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Jane's Addiction were far ahead of their time. This is an amazing CD. It's hard for me to imagine it was released in 1987. This is just as good, if not better than Nothings Shocking. I Would For You is still one of my favorite sappy songs, and 1% is one of my favorite songs period.
This is one of the best (for lack of a better term) hard rock albums ever released. Completely underrated and overlooked. I've had this album for 20 years and have listened to it more times than any other recording. Also check out Brutal Juice's "Mutilation Makes Identification Difficult"
This in my opinion is the best Janes CD yet. The vocals are great and Dave's guitar work is amazing. It is a raw, clean sound of old that makes it magical.
I heard it in the same record store I bought it at, months prior to actually making the transaction, and since the only lyrics I could make out were the title words, I thought it was a love song), three of the main attractions that would've been perfectly in step with Nothing's Shocking had they tweaked them a bit. See. It's rambling already. Now I can show you those new positions I learned in that dirty magazine I got from my friend." "What dirty magazine." "Um, let's just skip straight to the passionate lovemaking." type songs, but the way Farrell sings it makes it seem tender. So, that's my take. All I remember about "My Time" is that it has a harmonica. Basically what I see here is a band that knew what it wanted to do, but didn't quite have the songs straightened out. I've heard praise for its homespun, campfire vibe, and while I feel that, and I love the acoustic guitar solo Navarro lets out, Farrell's voice kind of ruins it for me.
It's way too harsh, and I normally like his singing. But only if you've got the other two. Plus Farrell puts so much echo on his voice, it gives me reason to believe that this is a studio recording with crowd noises dubbed in. But let's get focused.
Why don't we make passionate love." "All right. Let's buckle down, and review this thing. There. Anyway, "Trip Away", "Whores", "I Would for You", "Jane Says" and maybe "1%" (just to round out the dream team) mean that this is worth digging through your bargain bins for. Growing up isn't fun. And you don't hear a steel drum on the studio version, do you. The funky "Trip Away"; blazing, obscenity-laden rocker "Whores"; and tender ballad "I Would for You" (okay, "tender" isn't the proper word, since it's one of those "Hey, Perry, the world is ending.
Unlike "Pigs in Zen", which by some anomaly found its way onto Nothing's Shocking when it's my least favorite Jane's Addiction song by a long shot - yes, it's worse than even the several bags of crap on Strays. Otherwise, it just slips off my radar. Okay, this review will probably be even more rambling than most of my reviews, since I'm writing it at 1:45 AM on a Saturday coming after a long week that involved having to put up with high-school drama while being sick. The rest doesn't do much for me. A lot of people like "Chip Away", but it leaves me kind of cold - that "Up from the catacombs" lyric is pretty inspired, though, and ended up being the title of a compilation that didn't even contain the song it was named for. The group's backing vocals screw "Rock and Roll" (yes, the Velvet Underground song).
But "Jane Says" deserved to make it onto an album, and of course it ended up their signature song and all that jazz. That's okay, but the echo wears out its welcome quite quickly. I mean, I just started this thing, and I've already spun out of direction. Farrell's no match for Mick Jagger, and when Navarro distorts his guitar, it's torturous. Too bad none of them are widely known, they all deserve a mass audience. To be honest, I think this is about even with, or maybe a bit worse than, the more famous studio version.
And while a mostly acoustic "Sympathy for the Devil", here titled "Sympathy", sounds like a good idea in theory, it fails in practice. Goodbye.
I love the group and the disk but I collect and when I pay for new products I don't like to get cracked cases. I just did not want to deal with it thats why I went with a 4. the music is great best J.A. CD i know of.
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