The Beasties focus their attention once more on hip-hop in their 5th LP "Hello Nasty". Stretching to 22 songs lasting a total of 67 minutes, this album has many highs and a few lows. It's a polished effort and very easy for new fans to get into.
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On their previous album, Ill Communication, the Beastie Boys expanded their parameters yet ... more
again, melding cutting-edge hip-hop with slinky jazz, butt-wiggling funk, weepy classical, and combustive punk rock. Four years down the line, the group's music isn't nearly as organic. They've all but abandoned the guitars and returned to the kind of old-school beats and rhythms that defined their groundbreaking 1989 disc, Paul's Boutique. But Hello Nasty isn't a regression, and it's anything but a cop-out: in addition to resurrecting the best elements from their past, the Beastie Boys have embraced the dopest high tech gizmos of the computer age. Hello Nasty gurgles like galactic sulfur pools, whizzes like a Sega game, and slurps and thumps like the best backward Hendrix loops. Add in a cavalcade of Latin percussion, calliope keyboards, and exotic samples (Stravinsky, Stephen Sondheim, Jazz Crusaders, Rachmaninoff), and you're left with one of the most creative and jubilant hip-hop records to date, even if you exclude witty lyrics like, "I'm the king of Boggle / There is none higher / I get 11 points off the word quagmire" ("Putting Shame in Your Game"). To paraphrase über-critic Robert Christgau, Paul's Boutique may have been the band's Pet Sounds, but Hello Nasty is the Beasties' Sgt. Pepper's. --Jon Wiederhorn
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On their previous album, Ill Communication, the Beastie Boys expanded their parameters yet ... more
again, melding cutting-edge hip-hop with slinky jazz, butt-wiggling funk, weepy classical, and combustive punk rock. Four years down the line, the group's music isn't nearly as organic. They've all but abandoned the guitars and returned to the kind of old-school beats and rhythms that defined their groundbreaking 1989 disc, Paul's Boutique. But Hello Nasty isn't a regression, and it's anything but a cop-out: in addition to resurrecting the best elements from their past, the Beastie Boys have embraced the dopest high tech gizmos of the computer age. Hello Nasty gurgles like galactic sulfur pools, whizzes like a Sega game, and slurps and thumps like the best backward Hendrix loops. Add in a cavalcade of Latin percussion, calliope keyboards, and exotic samples (Stravinsky, Stephen Sondheim, Jazz Crusaders, Rachmaninoff), and you're left with one of the most creative and jubilant hip-hop records to date, even if you exclude witty lyrics like, "I'm the king of Boggle / There is none higher / I get 11 points off the word quagmire" ("Putting Shame in Your Game"). To paraphrase über-critic Robert Christgau, Paul's Boutique may have been the band's Pet Sounds, but Hello Nasty is the Beasties' Sgt. Pepper's. --Jon Wiederhorn
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On their previous album,Ill Communication, the Beastie Boys expanded their parameters yet ... more
again, melding cutting-edge hip-hop with slinky jazz, butt-wiggling funk, weepy classical, and combustive punk rock. Four years down the line, the group's music isn't nearly as organic. They've all but abandoned the guitars and returned to the kind of old-school beats and rhythms that defined their groundbreaking 1989 disc,Paul's Boutique. ButHello Nastyisn't a regression, and it's anything but a cop-out: in addition to resurrecting the best elements from their past, the Beastie Boys have embraced the dopest high tech gizmos of the computer age.Hello Nastygurgles like galactic sulfur pools, whizzes like a Sega game, and slurps and thumps like the best backward Hendrix loops. Add in a cavalcade of Latin percussion, calliope keyboards, and exotic samples (Stravinsky, Stephen Sondheim, Jazz Crusaders, Rachmaninoff), and you're left with one of the most creative and jubilant hip-hop records to date, even if you exclude witty lyrics like, "I'm the king of Boggle / There is none higher / I get 11 points off the wordquagmire" ("Putting Shame in Your Game"). To paraphraseüber-critic Robert Christgau,Paul's Boutiquemay have been the band'sPet Sounds, butHello Nastyis the Beasties'Sgt. Pepper's.--Jon Wiederhorn
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On their previous album,Ill Communication, the Beastie Boys expanded their parameters yet ... more
again, melding cutting-edge hip-hop with slinky jazz, butt-wiggling funk, weepy classical, and combustive punk rock. Four years down the line, the group's music isn't nearly as organic. They've all but abandoned the guitars and returned to the kind of old-school beats and rhythms that defined their groundbreaking 1989 disc,Paul's Boutique. ButHello Nastyisn't a regression, and it's anything but a cop-out: in addition to resurrecting the best elements from their past, the Beastie Boys have embraced the dopest high tech gizmos of the computer age.Hello Nastygurgles like galactic sulfur pools, whizzes like a Sega game, and slurps and thumps like the best backward Hendrix loops. Add in a cavalcade of Latin percussion, calliope keyboards, and exotic samples (Stravinsky, Stephen Sondheim, Jazz Crusaders, Rachmaninoff), and you're left with one of the most creative and jubilant hip-hop records to date, even if you exclude witty lyrics like, "I'm the king of Boggle / There is none higher / I get 11 points off the wordquagmire" ("Putting Shame in Your Game"). To paraphraseüber-critic Robert Christgau,Paul's Boutiquemay have been the band'sPet Sounds, butHello Nastyis the Beasties'Sgt. Pepper's.--Jon Wiederhorn
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On their previous album,Ill Communication, the Beastie Boys expanded their parameters yet ... more
again, melding cutting-edge hip-hop with slinky jazz, butt-wiggling funk, weepy classical, and combustive punk rock. Four years down the line, the group's music isn't nearly as organic. They've all but abandoned the guitars and returned to the kind of old-school beats and rhythms that defined their groundbreaking 1989 disc,Paul's Boutique. ButHello Nastyisn't a regression, and it's anything but a cop-out: in addition to resurrecting the best elements from their past, the Beastie Boys have embraced the dopest high tech gizmos of the computer age.Hello Nastygurgles like galactic sulfur pools, whizzes like a Sega game, and slurps and thumps like the best backward Hendrix loops. Add in a cavalcade of Latin percussion, calliope keyboards, and exotic samples (Stravinsky, Stephen Sondheim, Jazz Crusaders, Rachmaninoff), and you're left with one of the most creative and jubilant hip-hop records to date, even if you exclude witty lyrics like, "I'm the king of Boggle / There is none higher / I get 11 points off the wordquagmire" ("Putting Shame in Your Game"). To paraphraseüber-critic Robert Christgau,Paul's Boutiquemay have been the band'sPet Sounds, butHello Nastyis the Beasties'Sgt. Pepper's.--Jon Wiederhorn
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On their previous album,Ill Communication, the Beastie Boys expanded their parameters yet ... more
again, melding cutting-edge hip-hop with slinky jazz, butt-wiggling funk, weepy classical, and combustive punk rock. Four years down the line, the group's music isn't nearly as organic. They've all but abandoned the guitars and returned to the kind of old-school beats and rhythms that defined their groundbreaking 1989 disc,Paul's Boutique. ButHello Nastyisn't a regression, and it's anything but a cop-out: in addition to resurrecting the best elements from their past, the Beastie Boys have embraced the dopest high tech gizmos of the computer age.Hello Nastygurgles like galactic sulfur pools, whizzes like a Sega game, and slurps and thumps like the best backward Hendrix loops. Add in a cavalcade of Latin percussion, calliope keyboards, and exotic samples (Stravinsky, Stephen Sondheim, Jazz Crusaders, Rachmaninoff), and you're left with one of the most creative and jubilant hip-hop records to date, even if you exclude witty lyrics like, "I'm the king of Boggle / There is none higher / I get 11 points off the wordquagmire" ("Putting Shame in Your Game"). To paraphraseüber-critic Robert Christgau,Paul's Boutiquemay have been the band'sPet Sounds, butHello Nastyis the Beasties'Sgt. Pepper's.--Jon Wiederhorn
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Advantages: Sublime hip-hop; nice packaging; cool bonus CD Disadvantages: Several filler tracks
The Beasties focus their attention once more on hip-hop in their 5th LP "Hello Nasty". Stretching to 22 songs lasting a total of 67 minutes, this album has many highs and a few lows. It's a polished effort and very easy for new fans to get into.
The most recognisable track is of course "Intergalactic", thanks to extensive play on radio and MTV, and it's a great song (check out the fantastic video as well!). However, ... ...Mix Master Mike a chance to show off on the decks. MMM is on prime form throughout "Hello Nasty", his first album with the Beasties. His beats make a perfect backdrop for the trio's highly entertaining rap, in particular Adrock's characteristic 'whine'.
The stand-out old skool tracks also include "Unite", "Super Disco Breakin'" and "The Move". Among the more instrumental tracks, the Latin-flavoured ... more
The Beasties focus their attention once more on hip-hop in their 5th LP "Hello Nasty". Stretching to 22 songs lasting a total of 67 minutes, this album has many highs and a few lows. It's a polished effort and very easy for new fans to get into.
The most recognisable track is of course "Intergalactic", thanks to extensive play on radio and MTV, and it's a great song (check out the fantastic video as well!). However, "Three MC's and One DJ" is even better and gives Mix Master Mike a chance to show off on the decks. MMM is on prime form throughout "Hello Nasty", his first album with the Beasties. His beats make a perfect backdrop for the trio's highly entertaining rap, in particular Adrock's characteristic 'whine'.
The stand-out old skool tracks also include "Unite", "Super Disco Breakin'" and "The Move". Among the more instrumental tracks, the Latin-flavoured "I Don't Know" is breath-takingly beautiful. The bonus CD contains the cool remix of "Body Movin'" by Fatboy Slim.
Alas, the length of the album takes its toll and several tracks seem like filler, most noticeably "Dedication". It's an instance where less would have been so much more, and it's hard to resist the temptation to program those tracks off.
Nevertheless, "Hello Nasty" is an enjoyable listen. I'd recommend it to new followers of the Beasties as a comfortable introduction, in order to start off at the shallow end as it were.
Advantages: some breakin beats in there Disadvantages: as usual the beasties fail to complete an album well
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty - Review Mike D, Adrock and MCA have come back with a lip smackin' thirst quenching ace tastin downright trippin album!
if u like ur music melodical then the doors over there. if u like bottomed out bass beats, heart stoppin riffs and mike d's raucous high pitched rapping style then this albums for you!
seriously now i do have to say that the beasties seem to have lost some of their early humour that was evident in "girls" ... ...programming); Mix Master Mike (DJ). HELLO NASTY won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. "Intergalactic" won the 1999 Grammy for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group. On their fifth album and first proclamation in four years, the Beasties pledge allegiance to the next millennium while rocking out old-school stylee. Instead of pretentiously haphazard schizophrenia, Adrock, Mike D and MCA mold Run DMC boasts, Lee Perry dub ...
ricky_gervais 11.06.2004 (13.06.2004)
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Advantages: just a test and body movin' Disadvantages: none
Hypocrites? The Beastie Boys, famous in the '80s for putting girls in cages, now famous in the '90s for asking The Prodigy not to play 'Smack My B**** Up'. However, I'm reviewing their album not their politics, and what a pleasure this is! You might have thought that the Beasties would have run out of ideas by now, but fear not. 'Hello Nasty' is an album bursting with imagination and humour. Standout tracks are the two singles, and the collaboration ...
juliebushnell 29.09.2000
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Advantages: Great hip hop tracks Disadvantages: Bad experimental tracks
...experimental tracks. This is where Hello Nasty is let down. It has some very weak tracks, like "Dedication" which is just plain weird. But, if you have heard the beastie boys on the radio and think that the song is a good one, then i heartily suggest that you buy this album. A good purchase. ...
Trimmer 22.07.2000
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Advantages: good length,some superb tracks Disadvantages: a few poor songs
This is an essential cd for all of you who love hip-hop this CD combines the Beastie's great rapping styles with some funky beats.Intergalactic is amazing and great but the one song that will have you playing over and over again is Super Disco Breakin'.The beats on this song will make you take notice.It is pure rap bliss,pure music bliss.This is one of those albums that I love more and more with each successive listening. It's so mercurial in its ...
Creative 27.08.2000
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Advantages: Good length, Some Brilliant Tracks, Good remix of Body Movin Disadvantages: Some rubbish tracks, need a fresh approach
...were due a good album. Hello Nasty delivers this need. 22 tracks long, this album adds to the long line of "up and down" albums and EP's released by the bend over some 15 years. Some of the songs on here are of very high quality. Stand out tracks include Super Disco Breakin', Intergerlactic, and Electrify. All tracks have a certain quality about them, even without the boys' vocals on some of them. But there are a few tracks which are not so hot, ...
Scotty 16.07.2000
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Product details
Title
Hello Nasty
Performer
Beastie Boys (The)
Genre
R&B
Sub Genre
Underground/Alt Rap
Release Date
06/07/1998
Recomended Retail Price
14.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1998
Label / Distributor
Grand Royal / EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics
Engineer
Mario Caldato Jr.
Producer
Mario Caldato Jr.; Beastie Boys
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
724349572324
Catalogue Number
4957232
Additional notes
Album Notes
The Beastie Boys: MCA, Mike D, Adrock. Additional personnel includes: Miho Hatori, Brooke Williams, Biz Markie, Jill Cunniff, Lee "Scratch" Perry (vocals); Brian Wright (violin, viola); Jane Scarpantoni (cello); Steve Slagle (flute); Paul Vercesi (alto saxophone); Nelson Keane Carse (trombone); Mark Nishita (keyboards); Joe Locke (vibraphone); Eric Bobo, Richard "Sammy's Dad" Siegler, Duduka (percussion); Robert Perlman (drum programming); Mix Master Mike (DJ). HELLO NASTY won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. "Intergalactic" won the 1999 Grammy for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group. On their fifth album and first proclamation in four years, the Beasties pledge allegiance to the next millennium while rocking out old-school stylee. Instead of pretentiously haphazard schizophrenia, Adrock, Mike D and MCA mold Run DMC boasts, Lee Perry dub freestyles, and introspective acoustic strumming into the best album-cum-mix-tape of the first half of '98. NASTY is the true successor to their sampledelic fantasia PAUL'S BOUTIQUE, as realized by craftsmen looking to do more than just get crazy with the sonic cheese whiz. "Super Disco Breakin'," "Body Movin'," etc. are all first-rate party jams that the trio can probably come up with in their sleep. It's when the Beasties look towards the new school that the artistic flipping of the script begins. Not just in the lyrics, which are expansively conscious in nature and politically literate in content, but sonically as well. The jr. drum-and-bass of "Flowin' Prose" and MCA's acoustic singer/songwriter turn on "I Don't Know" point in directions at once completely incompatible and positively natural. Just like their mate Beck, it is the diversity of styles that the Beasties are prophesizing as the key to the future--so long as that diversity's in the shadow of the old school.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.66) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Spin (1/99, p.91) - Ranked #10 on Spin's list of "Top 20 Albums of '98." CMJ (1/6/03, p.18) - Included in CMJ's list of "Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time" The Source (9/98, p.256) - "...What underlies the Beastie sound, and ultimately their widespread appeal, is their obvious appreciation of other music....Mike's scratches add another layer to the album's mighty production..." Rap Pages (11/98, p.130) - 4 (out of 5) - "...HELLO NASTY continues their musical reign...Lyrically, they deliver their made-for-concert verses in perfect unison..." Rolling Stone (8/6/98, p.) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...the collaboration that Black Flag and De La Soul might have made, mixing jaunty samples and esoteric beats with punk-guitar crunch....Hip-hop hasn't unleashed anything this fantastically dense since the heyday of De La and Public Enemy..." Spin (8/98, pp.135-136) - 7 (out of 10) - "...HELLO NASTY...is filled with so much money-makin' and disco-breakin' on and on till the breakadawn, you'd think we'd taken the way-back machine into the early Kangol era. Yet such recapping doesn't sound even faintly kitschy. More like a labor of love by three premillennial mensches laying their roots down: a B-boy Anthology of New York Folk Music..." CMJ (1/11/99, p.5) - "...The chart-topping album finds the Beasties re-enhancing the three-way rhyme antics of their LICENSED TO ILL days using soulsonic electro-funk, cheeky bossa nova, Rachmaninoff loops and some death defying turntable moves..." Entertainment Weekly (7/17/98, pp.81-82) - "...a sonic smorgasbord in which the Beasties gorge themselves with reckless abandon...The melange makes for a looser, more free-spirited record than their earlier albums; the music invites you in, rather than threatening to shut you out..." - Rating: B+ Mixmag (1/99, p.49) - Included in Mixmag's "Ten Best Albums of 98" - "...electro-tinged beats and whiney rapping..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Super Disco Breakin'
2.
Move
3.
Remote Control
4.
Song For The Man
5.
Just A Test
6.
Body Movin'
7.
Intergalactic
8.
Sneakin' Out The Hospital
9.
Putting Shame In Your Game
10.
Flowin' Prose
11.
And Me
12.
Three MC's And One DJ
13.
Can't Won't Don't Stop
14.
Song For Junior
15.
I Don't Know
16.
Negotiation Limerick File
17.
Electrify
18.
Picture This
19.
Unite
20.
Dedication
21.
Dr Lee PhD
22.
Instant Death
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