LP Record review:
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

Band: Beastie Boys Title: Paul's Boutique Rating: Release Date: 22 June, 1999 Media: LP Record Tracks: 1: To All the Girls 2: Shake Your Rump 3: Johnny Ryall 4: Egg Man 5: High Plains Drifter 6: Sounds of Science 7: 3-Minute Rule 8: Hey Ladies 9: 5-Piece Chicken Dinner 10: Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun 11: Car Thief 12: What Comes Around 13: Shadrach 14: Ask for Janice 15: B-Boy Bouillabaisse

Editoral Review The Boys' lyrics are a hysterical deluge of cultural allusion (Ponce De Leon, 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. 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. 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 .. You can see a complete list of all Beastie Boys discography, or go back to the Beastie Boys tabs