If nothing else, the members of Luscious Jackson at least did a passable imitation of the Dust Brothers.īut sometime between then and now, Luscious Jackson became a three-headed (keyboard player Vivian Tremble left last year) version of Sarah McLachlan, giving up the samples in favor of acoustic guitars and rehashed disco beats (check out Electric Honey for the former, and the band's sole hit, "Naked Eye," for the latter). Still, back then, sample-heavy songs such as "Daughters of the Kaos" and "She Be Wantin' It More" made the comparison seem logical, or close enough to count. But maybe people were too eager to make the connection, since In Search of Manny was the first release on Grand Royal and drummer Kate Shellenbach played in an early incarnation of the Beasties.
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After all, they were hip New York chicks that grew up hanging out with Michael Diamond, Adam Horowitz, and Adam Yauch at CBGB's and Max's Kansas City listening to bands such as Bad Brains and the Funk Four Plus One More, and ended up combining everything they heard on their debut EP, 1993's In Search off Manny. Hard to remember now that Luscious Jackson was, at one point, thought to be the Beastie Boys with ovaries.or something like that. From 1994's Natural Ingredients to 1996's breakthrough Fever In, Fever Out to this year's Electric Honey, each disc swam farther up the mainstream until the group finally came to shore where Lilith Fair had its tents set up.
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Luscious Jackson has as much to do with that as anyone else on Grand Royal's roster, consistently selling more copies of albums that are consistently worse. Grand Royal is still the hippest label around, but its rep was earned three or four years ago, when every release wasn't a little more disappointing than its predecessor. This bill could have been titled the Grand Royal Showcase of Failed Potential, if only Sean Lennon, Butter O8, and the Beastie Boys themselves were along for the ride.