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Paul's Boutique

Paul's Boutique is an album by American hip hop group The Beastie Boys, released on July 25, 1989 (see 1989 in music). Though the Beastie Boys' first album, Licensed to Ill, had been enormously popular and received generally positive reviews among both mainstream and hip hop critics, Paul's Boutique quickly became known as their artistic breakthrough. Highly varied lyrically and sonically, the album did not sell as well as Licensed to Ill, but managed to secure The Beastie Boys' place as critical favorites in the still-dormant field of popular hip hop.

Table of contents
1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Chart positions

Track listing

  1. To All the Girls (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  2. Shake Your Rump (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  3. Johnny Ryall (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  4. Egg Man (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  5. High Plains Drifter (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  6. The Sounds of Science (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  7. 3-Minute Rule (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  8. Hey Ladies (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  9. 5-Piece Chicken Dinner (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  10. Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  11. Car Thief (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  12. What Comes Around (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  13. Shadrach (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  14. Ask for Janice (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)
  15. B-Boy Bouillabaisse (Beastie Boys/Dust Brothers)

Personnel

Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album
1989	The Billboard 200	                No. 14
1989	Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums	                No. 24
Billboard (North America) - singles
1989	Hey Ladies	The Billboard Hot 100	                No. 36
1989	Hey Ladies	Hot Rap Singles	                        No. 10
1989	Hey Ladies	Modern Rock Tracks	                No. 18