Paul's Boutique
by Beastie Boys
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Paul's Boutique is ranked as the best album by Beastie Boys.
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Paul's Boutique track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Paul's Boutique rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | joathome | Top 44 Music Albums of 1989 | 42/44 | 0 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Greatest albums of all time (1 - 100) by Acclaimed Music | 90/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 94/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | sunnydhamm | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 35/100 | 13 |
| 2026 | jdizzle123456 | Top 50 Music Albums of the 1980s | 14/50 | 15 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 33 Music Albums of 1989 | 12/33 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 50 Music Albums of 1989 | 25/50 | 3 |
| 2026 | stanchoiaz | Top 53 Music Albums of the 1980s | 50/53 | 2 |
| 2026 | araidernomore | Top 30 Music Albums of the 1980s | 30/30 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Rhyner | Top 16 Music Albums of 1989 | 15/16 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 886 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 6,208 | |||
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Paul's Boutique ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/27/2026 10:46 | cazorla19 | 945 | 73/100 |
| ! | 10/17/2026 03:26 | Jparce | 302 | 81/100 |
| ! | 10/03/2026 18:28 | Siromynian | 1,789 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.6/100, a mean average of 80.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.7.
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Paul's Boutique forum mentions
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Beastie Boys are one of my favorite band (All genre confused). Despite being a commercial failure at the time, "Paul's Boutique" is the best album of the Beasties.
Absolute masterpiece, production model, deluge of samples, the album is an indisputable reference to rock culture composed of archive samples and that's why I love it. Each title of "Paul's Boutique" is extremely punchy with dynamic beats and cult hip-hop vocals. The Beastie Boys confirm, with "Paul's Boutique", a style of their own, mix of rap and rock, particularly inventive. Over time, this album has truly transformed into an absolute reference of the rap of the eighties, far from calibrated, formatted and standardized rap. It remains, after more than a quarter of a century, a unifying album, audacious, effective, completely unclassifiable and really essential for the music.
10/10
Best track: "Shake Your Rump"
covecove TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/16/2010 08:55 | #13563 | TOP COMMENT
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An invincible album masterfully crafted from so many samples that it is deliciously hard to keep track of the shifts, lyrically funny and full of rhythm and energy, their best work no doubt.
swhaze TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/24/2014 21:20 | #109983 | TOP COMMENT
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They just don't make albums like this anymore. This would be IMPOSSIBLE to make today, what with all this controversy over sampling and whatnot. THIS is what sampling should sound like: Artists taking bits of found sound from various sources and incorporating them into their own unique creations.
anyone who dislikes this album obviously dislikes fun, it's a fact
The synergy between the 3 MC's is one of the greatest things I have ever heard.
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