Luscious Jackson

Nervous Breakthrough

Photo: Entertainmentrealm.com

Good morning! Today we’re dropping the needle on Luscious Jackson’s “Nervous Breakthrough.”

My first job out of high school was working in a record store. We all thought of ourselves as characters from High Fidelity, but really we were just some kids stuck in the hellscape of a suburban mall.

Sometimes that meant blaring death metal at 8 AM to fend off mall walkers. But sometimes, it meant moments of providence. This first time someone came in asking for “In Search of Manny,” I didn’t give it much thought.

But then a 2nd came in…and then a third.

It was time to check Luscious Jackson out.

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1999’s Electric Honey is their 2nd full-length album and features a much more polished band than the one that put out In search…

I picked this up just before one of my cross-country moves. The drive across eastern Montana can be mind-numbing; having songs like this blaring makes it much more palatable.

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“Nervous Breakthrough” by Luscious Jackson | Electric Honey, 1999

Note: This video is pretty low-res, but I like how it’s more “live-sounding” than other clips.

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Kevin—

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P.P.S. An earlier version originally ran on Medium as part of a larger article.

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