― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 16 January 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Cocteau Twins' "Heaven or Las Vega"Public Enemy's "Fear of a Black Planet"Pixies' "Bossanova"Depeche Mode's "Violator"Happy Monday's "Pills, thrills..."Breeders' "Pod"Ride's "Nowhere"Sonic Youth's "Goo"Dee Lite's "World Clique"Lou Reed & John Cale's "Songs for Drella"
These were incredible times for both techno and hip hops singles too...
― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 16 January 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Queen Going away to spain, Monday, 16 January 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 16 January 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link
i guess that's a reason a person who lived through certain times might like a band (see: your boomer-approved canon) but i don't see why it's a valid argument for any band in THESE times.
― marc h. (marc h.), Monday, 16 January 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 16 January 2006 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link
There is absolutely no fucking way these albums could possible comapre to Ritual De Lo Habitual, especially the second half.
― Dan (Crazy People) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 January 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― bendy (bendy), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― mitya can't remember his f---ing password, Monday, 16 January 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Crazy Brits) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― no bones, Monday, 16 January 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Monday, 16 January 2006 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (*Eye-Roll*) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 January 2006 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link
When I first heard them as a lad: OMG this band is epic mindblowing holy shit!
Then I got older and "coolerl": Wannabe Zep hippie dumbasses
Then I got older still: Loveably wacko alt-rock dinosaurs actually has some pretty great song, now find their hippie doofy crap kinda charming.
also, GREAT live band, if you ever saw them back in the day, really amazing.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 16 January 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 16 January 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 16 January 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 January 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 16 January 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 16 January 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 16 January 2006 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
POPIST SCUM.
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 16 January 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link
This admittedly doesn't take much.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 January 2006 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 16 January 2006 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
I saw the Janes in 1988 and it was mind blowing. They peeled the paint off the walls and small-town me had never seen anything like it. I saw them again in 1990 on the Ritual tour and they were...sagging, indulgent, and basically, a bad cartoon. Navarro never had the funk he thought he had, and that sure showed when he joined the Peppers.
Much of Nothing's Shocking will always remain classic to me because I can't separate it from my college years--the incredible anticipation I had for that album to come out and how it more than delivered. And as donut alluded to, my entire fraternity was batshit about 'em.
― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link
About that reunion -- sorry "relapse" album they did.. i heard a few songs off it, and it isn't bad really... The one radio hit was actually quite nice! it actually removes some of the things I didn't like about them initially. That said, the album isn't anything that's stood the test of a year, much less stood the test of time.
Since the initial break-up of Jane's, I think this is where Mr. Garrison speaks wisdom, in relation to Mr. Peri-Pheral, and his motivations (which isn't exactly uncommon for greater bands, granted.)
― Dom iNut (donut), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom iNut (donut), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom iNut (donut), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Do you know what I mean by a lack of stylistic identity, though? When I listen to a record by Voivod or ABC or the Three O'Clock, it seems to me that I'm experiencing a definite aesthetic. Jane's Addiction seemed half-assed to me in the sense of ... well, what the hell were they supposed to be, anyway? It doesn't seem based on much of anything at all and it didn't seem to me that they INVENTED some whole new thing either.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 05:23 (eighteen years ago) link
while I don't dislike Jane's, I'm not sure I get how they permanently changed shit profoundly, as you state
Jane's Addiction signing to Warner represented one of the first times that major labels engaged in a bidding war for an "underground" or "alternative" or whatever the word for sub-mainstream bands was back in the late-80s. They helped make the world safe for groups who did things differently. The alt-rock explosion which took place from 1991 on would not have happened without them. Not only Janes's of course, but please don't underestimate their role in all of that.
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 05:28 (eighteen years ago) link