1998 studio album by Beastie Boys
Hello Nasty is the fifth studio album by the American hip hop group
Beastie Boys , released through
Grand Royal and
Capitol Records on July 14, 1998. It sold 681,000 copies in its first week, debuting at number 1 on the
Billboard 200 album sales chart, and won
Best Alternative Music Album and
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (for "
Intergalactic ") at the
41st Annual Grammy Awards . In Beastie Boys Book (2018),
Ad-Rock said he felt Hello Nasty was the group's "best record".
[1]
Background
The album was released on July 14, 1998, just over four years after the previous Beastie Boys album,
Ill Communication . It marked the addition of
DMC champion
Mix Master Mike to the group's line-up,
[2] and was the last time the band worked with percussionist
Eric Bobo or a co-producer.
[3] There are several guest vocalists on the album, including
Miho Hatori of
Cibo Matto on "I Don't Know", and Jamaican
dub musician
Lee "Scratch" Perry on "Dr. Lee, PhD".
[3]
The title of the album was allegedly inspired by the receptionist of the band's NY-based publicity firm Nasty Little Man, who would answer the phone with the greeting "Hello, Nasty."
[4] In addition, the title is mentioned in the song "Putting Shame in Your Game". The cover art depicts the three Beastie Boys (
Horovitz ,
Yauch , and
Diamond , from left to right) stuffed in an aluminum sardine tin and getting baked in the sun. The band references this image in the song "Body Movin'", with the lyrics: "MCA, where have you been?/Packed like sardines in a tin."
There were CD, double-vinyl LP,
MiniDisc , and cassette tape releases of the album. One of the cassette formats was packaged for a limited run by BioBox in a small cardboard box, rather than a clear plastic case, in an attempt to distinguish the retail product and augment sales.
[5]
Critical reception
Hello Nasty received mostly positive reviews upon its release. Caroline Sullivan, writing for
The Guardian , named it the "Pop CD of the Week" and said it "fills a gap created by the current profusion of serious rock bands like
Radiohead ; elbowing its way up front, [and letting] rip with adolescent vigour."
[8] She went on to summarize the record as "the perfect party soundtrack by the perfect party band."
[8]
Select ' s
John Harris praised the Beastie Boys' lyrics for being as "fantastically off-beam as ever", while at the same time noting that they had "broadened their musical vistas yet further".
[14] Although
AllMusic 's
Stephen Thomas Erlewine felt the album's ending was "a little anticlimactic", he also saw Hello Nasty as a progressive step forward from the group's 1992 LP
Check Your Head and praised the contributions of the group's new recruit,
Mix Master Mike : "Hiring DJ Mixmaster Mike turned out to be a masterstroke; he and the Beasties created a sound that strongly recalls the spare electronic funk of the early '80s, but spiked with the samples and post-modern absurdist wit that have become their trademarks."
[2] In his review for
Entertainment Weekly ,
David Browne highlighted the album's multi-genre sound as its most engaging aspect:
Hello Nasty is a sonic smorgasbord in which the Beasties gorge themselves with reckless abandon. They dabble in lounge-pop kitsch (the loser put-down "Song for the Man"), make like a summit of
Santana and
Traffic (the Latin-flavored "Song for Junior"), and subtly incorporate a drum-and-bass shuffle into the mix ("Flowin' Prose"). 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.
[7]
Accolades
*
denotes an unranked list
Track listing
All tracks are written by
Beastie Boys , except where noted
Hello Nasty
[32] Title Writer(s) 1. "Super Disco Breakin' " 2:07 2. "The Move" 3:35 3. "
Remote Control " 2:58 4. "Song for the Man" (with Brooke Williams) 3:13 5. "Just a Test" 2:12 6. "
Body Movin' " 3:03 7. "
Intergalactic " 3:51 8. "Sneakin' Out the Hospital" 2:45 9. "Putting Shame in Your Game" 3:37 10. "Flowin' Prose" 2:39 11. "And Me" 2:52 12. "
Three MC's and One DJ " 2:50 13. "The Grasshopper Unit (Keep Movin')" (with
Biz Markie ) 3:01 14. "Song for Junior" (with
Jill Cunniff ) 3:49 15. "I Don't Know" (with
Miho Hatori ) 3:00 16. "
The Negotiation Limerick File " 2:46 17. "Electrify" 2:22 18. "Picture This" (with Brooke Williams) Beastie Boys Brooke Williams 2:25 19. "Unite" 3:31 20. "Dedication" 2:32 21. "Dr. Lee, PhD" (with
Lee "Scratch" Perry ) 4:50 22. "Instant Death" 3:22 Total length: 67:28
Tour Edition bonus disc Title 1. "Hail Sagan (
Special K )" 4:06 2. "Body Movin' " (
Fatboy Slim Remix) 5:34 3. "
Intergalactic " (Prisoners of Technology Remix) 5:46 4. "Peanut Butter & Jelly" 2:16
2009 Remastered Edition Bonus Disc Title 1. "Description of a Strange Man" 1:21 2. "Dirty Dog" 0:47 3. "Intergalactic" (Colleone & Webb Remix) 3:54 4. "Dr. Lee, PhD" (Dub Mix) 4:39 5. "Switched On" 1:35 6. "Body Movin' " (Fatboy Slim Remix) 5:33 7. "Auntie Jackie Poom Poom Delicious" 1:39 8. "Putting Shame in Your Game" (Prunes Remix) 4:26 9. "Stink Bug" 2:02 10. "Peanut Butter & Jelly" 2:14 11. "Piano Jam" 1:51 12. "Happy to Be in That Perfect Headspace" 0:50 13. "The Negotiation Limerick File" (The 41 Small Star Remix) 3:20 14. "The Drone" 2:44 15. "20 Questions Version" 2:26 16. "The Biz Grasshopper Experiment" 1:13 17. "Hail Sagan (Special K)" 4:04 18. "Body Movin' " (
KutMasta Kurt Remix) 3:16 19. "Creepin' " 2:32 20. "Learning Remote Control" 1:50 21. "Oh My Goodness This Record's Incredible" 0:04
Personnel
Adapted from the
AllMusic credits.
[33]
Beastie Boys – producers
Mario Caldato, Jr. – producer
Mix Master Mike – DJ (8, 9, 12, 13, 19)
"Money" Mark Nishita – keyboards (4, 14, 20, 21)
Eric Bobo – percussion (3, 8, 14, 21)
Brooke Williams – vocals (4, 18)
Nelson Keane Carse –
trombone (4)
Paul Vercesi – alto sax (4)
Biz Markie – vocals (7, 12, 13)
Jill Cunniff – vocals (14)
Joe Locke –
vibraphone (14)
Steve Slagle –
flute (14)
Miho Hatori – vocals (15)
Duduka Da Fonseca – percussion (15)
Richard Siegler – percussion (15)
Jane Scarpantoni –
cello (15)
Brian Wright –
violin ,
viola (15)
Lee "Scratch" Perry – vocals (21)
Pat Shannahan – sample clearance
Steve Revitte – engineering
Suzanne Dyer – engineering
Andy VanDette – mastering
Howie Weinberg – mastering
Michael Lavine –
photography
Cey Adams – art direction
Bill McMullen – design
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
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