Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
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Free Music Review: Something that speaks for itself
Hit: 5 Stars
This album speaks for itself lyrically. I cant due it enough justice. I must admit that you have to be really into the instruments to appreciate this album fully. This band knows there material. You need to buy this one and I if you dont enjoy it then you are more a mainstream listener.Free Music Review: "The Best Album Ever" That's what Jane Say's
Hit: 5 Stars
With the original Rock music idea to combine heavy, punk and art Rock, Jane's Addiction took it to the top with this essential album. With Perry's voice, Dave's Guitar playing and Stephen's Drumming, this band found widespread success with this album "Nothing's Shocking" and the Platinum "Ritual De Lo Habitual".With song's like "Ocean Size" and "The Mountain Song" people are sure to enjoy this album from the beginning to the end. This album is almost completely perfect. The album contain's not only loud and in your face song's like "Pigs in Zen" it also contain's acoustic song's like "Jane Say's". Whether you like Acoustic song's or Heavy distortion song's,This album has something for you. Free Music Review: Its original thats for sure
Hit: 4 Stars
Never in the history of rock and roll was a band so original as Janes Addiction. One of the biggest and best and most influential bands of all time. Nothings Shocking was Janes Addiction's first album, well techically there second, but its there first studio album, is it as good as there other albums, no not really, but it does have somehting the other three albums dont have, the enjoyment of making the music. When Janes got the record deal to record this album they said they would only do it if the could have complete and total creative control which they had on all their albums but this is the only one where that is aparent.
On Ritual the band was trying (as much as they dont wanna admit it) to make a big album. The two albums are nothing alike. This sounds like a band having fun making music for the sake of making music. Ritual sounds like a band trying to make it. Strays sounds like a big areana rock album. Those two albums are far better then this but the point is this one is more true.
The album opens with a Janes classic 'Up The Beach' which why its a classic I dont understand. Apart from a few guitar solos and cool riffs this is just a boring ten minute song. 'Ocean Size' is one of the better songs the band ever made, great lyrics, vocals, and musicianship. 'Had A Dad' 'Ted Just Admit It' and 'Standing In The Shower' are all good songs but they could have been a whole lot better. They just sound like average rock songs to me, and comming from a band that is capable of so much more that is jsut not excpeptable. 'Summertime Rolls' is one of the best and most beautiful love songs ever written and recorded. This song is just amazing and needs to be heard to appreciate. 'Mountain Song' is one of the best songs ever. Easily one of Janes Addictions best songs ever. The opening line sets the pace for and amazing rocker. What makes this song ever better is that the way they relate comming down a mountain to comming off Herion. But the opening bass line was ripped of by Judas Priest on Revolution off of the album Angel Of Retrabution. 'Idiots Rule' is a very good song, I really just did not enjoy it. I dont need to say anything about 'Jane Says' because as anyone who has heard the sone kows it is one of the best pieces of music ever made. Simpley amazing! 'Thank You Boys' is pointless. 'Pigs N Zen' is suppost to be an amazing song but it just isnt. Its not a very good way to end an album.
I can say that this is an album that is hard to get into but once you do get into it its really pretty good. Also I was dissapointed when i bought this because I thought it was going to be better. The guitar Playing by Navvaro is amazing, Stephen and Eric play a great rythym section, and Perry's vocals are great and so are his lyrics, but I dont think I this album they knew how to mesh those four talents together properly yet. So I would recomend this album to anyone who is interested in something weird and different.
Free Music Review: Warrants full attention
Hit: 5 Stars
Every Jane's Addiction album needs to be listened to very carefully to like it.This is a strong album that is needed by both veterans ad rookies to JA. Jane Says is perfect song that only retards don't like. It is the only song I've ever heard from JA of P4P that has really good songwriting. All the other tracks good to. But Jane Says is just perfect.Free Music Review: The masterpiece of its generation.
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the most original and unique records of its era, "Nothing's Shocking" is the album that turned into the bar for alternative music. In many ways the LA variant of grunge, Jane's Addiction successfully combines the sounds of '70s arena rock with a punk sensibility and a post-punk feel, adding Perry Farrell's esoteric and often dense lyrics on top of this. While commercial success would follow with "Ritual de lo Habitual", its controversial artwork and its hit single, this is in my assessment the superior album, and the benchmark for alternative music since. Its a testament to Jane's Addiction that few records have been able to match this.
Admittedly, Jane's is probably not for everyone-- its hard to deny the instrumental prowess of this band: guitarist Dave Navarro can wail away with the best of them, and its through him that the influence of '70s and '80s arena sounds come through. Bassist Eric Avery has a very different sensibility, if there's one thing about Avery, its that he's really a master of sitting in a pocket, whether featured in a melodic context or even just marching to the guitar line-- he phrases slightly off to provide that sort of groove feeling. And drummer Stephen Perkins is probably the best of his generation, with a fine technique and an expressiveness that is really quite rare to find in modern drummers. But the band's calling card is really Perry Farrell, and he's the kind of thing you sort of like or dislike straight off-- his kind of punk-meets-Queen vocal approach, very much over the top the way Freddie Mercury was, but filtering out much of the technique in place of passion and a raw wail. It's not for everyone.
Getting past the band, the music on this album is intense-- their proclivity for rambling, musically, further accentuates the tighter material, and they manage to strike a fine balance between the two that they'd miss on future releases. Avery and Perkins lock together and provide propulsive foundations, laid back grooves, and ambiance to the pieces-- Navarro either explodes or focuses on color, and Farrell maintains a surrealist presence, drifting, seemingly randomly at times, in and out of the pieces, content to babble abstractly rather than provide coherent lyrics at times. It sounds like a mess, but it works well, from the explosive "Ocean Size"-- a driven modern rock anthem to the funky, laid back, atmospheric and deeply disturbing "Ted, Just Admit It" (about serial killer Ted Bundy) to the delicate, lilting ballad "Summertime Rolls". The band could rock ("Mountain Song"), swing ("Thank You Boys") and get plain funky ("Idiots Rule"), or move into a delicate mode with acoustic guitars and steel drums (single "Jane Says"). And for the album closer, they give in to Farrell's most self indulgent tendency with the totally bizarre "Pigs in Zen", an alternative masterpiece that needs to be heard to be explained.
The members of the band would manage one more album before literally getting into fist fights on-stage at Farrell brainchild Lollapalooza, and while they've all gone on to produce some great music outside of the band, none of them would quite reach this level. Essential listening.