Hello Bastards

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Hello Bastards | type = Album | artist = Lifetime | cover = Hellobastards.JPG | alt = | released = September 25, 1995 | recorded = May and June 1995 at Trax East Studio, New Jersey | venue = | studio = | genre = {{hlist|Punk rock|pop-punk|hardcore punk|melodic hardcore|emo}} | length = 21:37 | label = Jade Tree | producer = | prev_title = Background | prev_year = 1993 | next_title = Jersey's Best Dancers | next_year = 1997 }}

'''''Hello Bastards''''' is the second full-length album by American punk rock band Lifetime. It was recorded at Trax East Studio in South River<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nextdoor |title=Trax East - South River, NJ - Nextdoor |url=https://nextdoor.com/pages/trax-east-south-river-nj/ |access-date=2026-02-10 |website=nextdoor.com |language=en}}</ref>, New Jersey during May and June 1995 and was released by Jade Tree Records on September 25, 1995. On February 20, 2010, No Idea Records re-released the album on 12" color vinyl.

==Musical style== The album has been described musically as punk rock,<ref name="AMreview"/><ref name=WSreview/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.altpress.com/features/30_albums_that_turn_20_in_2015/|title=30 albums we can't believe turn 20 this year|date=January 20, 2015|website=Alternative Press|access-date=April 29, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/4781-somewhere-in-the-swamps-of-jersey/|title=Lifetime: Somewhere in the Swamps of Jersey|website=Pitchfork}}</ref><ref name="louder">{{cite web|last=Barnard|first=Laurent|date=February 5, 2015|title=This Is Hardcore: Lifetime – Hello Bastards|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/this-is-hardcore-lifetime-hello-bastards|access-date=April 29, 2022|website=Louder Sound}}</ref> melodic hardcore,<ref name="PNreview"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Heller|first=Jason|date=January 14, 2014|title=Punk turned in on itself in 1995, and out came the wolves|url=https://www.avclub.com/punk-turned-in-on-itself-in-1995-and-out-came-the-wolv-1798265787|access-date=April 29, 2022|website=The A.V. Club}}</ref> hardcore punk,<ref name=WSreview/><ref name="louder"/> emo,<ref name="louder"/><ref name=SimonKelleyessential/> and pop-punk.<ref name=AMreview/>

==Critical reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AMreview">{{cite web|last=D'Angelo|first=Peter J.|title=Hello Bastards - Lifetime {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/hello-bastards-mw0000183029|access-date=April 29, 2022|publisher=AllMusic}}</ref> | rev2 = Punknews.org | rev2Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="PNreview">{{cite web|last=Alex|date=May 26, 2015|title=Lifetime – Hello Bastards|url=https://www.punknews.org/review/13577/lifetime-hello-bastards|access-date=April 29, 2022|publisher=Punknews.org}}</ref> | rev3 = ''Wondering Sound'' | rev3Score = Favorable<ref name="WSreview">{{cite web|last=Bayer|first=Jonah|date=February 1, 2011|title=Lifetime, Hello Bastards|url=http://www.wonderingsound.com/review/lifetime-hello-bastards/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140830015607/https://www.wonderingsound.com/review/lifetime-hello-bastards/|archive-date=August 30, 2014|access-date=November 2, 2015|website=Wondering Sound}}</ref>}}

Journalists Leslie Simon and Trevor Kelley included the album in their list of the most essential emo releases in their book ''Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture'' (2007).<ref name=SimonKelleyessential>Simon; Kelley 2007, pp. 168–9</ref> "(The Gym Is) Neutral Territory" appeared at number 52 on a best-of emo songs list by ''Vulture''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Cohen|first=Ian|last2=Anthony|first2=David|last3=Corcoran|first3=Nina|last4=Garland|first4=Emma|last5=Nelson|first5=Brad|date=February 13, 2020|title=100 Best Emo Songs of All Time|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/best-emo-songs.html|access-date=April 29, 2022|website=Vulture}}</ref>

==Track listing== #"Daneurysm" – 1:12 #"Rodeo Clown" – 2:03 #"Anchor" – 2:23 #"I'm Not Calling You" – 2:31 #"Bobby Truck Tricks" – 2:26 #"(The Gym Is) Neutral Territory" – 2:20 #"I Like You OK" – 0:49 #"It's Not Funny Anymore" (Hüsker Dü cover) – 2:03 #"Irony Is for Suckers" – 1:44 #"What She Said" – 1:04 #"Knives, Bats, New Tats" – 1:57 #"Ostrichsized" – 2:25

==Limited colored vinyl editions== ===Jade Tree Records=== * 550 copies on white vinyl * 500 copies on purple vinyl

===No Idea Records=== ====February 20, 2010==== * 500 mysterious int * 500 gruesome green * 500 blank stare white

==Personnel== ===Lifetime=== * Ari Katz – vocals * Dan Yemin – guitar * Pete Martin – guitar * Dave Palaitis – bass guitar * Scott Golley – drums

===Production=== * Steve Evetts – production, engineering, mixing * Michael Sarsfield – mastering * John Yates – graphics * Tim Owen – photography

==References== '''Citations''' {{Reflist}}

'''Sources''' {{refbegin}} * {{cite book|last1=Simon|first1=Leslie|last2=Kelley|first2=Trevor|title=Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture|year=2007|publisher=HarperEntertainment|location=New York City|isbn=978-0-06-119539-6}} {{refend}}

==External links==  *[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGB4b0c6bnKvKEs3rqY7bQP9osPB1VxLp ''Hello Bastards''] at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)

Category:1995 albums Category:Lifetime (band) albums Category:Jade Tree (record label) albums Category:Albums produced by Steve Evetts