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IVH: Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking [1]

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Date: 2023-01-19

Jane's Addiction

Tonight’s selections from Jane’s Addiction’s second album, Nothing’s Shocking. Truly a genre-bending LP; it owed as much to Zeppelin and Sabbath and it did to post-punk and art rock. It came out when I was sophomore in high school; everybody I ran with was listening to it.

This YouTube comment summarizes the appeal of Jane’s when they burst onto the national scene in 1988:

Every Jane’s show back in the day was like a gathering of the tribes. The punks, metalheads, skaters, goths, hair metal and glam rockers, the potheads and hippies, college and indie rockers… from industrial fans to new wavers, surfers to hardcores, gays to straights, dopers to the D&D geeks, and everything in between. It was just a glorious mix of every subcultural group of the time… And it was their music that was the one thing everyone could agree on. — YT



Mountain Song [1988]



Jane’s Addiction is the latest great hope of the Los Angeles club scene, a product of a city whose often overlooked hard-rock scene has long been every bit as successful and commercially productive as its more heralded punk and postpunk scene. Jane’s Addiction straddles the line between the two camps, and several others: the band is indulgent and excessive, adept at typically screeching (but atypically original) hard-rock guitar raveups and at flights into dreamy psychedelia. A classic “love ’em or hate ’em” outfit, the band is great, and it is also full of shit — often at the same time, a dichotomy that may be the edge that sustains Nothing’s Shocking. — Rolling Stone



Jane Says [1988]



Jane’s Addiction began to court major label interest after the release of their self-titled independent debut, recorded during a live show at the Roxy Theatre in January 1987. The album, released by local label Triple X, captured the band in their element; a free-flowing, yet grungy rock n’ roll experience which seemed tailor made for the sweaty heat of a Californian crowd. Impressed by the band’s explosive stage energy, Warner Bros. cemented their interest with an unprecedented advance of around $300,000, successfully wrangled by the group’s no-nonsense manager. Nothing’s Shocking was almost instantly lauded as a modern rock classic after its release in August, 1988; the band emerging as critical darlings for their bold amalgamation of influences and rewarded with high profile magazine covers. But the final obstacle would spring from another of [Perry] Farrell’s provocative ideas. His explicit cover design, modelled on his girlfriend Casey Niccoli and featuring a pair of naked siamese twins with flaming heads, proved as commercially toxic as it was brilliantly bizarre. Nothing’s Shocking was a stubborn manifesto against creative boredom and a daring ode to the risk-takers who felt alienated by the passive consumerism of the status quo. And whilst it’s radical collision of ideas has perhaps finally been accepted, in an age of both relentless nostalgia and internet innovation, it will surely remain a foundational blueprint – a cornerstone for the future freaks of rock n’roll. — Classic Album Sundays



Ocean Size [1988]



The first-year sales of Nothing’s Shocking were modest: approximately 200,000 in the US. But it was an album that placed Jane’s Addiction at the forefront of a new era in rock music. The big breakthrough came with the follow-up, Ritual de lo Habitual. Yielding a minor hit in Been Caught Stealing, the album reached the US Top 20 in 1990. It made Jane’s Addiction the first alternative rock band to find any sort of mainstream success. “But of course,” Farrell says, “it couldn’t last.” In October 1991, with the singer having developed a crack addiction, he could no longer keep the band together. “Your bandmates love you when you’re becoming successful,” he says. “But the animosity starts with the wear and tear – hard work and touring. You should feel that you’ve been blessed, but no, you don’t. Your personality starts to change. You become a baby. Selfish. A wise-ass.” Those clashing personalities brought Jane’s Addiction to a premature end in 1991. Lollapalooza, the music and arts festival founded by Farrell, would be their swansong. — Louder Sound



Standing in the Shower… Thinking [1988]



Good read below. I went to the first two Lollapalooza tours and also the 4th tour.

WHO’S TALKING TO WHO?

Jimmy Kimmel: Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field, Jacob Latimore

Jimmy Fallon: John Oliver, Sam Smith, Fahim Anwar

Stephen Colbert: Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Meet Me @ The Altar

Seth Meyers: Kenan Thompson, Jinkx Monsoon, Daniel Fang

James Corden: Anna Kendrick, Scott Caan, Fabrizio Copano

Daily Show: Charlamagne Tha God, guest host Leslie Jones

SPOILER WARNING

A late night gathering for non serious palaver that does not speak of that night’s show. Posting a spoiler will get you brollywhacked. You don’t want that to happen to you. It's a fate worse than a fate worse than death.



Screaming Trees bassist Van Conner passed away yesterday. He was the primary songwriter behind this one, their biggest hit.



Screaming Trees :: Nearly Lost You [1992]



LAST WEEKS POLL: ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS

Rock 33%

Paper 44%

Scissors 22%

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