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Released | July 14, 1998 | |||
Recorded | 1997–1998 | |||
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Genre | Alternative hip hop | |||
Length | 67:28 | |||
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Hello Nasty is the fifth studio album by the American hip hop group Beastie Boys, released on July 14, 1998, by Grand Royal and Capitol Records. The album sold 681,000 copies in its first week, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 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]
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]
On the many musical styles on the album, Mike D said in 1998: "We spent so much time in the studio that we weren't in touch with the things that happened around us, not what's going on in the music scene and not what other people think about our music. We didn't even hear other opinions; we were rather reclusive. You know, there is nothing planned on the album, we didn't plan anything. All you hear are different sounds, sounds we experimented with, nothing else. Maybe that's our problem: we were so far removed from everything, it was like being underground, really underground, like in a hole in the ground." [4]
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." [5]
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. [6]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Chicago Sun-Times | [7] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+ [8] |
The Guardian | [9] |
Los Angeles Times | [10] |
NME | 9/10 [11] |
Pitchfork | 8.5/10 [12] |
Rolling Stone | [3] |
Spin | 7/10 [13] |
The Village Voice | A [14] |
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." [9] She went on to summarize the record as "the perfect party soundtrack by the perfect party band." [9] 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". [15] 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. [8]
* denotes an unranked list
Publication | Country | Accolade | Year | Rank |
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Les Inrockuptibles | France | Best 50 Albums of the Year [16] | 1998 | 44 |
Melody Maker | United Kingdom | Best 50 Albums of the Year [17] | 1998 | 2 |
Mixmag | United Kingdom | Best 10 Albums of the Year [18] | 1998 | 5 |
Musikexpress | Germany | Best 50 Albums of the Year [19] | 1998 | 22 |
Muzik | United Kingdom | Best 75 Albums of the Year [20] | 1998 | 2 |
NME | United Kingdom | Best 50 Albums of the Year [21] | 1998 | 2 |
Pitchfork | United States | Best 50 Albums of the Year [22] | 1998 | 20 |
Q | United Kingdom | Best Albums of the Year [23] | 1998 | * |
Rocksound | France | Best 50 Albums of the Year [24] | 1998 | 17 |
Rolling Stone | United States | Best 5 Albums of the Year [25] The Essential Recordings of the 90s [26] | 1998 2009 | 2 * |
Select | United Kingdom | Best 30 Albums of the Year [27] | 1998 | 13 |
SPIN | United States | Best 20 Albums of the Year [28] | 1998 | 10 |
Technikart | France | Best 10 Albums of the Year [29] | 1998 | 2 |
The Face | United Kingdom | Best 20 Albums of the Year [30] | 1998 | 11 |
The Village Voice | United States | Albums of the Year Poll [31] | 1998 | 9 |
Uncut | United Kingdom | Best 40 Albums of the Year [32] | 1998 | 12 |
All tracks are written by Beastie Boys, except where noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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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) |
| 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 |
No. | Title | Length |
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23. | "Slow and Low" (Mix Master Mike Version) | 3:00 |
No. | Title | Length |
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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 |
No. | Title | Length |
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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 |
Adapted from the AllMusic credits. [34]
Weekly charts
| Year-end charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [64] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
Belgium (BEA) [65] | Gold | 25,000* |
Canada (Music Canada) [66] | 3× Platinum | 300,000^ |
Japan (RIAJ) [67] | Platinum | 200,000^ |
Netherlands (NVPI) [68] | Gold | 50,000^ |
New Zealand (RMNZ) [69] | Platinum | 15,000^ |
Norway (IFPI Norway) [70] | Gold | 25,000* |
Sweden (GLF) [71] | Gold | 40,000^ |
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [72] | Gold | 25,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI) [73] | Platinum | 300,000‡ |
United States (RIAA) [74] | 3× Platinum | 3,000,000^ |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
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'Hello Nasty' — named after New York-based publicity firm Nasty Little Man for the way the receptionist answered the phone