Luscious Jackson “In Search of Manny”

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Luscious Jackson “In Search of Manny” 1992. Grand Royal Records. Today is Luscious Jackson singer/bassist/songwriter Jill Cunniff’s 55th birthday (b. August 17th, 1966). In Search of Manny is their first release, a 7-song EP, and the first release for Beastie Boys’ label Grand Royal. It’s also one of my top releases of the 90′s: a little sleazy, a lot slinky, laid back and über-cool. Going on 30 years old, I still listen to the record a lot. It reminds of me of when I first heard it in the early 90′s, not too long after I moved to Milwaukee after finishing under-grad. I had a horrible 9-5 office job and also had a second job working retail at a hip shoe store (Goldi’s) in Bayshore Mall and one of the other girls working there played the CD almost every night during our closing duties. The job kinda sucked (helping rich older ladies trying to jam their feet into cute shoes way too young and way too small for them: “Sure, we can stretch those for you!”) and I didn’t last long there but out of the experience I got a sweet employee discount and exposure to Luscious Jackson. I genuinely love every track but of the seven, four are my big standouts: the groovy “Let Yourself Get Down,” the slacker anthem “Life of Leisure,” the cool girl call-to-arms “Daughters of the Kaos” and the raw “Keep on Rockin’ It.”

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Luscious Jackson “In Search of Manny”

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Luscious Jackson “In Search of Manny” 1992. Grand Royal Records. The EP “In Search of Manny” was the first release on Beastie Boys’ label Grand Royal (and the album art is probably one of the sleaziest of all time). While only vaguely hiphop, the band had many connections to the Beasties: drummer Kate Schellenbach played on the Beasties’ “Pollywog Stew” and the band’s first performance was as the opening for the Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill. Allmusic’s Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes the album perfectly – “music that is elastic, casually expansive, darkly seductive…the samples are for texture and color, not groove, and the aesthetic is slacker bohemia. In short, it’s a record that only could have happened in 1992, just as Gen-X alt-rock culture hit its stride but before it reached the mainstream.”

I love this album so much and listened to it incessantly in the early 90′s, especially late hot summer nights, nodding along to the slinky beats of “Daughters of the Kaos,” “She Be Wantin It More” and my favorite, “Life of Leisure,” with its perfect 90′s slacker lyrics:

You got a brain you ain’t using
You got charm you’re abusin’
You’re too busy out there floosin’
Or lying at home snoozin’

Why you wanna waste away?
Lover of the life of leisure
Lover of the life of leisure

Why you wanna waste away?
Lover of the life of leisure
Lover of the life of leisure

Time moves along
You don’t have a life anymore
Time moves along
You don’t have a job, I got four

Spend my money on cigarettes
Midnight dragon, off track bets
Get up at three, turn on the TV
For all I know you got a dangerous disease

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