How is this cd? Better than Licsensed To Ill?

sorry i mean Pauls Boutique

U shittin me right?

Boutique is Classic

TheRealFiness said:

That album is the shit. Also, the video which accompanies one of the singles from this album is a classic.

Yes....and even better on headphones.

i'm gonna order "Fear Of A Black Planet" but I'm having trouble deciding between buying The Velvet Underground & Nico & Pauls Boutique. Which one should i get?

somebody please help me out

One of my favorite Hip-hop albums of all time.

it

at the time of release it was very underrated, people were expecting another 'License To Ill'.....Fact is that the Beasties were way ahead of their time, right now 'Boutique' is considered a classic. Also, this was one of the first times that the Dust Bros. were being introduced to a broader public as a producer-duo. Years later they would do it again with Beck's 'Odelay'! Buy it, a must have!

I love it.

BillieSparks said:

Well, personally I prefer their 90's work. "Check Your Head" will always be the best Beastie Boys album to me. "Paul's Boutique" is great, but I feel like they more fully realized the ideas they started on this with later albums. It was a huge jump forward for them, but I feel like it's a little overrated within their catelogue. Oh and between VU and the Beasties, buy both!

their best, no doubt

good god, if you're into the beasties and you don't have this album, you need to go find a late nite record shop and go buy it, now! a total head trip of an album, with the most tripped out lyrics and beats anywhere. this album could be released today and it would still sound ahead of it's time. and there's a million samples on it, not puffy style samples, but like building tracks with legos. it's brilliant. and yes, with headphones too, this album is GODLIKE.

I thought it was a really good CD, but I had to sell it back years ago cuz I was runnin outta money so I sold my Beatnuts & that one that day

I didn't get this album when it came out, but I really dig it now. Get it ASAP

smokeverbs said:

I read somewhere that this album would be virtually impossible to release today because the cost of clearing all those samples would be like a zillion dollars.

TheRealFiness said:

I had this album in High School, ( a black High School ) nobody else had it, everybody thought it sucked, kids were more into Rakim and Public Enemy at the time. It didn't chart very well either, but I LOVE IT. I was amazed by the last track and how all of the songs segued together.. B Boy Boullabias. Now it's considered a classic. The production set a new standard for "layered" sampling. Thanks to the dust brothers. This album is like one long Hip Hop psychadelic trip.

I finally bought it and man do I love it. My fav right now is "Egg Man". It is better than Licensed To Ill. Thanks to everybody for their recommending it.

BillieSparks said:

Now get "Check Your Head".

GangstaFam said:

got it . oh yea i got that and Ill Communication for free from a friend awhile ago. He just gave me a ton of free cd's.

BillieSparks said:

Your thoughts?

TRON said:

great album. not one weak song on it. i gotta listen to Ill Communication next.

BillieSparks said:

Egg Man!! hells yeah. You get tripped up yet tryin to follow along with the lyric sheet? Extra lyrics all over in there....

smokeverbs said:

yea i read on a forum a week ago that the song is actually about racism.

BillieSparks said:

"You made the mistake you judge a man by his race, you go through life with egg on your face"

so yeah.

great song