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Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty (180g) Vinyl 2LP
Intergalactic planetary, planetary intergalactic! Hello Nasty was the 5th studio album for the Beastie Boys that saw the group fine tune everything they had done with Ill Communication, Check Your Head, and a little bit of Paul’s Boutique… While those albums have their own debate on which is the best of the three, the boys and their bandmates honed the skills to pay the bills and became adults. Yes we still get hints of snotty punks they always were, but we also get the message they started to preach a couple albums prior. The musicianship / production is at its zenith and the costume game couldn’t be topped. Adding Mixmaster Mike to the group added so much more to the fold creating new levels of performance both recorded and live. Hits a plenty, but it’s all about the albums cuts on this one. ‘Putting Shame In Your Game’, ‘Song For Junior’, ‘Song For The Man’ show the growth and depths they were reaching to. Reissued, remastered, and pressed on 180g vinyl.
- music label: Capitol Records 1998
