Jane's Addiction - Jane's Addiction
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Free Music Review: raw and powerful
Hit: 4 Stars
This is totally unrefined Janes Addiction. The live arrangements are solid with tripping, 1% and pigs in zen soaring with excellent riffs by Navarro. Perrys wailing is solid and the acoustic versions of Lou Reeds Rock and Roll and the Stones Sympathy being real highlights. I wonder why these acoustic versions never get any airplay. This is a real glimpse at early Janes.Free Music Review: I would for Jane's
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a wonderful album. Its a bit raw and unpolished but that's what makes it so great. This is Jane's Addiction's debut album and it's a live album. The only thing left to say is that this album hinted at the greatness that Nothings Shocking achieved. Check it out. You will be glad you did.Free Music Review: Great Disk-- case was cracked though
Hit: 4 Stars
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.Free Music Review: (2.5 stars) Decent, but JA did much better later
Hit: 3 Stars
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. Growing up isn't fun. There. See? It's rambling already! I mean, I just started this thing, and I've already spun out of direction. But let's get focused. Let's buckle down, and review this thing. Basically what I see here is a band that knew what it wanted to do, but didn't quite have the songs straightened out. 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! Why don't we make passionate love?" "All right! 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. 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. Too bad none of them are widely known, they all deserve a mass audience. 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. But "Jane Says" deserved to make it onto an album, and of course it ended up their signature song and all that jazz. To be honest, I think this is about even with, or maybe a bit worse than, the more famous studio version. 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. And you don't hear a steel drum on the studio version, do you? 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. But only if you've got the other two. 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. All I remember about "My Time" is that it has a harmonica. Otherwise, it just slips off my radar. The group's backing vocals screw "Rock and Roll" (yes, the Velvet Underground song). And while a mostly acoustic "Sympathy for the Devil", here titled "Sympathy", sounds like a good idea in theory, it fails in practice. Farrell's no match for Mick Jagger, and when Navarro distorts his guitar, it's torturous. 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. That's okay, but the echo wears out its welcome quite quickly. So, that's my take. Goodbye.Free Music Review: Loved It Before Nothings Shocking.......
Hit: 3 Stars
FIrst came across JA on a comp called "Scream" or something of that nature. Went out and bought this record and thought it was pretty fantastic to say the least and at the time it was. It sounded signifigantly different than anything else at the time and Farrell had one of those voices (like Robert Plant) that would forever mark the band. Then something happened--"Nothings Shocking" was released. SO my point it this after honing their skills and and releasing two classic records this sounds rather novice by comparsion and in actuality it is. The covers (Stones, Velvet Underground)are throw aways (read as: set fillers) however there are hints of the greatness to come, Pigs In Zen, My Time and Trip Away, I only wish they had reworked "My Time" on "Nothings Shocking".