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Jane's Addiction — Jane Says
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ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Mar 25, 2012 - 17:37
 
 unclehud wrote:

With all due respect, I wonder about people that claim to have never done drugs.  Do they have limited curiosity?  Were they succesfully indoctrinated about the inevitable and precipitous slide from alcohol to heroin and/or crack cocaine? 

Or did they have a personal or family tragedy involving drug abuse?

If necessary, apologies to Giselle62 and those whose opinions differ from my own.

 
They are as varied as can be.  Some of them, but certainly not all, are straight-laced dull T-totallers.  But I've also known a few sober kids who were every bit as much ravers dancing all night side-by-side with kids out of their minds on pills, acid, weed, and/or speed.  Some folks just don't like to lose control, and when you take an intoxicating substance, you are certainly doing that.  Personally, I find it useful to let the reins go every now and then, but every individual has to decide where they draw the line.

gemtag
(Texas)
Posted: Mar 25, 2012 - 17:26
 
 romeotuma wrote:


classic...


  That's what came to mind.

mmoyer
(Silicon Valley)
Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 14:16
 
{#Clap}

That's awesome.

WonderLizard wrote:

Somebody asked Perry Farrell just why he thought he should lead a rock band—having apparently little or no prior experience. His response? "I look like a rock star."

 



paulmack
(the hissing swamps)
Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 14:14
 
 sarahg70 wrote:
Oh dear - this is just painful! 
 
Don't listen then. Save your negative energy and do something that's actually productive - like sharpen your ice pick or something. Personally love Jane's Addiction and would take Ritual de lo Habitual to a desert island so I could listen to "Three Days'' periodically (no I will not suggest the obvious). What a great inspired album from those guys....(imho). Brilliant addition of steel drum to a rock/pop song.



sarahg70
(Skipton, UK)
Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 06:16
 
Oh dear - this is just painful! 

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Jul 16, 2011 - 21:42
 
 Giselle62 wrote:
... EVERY single person I knew or loved was on drugs at that time.
 
With all due respect, I wonder about people that claim to have never done drugs.  Do they have limited curiosity?  Were they succesfully indoctrinated about the inevitable and precipitous slide from alcohol to heroin and/or crack cocaine? 

Or did they have a personal or family tragedy involving drug abuse?

If necessary, apologies to Giselle62 and those whose opinions differ from my own.


arserocket
(S.O.B in an S.U.V)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 05:20
 
I am with the last three comments, solidarity 

PA1749
(Jim Thorpe, PA)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 04:19
 
Great song, great band, too bad they trivialize themselves with the hoochi-mama dancers.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 06:33
 
Janes Addiction is one of my alltime favorite groups, but this is by far their worst album and not a very good representation of this song, much less the group. Sad because people that are listening in and don't know of Janes will not know just how great they were.{#Yes}

Toke
(Bournemouth UK)
Posted: Nov 06, 2010 - 13:26
 
A resounding 9  a bit muted as its live I suppose, doesn't do it justice as on 'Nothings Shocking'' Album.


coyotexxx2
(Helena, MT)
Posted: Nov 06, 2010 - 13:19
 
 Monkeysdad wrote:

Surprises me...7.4?! Really....I think it's OK...but far from a 7.4....

just my opinion
 
Me to, I think closer to 9. 


Monkeysdad
(Simi, CA)
Posted: Aug 02, 2010 - 23:12
 

Surprises me...7.4?! Really....I think it's OK...but far from a 7.4....

just my opinion

Toke
(Bournemouth UK)
Posted: May 31, 2010 - 06:03
 
Have always loved this band for their peculiarity, wish I had seen them in concert :-(

Giselle62
(California's Cental Coast)
Posted: Apr 29, 2010 - 13:54
 
the best part about this song is the guitar riff, and it's a little too muted in this version. i don't know, i like the little slice of life this song conveys.  (I left LA in 85 to go live across the country after being in the punk scene so missed out on the whole Jane's Addiction surge; could see where the scene was going (just as many do) EVERY single person I knew or loved was on drugs at that time.


Danimal174
(Upstate South Carolina)
Posted: Apr 29, 2010 - 13:34
 
So refreshing to hear this after having to listen to Roxy Music.

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Apr 29, 2010 - 13:27
 
 Palaverist wrote:
There was always a special magic around Jane's Addiction. Yeah, I can totally see how they're cheesy and overblown in certain respects, and how the political posturing gets silly. But somehow that never seemed all that important. Their music creates for me a hard-to-fathom sense of connection and deeper mystery and release. It's like musical Weetzie Bat.
 
Somebody asked Perry Farrell just why he thought he should lead a rock band—having apparently little or no prior experience. His response? "I look like a rock star."


99
(South Cackalacky)
Posted: Apr 29, 2010 - 13:24
 
I'll be damned. I should hate this song because of its over familarity (even this version) but somehow it manages to grab me every time.

dogpound
(the island on which I belong)
Posted: Apr 29, 2010 - 13:23
 
one of the best concerts I ever went to.

ddbz
(The Midwest)
Posted: Mar 28, 2010 - 22:23
 
 Palaverist wrote:
There was always a special magic around Jane's Addiction. Yeah, I can totally see how they're cheesy and overblown in certain respects, and how the political posturing gets silly. But somehow that never seemed all that important. Their music creates for me a hard-to-fathom sense of connection and deeper mystery and release. It's like musical Weetzie Bat.
 
Hmmm... I love them too... 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Mar 28, 2010 - 21:46
 


classic...



Palaverist
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 08:08
 
There was always a special magic around Jane's Addiction. Yeah, I can totally see how they're cheesy and overblown in certain respects, and how the political posturing gets silly. But somehow that never seemed all that important. Their music creates for me a hard-to-fathom sense of connection and deeper mystery and release. It's like musical Weetzie Bat.

lysisphere
(largest contiguous ponderosa forest)
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 08:08
 
 peacockangel wrote:
Saw them in May (Phx) ~ excellent show ~ NIN followed by JA ~ that's right NINJA ~ glad to see this ~ play me a 3 days please
 
yesthreedayspleaseplaythreedays

 
Sloggydog:

Awesome. Thanks for the inside look.


peacockangel
(Phoenix)
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 08:07
 
Saw them in May (Phx) ~ excellent show ~ NIN followed by JA ~ that's right NINJA ~ glad to see this ~ play me a 3 days please

Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: Dec 24, 2009 - 11:11
 
Big Day Out. LSD. Porno for Pyros launch into a couple of Jane's Addiction songs.  I brush through the crowd because it feels great as people blur into my peripheral vision.  You catch the eye of the odd person who stares straight through you as you do them and you both smile the smile of the knowing.  What a day.  What a feeling.

Queue
(ROKville, MD)
Posted: Oct 22, 2009 - 15:27
 
I dig this version much more than the studio cut.  There are some steel drums in the end of that one too, but this one has such a cool groove to it, it just kinda rolls along...


sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Oct 22, 2009 - 15:23
 
 crockydile wrote:
Lousy version of a great song. {#Stop}
 

Gotta agree with ya there! The songs are just fine the way they were; don't like all that reverberation stuff, sounds gimmicky. BTW Nothings Shocking is one of the most creative albums of the 90's IMO.{#Yes}

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 13:58
 
This whole album is a blast! 

I particularly like the rambling introduction he gives for Been Caught Stealing (which I noticed gets panned heavily here at RP when I clicked to see if any other tracks from this album were in the Library). 

And I firmly agree with the previous posters who felt that the steelpans add liveliness beyond that of the original studio cut. Good times! {#Propeller}

crockydile
(I miss Excelsior!)
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 13:42
 
Lousy version of a great song. {#Stop}

Wizzuvvoz
(Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.)
Posted: May 17, 2009 - 09:32
 
 pipedreams wrote:
Good song, but I don't care for this version.
 
it is a gem.  But I really dig the whole of "Nothing's Shocking" and wish we could hear more of it on RP

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 17, 2009 - 09:31
 


excellent...



kurtster
(Seeking shelter from the cold)
Posted: May 17, 2009 - 09:28
 
 kellis wrote:
Think I might like this one better than the album version...
 
{#Yes}

8 to 9


pipedreams
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 18:52
 
Good song, but I don't care for this version.

lmic
(Narrow Minded Couch Potato)
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 18:51
 
Not bad for a nice Jewish boy from Queens. 9

kyleminor
(San Francisco)
Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 16:24
 
 TimeWaster wrote:

I think this is one of the most annoying songs ever written.

 
Totally with you on that one.

arserocket
(S.O.B in an S.U.V)
Posted: Dec 10, 2008 - 10:00
 
Does it for me

TimeWaster
(The lower of the two Dakotas)
Posted: Dec 10, 2008 - 09:58
 

I think this is one of the most annoying songs ever written.



kellis
Posted: Sep 06, 2008 - 16:33
 
Think I might like this one better than the album version...

katzendogs
(Houston, Texas)
Posted: Sep 06, 2008 - 16:28
 
He sounds like a scared little boy. But I've always liked this tune.

Deadwing
(Cincinnati OH)
Posted: Sep 06, 2008 - 16:25
 
{#Bounce}{#Bounce}

Danny_G
(Lima)
Posted: Aug 06, 2008 - 01:17
 
Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry {#Arrow} Jane's Addiction - Jane Says



Laptopdog
(Overcrowded, Overpriced & Overrated L.A.)
Posted: Jun 03, 2008 - 23:17
 
They really sounded good that night.


kalkin84
(Sol, planet 3)
Posted: May 03, 2008 - 13:02
 
Chumbawamba-1984 wrote:
*drivel*


you are an idiot.

but this song is wonderful. 9.
salice
(51st state)
Posted: Apr 02, 2008 - 01:05
 
chapeau bill!

takes me straight back to university...

aaahhh
Cruithne3753
(Bristol, UK)
Posted: Mar 01, 2008 - 12:13
 
arserocket wrote:
its been 3 days in here and I haven't washed or eaten

"Three Days"? Now that's a JA track that could do with being on RP.
thetomer
(Israel)
Posted: Jan 30, 2008 - 02:01
 
Chumbawamba-1984 wrote:
First time I hear about this band, excuse my ignorance. I will dig a little more and will probably end up purchasing one of their CDs. Thanks RP for opening up my ears bandwidth. Any suggestion of CD to start with?

That's an Easy one :-)
Nothing shocking thier almost perfect album. all the albums that followed were OK but only close to this amazing album. I didn't hear it from start to finish in ten years

Nothing shocking on wikipedia
(click here)


Chumbawamba-1984
Posted: Dec 29, 2007 - 15:31
 
First time I hear about this band, excuse my ignorance. I will dig a little more and will probably end up purchasing one of their CDs. Thanks RP for opening up my ears bandwidth. Any suggestion of CD to start with?

Happy holidays and happy new year to those who survived the last tsunami or flood, economic crisis, last Bush draft for oil Iraq, etc..

rascal420
(Cold and snowy, CA)
Posted: Dec 29, 2007 - 15:27
 
One of the encores they used to do featured this song with the drummer marching up and down the aisles with the steel drums around his neck. If he wasn't back to the stage before the song "ended" they'd just keep going.
Bosonator
(Nova Scotia)
Posted: Oct 27, 2007 - 19:52
 
This is so cool: there's a police siren outside tonight that is playing in perfect time with this song
pmnixa
(Rochester, MN)
Posted: Sep 26, 2007 - 11:26
 
All!s0n wrote:
Really? I dig it more than the original version. Particularly because of the inclusion of steel drums. They're my 'weak spot'.

quote="GChevy410 wrote:
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but this version pales in comparison to the original version.


I totally agree about the steel drums!! They turn this song from boring heard it a million times to - hey this is cool enough for RP!
siandbeth
(Santa Cruz California)
Posted: Sep 26, 2007 - 11:20
 
somegirl74 wrote:
1st time I've heard JA on here and OH NO IT's Jane Says!!! They have much better songs but still a classic.

Totally. "Oceansized" would be nice. My 4 yr old's favorite song. He sings it when he needs courage.