.
Published on 31 Aug 2006 by R. Carmichael
5.0 out of 5 stars I cannot fault this record in anyway
I first got hold of Paul's Boutique in 1993 after Check your Head got me into the Beasties. Nearly 12 years later it still sounds as exciting as the first time I heard it. Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2004 by Robert Clarke
5.0 out of 5 stars visit paul's boutique, it's definitely worth it!
I gotta thank Graham Coxon if I started listening to the Beasties, less than a year ago....I can't believe what I was missing!
Published on 2 Oct 2004 by andre
5.0 out of 5 stars BEST BEASTIES ALBUM ??????
Got into Beasties in 1995, and didnt hear this til 1996-but other than maybe Ill communication-
this remains my favourite. Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2002 by "tomelce"
5.0 out of 5 stars Years ahead of it's time
'Pauls Boutique' is (in my humble opinion) easily the best album the Beasties have ever made. I seem to remember that when it came out it was largely overlooked by critics and the... Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, but.........
I agree with everything said below: this is a fantastic, ground breaking album that was 10 years ahead of its time. Read more
Published on 8 May 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars My tape is worn out!
I was introduced to the Beastie Boys by songs such as 'Sabotage' and 'Get it Together.' While these songs are great, it led me to Paul's Boutique - a tape that is permanently in my... Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2000
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