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“Naked Eye” by Luscious Jackson

From the album Fever in Fever Out (1996)

“Naked Eye” by Luscious Jackson appears on 45 radio countdowns from 21 stations between 1996 and 2025. It was first released in 1996 on the album Fever in Fever Out. Its best result is #15 on the WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #40 alternative song of 1997, #892 alternative song of all time and #195 of the '90s.

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"Naked Eye" was the lead single from Luscious Jackson's second album, Fever In Fever Out (1996), and it's a sly, slinky groove that slips between rock and something more laid-back. Jill Cunniff sings it and plays bass and guitar, and she wrote it with drummer Kate Schellenbach and keyboardist Vivian Trimble.

The production is where it gets interesting: Cunniff co-produced with Daniel Lanois and Tony Mangurian, and Mangurian adds mellotron, acoustic guitar and drums alongside Schellenbach, while Alex Young brings in a drum machine. The result is loose, dreamy and hooky, with Cunniff's cool, easy vocal floating on top like she's barely trying and still nailing it.

It reached 18 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and 36 on the Hot 100, and in Britain it got to 25, which as of 2026 makes it the band's only top-40 hit there. The single came on CD and 12-inch, both loaded with three remixes, an instrumental and two tracks you won't find on the album.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1996	57	WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1996	99
1996	69	107.7 The End Seattle, WA	The End Top 107 Songs of 1996	107
1996	73	WBER Rochester, NY	WBER Listener Countdown 1996	100
1996	82	Triple J Australia (national)	Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996	100
1997	29	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997	107
1997	47	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 1997	91
1997	22	Live 105 San Francisco, CA	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997	105
1997	24	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1997	101
1997	15	WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1997	100
1997	37	107.7 The End Seattle, WA	The End Top 107 Songs of 1997	107
1997	63	X103.9 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA	X103.9 Top 103.9 Songs of 1997	104
1997	65	102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)	WEQX Top 102.7 of 1997	103
1997	99	Triple J Australia (national)	Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997	100
1997	64	Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart)	Radio & Records Top 97 Songs of 1997	97

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1999	118	WHFS	WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999)	500
1999	467	Q101	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	1017
1999	97	WLIR / WDRE	WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	300
1999	877	107.7 The End	The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	1077
1999	1798	CD101	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	2000
2000	320	WOXY 97X	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000)	500
2000	1800	CD101	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)	2001
2001	320	WOXY 97X	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001)	498
2001	1800	CD101	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)	2002
2002	1787	CD101	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)	2003
2002	1480	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)	2002
2003	1767	CD101	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)	2004
2004	1767	CD101	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)	2005
2005	1767	CD101	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)	1994
2005	726	99X	99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)	1000
2006	345	Live 105	Live 105 500 Co-Op Countdown (Memorial Day 2006)	500
2007	460	KROQ	KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007)	500
2007	133	CD101	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)	2008
2008	114	CD101	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)	2009
2009	117	CD101	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)	2010
2010	126	CD101	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)	2011
2011	134	CD101	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)	2011
2013	134	CD101	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)	2012
2014	133	CD101	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)	2013
2021	206	90.9 The Bridge	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s	908
2022	257	The Colorado Sound	The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s	900
2022	404	105.9 The X	105.9 The X July 420 (2022)	420
2022	903	The Colorado Sound	The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time	1055
2023	193	The Current	The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s	893
2023	415	105.9 The X	105.9 The X July 420 (2023)	420
2025	438	WFPK	WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s	500

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