hdtv00

For the record I don't think the song is awful. I just seriously never heard it before, ever. Maybe it should be in the top 10 songs no one's ever heard before list.

DJLinus

Egads, man. As if I need yet another podcast to listen to.

I checked out the one for "Common People" yesterday - pretty good. Downloaded a whole bunch more to listen to today. Been a fan of his "Coverville" podcast for a few years now. Can't believe this one slipped under my radar. Thanks for the heads-up.

Ropes Pierre

Originally Posted by atlantamoi View Post
I like Jane's Addiction, but was never blown away by them. I definitely enjoyed some of their peers from that time period much more.
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I am curious who were considered peers, that were more enjoyable? Maybe i have my time frames mixed up, but wasn't "nothing's shocking" from around the end of Glam metal/late 80s?

Tscott

Phil Collins? Really? That's like saying Amy Grant and Nirvana are peers because they both had hits in the 90s.

Sonic Youth, Ministry, My Bloody Valentine and Jesus And Mary Chain would all be closer peers IMO than almost all listed there.

Mordred

I thought you were nuts until I listened to both, and I can hear what you're talking about. I think it's minor and unintentional, but at least I know you're not crazy.

Ky-Fi

...ahem...Stan Ridgway (former Wall of Voodoo singer) is one of my favorite artists, I saw him last spring and he's still going strong--and he's a GREAT vocalist and incredible songwriter by MY standard, SO THERE!


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Ky-Fi

I appreciate you point, and no offense taken. I just have to come to the defense of Stan, because he's AWESOME



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UAIOE

I'm inclined to agree, except I prefer Al's Ministry side projects more.

You got that feeling too? Maybe not so much with "Jane Says" but "Been Caught Stealin" really (IMO) makes them seem that way.

Michael Corvin

Cool podcast, but $3 for maybe 20 minutes of podcasting a month?

Metrodub

Do you mean writing (music/lyrics) or sound quality? Because, as I'm sure you know, their first album released as Jane's Addiction is a live album recorded for less than $5K.

UAIOE

So he's a better event organizer than he is a singer.

nodeerforamonth

Their peers were the bands that were playing the same clubs/bills in the '80s. It was a pretty healthy scene back then.

Guns & Roses
The Hangmen
Junkyard
LA Guns
Pygmy Love Circus
Little Kings

Bands that were more enjoyable that were peers? The correct answer would be Guns & Roses and the Hangmen.

Jason

And they, too, are better than Janes Addiction.

Josh-da-man

Yeah, "Nothing's Shocking" came out in either '88 or '89, sort of at the tail end of the glam metal scene. I even remember "Nothing's Shocking" being reviewed in heavy metal magazines, and getting a mixed reaction.

Jane's Addiction wasn't exactly a heavy metal band, though they were definitely harder than the modern/college/alt rock of the time... which was heavy on the REM, New Order, and The Smiths, from what I recall. JA's image, at the time, was more on the heavy metal side. If you saw a picture of the band, they looked more like Faster Pussycat or Guns and Roses than they did REM.

Then a few years later Nevermind came out, and JA got swept up into the whole grunge thing that took over alt rock/college rock.

nodeerforamonth

But that wasn't their first album. They released a live album on Triple X Records years before that. They were HUGE in the club scene in LA in the mid '80s.

sergtv

i've came to hate this song myself.. my name is sergio and i've been teesed to death about this song.. jane ses i'm done with sergio.. thats just as bad as being teased for the sergio valented jeans in elamentery lol

ResIpsa

Try living through Fifth Grade with a name like Damien (when the Omen was released).

Metrodub

I think JA's image also had a lot to do with being part of the LA scene. Navarro had the typical hard rock guitarist look that was dominated by the likes of Faster Pussycat and other LA hard rock bands but Perry's image didn't fit. Eric Avery's image didn't fit the heavy metal image, either.

JA got swept up into the whole grunge thing???? Ritual de lo Habitual came out a year before Nevermind did and they didn't release another album until 2003. How did they get swept up by the whole grunge thing?

Sean O'Hara

But they became popular as part of grunge -- you'd turn on a modern rock station in the early '90s, and it'd be Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, STP, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden.

Sean O'Hara

Most people think alternative rock began with grunge, but that's just when it broke through to the mainstream. Some of the best bands were already around in the late '80s -- in fact, it was the glam metal crap that they were an alternative to. Jane's Addiction was just part of a larger group that includes Violent Femmes, The Smithereens, The Replacements, Dinosaur Jr., Throwing Muses, Sonic Youth, etc.

Supermallet

The Pixies.

PopcornTreeCt

It's kinda like saying why wasn't Batman considered one of the best 80's movies? Because it really wasn't a part of the 80's.

discostu1337

Just found this thread today. How in the hell did some of you people escape this song for the last 20 years? Seriously, it;s still on the radio almost daily. It's in Rock Band. If you have heard of the band Janes Addiction, you must have heard this song. Just blows my mind...it's their most popular song.

That being said, it's too long and boring

Supermallet

Batman is also not an especially great movie.

Sean O'Hara

Wait, the Batman movie that has the Joker listening to Prince while he commits crimes? Not part of the '80s?