{"id":1537,"date":"2007-06-23T22:07:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T01:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2007-10-06T07:23:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T10:23:06","slug":"luscious-jackson-naked-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"Luscious Jackson – Naked Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> keep Luscious Jackson<\/a>reminding myself to add a fragment of Luscious Jackson’s ‘Naked Eye’ to this category so, here it is<\/a> (link goes to page with 30+ sec. something long something music file).\n<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how Luscious Jackson’s CD ‘Fever In, Fever Out’<\/a> ended up in my CD rack. Maybe it was the slight combination of hiphop and popular music. Or (as always), maybe I was reading the liner notes before I decided to buy it: obviously there was a hand of the Beastie Boys in LJ’s music (and I even think there is at least one of them playing in the stylish ‘Naked Eye’<\/a> video clip). Or as BeastieMania says<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

So from the very start, Luscious Jackson’s primary following were Beastie Boys fans looking for something else to get into.\n<\/p>\n

Personally, the song reminds me of the day I dropped off the CD at a club whose DJ I knew: he actually liked it but mentioned (that after borrowing and playing it for a week in that club), the crowd (most of them goth\/alternative music lovers) wasn’t ready for this mix of hip-hop and guitar music. Sabotage<\/em>!\n<\/p>\n

That said, at the height of Luscious Jackson’s popularity, the band was asked to make a commercial for Gap clothing (YouTube<\/a>). Apparently, the band split up shortly after that, with all of the members continuing to release solowork. The good news is that the original band members decided to reunite and make a record together this year<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

As a sidenote, the versions of ‘Naked Eye’ (videoclips and the several ‘single-edits’ you find on LJs MySpace page<\/a>) are slightly different from the one that was originally released on the ‘Fever In Fever Out’ CD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I keep reminding myself to add a fragment of Luscious Jackson’s ‘Naked Eye’ to this category so, here it is (link goes to page with 30+ sec. something long something music file). I’m not sure how Luscious Jackson’s CD ‘Fever … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[143,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}