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Classic or dud : Jane's Addiction

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I love ritual, (esp. the second side- its on cassette - does it work as a cd ? ) but never bought anything else by them - my mate sez they're the prog chillipeppers

whaddya think ?

― Geordie Rocka, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

borderline classic, i wouldn't want to have them absent from my collection, although they get little play anymore.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Some of their songs are alright, but overall they just bore me so I have to unfortunately vote dud.

― Ally, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

On first listen it sounds like it could be dud, but I found that Jane's grew on me like crazy. It's certainly informed by classic r-o- c-k, but it's also got a sinister edge running through all of it that's delicious. Some tracks on Nothing's Shocking did an about-face for me, including the first couple of songs. "Standing in the Shower...Thinking" is pretty catchy despite everything else going against Jane's, including that voice...if you can't get past Farrell's voice, you're done for as far as they go. If you like Ritual, you'll probably like Nothing's Shocking, too.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Hmm, Nothing's Shocking is what got me and my friends off Big Black. It sounded like the future to us then, wow, it was punk and it was metal, but it was also mysterious... then, stuff like Pixies came out, for instance.

I'll say dud for the simple fact that it was probably nothing more ingenius than Van Halen... it just seemed like it was... all the magickal atmosphere stuff came straight out of classic rock along with the hippie vibe Perry had going... Seems very well marketed and thought-out in retrospect. He was like a peace punk, huh? It feels like classic rock to me now. Back when I was a kid it didn't. Good music for kids, just like the rest of the Lollapalooza stuff.

― , Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

CLASSIC.

Kids who could never see eye to eye on anything - long hair in front vs. hair long in back, dead milkmen vs. led zeppelin, goth chicks and smiths fans, our u.s. equivalents of ravey davey and also student grant could all sing along (in a thin whinge in no way approximating perry ferrel's delivery). This is what made them great. Such extremes all in one group, Ain't No Right was like kick out the jams for us, a power-sander decadence.

It's easy to forget all that when you see pics of ferrell dj'ing progressive trance.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Completely dud. Their brains are fried to the max. They look like shit. They're music is just plain bonkers like Zappa's: tries to be funny but fails miserably. I suspect they tried to do the sock thing but they couldn't find any baby socks...

― Stevie Nixed, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Nononono! It's Classic. 'Nothing Shocking' and 'Ritual de lo Habitual' are just brilliant albums. Imaginative, expansive, energetic, intelligent, all those qualities rock music seem to have lost are there. Saw them live twice: amazing.

― Omar, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

you know how those old black&white movies always begin with the kid at the olde time faire where an ancient fortune teller hag predicts something horrible will happen to him in the future, and then we cut to fifteen years later and the guy is rich and happy and everything is fine until he finded the FUCKING CURSED NECKLACE and then he remembers what the old witch told him? i've only heard one or two janes addiction songs and i really didn't give a shit, but i have a horrible feeling that fifteen years from now i'll like them a lot, contrary to all kinds of music i ever wanted to listen to. someone tell me this doesn't happen, please.

― ethan, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

From what I gather of your taste from the other threads, you're probably safe, Ethan. neurobuddy is right in at least one thing, in that they're probably now classic rawk just from the fact that they influenced a lot of up-and-coming groups that made it into the mainstream. I don't think that diminished what they achieved in the least, but I have this feeling that it's probably not the sort of thing you grow into.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Absolutely, incontrovertably classic. You will not change my mind on this one.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

I never got into them that much, but they accomplish a lot in their time. Who else has ever brought together the punks and the hippies so succesfully? They're classic.

― Mark, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Who else has ever brought together the punks and the hippies so succesfully?
True. I think J's Ad. put too much in the mix. Metal... punk... psychedelica... pop... it just gave me a headache.

― Stevie Nixed, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

incredibly horrible.

― keith, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Side 2 of "Rituol de la habituol" still sounds magical to this pair of ears. Mysterious, plaintive, drug-blasted, free from the bombast that slightly soiled "Nothing Shocking". And they had the good grace too disintegrate spectacularly before becoming corporate monsters.

― Stevo, Friday, 4 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Bringing the Hippies and the Punks together, surely that gave us Crusties.

― K-reg, Friday, 4 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Surprised I came in so late on this -- inconceivably wonderful, despite the fact that Perry Farrell is eminently punchable. That personality flaw aside, oh baby. In fact, the weather is such today that I will go home and put on "Summertime Rolls."

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

Undoubtedly a balls out, hard rockin', dope smokin', face slappin' classic. Formed my early to late teens, and meant the world to me, I thought Perry Farrell was a genius (still do I guess), and 'Three Days' is just an AWESOMELY EPIC song, I never fail to get gooosebumps all over when it kicks back in midway through..."Erotic Jesus......". Absolutely classic rock, and the earlier stuff is just as good, and contrary to popular opinion I reckon that Porno For Pyros were classic too, even the first album, I know I need special care.

― achilles_last_stand, Saturday, 12 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...
I might be a year late on this board but might I can't let that stopping me from saying that Jane's are subliminaly brilliant. Transcendental music to bathe the soul in.

Whatever this chap Stevie Nixed is taking it is clearly stronger than the bubbly orange that Jane's were partial to. For, Mr. Nixed is talking pure cock.

Jane's are incredible (though Raggett is right when he points out that Perry, for all his merits, remains eminently punchable).

All four musicians were fully out there and the ideas that permate Jane's music are ever hypnotic, hallucinatory and ecstatic. I can't get enough of these boys, even after listening to this stuff consistently for ten years.

So, classic, classic, classic. If you can't dig it, give up.

― Roger Fascist, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

For a second I thought Roger was talking about me.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I only heard "Ritual" but I thought it was quite boring and what was the big deal? Dud. People still listen to them?

― DeRayMi, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

If "boring" is a cop-out then let's say: I didn't find it terribly engaging. (Big difference.) It's been close to a decade since I heard that album anyway.

― DeRayMi, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I didn't find it terribly engaging either until I started listening to it from "Three Days" onward. It then became my favorite album for a period of time.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I didn't like Ritual at first. It took about .6 of a nanosecond before I realised what an urgent, vital slice of music I had on the player. It was lucky I had some sense of vitality, else I would have missed the fact that this album clearly contains some of the most inspiring music written in the last two decades. And thank God I have a pulse, or the cosmic psychedelic visions proliferated throughout the album would have just washed straight over me.

― Roger Fascist, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Dude, the first half of that album is a textbook example of a band trying too hard to appeal for mainstream succes while attempting to retain their identity. It's Jane's Lite, especially when compared to _Nothing's Shocking_ (or even _Kettle Whistle_, fer crissake).

― Dan Perry, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Danny boy, you're wrong man. Ritual is their fucking peak. It's them firing on all cylinders, entering the stratosphere before exploding (or falling to pieces on the brown). Shocking is good, Kettle Whistle (esp. the lead track) is good, hell, any Jane's material is good, but Ritual is the one - it's their most intricate, experimental, accomplished work of art. Man, if fucking shimmers and glitters with so many facets I'm still trying to get my head around it.

D'you think it's bad timing or coincidence that the band disolved after Ritual?

― Roger Fascist, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I don't know, Rog. I really like the songs on the first half of _Ritual..._, but I can't listen to them as sequenced on the album. In fact, when I play that album I NEVER start it before "Three Days". I agree that it's a fantastic album, but that's largely because the second half is so amazing that it completely obliterates the shortcomings in the first half. (Compare to _Nothing's Shocking_, which is uniformly great throughout but never reaches the actual peaks of the second half of _Ritual..._.)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

janes = classic. perry ferrel = dud.

― dyson, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I hit submit too soon. As albums, I see _Nothing's Shocking_ as better eveon though my favorite Jane's songs are on the second half of _Ritual..._. As a listening experience, _Nothing's Shocking_ is better and _Kettle Whistle_ comes pretty damn close. As far as the group's disintegration after _Ritual..._, I think it was somewhat inevitable, because if I'd been in a group with Perry Farrell for that long I'd want to run screaming for the hills, too.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I see where you're at with that, and I know that the Jane's fan party line is that Shocking is the one but I can't agree. For all that I love Shocking, for me, I hear a band yet to fully realise their potential, something they certainly achieved on their next album.

Another point is the production on Shocking which I find a little flat - I don't feel that Jerden and Champagne were able to get the best out of the musicians or the Jane's sound at this point, although having said that, I do dig the rawer edge and the more incendiary drum sound.

Whereas on Ritual, the guys at the controls were able to set them for the heart of the sun and that's where the music takes me. As for the first few tracks, I dunno man... from the lead-in narrative, I'm hooked and that buzzsaw Navarro riff. Jesus. Then there's that pop-bass on No One's.. Oh mama. The album is littered with winning creative decisions. Y'know, sometimes in fact, Obvious is my favourite track off Ritual though I'm not sure why. Do you get thet?

Out of curiosity, anyone know about the new Jane's material? From what I can gather of the websites out there, they are in the studio working with fucking Paul Oakenfold! Where the hell is Jerden when you need him?

― Roger Fascist, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I know that the Jane's fan party linei s that Shocking is the one

Where I deviate from the fan party line is that I think _Nothing's Shocking_ and _Ritual De Lo Habitual_ are equal; _NS_ is more consistent, but _RdlH_ has better songs on it. If I wanted to listen to an entire album, I'd grab _NS_. If I wanted to play selected songs, I'd grab _RdlH_.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

In case you stumble across this any UK Jane's fans I just have to say that the Addiction will play the London Kentish Town Forum 19th August 2002, as a warm up to their show at the fucking shit Reading Festival.

OK, so it's not the Academy but it's not a bad compromise.

Better get on the blower to the ticket agencies pronto then...

Hello.

― Roger Fascist, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...
"one night i met a boy"

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 03:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

i must say that it takes nuts to make a song as over-the-top as 'three days'

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 03:53 (10 years ago) Permalink

"One night I met a boy"? How disappointed am I! I always thought all these years he was saying "One night I met a pony," which made me larf happily.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 04:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

forget i said anything, pony it is

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 04:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

Who else has ever brought together the punks and the hippies so succesfully?

uh, Neil Young? The only thing Jane's brought together were fratboys and fratgirls.

Verdict - Dud. They lie too much for truthseekers and are too pretentious to create something communal. And the junk culture stuff I have no use for.

Exception: Jane Says. Momentarily, the dream is alive. Especially when Dave Navarro isn't around.

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 08:46 (10 years ago) Permalink

I thought it was "one night I met a poor man..."? I found an excellent Jane's lyrics site once, but I can't remember where it was. Needless to say their lyrics were, well, either genius or gobbledegook or somewhere inbetween.

Classic. Shocking is only nearly classic, but Ritual is beyond classic.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 08:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

I always thort it was "one night I met a whore..."

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 09:39 (10 years ago) Permalink

"One night I met a poet..." surely?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 09:47 (10 years ago) Permalink

I like 'pony' best now, but only after the cigar/bees/lady bitz interface thread on ILE.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 10:51 (10 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...
Ritual stands up amazingly well, provided you skip "Been Caught Stealing." The bassline that opens "Three Days" is among the most killer of the era.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

I was recently surprised at how much parts of Yes's Fragile reminded me of them. IIt was South Side of the Sky in particular.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

I still think it's "pony."

provided you skip "Been Caught Stealing."

Are you mad? (Mind you, the song always sounded better live.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

I never posted to this! Great, for being fundamentally rooted in the classic hard rock tradition and actually doing something totally creative and modern with it in that era. I'm weird in that "Three Days" is my least favourite song on Ritual. It starts good but kinda drags.

I don't know much about Farrell as a person/ality. Why is he punchable?

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

Still haven't worked out my 'portable' mix yet, but I'm thinking it will be good.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

I played "Three Days" really loud the other week when i got my new CD player, it was FANTASTIC.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 October 2005 08:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Completely dud. Their brains are fried to the max. They look like shit. They're music is just plain bonkers like Zappa's: tries to be funny but fails miserably. I suspect they tried to do the sock thing but they couldn't find any baby socks...

And to think I'm reading the Brendan Mullen oral biography now. I still really don't understand why I even bothered to buy the book, even though I am not as hostile towards them as I once was. That said, PF seems to be such a dick. I also can't believe the "they are incredibly seminal, paved the way for the rest" bullshit line. I mean, maybe they were (in reality) but I refuse to believe it anyway.

― stevienixed, Monday, 11 June 2007 07:11 (5 years ago) Permalink

Classic
Classic
Classic

― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 11 June 2007 07:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

My little sister came over the other day to rip all my Jane's Addiction CDs. Her quip: "Yeah, I've really wanted to listen to Jane's Addiction lately, but couldn't bring myself to buy them." They belong to a different era, and stick out like a sore thumb in this one. But we listened to Nothings Shocking, and it still pushed my wig back with its bombastic excellence.

Kids who could never see eye to eye on anything - long hair in front vs. hair long in back, dead milkmen vs. led zeppelin, goth chicks and smiths fans, our u.s. equivalents of ravey davey and also student grant could all sing along

Jane's pretty much united the smoking section at my high school.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 11 June 2007 07:47 (5 years ago) Permalink

Classic.

Just Because.

― SeekAltRoute, Monday, 11 June 2007 10:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

i like them a lot but they definitely shone in a particular time and place. it resonates a lot less now, but the succession of 'three days' and 'then she did...' is still pretty mindblowing.

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 11 June 2007 14:46 (5 years ago) Permalink

I saw Satellite Party (Perry's new band) supporting Velvet Revolver on Thursday night. Never heard anything by them before, they were... ok. They did two JA songs - Stop! and Mountain Song - which got the biggest applause of the night.

It was a little bit sad though. I think maybe half of the people there knew who Perry Farrell was, half of them didn't care. People were just talking and drinking and paying no attention to this man who gave me one of the greatest nights of my life - Jane's Addiction live in a club in London in about 1987

― nate woolls, Monday, 11 June 2007 15:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

I find JA kind of annoying, but I missed out on them at the time they were around, hence missing out on their cultural context, which a lot of the above comments talk about.

also, i once saw my dad flipping channels, and the "been caught stealing" video was on. He muttered, "obscene son of a bitch..." under his breath before changing the channel.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 15:48 (5 years ago) Permalink

yeah, now (this day and age) really isn't a particularly appropriate time to be considering this question somehow

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 26 July 2007 07:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

Flipped my lid over "Jane Says" again which I played while running last week, and also heard in a small bar (pub) just after the World Cup.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 16 June 2008 12:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

UGH @ this band

― stephen, Monday, 16 June 2008 23:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

Mostly dud. I liked the second half of Ritual where Farrell's awful lyrics and singing kind of disappear beneath the jam session when it came out, but they were so omnipresent at the time I might just have been looking for a silver lining to make listening to that album less annoying. The "hits" are all uniformly terrible.

― Alex in SF, Monday, 16 June 2008 23:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

"then she did" is one of the great all time sublime epic jams. i've been playing it on the juke box every time i hit the pool hall. i don't lose when it's on

― kamerad, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 00:19 (4 years ago) Permalink

they had their moments.

― Zeno, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 00:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

"pets" was played somewhere last week.
brought back some memories.
good song.

― Zeno, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 00:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

Pets, yeah. That one was pretty good. Wasn't that a side project after JA though?

― Bimble, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 02:20 (4 years ago) Permalink

The "hits" songs are all uniformly terrible.

― stephen, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 02:29 (4 years ago) Permalink

Porno for Pyros
xpost

― Zeno, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 02:30 (4 years ago) Permalink

i think it's been mentioned 10 x in this thread, but the second half of ritual makes all the other silliness associated with this band almost worth it.

― will, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 03:05 (4 years ago) Permalink

Ritual and Nothing's Shocking are awesome.

Perry Ferrell is a dick.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 03:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

Back once more:

...it was confirmed on Dave Navarro's blog Tuesday that the entire lineup would reunite Thursday for a full show at La Cita Bar in downtown Los Angeles. The night is hosted by Shepard Fairey, who will break away from maniacally screenprinting Obama posters and T-shirts for the evening.

Eric A's been back with them this time around. Too little, too late. (His solo album's all right enough.)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 October 2008 14:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

http://xiola.org/

2.25.09

i got my hands on some digital pics of jane's addiction's boxset cabinet of curiosities coming out april 21st and a track list. the packaging looks cool as shit. from the pics you can see quite a bit went into packaging. there is one main booklet, four individual sleeves highly decorated. it's gonna be four discs, 3 audio, one dvd.


unofficial track list

DISC [1]
0.CD
1.JANE SAYS (RADIO TOKYO DEMO) [UNRELEASED]
2.PIGS IN ZEN (RADIO TOKYO DEMO) [SCREAM - THE COMPILATION]
3.MOUNTAIN SONG (RADIO TOKYO DEMO) [OST: DUDES]
4.HAD A DAD (RADIO TOKYO DEMO) [SINGLE]
5.I WOULD FOR YOU (RADIO TOKYO DEMO) [SINGLE]
6.IDIOT'S RULE [APRIL 1987 DEMO]
7.CLASSIC GIRL [APRIL 1987 DEMO]
8.UP THE BEACH [APRIL 1987 DEMO]
9.SUFFER SOME [APRIL 1987 DEMO]
10.THANK YOU BOYS [APRIL 1987 DEMO]
11.SUMMERTIME ROLLS [APRIL 1987 DEMO]
12.CITY [APRIL 1987 DEMO]
13.OCEAN SIZE [APRIL 1987 DEMO]
14.STOP [APRIL 1987 DEMO]
15.STANDING IN THE SHOWER?THINKING [APRIL 1987 DEMO]
16.AIN'T NO RIGHT [APRIL 1987 DEMO]
17.THREE DAYS [APRIL 1987 DEMO]

DISC [2]
0.CD
1.TED, JUST ADMIT IT [HULLY GULLY DEMO (9/1987)]
2.MACEO [HULLY GULLY DEMO (9/1987)]
3.NO ONE'S LEAVING [HULLY GULLY DEMO (9/1987)]
4.MY TIME (REHEARSAL) [UNRELEASED]
5.BEEN CAUGHT STEALING (12"" REMIX) [SINGLE]
6.RIPPLE [DEDICATED]
7.DON'T CALL ME NIGGER, WHITEY [PROMO] *JANE'S ADDICTION & BODY COUNT
8.L.A. MEDLEY (LIVE) [SINGLE]
9.KETTLE WHISTLE (LIVE) [VARIETY ARTS CENTER(7/10/1987)]
10.WHOLE LOTTA LOVE (LIVE) [SACRAMENTO (7/8/1987)]
11.1970 (LIVE) [SEATTLE (12/11/1987)]
12.BOBHAUS (LIVE) [SEATTLE (3/29/1989)]
13.JUST BECAUSE (ACOUSTIC) [UNRELEASED]
14.SUFFER SOME (LIVE) [SINGLE]
15.THE PRICE I PAY (LIVE) [SINGLE]

DISC [3]
0.CD
1.DRUM INTRO [HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM (12/19/90)]
2.UP THE BEACH (LIVE) [KETTLE WHISTLE]
3.WHORES (LIVE) [HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM (12/19/90)]
4.1% (LIVE) [HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM (12/19/90)]
5.NO ONE'S LEAVING (LIVE) [SINGLE]
6.AIN'T NO RIGHT (LIVE) [SINGLE]
7.THEN SHE DID (LIVE) [HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM (12/19/90)]
8.HAD A DAD (LIVE) [HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM (12/19/90)]
9.BEEN CAUGHT STEALING (LIVE) [HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM (12/19/90)]
10.THREE DAYS (LIVE) [KETTLE WHISTLE]
11.MOUNTAIN SONG (LIVE) [HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM (12/19/90)]
12.STOP! (LIVE) [KETTLE WHISTLE]
13.SUMMERTIME ROLLS (LIVE) [HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM (12/19/90)]
14.OCEAN SIZE (LIVE) [HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM (12/19/90)]

DISC [4]
0.DVD
1.MOUNTAIN SONG (UNEDITED) [SOUL KISS]
2.CITY [SOUL KISS]
3.HAD A DAD [PROMO CLIP]
4.MOUNTAIN SONG [PROMO CLIP]
5.STOP! [PROMO CLIP]
6.AIN'T NO RIGHT [PROMO CLIP]
7.BEEN CAUGHT STEALING [PROMO CLIP]
8.CLASSIC GIRL [PROMO CLIP]
9.OCEAN SIZE [PROMO CLIP]
10.JANES SAYS [PROMO CLIP]
11.WHORES [LIVE - ITALY]
12.THREE DAYS [LIVE - ITALY]
13.THEN SHE DID [LIVE - ITALY]
14.DON'T CALL ME NIGGER WHITEY (LIVE) [UNRELEASED]

― Bee OK, Friday, 27 February 2009 06:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

Hmm. Well that I'll get.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 February 2009 06:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

otoh i understand people putting out these tricked-out sets and everything because how else are you going to get anyone to spend any money on music. but even people who don't live in city apartments don't have like endless amounts of display space for all this stuff, do they? i literally would have no place to put that thing. (yes ok i could buy it, rip it and throw away the box. but jeez.)

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Friday, 27 February 2009 07:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

gimme the dvd, the rest i can take or leave. even the shittiest janes youtube clips are pretty enthralling.

― ian, Friday, 27 February 2009 07:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Got the advance of this box in this morning's mail. I was at the show included on Disc 3, so am pretty excited to dig into that, but the demos and such on the first two discs look pretty compelling too.

― unperson, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

Oh, now I have to buy that.

BTW, I always thought it was: "One night I met a poet."

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

Yeah I'm definitely getting this.

― nate woolls, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, it seems pretty clearly to be "One night I met a poet." I was listening to that song not two days ago and had absolutely no confusion about the lyric...

― unperson, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:51 (4 years ago) Permalink

It's very distinctly that and not anything else, although Raggett's suggestion is superiorl.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

superior.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

Superiorlol. And I still prefer it.

I was at the show included on Disc 3

Okay so I hate you (I remember being pissed I had to miss that show -- that and the Pet Shop Boys in March 1991 are my two greatest 'argh if only' regrets from UCLA days, I think. I did see Jane's about a month or so later at the Universal with NIN opening, though, so there's that.)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 March 2009 16:12 (4 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

Oh shit, this band.

― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

This band live.

― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

This band dead

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

rong

― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

LJ catching up on 1991

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:27 (3 years ago) Permalink

2009 baby

― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:27 (3 years ago) Permalink

Every band member still great live except for Brüno

― Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

motherfuckin' took the pain

― Euler, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 13:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

yes

― Mayor Hickenlooper and the liberal agenda (HI DERE), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 21:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

How many times is Jane's Addiction going to rise from the dead? (This time, Dave Sitek is the bassist.) New song, "End to the Lies"

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2011/03/30/janes-addiction-end-to-the-lies-stream-great-escape-artists/

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 21:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

Absolute must-read piece from Bill See, who was there, man. (Seriously, he was there, as a singer for his own band; he's also a v. good writer.)

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/144500-janes-affliction/

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

It is a great read, but also somewhat depressing to think that you really didn't hear the "real" Jane's unless you happened to be in L.A. watching them live before the first album.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

Based on the various live cuts I've heard on bootlegs before Nothing's Shocking came out, I suspect he's OTM in the end. (And I say this loving those first three albums and the shows I did see.)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh, I'm sure he's 100% right, but as much as I love those first three albums it pains me a little to know even that wasn't the band's peak.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

yesterday I turned on alt-radio for the first time in a long long time and heard some moody goth-influenced rock song rolling out of my speakers that fired off every want impulse in my body

it was "Irresistible Force"

― Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Thursday, 25 August 2011 16:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

the "three days"/"then she did..." one-two.

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 25 August 2011 16:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

add on "Of Course" and you have the most devastating 1-2-3 of 1991-1992

― Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Thursday, 25 August 2011 16:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

The demos he mentions are really good (although not sure if they're so decisively better than the album versions).

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 25 August 2011 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm used to getting grease on my hands, you know, workin' with pizza and all."

― lag∞na beach: the real ∞range c∞unty (beachville), Friday, 16 March 2012 12:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

JA played a school benefit for my kid's school yesterday, there were about 500 kids/parents there:


I hadn't seen them perform in over 22 years (with Dinosaur Jr. opening up). They still sounded pretty good.

Good times.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

"thanks for coming out, this benefit will get these kids the updated math books they need so that they don't end up as... WHORES! *music starts"

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:05 (7 months ago) Permalink

"Been Caught Stealin'! Once, in study hall!"

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 October 2012 18:08 (7 months ago) Permalink

*insert trolling of your own choice here*

― quiddities and agonies of the rolling class (Mr Andy M), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:43 (7 months ago) Permalink

http://open.spotify.com/track/13EpmgPUF4KL4TlXOGqUPD
http://open.spotify.com/track/4adGevk93O42gzhGUIjHRa
http://open.spotify.com/track/4FIVO1LXRTjdewCtJv3qzW

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

that entire sequence is perfection

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:47 (7 months ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

the whole 1990 Milan tv broadcast.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 02:27 (3 months ago) Permalink


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