Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
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Free Music Review: Uneducated Beware!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
People please! The beasties are not your one-dimensional, corny laidened pop icons. In other words, their music is not always immediately satisfying. Why? It's so musically and lyrically rich that it may take many listenings to decipher the numerous references, samplings, and polical/socio symbolism. "I keep all five burros in stitches", or "show up with a nail and a hammer at your door". These are but a few of the witty and creative inferences of Hello Nasty, but if you don't know who Martin Luther was, or that New York has five Democratic representatives, then you are truly lost and immune to their talent. That doesn't even speak for their musical innovation which includes ingenious injections of Rachmaninoff's "Prelude C# Minor" or "The Firebird Suite", conducted by Leopold Stakowski. And yes, even latin famed Tito Puente's "Oye Come Va" found solace and chemistry amongst the numerous beastie ventures. Regardless, however, the real accomplishment is that the boys take these cutting ,commical lyrics, layer a track with fiery beats and numerous, although sometimes esoteric samples, and create a completely original work that can best be decribed as, "Ear Candy". Equally amazing, nearly all of their labor takes place under a hip-hop forum, which has led many one-dimensional acts to an early grave and an early reservation on worthless trivia cards. So please people, this album, like the beasties' earlier efforts, show them to be competent and far ahead of the game. Whether it's punk, funk, acid jazz, rock, soul, reggae or old-school hip-hop, you can bet the Beastie Boys have a grip on it. However, should they bear a hypocritical cross of those who criticize their labors, but who don't even have the capacity to understand it. In other words, don't do yourself or the Beasties an injustice until you have done your homework. In the meantime, I, and millions others, will continue to revel in the accomplishments of one of the most influential groups of our generation. P.S. Tracks 1,2,3,6,7,9,12,16,17 are all incredible. In beastie tradition, "I don't Know" is a great and pleasing work by MCA. It's another example of their evolution and quest for new musical horizons.Free Music Review: Don't try to compromise, you need the five Beastie albums...
Hit: 5 Stars
"Hello Nasty, the Beastie Boys' fifth album, is a head-spinning listen loaded with analog synthesizers, old drum machines, call-and-response vocals, freestyle rhyming, futuristic sound effects, and virtuoso turntable scratching. The Beasties have long been notorious for their dense, multi-layered explosions, but Hello Nasty is their first record to build on the multi-ethnic junk culture breakthrough of Check Your Head, instead of merely replicating it.
Moving from electro-funk breakdowns to Latin-soul jams to spacey pop, Hello Nasty covers as much ground as Check Your Head or Ill Communication, but the flow is natural, like Paul's Boutique, even if the finish is retro-stylized. Hiring DJ Mixmaster Mike (one of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz) 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. On the surface, the sonic collages of Hello Nasty don't appear as dense as Paul's Boutique, nor is there a single as grabbing as "Sabotage," but given time, little details emerge, and each song forms its own identity.
A few stray from the course, and the ending is a little anticlimactic, but that doesn't erase the riches of Hello Nasty - the old-school kick of "Super Disco Breakin'" and "The Move"; Adam Yauch's crooning on "I Don't Know"; Lee "Scratch" Perry's cameo; and the recurring video game samples, to name just a few. The sonic adventures alone make the album noteworthy, but what makes it remarkable is how it looks to the future by looking to the past. There's no question that Hello Nasty is saturated in old-school sounds and styles, but by reviving the future-shock rock of the early '80s, the Beasties have shrewdly set themselves up for the new millennium."
-Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com
Well, that's almost correct, every song on here rules, and Anti-climatic ending? Bull_____. Still though, even though Allmusic.com isn't a reliable source (it sucks), I thought this was almost on the mark. Life is weird.
10/10
Free Music Review: a head-spinning entry
Hit: 5 Stars
Hello Nasty, the Beastie Boys' fifth album, is a head-spinning listen loaded with analog synthesizers, old drum machines, call-and-response vocals, freestyle rhyming, futuristic sound effects, and virtuoso turntable scratching. The Beasties have long been notorious for their dense, multi-layered explosions, but Hello Nasty is their first record to build on the multi-ethnic junk culture breakthrough of Check Your Head, instead of merely replicating it.
Moving from electro-funk breakdowns to Latin-soul jams to spacey pop, Hello Nasty covers as much ground as Check Your Head or Ill Communication, but the flow is natural, like Paul's Boutique, even if the finish is retro-stylized. Hiring DJ Mixmaster Mike (one of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz) 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. On the surface, the sonic collages of Hello Nasty don't appear as dense as Paul's Boutique, nor is there a single as grabbing as "Sabotage," but given time, little details emerge, and each song forms its own identity.
A few stray from the course, and the ending is a little anticlimactic, but that doesn't erase the riches of Hello Nasty - the old-school kick of "Super Disco Breakin'" and "The Move"; Adam Yauch's crooning on "I Don't Know"; Lee "Scratch" Perry's cameo; and the recurring video game samples, to name just a few. The sonic adventures alone make the album noteworthy, but what makes it remarkable is how it looks to the future by looking to the past. There's no question that Hello Nasty is saturated in old-school sounds and styles, but by reviving the future-shock rock of the early '80s, the Beasties have shrewdly set themselves up for the new millennium.
Free Music Review: 22 songs...learned to love 18 of them
Hit: 5 Stars
i had just gotten into rock and alt towards then end of the summer of 99. well around that november i went out to get a beastie boys cd. i had no idea how old they were, how many albums they had out, or how amazing they were. all i knew was that i liked integalactic and fight for your right. by consiquence hello nasty and liscenced to ill were the only 2 beastie cds they had there. i forget why but i went with hello nasty. went home that night and listened to intergalactic over and over. next day i went to explore the cd. i only liked about 10 of the songs, but that was enough for me...i was hooked. i got the anthology jan '00 and fell in love w/ the fatboy slim remix. the anthology cds and hello nasty had control over my cd library, and total control at that. then we skip to summer '00. i had gotten check your head and liscened to ill before that summer as well as some other non-beastie cds. on the way home from minnesota i listened to hello nasty and went through songs i hadn't previously listened too...some how i had missed puttin' shame in your game. not only that but i grew to kinda like the other couple instrumentals i skipped over before. now i listen straight to 7, skip 8, listen to 17, skip 18, listen to U.N.I.T.E, skip 20 and 21, and listen to instant death. love every song on there. some get more attention than others (intergalactic, body movin, unite, grasshopper unit, remote control, and just a test to name a few). i listen to the cd on my way to school and every now and then i'm just amazed at what i'm hearing. definitly my fav cd (don't have paul's boutique, but from other reviews it seems that that is the one to get) and i believe people that just like the beasties up to die hard fans should get hello nasty.Free Music Review: They will never top this. Ever.
Hit: 5 Stars
Pubescents the world over inwardly heard peals of heavenly music in 1986, for delivered into their laps was a raunchy rap album seemingly produced by the heavens themselves. "License to Ill," a toxic blend of rap, rock, and sampling, was thrown together by three guys who were barely post-pubescents themselves. It was loud, rambunctious, and ingeniously accessible.12 years, three studio albums, and an innumerable number of concerts later, the Beastie Boys have released what is quite likely thier finest album. Although they evolved beyond beer-swilling misogyny long ago, they haven't forgotten their sonic roots: "Hello Nasty" contains echos of the bass-n-beats style they brought to the masses. The odious punk blitzes and trippy musical meanderings of "Ill Communication" are conspicuously absent here, save a track or two. Also absent is the lyrical preaching; at one point MCA says you'll never see him in a commercial, but for the most part ! ! "Hello Nasty" is the Beastie Boys doing what they've always done best: talking about how great they are, waxing about world peace, and inserting nifty samples (courtesy of turntable phenom Mix Master Mike) into the mix. Think "Paul's Boutique" with a little "Check Your Head" thrown in for good measure.
"Hello Nasty" is 22 tracks' worth of great rap peppered by the occasional aural experiment. The Beasties have simply and effectively nullified the hype surrounding this album in one fell swoop; it is simultaneously behind and beyond all critical expectations.