Here’s the video for “Jimmy’s Fantasy,” the first single from Phaseshifter, featuring a not-yet-famous Jason Lee, right around the time he quit being a pro skater to become a full-time actor. He’d previously been in another music video, Sonic Youth’s “100%,” and that one got a lot more airplay than this one, but MTV did play the video for “Jimmy’s Fantasy” a few times. None that I ever saw, but I was away at college by then, too busy hanging out with girls til 4 AM to rush home and watch “120 Minutes.” Plus, I don’t think I even had a TV. Anyway, “Jimmy’s Fantasy” was the opening track on Phaseshifter, and though it’s left out of the video version, the album version starts with the first few seconds of “Standing In Front Of Poseur,” the final song on the debut EP by Redd Kross (then known as Red Cross, before the charity organization made them change the spelling of their name), featuring 11 year old Steve screaming “Hit it!” in his not-yet-changed prepubescent voice. Don’t get me wrong, this is a pretty great song as a whole, but I wish you guys could hear that little sample. It’s so awesome. And just as “After School Special” ended Phaseshifter with a song-length declaration of Redd Kross’s eternal connection to the spirit of teenage delinquency, that sample at the beginning of “Jimmy’s Fantasy” starts the album with a much shorter but perhaps even more powerful declaration of that same sentiment. Redd Kross is for the children, and don’t you forget it.
