Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique ( AUDIO CD 07-19-1989 )

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, 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

CONDITION: NEW

TRACK LISTING

1 To All the Girls
2 Shake Your Rump
3 Johnny Ryall
4 Egg Man
5 High Plains Drifter
6 The Sound 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