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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 spacy 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.

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Hello Nasty was the sound of a band that either had nothing to prove or realized there was no point trying to prove it. Their biggest hits (“Fight for Your Right,” “Sabotage”) had been jokes, and their most ambitious statements ( Paul’s Boutique ) had been flops—what did they know about the music industry that they didn’t learn by embarrassing themselves? Part of the album’s success could be chalked up to public profile: In 1996, the band hosted the first Tibetan Freedom Concert, drawing in a diverse, socially conscious audience that probably hadn’t given them a second thought since Licensed to Ill , not to mention reasserted (ahem) their true identity as a group of smart, passionately curious dudes you could grow and learn with. It also reflected a broadening sense of what alternative music was and could be. Beck, Cornershop, DJ Shadow, Luscious Jackson, Bran Van 3000—it was a funkier moment, more global, more inclusive and eclectic. Most of the time, Hello Nasty doesn’t even sound like one band. But in its range—the psychedelic boom-bap (“Intergalactic,” ”Body Movin’”), the Buddhist bossanova (“I Don’t Know”), the jazzy mixed-grill instrumentals (“Song for Junior,” “Sneakin’ Out the Hospital”)—lay a sense of discovery and experimentation that doubled as a rallying cry, proof that maturity has more to do with exploring what you don’t know than persisting in what you think you do. Remembering an interview in which he was asked if “Song for the Man”—a lounge-y callout of sexual harassment—was hypocritical in the wake of their past, Ad-Rock, in the Apple TV+ documentary Beastie Boys Story , said, “I’d rather be a hypocrite than the same person forever.” So here they were, mostly back in New York now, jamming in lower Manhattan sub-basements, pressing record with one hand and rushing over to their instrument just in time for the cue, doing what they’d always done: change.
A Capitol Records Release; ℗ 1998 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
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Hello Nasty is the fifth studio album by the Beastie Boys, released in 1998. Tracklist 1. Super Disco Breakin' 2. The 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. The Grasshopper Unit (Keep Movin') 14. Song For Junior 15. I Don't Know 16. The Negotiation Limerick File 17. Electrify 18. Picture This 19. Unite 20. Dedication 21. Dr. Lee, PhD 22. Instant Death

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