Jane's Addiction "Three Days": C or D?

What Dan said about both albums in general. Took me a while to like "Classic Girl" for what it is, though -- at the time it just struck me as their attempt at a power ballad.

As to the question of 3 Days - it is, for want of better words, undeniably special and spiritual. A 10 minute trip that seems to last for hours, and if yer tuned into it, you'll know there are not really words to describe what that song does. And then to follow it up with the jaw-dropping Then She Did. I think "fucking hell" is the most apt response.

Basically Ritual rips up Shocking any time kids. The sophistications, songcraftery and multiple layers within layers will keep you coming back to the record ad infinitum and each time you play the thing, you hear something new. The pinnacle of the band's achievements.

I quite like it.

Tsk, read my words. I changed my opinion over time. (Two 'g's in the last name, please ;-)).

Sorry about the single 'g'.

Let's deal with "pitifully wet" first shall we. If for one moment you think Jane's is all about getting headfucked by acid-soaked rock then you are out of your mind. I refer you to the second half of their debut, Summertime, Maceo, Jane, la la la. I just wanted to make the point that through their career, Jane's have made music as a soft and gentle beautiful counterpoint to their more rampant ballistic hedonist tendency. So to suggest that Classic is "masquerading as a Jane's Addiction song" suggests a profound misunderstanding of the whole Jane's project. Perry and the band have always been aesthetes, sampling all strands of culture and chaos (I often think of Perry as an alternative archetype to the Renaissance man) and this philosophy embraces celebrating and immersing yourself in the wonder of waking up next to someone you love as much as it does going out and nicking stuff for kicks or fucking all night in a menage a trois.

To hear Classic Girl and believe it to be "wet" insinuates a lack of soul and sensitivity. The song is glorious for its honesty and emerges from the thunder of the album trip, blinking in the light. It is sheer, it is glittering and it is the endpoint at which, for all the chaos unleashed across 50-odd minutes of album, Perry (and his companions) arrives at when he wakes at 4 in the morning next to his beloved. Even without this context, the song has a breathless hypnotic urgency all of its own, quite apart from the storm that has broken before it, that lifts the song well beyond the parameters of the "power ballad."

Anyway, I always thought Classic kind of rocked, in a tripped out sort of a way. Those spacey drums flip me out every time - I can never anticipate all those little flicks and splashes.

Goodnight.

The only problem with this song is that for all its 12-minute runtime, the best moment is 2 and a half minutes in

but this isn't really a problem because that moment is kinda next-level amazing, much like the rest of the song

this was like my #1 fav song when i was 14, unimpeachably great imo

I've only recently discovered it.

SHADOWS OF THE MORNING LIGHT
SHADOWS OF THE EVENING SUN

^^this is one of the 10 most epic bits in all of rock maybe?

and then the looped YO-YO-YO-YO-YO-YO-YO vocal sample is like the icing on the cake

and the 7 minutes of awesome riffing after that the cherry on the icing

riffing/soloing, what's the difference

def a midsummer evening kinda song

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I really really need to listen to this band properly.

Also, Louis, if you're out there...are you a Twin Peaks fan? I just started watching s1 today.

Liked what I've seen, haven't seen much.

this was like my #1 fav song when i was 14, unimpeachably great imo

I wanted all songs to be like this when I was about 15, just chugging going nowhere riffy grooves with tribal shouting

a decade later I discovered motorik krautrock and was like " oh riiiiiiiiight"

What the

Who was the person who wrote the novel about "Classic Girl"?

it's a great post

it's also completely unnecessary; was it really that difficult to see that my argument was that the emotional impact of the song only really works for me in the context of the album and hearing it as a standalone song first made it come across as a maudlin, inferior version of "Summertime Rolls"?

three days has been the only song i've listened to in the last two days

make it three days of three days?

xxpost -- Twelve Dreams dreamed those dreams for us. And then became a member of Muse.

shd rly get around to playing the rest of the album now

Just realised the version of Three Days on Spotify, and hence the version I've grown to love, is a live version, and that it is if anything slightly better than the studio version.

which version is that?

It's the Kettle Whistle version, sans Perry Farrell crowd-banter at the start. Fucking killer.

apparently the live version was included in the southland tales soundtrack

don't let anyone persuade u that film is anything other than waste

yeah it's the Southland Tales version, which IS the Kettle Whistle/Cabinet Of Curiosities version, edited appropriately

so fucking well-recorded that I assumed it was the studio version - would have been so amazing to be there

there isn't another song like this is this?

*is there*

i mean it's so good it induces temporary aphasia

can't think of another moody goth-prog-psych-jam-victory-march with epic hard-rock solo

another song like this is this?

"Victim of Changes" by Judas Priest

loads of Zep songs. Three Days is their Zeppiest moment in many ways

what is led zepppelin's most janes addictionish moment?

someone's gonna say 'in my time of dying' probably

Ramble On
Trampled Underfoot
The Rain Song
D'Yer Mak'er
Over the Hills and Far Away

Hey Hey What Can I Do = Jane Says

and yeah, In My Time of Dying of course

Achilles Last Stand

the success of this song is that it reminds you, or alternatively sheds profound light on, an unashamedly decadent era in rock music when artists all but fulfilled in persona the godlike, mythic status attributed to them. three days is at once a thrilling take on the unyielding, flamboyant lifestyle of the rockstar and a more subliminal portrait of imminent burnout.

never fear, for we still have the klaxons

fyi this song is fucking fantastic

Yar.

dave q kinda nailed it a decade ago.

so much teenage sex to this song

Uh, not for me.

I crashed & burned to a mental backdrop of this song with a girl I liked in my English class. She'd written a story called 'Jane's Addiction' which I was complimenting her on, I guess hoping that we had bonded instantly over our shared love of music and could take things from there.

Instead she slowly & patiently explained that Jane's Addiction were a band. Maybe if I had 1% smoothness I could've told her that I'd been jamming Ritual for months and this, the centrepiece, was my soul, dammit - but suddenly seeing myself as the geek who could never possibly have heard of them was just insurmountable and I slunk away in disgrace.

I mean wtf, she thought I actually liked her story?! Sheesh.

As a youth, I too, prepared the room with Christmas lights and a city of candles. Could have probably done "fresh sheets" a little better though.

never ever get tired of this song. and never ever play it without immediately playing it again, and then again, and then again a few more times.

A healthy approach.

Love this song but never need to hear it again