Track Listing

1. Push The Button
2. Too Like You
3. Monkey Dot
4. Tomorrow Will Be Like Today
5. Poor Shakes
6. Bossa Nova 101
7. Rock In The Rain
8. Crowns
9. All The People
10. Underneath It All
11. I Don't Play Piano
12. Destroyer
13. Hand In Your Head
14. Trust
15. Maybe I'm Dead
16. Dha Teen Ta
17. Powerhouse
18. Harmonics Of Life

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #78345 in Music
• Released on: 1999-10-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Limited Edition

Amazon.co.uk Review
Money Mark, a.k.a. Mark Ramos-Nishita, made his name playing keyboards with the Beastie Boys, and he's an expert at pulling funk out of anything with buttons on it--the more obsolete, the better. Push the Button, his second album, finds him moving away from the instrumental soul-groove quickies of his previous LP, Mark's Keyboard Repair, and toward, well, new wave songs--with singing. Ramos-Nishita's songs are unexceptional but pleasant; his arrangements are what make them work, especially the delicious keyboard parts. About half of Push the Button is still throwaway instrumentals--75 seconds of bossa nova, two minutes of organ-and-melodica doodling. They're Money Mark's real forte and have a genuine soulfulness that comes more easily to his hands than to his voice. --Douglas Wolk

CD Description
Since emerging as one of the Beastie Boys' secret musical weapons, keyboardist extraordinaire Money Mark Nishita has established himself as not only an in-demand side man, but also as a creator of instrumental, avant-funk ditties as catchyas they are brief. A batch of said ditties can be found interspersed all over his sophomore effort, PUSH THE BUTTON, with Mark adding lo-fi, analogue takes on bossa nova and drum'n'bass to his collection of rhythmic canvases on which to flaunt his groove mess-thetic. But PUSH THE BUTTON also shows off a fascinating new side of Mark's composing talents: infectious, finely crafted, guitar-based pop songs.

Customer Reviews

Superb Lost Classic
So it is a bit difficult to get into, but once you do, this album is excellent. Great melodies and a variety of styles. Bossanova 101 and Crowns are slightly standout, but generally all the tracks are great. The penultimate track is a fast one and I tend to miss it, as I reckon he is taking the mickey a bit.

Sounds quite similar to the Beastie Boys 'The In Sound Way Out' at times, but more varied and melodic.

I have heard some of his other music and nothing seems to compare with this period. At the time it was voted to be one of the best albums of 1998, which is why I bought it and I have never regretted it.

still pleasantly chilling.....
expecting the usual beastie boys..... not likely, this cd took me by surprise, it is mellow ,chilled and is full of chunky, splendid sounds from the man responsible for us all taking note of the VW., THIS is an Essential Buy - trust me.

Soulless and Disappointing
I bought this CD many years ago and after listening to it a few times I put it in a pile containing albums to 'come back to'. That time has come, and this album is still as soulless and disappointing as I'd first thought all those years ago. I picked up on MM because of his work with the Beastie Boys who remain, in relation to this album at least, a great deal more inventive and interesting than MM.