By the time Beastie Boys convened to record the follow-up to their debut, Licensed To Ill, they'd painted themselves into a corner. That first album boasted rock hooks, hard raps and explosive singles that helped push the record to platinum status in no time flat. But MCA, Mike D and Ad-Rock's send-up of frat-boy culture threatened to become a self-sabotaging millstone. Three years later they'd left Def Jam, signed with Capitol, and pitched up at The Dust Brothers' place looking to create a follow-up that would shake the one-hit wonders tag they'd been lumped with. As luck would have it, the production duo had been working on a complex patchwork of beats, songs, dialogue snippets and anything else they could lay their hands on. Beastie Boys saw their future in its gleefully anarchic collage: the basis of what would become Paul's Boutique.

LP1

1. To All The Girls
2. Shake Your Rump
3. Johnny Ryall
4. Egg Man
5. High Plains Drifter
6. The Sounds Of Science
7. 3-Minute Rule
8. Hey Ladies

LP2

1. 5-Piece Chicken Dinner
2. Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun
3. Car Thief
4. What Comes Around
5. Shadrach
6. Ask For Janice
7. B-Boy Bouillabaisse
8. 59 Chystie Street
9. Get On The Mic
10. Stop That Train
11. A Year And A Day
12. Hello Brooklyn
13. Dropping Names
14. Lay It On Me
15. Mike On The Mic
16. A. W. O. L.

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