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― peace, man, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
I still feel sad that on a college road trip, for a school club no less, either a couple cd cases fell out of my car or were swiped. It was right after the anthology came out and I lost the case and one of the cds, along with a couple others.
― mh, Thursday, 4 February 2021 02:56 (three years ago) link
Chris Read, the London-based company’s head of content, said that using the website as a fact-finding tool for potential lawsuits is a violation of its terms of service
"You're violating the TOS" is a big threat from a website that... doesn't even require you log in?
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Thursday, 4 February 2021 03:13 (three years ago) link
I was 13 when the anthology came out and I listened to it nonstop for like an entire year. I love how they tried to accomplish two goals - one: include all the best stuff, two: make them seem as weird and eclectic as possible. And it worked!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 February 2021 03:18 (three years ago) link
otm, that Anthology is one of my all time favorite single artist comps, just so lovingly put together and really reflected how much they evolved and grew.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 4 February 2021 03:38 (three years ago) link
came out just as I started my senior year of high school and some classmates recreated the intergalactic music video dance, in costume, at a talent show
― mh, Thursday, 4 February 2021 03:54 (three years ago) link
sorry, I screwed it up: anthology had just come out when I was in college, and thinking back to that prior year!
― mh, Thursday, 4 February 2021 03:57 (three years ago) link
always really loved the track "Live Wire", at the time it was kind of the weirdest pop song I'd ever heard
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 February 2021 03:57 (three years ago) link
I think I’m stuck on Mike D being third coolest now. Sorry, Mike
― mh, Thursday, 4 February 2021 04:31 (three years ago) link
'twas ever thus
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 4 February 2021 04:56 (three years ago) link
usually fourth at best, depending who else was in the group at the time
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 4 February 2021 06:59 (three years ago) link
Blockhead's personal remembrance of Ricky Powell:
https://phatfriend.com/2021/02/03/the-complicated-death-of-an-iconic-scumbag/
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 4 February 2021 11:12 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/l2aZJqV_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 17 September 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
PTSD from that time I had to review the Yeastie Girlz EP
― Citole Country (bendy), Friday, 17 September 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
Didn't like it?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 17 September 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
hahaha, love them
― sleeve, Friday, 17 September 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
(in small doses ofc)
ProfessorWhat’s another name for pirate treasure?Well I think it’s booty
― calstars, Friday, 17 September 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link
sue sue sue your friendssue your mom and dad
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 18 September 2021 04:26 (two years ago) link
i had everything except their last couple few releases but i like their def jam material the best!
― xzanfar, Saturday, 18 September 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
I’ve heard that track they did with qtip twice in the wild in the last week
― calstars, Saturday, 18 September 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
shout out to being 13 and finally deciding the CD you want to buy is Hello Nasty. still haven't forgotten what it felt like to hear Super Disco Breakin' right out of the gate, was immediately like "this is obviously the best group on the planet"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 04:11 (three months ago) link
awwww
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 04:18 (three months ago) link
I only saw it on a video clip later since I didn’t go to the high school talent show but three dudes I knew approximated the costumes from the intergalactic video and lip synched it while doing the dances
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 04:23 (three months ago) link
its a genuinely fascinating career arc like I know they were always goofballs but they did start playing this real hip and kinda jazzy music and suddenly just took a hard turn into sci-fi and started using a ton of really goofy noises and stuff like hockey rink organ. and writing rhymes about Boggle. and it turned out to sell really really well, in fact it fit in perfectly with what MTV was doing at the time which was this proto-Adult Swim thing. not only that but it's very much a defining "CD era" album - it's stuffed, but not like other CDs are where it's just the same thing forever. it's genuinely all over the place. also it does fun things with the negative space between tracks which I'd never seen before.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 04:49 (three months ago) link
I believe I am on record here as calling it their best album, and I was super into the two before it
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 04:52 (three months ago) link
i remember hello nasty's release being a pretty big event for the radio station i listened to at the time. they played a lot of stuff from their back catalog in the weeks leading up to it and then played the entire album on its release day. and, yeah, being 13 was the perfect age for it to make maximum impact.
― circles, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 05:07 (three months ago) link
I think its their best too. I even love the stuff everyone says is filler. like how do you hate Dr. Lee, PhD? one of them is making pterodactyl noises in the background! and the record ends on a really tender song which suddenly transforms into really hard Big Beat. I mean who else was doing stuff like that? you can see the funky instrumental stuff landing on other hip-hop albums but stuff like "Song for the Man", "Picture This", "I Don't Know"...not a chance
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 05:09 (three months ago) link
i remember driving in my car when the local radio station debuted Intergalatic - it sounded so HUGE and cool, it was very thrilling and that whole Hello Nasty record was such a fun shared experience with all my friends. we all had different favorites.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 05:10 (three months ago) link
i remember being so disappointed in hello nasty, because that hipster rap/funk/punk/tibet vibe on the previous two LPs was absolutely my sweet spot. I need to revisit.
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 09:12 (three months ago) link
shout out to me feeling very lonely and isolated in sixth form college far away from my regular friendship group until the day I rented Ill Communication from the central library, and walked down the road with it on my CD walkman feeling like the coolest person in school
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 12:00 (three months ago) link
and then just a few months later, Hello Nasty came out and like many people here it was a huge event for me and my friends who had consequently become voracious BBs fans
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 12:01 (three months ago) link
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 12:38 (three months ago) link
If anything I thought they leaned even further into that vibe on Hello Nasty.
It was definitely my favourite one when it first came out. It felt so fresh and exciting. In retrospect it was so definitive in the sound and aesthetic of what was to come from other artists over the next few years that it's probably aged the worst out of all their preceding ones bar Licensed To Ill; a victim of its own success
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 12:45 (three months ago) link
Hello Nasty is incontrovertibly their best album after PB.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 13:20 (three months ago) link
I loved their first 3 albums, each one had a huge impact on me. Ill Communication was good but felt like a bit of a step down, mostly because it was more of a continuation of the direction they took with Check Your Head rather than something new. Hello Nasty is where I completely lost interest.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 13:24 (three months ago) link
Paul's Boutique > Ill Communication > Check Your Head > Licensed to Ill > Hello Nasty > the others is how I break it down to an extent
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 13:30 (three months ago) link
The reason I didn't rate CYH so much at the peak of my fandom is because I'd already heard The In Sound From Way Out, so it felt like I already knew a lot of the songs
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 13:49 (three months ago) link
CYH made me a college-age fan after the Beasties (briefly) stopped being cool, but it's not very good. I'd rate them:
PBLTIHello NastyIll CommunicationCheck Your Head
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:08 (three months ago) link
Hello Nasty sounds very, very good, and is an extremely fun record, but it's the album where their lyrics started to fall off a little for me.
I can't rank them, but Check Your Head is my favorite.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:28 (three months ago) link
Check Your Head is maybe a bit of a shaggy dog album, but that's part of what makes it endearing. Ill Communication and Hello Nasty came off as more polished and refined versions of this, but it all started to feel a bit formulaic.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:57 (three months ago) link
Each of the first five sound like the best to me when they’re spinning
― bendy, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:27 (three months ago) link
I actually never liked Licensed to Ill much but yes to the other four
funny enough the version of Ill Communication I had I bought from WalMart which at the time sold censored versions of CDs without labeling them as such. I thought that was pretty dumb because of all their albums I think that's the one where you can't really understand the lyrics anyway. at least I couldn't when I got it at the age of 13 or 14 or whatever. all I heard was a lot of random backmasking. but that's the version I really came to memorize. "Get it Together" in particular was such a hilarious mess, they don't just censor the swears but also all the drug innuendo as well
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:33 (three months ago) link
Nah, I'm not into LTI much at all. It's not just the content, but the sound of those snares really hurt my brain
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:06 (three months ago) link
It's impressive, to me, that the BBs were some of the first to get into 70s revivalism as early as the late 80s, and they were doing it again talking-up 80s fashion aesthetics in 1998 well before anyone was really thinking of that
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:08 (three months ago) link
Paul's Boutique was wildly ahead of its time in that respect. As a young teen with only a vague memory of the late 70s at that point, my impression of the decade was that people generally wanted to forget it completely.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:31 (three months ago) link
Jumping in here to say that I, too, bought Hello Nasty as a teenager and felt weirdly disappointed by it at the time, but after PB, it's the one I go back to the most in part because I feel like it captures this energy of dorkily enthusiastic guys who are starting to age but insist on continuing to try new things even when they're demonstrably just okay at them. I mean, I know that Check Your Head and IC were that, too, but they felt - and still feel - so incredibly cool to me even in their left turns (leaving New York, picking up the drums, etc.), where Hello Nasty verges on corny in ways I find inspiring, or at least that puts a little gas in my family-trip-planning / grocery-getting / householding tank.
― mike powell, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:39 (three months ago) link
xp Yep, I was still a kid but my recollection is that seventies culture and fashion were largely deemed a punchline at that point in time, all chest-wigs and nylon and pointing at things for no reason. BBs did play on all that a bit, but it was done with playfulness and love, not snark. I know I'm old now and time seems to go by a lot quicker and I find those Insta-reels about 2024 vs 2009 fashion perplexing, but imagine a young band today playing off late-2000s tropes and doing it well. The GAPDY Boys if you will
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:44 (three months ago) link
Hello Nasty is definitely corny in ways that CYH and IC are not. They were definitely Beastie Men by HN and the intervening four years between that and IC were palpable. Still, they knew how to work it on their own terms
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:47 (three months ago) link
I never listen to anything post-PB anymore (and have never heard Hello Nasty or To the 5 Boroughs in full; I may not have heard anything from the last album at all, in fact) but entire songs from PB will pop into my head unbidden at times. That album came out when I was 17, and is one of the greatest albums of the 80s for me, in any genre. Just life-defining.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:50 (three months ago) link