Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
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Release date: 27 April 2004
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Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty : Wikipedia Album Entry
Hello Nasty is the fifth studio album by the Beastie Boys. It was released on July 14, 1998 via Capitol Records and sold 681,000 copies in its first week, debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart. The album took home two awards at the 1999 Grammys, in the categories of Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Intergalactic".
Background:
Hello Nasty was released in 1998—four years after the band's previous album, Ill Communication—and marked the addition of DMC champion Mix Master Mike to the group's line-up. "Song for Junior" features Miho Hatori on vocals, and "Dr. Lee, PhD" guest stars dub musician Lee Scratch Perry on both vocals and percussion. Hello Nasty also marked Eric Bobo's last appearance as percussionist in the band, as well as the last time the Beastie Boys worked with a co-producer.
The title for the album was allegedly inspired by the receptionist of their NY based publicity firm Nasty Little Man who would answer the phone with the greeting "Hello Nasty".
Critical reception:
Hello Nasty received mostly positive reviews upon release. Caroline Sullivan writing for The Guardian Review awarded the album "Pop CD Of The Week" claiming that 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." She went on to summarize the record as "the perfect party soundtrack by the perfect party band." Although Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine felt that 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 input of the group's new recruit, Mixmaster 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." In his B+ rated review for Entertainment Weekly, David Browne highlighted the album's multi-genre sound, along with the group's use of a wide range of musical styles, 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.
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Well it's 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on
I move the crowd to the break of break of dawn
Can't rock the house without the party people
'Cause when we're gettin' down we are all equal
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With the oom-pah-pah
With the oom-pah-pah
Alright, let's go to uh new tracks.
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Hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello
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Please Clear The Ice For The Zamboni
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Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, planetary, planetary Intergalactic
Intergalactic, planetary, planetary, planetary, planetary Intergalactic
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Things get hectic quick
From the satellite dish to your joy stick
It's the night of the living cable box
Wires coming up from around the block
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Coffin going around, have you seen Mister Brown?
Coffin going around going around the town
Beastie Boys - Song For The Man Lyrics
I don't like your attitude, boy
What makes you feel
And why you gotta be
Beastie Boys - Just A Test Lyrics
It's like a flag at half mast as frames click fast
Not a thing will last as past is past
Like stacks of thoughts that got played and worn
Used over and over till they were tired and torn
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[...and I'm dancin' like I never danced before...]
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Body movin', body movin'
A-1 sound and the sound so soothing
Body movin', body movin'
We be getting down and you know we're Krush Groovin'
Beastie Boys - Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim Remix) Lyrics
"Ready one, you will do this four times with the left
four with the right then eight times with both, then repeat"
Ah.clap your hands.
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic Lyrics
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Beastie Boys - Auntie Jackie Poom Poom Delicious (previously unreleased track) Lyrics
INSTRUMENTAL
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H-h-help me
Help me, oh
[Incomprehensible]
Beastie Boys - Putting Shame In Your Game (Prunes Remix) Lyrics
Beastie Beastie Beastie Beastie Boys gettin' live on the spot
Puttin' all kinds of shame in the game you got
We keep the party movin' to the broad day light
G E T L I V E alright
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INSTRUMENTAL
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Puttin' all kinds of shame in the game you got
We keep the party movin' to the broad day light
G E T L I V E alright
Beastie Boys - Peanut Butter & Jelly Lyrics
Do you want to sing with uncle Mike?
Beastie Boys - Flowin' Prose Lyrics
I'm flowing prose to cons and cons to pros
I'm scheming rhyme against reason like it was flow against know
But beyond the concepts and emotions that rise
To the interconnectedness that underlies
Beastie Boys - And Me Lyrics
Once again I'm all wrapped up in me
My best friend's my own worst enemy
Electricity and gravity
Beastie Boys - Piano Jam (previously unreleased track) Lyrics
INSTRUMENTAL
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Like stacks of thoughts
Got tired and worn
Used over and over
'Til they were tired and torn
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'Cause nobody can do it
like Mix Master can! C'mon
I got the D, Double O
D, Double O STYLE!
Beastie Boys - The Grasshopper Unit (keep Movin') Lyrics
Dear Alex and Marilyn
They're Lovey and Thurston Howellin'
The grasshopper unit is prowellin'
And Rufus is back home growellin'
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If you're wonderin' what's been goin' on
If you think I've almost lost my mind
My DJ's got the cuts and the beats are on
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I'm hypnotized by you
I'm hypnotized by you
By you, by you, by you, by you
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What's pleasing to the eye in the delusion of my sight
Is not what I find when I reach into the light I have lost my mind
I'm walking through time deluded as the next guy
Pretending and hoping to find that distant peace of mind
Beastie Boys - The Negotiation Limerick File Lyrics
If you're wonderin' what's been goin' on
If you think I've almost lost my mind
My DJ's got the cuts and the beats are on
Beastie Boys - The Biz Grasshopper Experiment Lyrics
There weren't no rhymin' at the beginning right there.
Ahh yeah, I'm just gonna bring them in like an introduction. I gotcha, I gotcha super Mario. Mario... Mariooooo.
Beastie Boys - Hail Sagan (Special K) Lyrics
(Strange sounds in the background)
"You don't stop"
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"Ready one, you will do this four times with the left
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Something on the windowsill
Caught her eye and held her still
The cars pass by outside
Nowhere left to hide
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INSTRUMENTAL
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Goin' off the hook like Latrell Spreewell
I've got the ill technique so you know me fe well
We be kickin' bass all up in your face
And when it comes to beats, well, I'm the rhythm ace
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(Whistles)
Shall we try it one time?
Mikey?
Beastie Boys - Dedication Lyrics
I want to take this minute to introduce you to my people
This one is for Sao Paulo
This one's for Bay-town
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Oh my goodness, this record's incredible.
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Coffin going around going around the town
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And what do you do when
Your man kills himself and
How do I make friends now?
