The Pharcyde continue their backwards/forwards walk through downtown Los Angeles in the Spike Jonze-directed video for "Drop" passing the Los Angeles Theatre on South Broadway. Ad Rock and Mike D from the Beastie Boys have cameos.

Pharcyde - "Drop" directed by Spike Jonze

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In the Spike Jonze-directed video for "Drop", The Pharcyde started (or ended depending on how you look at it) their walk through Los Angeles at St. Vincent Court. The video was filmed with them walking backwards and then it was reversed.

St. Vincent Court is a downtown back alley that is now home to a number of storefronts and restaurants. It has been described as charming, but you wouldn't know that from the 1996 video where the alley is mostly deserted.

Pharcyde - "Drop" directed by Spike Jonze

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Varg Vikernes (a.k.a. Count Grishnackh), a Norwegian black metaller, church burner and convicted murderer, was strongly believed to have set fire to the Fantoft Stave Church in Norway in 1992 during a string of church burnings in Norway that year. He put a photo of the burnt church on the cover of the album Aske from his band Burzum in 1993.

The church dated back to the 12th century. After the fire, construction started on an exact copy of the building and it was completed in 1997.

You can find out more about the Norwegian black metal scene in the fascinating documentary Until the Light Takes Us.

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The 1996 album On Avery Island by the band Neutral Milk Hotel refers to this location. Avery Island is the home of the McIlhenny Company headquarters (manufacturers of Tabasco sauce). Jeff Mangum and several members of the Elephant 6 collective went to high school in Ruston, Louisiana.

Avery Island is an example of a salt dome island, a type of structural dome formed when a thick bed of evaporite minerals (mainly salt, or halite) found at depth intrudes vertically into surrounding rock strata, forming a diapir (a type of intrusion). Even though this island is no longer surrounded by ocean, it is currently surrounded by bayou...so now you know.

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The Pet Sounds Recording Studio (sometimes called Pet Sounds Studio or Pet Sounds, after the Beach Boys' album of the same name) was a recording studio orginally located Denver, Colorado. Founded by Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo and Jim McIntyre of Von Hemmling, several Elephant 6 albums were recorded in the studio, including the critically acclaimed Neutral Milk Hotel album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and several The Apples in Stereo albums.

Pet Sounds Studio is sometimes referred to as The Elephant 6 Recording Company in the liner notes of albums from bands within the Elephant 6 collective (a group of like-minded musicians creating independent music). Several of the musicians are also involved with the Orange Twin Records label.

The house that the studio was located in was demolished in 1999.

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