'if Odelay sucked...' How Alt-Rock Dealt With Beck In The '90s

...which led to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW4ymIkBUuE

"it’s part of the whole sickly 70s vibe soup, big lapels, leisure suits,"

heeey ladiesssss!! still the best dust brothers video outside of wild thing maybe.

maybe it all comes from that one video.

Beastie Boys were way ahead of their time with that stuff, people seemed to find it nearly incomprehensible.

I've mentioned this elsewhere but for me, growing up in the 80s, it was like the entire 70s had been actively memory holed by most people, like anything vaguely reminiscent of the 70s was bad and should be avoided. Paul's Boutique was probably the first time I heard current musicians really embrace a whole lot of 70s music and culture.

And of course the Dust Brothers were a b8g part of that move.

re: "Hooch," I would have sworn it came up here, but I was actually thinking of last summer's revive of 50 Memorable Songs Of The Late 1990s That Apparently Only You Remember, Even Though They Were Totally On The Radio And Stuff which covers the chill acoustic-strumming-over-sampled-beats-with-vinyl-crackle side of things. good MarkoP playlist on that also.

"I've mentioned this elsewhere but for me, growing up in the 80s, it was like the entire 70s had been actively memory holed by most people"

people wanted to feel "modern" in the 80s. even though most people still drove 70s cars and lived in houses from the 50s and 80s dance music was mostly based on 70s disco and synth music had been a pop thing since the 60s and rockers mostly still looked like it was 1972 and the freshest new sound of the 80s was literally made out of music from the 70s.

but yeah if paul's boutique had come out in 1996 it would have been number one in the land.

The Odelay singles >>>>>>>>>>> the rest

“Minus” is a gem, IMO

still the best dust brothers video outside of wild thing maybe.

a Matt Dike and Michael Ross The Genie joint fwiw - the Dust Bros only did three LP tracks

(they also only did the Know How single for Young MC, with Dike and Ross stepping back in after that)