A Cabinet Of Curiosities
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A Cabinet Of Curiosities
A Cabinet of Curiosities is a compilation box set by alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, released on April 21, 2009, on Rhino Records. The collection includes three discs of demos, rehearsals, remixes, covers, and live recordings from the group's initial lifespan of 1986–1991, and one DVD featuring the movie Soul Kiss, the band's music videos, and concert footage. Vocalist Perry Farrell stated that "it's a really nice, fetishy object."-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
This 4xCD set-- two CDs of demos/rarities, a third of a 1990 live show, and a DVD of video ephemera-- helps celebrate Jane's original-member reunion.
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Jane's Addiction
A Cabinet Of Curiosities is the Jane’s Addiction box set released by Rhino Records on April, 21, 2009. This set includes numerous demos, rehearsal outtakes, remixes, live performances, many of which were previously unreleased.
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Billboard
Just in time for the reunited Jane's Addiction's summer tour, the long-in-the-works rarities collection "A Cabinet of Curiosities" will arrive on April 21. The 3-CD/DVD Rhino box set is packed with demos, live performances, non-album tracks, and remixes.
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Blabbermouth
The "Cabinet" collection focuses solely on the band's original incarnation of vocalist Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Eric Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins.
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Washington Post
Cabinet of Curiosities , the new box set from Jane's Addiction, comes in a little wooden chest of drawers filled with CDs of B-sides, demos and other rare track, and a DVD which includes music videos and very early footage of the band.
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Miami New Times
Although this Cabinet is a little short on true curiosities (unless you count bassist Eric Avery's toilet-seat "book report" on DVD mini-doc Soul Kiss) it's got loads of Jane's visionary hedonism, and even some of the ancillary stuff packs a wallop.
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Rolling Stone
Succinctness has rarely been a strong suit of Jane's Addiction, a pioneering alt-rock quartet well-steeped in the L.A. tradition of being fearlessly larger than life. This is true of this elaborately packaged but bloated box set: Amid early blueprints of Nothing's Shocking and Ritual de lo Habitual classics, only a wailing 1986 rendition of "Jane Says" and the folky "City" add anything to the original lineup's skimpy yet hugely influential output. Frontman Perry Farrell's absurd outfits and acid-addled charisma drive a DVD of videos and live clips, but a ferocious 1990 live set argues more forcefully that too much of a beautifully fucked-up thing is never enough; the rest of this set, not so much.
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Pop Matters
The best thing about A Cabinet of Curiosities is that it focuses primarily on the original line-up of Jane’s Addiction. It’s as though anything that occurred between the moment the band initially broke up after touring the country headlining the first Lollapalooza to the NME Awards never even happened.
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Tone Publications
The timing behind the release of the new limited-edition Jane’s Addiction’s box set, A Cabinet of Curiosities, couldn’t be more obvious. Reunited again, the band is preparing to head out on a summer tour with Nine Inch Nails that culminates with a headlining spot at Chicago’s Lollapalooza festival. Not only is Jane’s returning to the live musical celebration that singer Perry Farrell devised in 1991, it’s doing so with original bassist Eric Avery, who will be touring with the band for the first time since the inaugural Lollapalooza.
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Apple Music
This extensive collection of mostly unreleased demos and live material proves just how careful this band of outlaws really was. The demos are close to their album counterparts and the live versions are animated but clearly part of a larger atmospheric gestalt.
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Slicing Up Eyeballs
A Cabinet of Curiosities will boast 30 unreleased studio and live cuts from the 1986-1990 period, according to Rhino Records.
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Exclaim
A Cabinet of Curiosities comes at a time when interest in the legendary act has been rekindled. While other Jane's collections have been piecemeal (i.e., Kettle Whistle, Live and Rare) or entirely lacking (Up From the Catacombs), Cabinet is a three-disc/one DVD set of stunning beauty and detail (it's packaged in a miniature cabinet, with amazing art, detailed linear notes and quotes from famous fans/friends such as Henry Rollins, Slash, Flea, etc.). And for Jane's fans, it's unquestionably an overwhelming excavation of their history that reminds why Jane's were once so vital, special and volatile.
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Hpb
A Cabinet of Curiosities is packaged in a wooden cabinet with a metal clasp, and includes a thick book, tarot cards, and tiny voodoo dolls. The packaging alone makes it an obvious necessity for fans, but the music inside the cabinet is problematic. Including three CDs of mostly unreleased demo or live material, plus a DVD of live footage and video clips, A Cabinet of Curiosities illustrates that, for Jane's Addiction, the finished product was by far the best possible way to hear the band's recordings -- no surprise, given that Nothing's Shocking and Ritual de lo Habitual are two of the best LPs of the alternative era.
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IGN
Cabinet of Curiosities unlocks a treasure trove of rarities that honors the legacy while offering a host of new aural possibilities. But aside from the audio/visual components, the packaging itself must be seen to be believed. Replicating a wooden curio cabinet, the doors open up to mini facsimiles of flyers, pics and memorabilia, plus an insightful book. In all, this is one sweet little box, whether you're already enamored, a casual fan…or just curious.
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Dvd Talk
A Cabinet of Curiosities, a limited edition box set of Jane's rarities. A Cabinet of Curiosities will include three CDs and one DVD in a wooden case.
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La Weekly
It's pretty great, this new 3 CD, 1 DVD boxed set from Jane's Addiction. The highly anticipated set, which comes out Tuesday, April 21, contains some of the legendary LA band's earliest recordings — marvelous Radio Tokyo studio demos — and a ton of other out takes, as well as covers of Sly and the Family Stone (the incendiary duet with Ice T), the Stooges, the Doors, and Led Zeppelin.
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All Music
A Cabinet of Curiosities is packaged in a wooden cabinet with a metal clasp, and includes a thick book, tarot cards, and tiny voodoo dolls. The packaging alone makes it an obvious necessity for fans, but the music inside the cabinet is problematic. Including three CDs of mostly unreleased demo or live material, plus a DVD of live footage and video clips, A Cabinet of Curiosities illustrates that, for Jane's Addiction, the finished product was by far the best possible way to hear the band's recordings -- no surprise, given that Nothing's Shocking and Ritual de lo Habitual are two of the best LPs of the alternative era.
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Napster
On the cusp of embarking on a massive reunion tour (the first with all four original members since 1991), Jane's Addiction release this expansive set of demos, outtakes and live cuts. To date, the band has only released three studio albums, but its influence still resonates throughout alt rock. This is a great set for fans, encompassing the group's work from 1986-1991 (they left out material from 2003's Strays, which is probably for the best). Skip the hits and go straight to gems like "Summertime Rolls" and "Ocean Size," plus covers of the Dead's "Ripple" and Zep's "Whole Lotta Love."
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Steve Hoffman
The demos will be great to have from the source, but thing that worries me about the live cuts is context -- different cuts from different shows and eras might not gel too well. Regardless, still very interested to seeing and hearing this project.
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Amazon Ca
Cabinet Of Curiosities contains 43 tracks on three CDs (30 of which are previously unreleased) and a DVD that contains videos, rare clips and live footage.
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Canton
A multimedia treat for fans, Jane’s Addiction’s box set is more than a collection of videos and rare tracks. It’s a celebration of the band’s influence on music and pop culture. Open the “Cabinet of Curiosities” and you will find three CDs of music (mostly unreleased demos and live recordings), a DVD of music videos and personal footage from the band, a booklet that tells their story in words and pictures, trading cards featuring the four original members and four tiny worry dolls.
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Austin Chronicle
The most convincing reason to purchase Jane's Addiction's A Cabinet of Curiosities, a 3-CD/1-DVD collection of rarities and live recordings, may be the cabinet itself. The latched wooden treasure chest contains an immaculate 64-page booklet and miniature worry dolls and tarot cards for each band member – androgynous provocateur Perry Farrell ("El Diablito"), guitarist Dave Navarro ("La Calavera"), and the powerhouse rhythm section of bassist Eric Avery ("El Alacran") and drummer Stephen Perkins ("La Aragna") – capturing the essence of Jane's brief but potent heathen magic. This set overlaps plenty with Addiction's first reunion cash-in, 1997's Kettle Whistle, but previously unreleased live cover scorchers of the Stooges ("1970") and Led Zeppelin (Navarro's shearing "Whole Lotta Love"), not to mention Deadicated's "Ripple" and the ubiquitous "L.A. Medley," demonstrate the group's witches' brew of influences.
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Wimwords
In terms of content, Cabinet of Curiosities doesn’t disappoint. There are weird little fetish objects (pseudo Tarot cards and worry dolls), a nice little booklet with photos of old handbills and sundry other goodies. The enclosed DVD includes Soul Kiss, the Nothing’s Shocking era video that was previously only available on VHS.
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Austin Chronicle
The most convincing reason to purchase Jane's Addiction's A Cabinet of Curiosities, a 3-CD/1-DVD collection of rarities and live recordings, may be the cabinet itself. The latched wooden treasure chest contains an immaculate 64-page booklet and miniature worry dolls and tarot cards for each band member – androgynous provocateur Perry Farrell ("El Diablito"), guitarist Dave Navarro ("La Calavera"), and the powerhouse rhythm section of bassist Eric Avery ("El Alacran") and drummer Stephen Perkins ("La Aragna") – capturing the essence of Jane's brief but potent heathen magic. This set overlaps plenty with Addiction's first reunion cash-in, 1997's Kettle Whistle, but previously unreleased live cover scorchers of the Stooges ("1970") and Led Zeppelin (Navarro's shearing "Whole Lotta Love"), not to mention Deadicated's "Ripple" and the ubiquitous "L.A. Medley," demonstrate the group's witches' brew of influences.
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Wimwords
In terms of content, Cabinet of Curiosities doesn’t disappoint. There are weird little fetish objects (pseudo Tarot cards and worry dolls), a nice little booklet with photos of old handbills and sundry other goodies. The enclosed DVD includes Soul Kiss, the Nothing’s Shocking era video that was previously only available on VHS.
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Canton Rep
Taken together, “A Cabinet of Curiosities” is an immersive trip down memory lane with one of the most influential bands of the late ’80s. With a collection this comprehensive, there’s no need for the worry dolls.
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Eil
Have come to expect first class service from these guy's all the time and are never disappointed.
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Courant
Taken together, "A Cabinet of Curiosities" is an immersive trip down memory lane with one of the most influential bands of the late '80s. With a collection this comprehensive, there's no need for the worry dolls.
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Stereogum
You’re likely familiar with those two classic Jane’s albums, but here’s what you’ll find on A Cabinet Of Curiosities, which includes live performances, rarities, never-before-heard demos, and unreleased and hard-to-find videos.
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Cover My Tunes
A Cabinet of Curiosities by Jane's Addiction was released on 2009-04-13 in USA. The Alternative album has 45 tracks.
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Nz Herald
Despite their freakish tendencies, Jane's Addiction were one of the most powerful and inventive bands during the heyday of alternative music in the late 80s and early 90s. Although, to be fair to guitarist Dave Navarro, bass player Eric Avery, and powerhouse metranome Stephen Perkins, the eccentric side of this parochial Los Angeles band was almost single-handedly upheld by flighty yet formidable frontman Perry Farrell.
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Scene
A Cabinet of Curiosities gathers many of the band's demos (some of which padded out CD singles — remember those? — back in the early '90s), a compilation track or two (covering Sly and the Family Stone's "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" with Ice-T on co-lead vocals was a decent idea badly executed, but their take on the Grateful Dead's "Ripple" is pleasantly bucolic), and a DVD full of videos and live footage.
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Dr Funk
This is a kick ass set.
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I Heart Guitar
First-ever Jane’s Addiction boxed set: 43 tracks on 3 CDs—spotlighting demos, live tracks and other rarities—and a bonus DVD with videos and live performance footage. 30 tracks are previously unreleased! Over 3 hours of music from the band’s legendary original incarnation: Perry Farrell (vocals), Dave Navarro (guitar), Eric Avery (bass) and Stephen Perkins (drums). Disc 1 opens with five songs recorded during a 1986 session in Venice, CA including an unreleased version of the signature track “Jane Says.”
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Ultimate Guitar
The resulting "Curiosities" collection, which will be released both digitally and as a $74.98 limited-edition wooden cabinet, focuses entirely on the band's original foursome of singer Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, Perkins, and bassist Erik Avery. Material recorded with the later Avery-less incarnation is not included. While the first two discs are comprised mostly of previously unreleased demos and little-heard compilation tracks, the third disc is a complete Jane's Addiction live concert recorded during the band's three-night run at the Hollywood Palladium in December 1990. The DVD includes the rare VHS-only short film "Soul Kiss," music videos and three unreleased live clips taped for MTV Italy in 1990.
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Independent Record
Taken together, "A Cabinet of Curiosities" is an immersive trip down memory lane with one of the most influential bands of the late '80s. With a collection this comprehensive, there's no need for the worry dolls.
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Sound Station
Needles to say that this is a must for any Jane's Addiction fan or just music lovers into the 1990ies LA based american alternative rock scene.
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Wired
A Jane’s Addiction box set called Cabinet of Curiosities is apparently slated for an October 28 release, so it’s possible that the band is looking to drum up some interest in that, although hopefully for fans of the band, this rumored reunion will turn into a full-fledged tour. If the last line-up stays in place for this rumored reunion, the band will include vocalist Perry Farrell, bassist Eric Avery, guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Stephen Perkins.
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The Mercury
A multimedia treat for fans, Jane's Addiction's box set is more than a collection of videos and rare tracks. It's a celebration of the band's influence on music and pop culture. Open the 'Cabinet of Curiosities' and you will find three CDs of music (mostly unreleased demos and live recordings), a DVD of music videos and personal footage from the band, a booklet that tells their story in words and pictures, trading cards featuring the four original members and four tiny worry dolls.
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Spin
The three-disc box set, A Cabinet of Curiosities, will hit stores and online retailers April 21 courtesy of Rhino. The first two discs will feature rare and previously unreleased demos and outtakes, as well as live covers of Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” and the Stooges’ “1970,” among other covers. The third disc is a complete live set from December 19, 1990 at Los Angeles, CA’s Hollywood Palladium venue.
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