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At a time when mainstream rap was becoming incredibly opulent and the underground was starting to lean towards the poetically abstract, the Beastie Boys—never especially comfortable in either role—found a counterintuitive yet highly successful way to thread that needle: position themselves as throwbacks to a past so wide-spanning and strange that it felt like a self-contained counterculture in miniature. And Hello Nasty was as idiosyncratic as they ever got. In the four years since they'd permanently added instrumental live-band funk and reintroduced punk into their repertoire, the Beastie Boys saw themselves fit to tackle even further reaches of outer-margin beat music, whether they filtered their quirky melodic ideas through a boom-bap lens (dusty-analog banger "The Move"; calypso/b-boy collision "Body Movin'") or bore closer resemblance to the off-kilter pop detritus all the cool crate diggers were raiding for samples as Y2K drew near. That latter category is where things get adventurous to the point of fake-it-til-you-make-it revelation: the lackadaisical retro pop-soul "Song for the Man" imagines what would happen if The Turtles wrote a player-haters' anthem. The shockingly quiet and reflective MCA-sung "I Don't Know" is a collab with Cibo Matto's Miho Hatori that reveals a surprising ease with Caetano Veloso-style MPB/folk. The velvety psychedelic soul-jazz of "Picture This" (featuring a should've-been-a-star turn from Brooke Williams) shows that the Beasties can sound amazing mellowed-out just as long as there's still something mysterious lurking at the margins. Cuts like these all proved that their ambitions ran as deep as their influences, and their influences were nearly infinite at this point. But this exercise in post-genre bricolage was also the biggest camp-rap smash of its kind since Beck's Odelay, and cuts like the immortal Moogs-and-808s meta-retrofuturistic "Intergalactic" and the Mix Master Mike scratch showcase "Three MCs and One DJ" clearly show off that hip-hop was still the Beastie Boys' impossibly big, fearlessly weird wheelhouse. © Nate Patrin/Qobuz
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Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Eric Bobo, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Brooke Williams, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Mark Ramos Nishita, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Vercesi, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Nelson Keane Carse, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - Michael Diamond, ComposerLyricist - Adam Nathaniel Yauch, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, ComposerLyricist - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Adam Keefe Horovitz, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - Michael Diamond, ComposerLyricist - Adam Nathaniel Yauch, ComposerLyricist - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Adam Keefe Horovitz, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Eric Bobo, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Mix Master Mike, AssociatedPerformer, Turntablist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Mix Master Mike, AssociatedPerformer, Turntablist - Andy Von Dette, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Andy Von Dette, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, ComposerLyricist - Adam Nathaniel Yauch, ComposerLyricist - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Adam Keefe Horovitz, ComposerLyricist - Mix Master Mike, AssociatedPerformer, Turntablist - Wendell Fite, ComposerLyricist - Michael Anthony Schwartz, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Biz Markie, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Eric Bobo, Composer, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Slagle, Flute, AssociatedPerformer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Mark Ramos Nishita, Composer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Locke, Vibraphone, AssociatedPerformer - Jill Cunniff, Composer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Jane Scarpantoni, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Brian Wright, Viola, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Miho Hatori, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Richard Siegler, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Duduka, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Composer, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Andy Von Dette, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Composer, Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Brooke Williams, Composer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Mix Master Mike, AssociatedPerformer, Turntablist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Mark Ramos Nishita, Composer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Eric Bobo, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Composer, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Ramos Nishita, Composer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
DISC 2
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist - Beastie Boys, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, MainArtist - Mark Ramos Nishita, Composer
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - Michael Diamond, ComposerLyricist - Adam Nathaniel Yauch, ComposerLyricist - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Adam Keefe Horovitz, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Composer, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Mark Ramos Nishita, Composer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - Michael Diamond, ComposerLyricist - Adam Nathaniel Yauch, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, ComposerLyricist - Fatboy Slim, Remixer, StudioPersonnel - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Adam Keefe Horovitz, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Mark Ramos Nishita, Composer
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - The Prunes, Remixer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Mark Ramos Nishita, Composer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Lucy Wagner, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Mark Ramos Nishita, Composer
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Composer, Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Mark Ramos Nishita, Composer
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist - Biz Markie, FeaturedArtist - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, ComposerLyricist - Adam Yauch, ComposerLyricist - Adam Horovitz, ComposerLyricist - Miho Hatori, Voices, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Beastie Boys, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - Michael Diamond, ComposerLyricist - Adam Nathaniel Yauch, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, ComposerLyricist - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist - Adam Keefe Horovitz, ComposerLyricist - Kut Masta Kurt, Remixer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Michael Diamond, Composer - Adam Yauch, Composer - Adam Horovitz, Composer - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Mario Caldato Jr., Producer - Spoken Word, ComposerLyricist - Biz Markie, FeaturedArtist - Beastie Boys, Producer, MainArtist
(C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
Album review
At a time when mainstream rap was becoming incredibly opulent and the underground was starting to lean towards the poetically abstract, the Beastie Boys—never especially comfortable in either role—found a counterintuitive yet highly successful way to thread that needle: position themselves as throwbacks to a past so wide-spanning and strange that it felt like a self-contained counterculture in miniature. And Hello Nasty was as idiosyncratic as they ever got. In the four years since they'd permanently added instrumental live-band funk and reintroduced punk into their repertoire, the Beastie Boys saw themselves fit to tackle even further reaches of outer-margin beat music, whether they filtered their quirky melodic ideas through a boom-bap lens (dusty-analog banger "The Move"; calypso/b-boy collision "Body Movin'") or bore closer resemblance to the off-kilter pop detritus all the cool crate diggers were raiding for samples as Y2K drew near. That latter category is where things get adventurous to the point of fake-it-til-you-make-it revelation: the lackadaisical retro pop-soul "Song for the Man" imagines what would happen if The Turtles wrote a player-haters' anthem. The shockingly quiet and reflective MCA-sung "I Don't Know" is a collab with Cibo Matto's Miho Hatori that reveals a surprising ease with Caetano Veloso-style MPB/folk. The velvety psychedelic soul-jazz of "Picture This" (featuring a should've-been-a-star turn from Brooke Williams) shows that the Beasties can sound amazing mellowed-out just as long as there's still something mysterious lurking at the margins. Cuts like these all proved that their ambitions ran as deep as their influences, and their influences were nearly infinite at this point. But this exercise in post-genre bricolage was also the biggest camp-rap smash of its kind since Beck's Odelay, and cuts like the immortal Moogs-and-808s meta-retrofuturistic "Intergalactic" and the Mix Master Mike scratch showcase "Three MCs and One DJ" clearly show off that hip-hop was still the Beastie Boys' impossibly big, fearlessly weird wheelhouse. © Nate Patrin/Qobuz
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 43 track(s)
- Total length: 01:59:23
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Beastie Boys
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Capitol Records
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
© 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys ℗ 2009 Capitol Records, LLC, Grand Royal and Beastie Boys
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