Classic or dud : Jane's Addiction

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.

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Classic
Classic
Classic

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.

Classic.

Just Because.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

UGH @ this band

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.

"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

they had their moments.

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

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

The "hits" songs are all uniformly terrible.

Porno for Pyros
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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.

Ritual and Nothing's Shocking are awesome.

Perry Ferrell is a dick.

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.)

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.

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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]

Hmm. Well that I'll get.

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.)

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

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.

Oh, now I have to buy that.

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

Yeah I'm definitely getting this.

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...

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

superior.

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.)

Oh shit, this band.

This band live.

This band dead

rong

LJ catching up on 1991

2009 baby

Every band member still great live except for Brüno

motherfuckin' took the pain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx6691i0KDE

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yes

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/

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/

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.

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.)

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.

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"

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

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

The new Porno For Pyros song isn’t really anything special, but is probably the best thing I’ve heard from Perry in a very long time.

“We’re from LA and we can’t be stopped” amen

encouraging signs of Navarro being back in the fold

would be glad to see a legacy-burnishing final act from the OG lineup

new music could go either way but would always be interested to hear something with Avery and Navarro on board

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGzFMUX-w7U

man Mike Watt. God bless that man