Beastie Boys
Hello Nasty

THE REVIEW

The only thing I fear is the Expert.

I know nothing about the Beastie Boys; this is the first album I listen to, and it's amazing. I don't care if they've made better albums before, I don't care if they're truly innovative or if they just seem so because of my inexperience, I don't even care if they've copied some other band.
I only know that one day I'm watching TV, there's a commercial with Rossella Brescia and I'm just watching her, while the person next to me points out that the song is "Body Movin'" by the Beastie Boys and says I should listen to them because I'd surely like them.
It takes me about half an hour to realize what they said, but since I'm not sure, I buy Brescia's calendar, then I also buy this "Hello Nasty," just to make sure I didn't misunderstand.
If you do Electro-Rap on Tito Puente, you become my idol by default. If you make a video where you look like a Power Ranger ("Intergalactic"), you stir an insane need for emulation in me. It's enough for me to hear "The Move," one of the best Rap tracks I've ever listened to, to realize that this album is something sensational. There are 22 tracks, and it all unfolds between Old School, Rap, Electro-Funk, and Crossover. But there's something more: these guys play, they don't just create beats! So when I listen to "Song For The Man", I have Frank Zappa's madness in my head, his irony in making music.

If the Expert were next to me, he would have given me a retrospective on the genre, vilified my young age and me, because I haven't yet listened to anything that is truly valid for him and I only know those three or four commercial bands, and he would have vilified this album too, for many reasons and none.
Luckily, the Expert beside me is dormant, he too is watching Rossella Brescia: he lets slip only a brief comment, and I find myself holding one of the albums I love the most. That's enough.
I still have the doubt that he was actually only talking about Brescia…