Kettle Whistle
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Kettle Whistle
Kettle Whistle is a compilation album by alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, released November 4, 1997 on Warner Bros. Issued to coincide with the 1997 "Relapse" tour, the album – originally titled It's My Party – includes new, alternate, unreleased and live tracks.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
The vintage live songs here provide the most entertainment for the buck. Caught in their campy prime are Farrell’s inimitable stage shtick and the band’s deft wedding of stadium rock and punk attitude.
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Amazon
This is definitely an album for the converted, and the extended jams and live ramblings would be hard to beat.
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All Music
Nothing confirms that fact like Kettle Whistle, an odds and ends collection of live tracks, demos, alternate takes, and new tracks recorded by a "relapsed" Jane's featuring all the original members minus Eric Avery, who is replaced by Flea.
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Jane's Addiction
Kettle Whistle is the first post-Ritual release by Jane’s Addiction. Released by Warner Brothers Records on November 4, 1997 in North America and on December 1, 1997 in the UK, this album features a collection both new and classic Jane’s Addiction material.
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Kettle Whistle is a compilation album by alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, released November 4, 1997 on Warner Bros. Issued to coincide with the 1997 "Relapse" tour, the album – originally titled It's My Party – includes new, alternate, unreleased and live tracks. Certified gold in the U. S., for sales in excess of 500,000, Kettle Whistle is the only Jane's release to feature Flea on bass (he plays trumpet on Nothing's Shocking). The liner notes feature an anecdotal article on the band by Henry Rollins.
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Rate Your Music
The live tracks are good. The outtakes and demos give you alternate versions of vintage tracks such as "Had a Dad", "Ocean Size", "Been Caught Stealing", and "Mountain Song".
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Av Club
Kettle Whistle, a spotty mish-mash with two new tracks, a few leftover outtakes and demos, and a bunch of old live tracks. The juxtaposition of old and new doesn't illustrate a bright future for the reformed Jane's Addiction.
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Sputnik
While the track listing was good, Kettle Whistle should have been a little more extensive – they certainly had space for it.
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Napstar
Given that they only recorded three albums before calling it quits, fans and collectors will love Kettle Whistle, not so much for its content (outtakes, live recordings, etc.), but for the simple fact that it exists.
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Best Ever Albums
Kettle Whistle is ranked 6th best out of 8 albums by Jane's Addiction on BestEverAlbums.com.
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Cd Universe
This highly-anticipated Jane's Addiction CD, Kettle Whistle, which consists of rare, previously unreleased tracks, live recordings, demos, and one brand new track, Kettle Whistle, was recorded by the relapse line up (Perry Farrell/vocals, Dave Navarro/guitar, Stephen Perkins/drummer, and Flea/bass).
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Kettle Whistle is a compilation album by alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, released November 4, 1997. Kettle Whistle is a compilation album by alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, released November 4, 1997 on Warner Bros. Issued to coincide with the 1997 "Relapse" tour, the album – originally titled It's My Party – includes new, alternate, unreleased and live tracks.
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Robert Christgau
As its current projects crumble from irrelevance to negative cash flow, a band that never made music or money commensurate with its myth bestows upon a shock-sated marketplace outtakes, demos, live tracks, and four proofs of physical reunion. Chutzpah has never been Perry Bernstein's problem.
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MTV
Bombastic. Shamanistic. Metal-edge. Tribal. Psychedelic. Trippy. Out of control. Druggy. Pompous. Genius. Sloppy. Brilliant. Take 'em all. Go ahead. Every cliche ever written about Jane's Addiction is true. And false. So don't think you won't see more of the same here. Because nobody has ever done it like Jane's did it, and are doing it... again...
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Pitchfork
Rhino gathers the best from Perry Farrell's trailblazing band-- a group that somehow managed to capture the sum total of 1980s underground music culture and lay the sonic groundwork for the decade that followed.
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Defgav
The Jane's song "Kettle Whistle" has been around for a long time, even before Dave joined the band, but it was never professionally recorded until early August of 1997 when Perry, Dave, Stephen, and Flea did it for inclusion on a rarities album, which was later named after the song.
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Music Stack
Given that they only recorded three albums before calling it quits, fans and collectors will love Kettle Whistle, not so much for its content (outtakes, live recordings, etc.), but for the simple fact that it exists.
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Ny Times
''Kettle Whistle,'' an album of alternate versions of old songs along with two new ones.
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Last Fm
Listening to Kettle Whistle, Jane's Addiction sounds more like an adventurous metal band than an alternative band, and that's not because the mainstream has changed – it's because that the elapsed time has given a perspective on their sound. Above all, the live tracks capture both the power and the transcendence of Jane's Addiction's live performances.
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Qobuz
The live tracks are another matter, capturing both the power and the transcendence of Jane's Addiction's live performances. That's still not enough to make Kettle Whistle a worthy release because there is no sense or logic to its sequencing, and only a few tracks capture the power of Jane's (and even those will be familiar to diehards through bootlegs). It's not a terrible record, but it isn't a very good one, and it's hard to picture Kettle Whistle as anything other than an attempt to cash in on their legend.
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Rockapedia
Dave Navarro joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1994 (he would be fired in 1998) and during a hiatus for the band, Navarro along with Chili Peppers's Flea joined Porno for Pyros to record "Hard Charger" in 1997 for Howard Stern's movie, Private Parts soundtrack. This led to a brief Jane's Addiction Relapse tour, with Flea replacing Avery who declined an invitation to rejoin the band. They produced a compilation album entitled Kettle Whistle featuring two new songs with Flea on bass. In 2010, Perkins stated that "Flea, to me, was a great match in '97. As a drummer, he was very exciting for me to work with."
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Diffuser
After a few years apart, guitarist Dave Navarro went back to work with Perry Farrell – this time to record a song for Howard Stern's 'Private Parts' soundtrack with Farrell's new band, Porno for Pyros, and Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea. The collaboration prompted a brief reunion tour with Flea in place of Eric Avery along with 'Kettle Whistle,' an odds and ends collection of demos, live tracks, alternate takes and two new songs ("Kettle Whistle" and "So What!"). Although the compilation served admirably in lieu of a new album (it was certified gold), the song versions included are (for the most part) inferior to versions that were already available elsewhere. There's a new energy in a swinging studio take of "Been Caught Stealing" and the live cuts (including a particularly epic performance of "Three Days") demonstrate the power the band seems to effortlessly wield.
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Chisholm
Kettle Whistle is a compilation album by alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, released November 4, 1997 on Warner Bros. Issued to coincide with the 1997 "Relapse" tour, the album – originally titled It's My Party – includes new, alternate, unreleased and live tracks.
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JANES ADDICTION Kettle Whistle (Deleted 1997 US 15-track compilation CD featuring live recordings, demos and out-takes.
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Eil
Perfect as usual.
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Song Meanings
"Kettle Whistle" as written by Perry Farrell, David Michael Navarro, Stephen Andrew Perkins and Eric Adam Avery.
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Music Brainz
Kettle Whistle is a compilation album by alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, released November 4, 1997 on Warner Bros. Issued to coincide with the 1997 "Relapse" tour, the album – originally titled It's My Party – includes new, alternate, unreleased and live tracks.
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Daily Vault
Kettle Whistle is disjointed, but as a greatest hits collection it’s actually pretty darn good. Seven of the 15 songs are live cuts (five specifically from a 1990 show at the Hollywood Palladium), two are new tracks, and the rest are outtakes from recordings of the two studio albums. There’s no real substitute for owning both of those (or, at minimum, the 2006 Up From The Catacombs disc). But if you ever were a fan of these guys, Kettle Whistle is at least worth picking up as a supplement.
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Loudwire
After a nasty split, the band's first reunion resulted in a 1997 tour and live album 'Kettle Whistle' that spawned the single, 'So What!.'
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Tunebat
The following tracks will sound good when mixed with Jane's Addiction - Kettle Whistle, because they have similar tempos, adjacent Camelot values, and complementary styles.
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Audio Eclectica
Jane’s Addiction would release the Kettle Whistle record which featured new songs “Kettle Whistle” and “So What” both featured Flea on bass, as well as alternate, unreleased and live tracks.
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Blabbermouth
After dissolving his post-punk band PSI COM in 1984, Farrell co-founded influential pioneers of the Los Angeles underground JANE'S ADDICTION, building a rabid fan base behind their legendary, high-energy shows. The band would go on to release the ground-breaking platinum-certified "Nothing's Shocking", two-times-platinum "Ritual De Lo Habitual", gold compilation "Kettle Whistle" and gold-certified "Strays", among their nine album releases.
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Amazon Au
Nice live album.
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Vvkc
Kettle Whistle is a compilation album by alternative rock band Jane's Addiction.
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Austin Chronicle
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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Electrified Porcupine
The original Kettle Whistle release came out in 1997 and this box set has one vinyl that features some of the tracks from that compilation. There are some interesting takes on here but I’m not sure anyone than Jane’s Addiction super fans or completest will really care to own or listen to multiple times.
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Exclaim
When Jane's Addiction first called it quits in 1991, it looked as if the group would go down in history as alt-rock legends with an untarnished legacy. Since then, however, they've attempted to recapture their past greatness with several short-lived reunions, a live compilation (1997's Kettle Whistle) and a studio album (2003's Strays).
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Raru
Original Jane's Addiction members Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins will be joined by Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) on bass. To mark the occasion, the band has assembled this album, which features the new song "Kettle Whistle," previously unreleased material, live performances, demo takes and outtake reels.
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UCR
It took Jane's their entirely early existence to get this anthem exactly right. It first appeared in a rough form on their debut. Then the studio take from ‘Nothing’s Shocking’ became an overplayed cliche on alternative radio over the course of the 1990s. Finally, the 1997 odds and ends collection ‘Kettle Whistle’ dusted off a live recording from the 1991 Lollapalooza tour. On the 'Kettle' version, a deeper low end gives the song extra oomph, and this reinvigorated tribal take stands as the definitive version.
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