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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14691 in Music
• Released on: 1999-12-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
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

Amazon.com essential recording
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

Un Essentiel amazon.fr
Une performance d'horlogers maniaques au niveau des samples et une incroyable fantaisie contrôlée font de ce deuxième album des Beastie Boys l'équivalent rap du Sergent Pepper des Beatles. Après des débuts plutôt provocateurs (et couronnés d'un immense succès), les trois mauvais garçons blancs de New York déménagent à Los Angeles et signent une oeuvre majeure avec ce Paul's Boutique ambitieux et complètement libéré. De ''Shake Your Rump'' à ''Hey Ladies'', de ''Egg Man'' à ''What Comes Around'', on assiste à un festival de voix nasillardes poussées à bout par de jeunes déments dénués du moindre scrupule ou complexe. Et surtout, on se délecte de l'inventivité de la production effectuée en collaboration avec les Dust Brothers : l'action et le dépaysement sont permanents. Adrock, MCA et Mike D s'amusent avec tout ce qu'ils ont trouvé au grenier et leurs délires ultra-funky ne connaissent pas de limites. En 1989, Shaft se retrouva vingt mille lieues sous les mers grâce aux Beastie Boys. --José Guerreiro