References:

• Netty's - Netty's Grill, a restaurant on Silver Lake Boulevard in Los Angeles
• Clown Water Balloon Game - an amusement park game in which players try to fill a "clown's mouth" with water to pop their balloon and win a prize
• Skee-ball - a game in which players roll balls up a sloping ramp, attempting to score points by making them drop into slots in a target

Beastie Boys

"This song was another moment of inspiration from the tiny 'studio G' at G-Son. It was recorded completely on a four-track cassette recorder and then mixed in our main control room. Mark Nishita had played this cheesy keyboard line, then we turned on the drum machine, and recorded that. Adam overdubbed some bass, and then I came with the pathetic falsetto vocals." - Mike Diamond, 1999

Press

"The falsetto-soul ballad 'Netty's Girl' [has] the warmhearted glow of [a] tribute delivered by an overserved karaoke singer" - Rolling Stone, 1999