Hello Nasty....Again (Therapy Tip)

[mikel3030]

Hi Y'all, I'm 30 years old from Melbourne, Australia. I have just joined up to write this, hope you like it. Beastie Boys were an international band and there was a lot of love down here. I was lucky enough to see them live 4 times from Ill Communication tour onwards. They changed my life for the better in everyway.

My heart broke on May 5th (our time) It was the morning of my 30th birthday- the first thing I did was look at my phone and I had a message from a mate, a message I had been dreading. Needless to say, i wont remember that day fondly. Talk about end of my youth!

Anyways- I have the best method to get over the pain of the last couple of months- crank Hello Nasty as loud as you can! It's a party album, and there is nothing wrong with that. If I was forced to choose my ranking of albums goes like this.

1 Hello Nasty
2 Paul's Boutique
3 Check Your Head
4 LTI
5 Ill Communication
6 Hot Sauce
7 To The 5- it's not bad, it's just not great.

So anyway i think Hello Nasty has the best, most hectic, most dazzling opening 2 tracks to a hip hop album in history.

SDB with all the bells and sirens and layers i'm still just noticing now, Adrock exploding out the blocks- "50 cups of coffee and you know it's orrn!" the hilarious and legendary "Let me break it down, make no mistake....nothing sounds quite like 8.....0....8!" Then chorus. I remember as a 17 year old getting that album on the day it came out- I nearly dropped my discman with excitement and joy.

Followed by "The Move". I feel this is an underrated Bboys track, easily in my top 10. The lyrical back and forth not seen since PB, dope baseline, masterful scratch break and great opening and ending samples.

Anyway, this 7 minutes or so of sheer joy has helped me remember why I loved this band so much. The fun, the irreverence and their inherint ability to lift us up in tough times- and they are fuckin great tracks!!!

RIP MCA and thank you beastie boys for everything.

[Kid Presentable]

With Remote Control it still remains my favourite opening three. Not a weak link.

[Kid Presentable]

Adrock mentioned in the commentary that the Move was meant to sound different, but he lost the file or it got damaged. Said it could be saved with today's technology. I'd love to hear what it was meant to sound like.

[DrunkenMantis]

Great post. Thanks for sharing.

HN has been my fave since July 14th 1998.

Brilliant album.

[pshabi]

When the album dropped, Best Buy was giving out 50 7" singles with Intergalactic and Peanut butter and jelly as the b side. My girl drove me up before the store opened and there was some people waiting outside to get in and cop the freebie.

As we were all waiting for the store to open, an old lady drove by and asked me, "are they giving out beanie babies?" haha

I did wish at the time that they WERE giving out beastie boy beanie babies. Would have been the shit.

Anyway, I will NEVER forget the feeling of popping that disc in during the drive home and hearing the subway sound at the beginning of SDB for the first time. Played the shot outta that disc.

[Swooziemoonshoe]

YES! Love this thread! I had only got into the Beasties on Ill Communication so this was the first record I was hotly anticipating. You guys are stirring my memories of putting it on my crappy little stereo for the first time and rocking out - I was 20, on holiday from university, had my own car (albeit an old rusty borrowed one which later burst into flames) and was gonna drive to Reading Festival to see the Beastie Boys that August. It was so completely awesome to see Money Mark, Lee Scratch Perry and the Beasties one after another. That was when they ticked off the Prodigy for their lame macho posturing. GREAT TIMES! Thanks for your awesome post Mike! You're so right, I'm still hearing new things in the Beastie records to this day.
:D

[Jiberish]

Adrock mentioned in the commentary that the Move was meant to sound different, but he lost the file or it got damaged. Said it could be saved with today's technology. I'd love to hear what it was meant to sound like.

I'm pretty sure they were talking about time compression/expansion technology. Not because the file was lost or damaged. He could just never get it to sound "right". But if they had know about TCE it would have worked out.

[Kid Presentable]

I'm pretty sure they were talking about time compression/expansion technology. Not because the file was lost or damaged. He could just never get it to sound "right". But if they had know about TCE it would have worked out.

Nice, thanks for clarifying (y)

[laurie_hammy]

Awsome post. Im also pretty much from Melbourne. One hour away. My cousin from Box Hill got me into the Beastie's by letting me borrow his Hello Nasty album. Everything Beastie's has been my life since then.

[MrSmiley1]

I was so stoked when this album came out. Like Swooziemoonshoe, this was the first time I could be excited for an album (I was 16 when this came out). Though I was a fan, I never had the means to be able to get one on the day it was released. I was too young and lived in the middle of nowhere. My parents were not going to drive 30 miles to the nearest place that sold music.

Anyway, the local video store owner started randomly ordering CD's through a new distributor and placed an ordered for a few copies of HN. The distributor messed up and sent the discs early so they came in on July 11th, 1998. The owner remembered I loved them so he called me when he opened the box and saw they were in there. It was also my really good friend's birthday (she was a big a fan as I was) so she got one as a present.

The owner was both awesome and a douche. Awesome because he called me and broke the street date. A douche because he charged me a premium on the disks ($19.99 each).

Good times.

[Jiberish]

Nice, thanks for clarifying (y)

yep!

[DJ Pioneer]

I remember buying my copy of Hello Nasty at "The Wall." They were actually playing the entire album over the loudspeakers. I think it was on The Move when I went in. It was actually on the Saturday after the release date.

I loved the album from the day I bought it. It always sounded awesome on my stereo. I loved dissecting the beats. Super Disco Breakin' was slammin' - as was The Move. I loved the beat changes. The last section of Body Movin' had awesome bass. Just a great album, great scratches, great beats.

[PortlandBGirl]

Hello Nasty was great, I was definitely obsessed with the Beasties by that point so I was so excited when it came out.

Sorry about your 30th, what a crappy opening to your 30's. I hope the rest of the decade is better for you! ;)