The Best Of Jane's Addiction
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The Best Of Jane's Addiction
Up from the Catacombs – The Best of Jane's Addiction is a best of compilation album by Jane's Addiction, released September 19, 2006, on Rhino. The album contains previously released material from each of Jane's Addiction's albums; from their eponymous live debut to Strays.-Wikipedia
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Amazon
When this release was recorded at the Roxy in 1987, Jane's Addiction had not yet become the icons of alternative rock culture they would soon become.
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UCR
The best Jane's Addiction songs reveal a side of the band that classic rock fans might not know. Jane’s is rightly recognized as a cornerstone of 1990s alternative boom. But more precisely, Jane’s was the last great, larger-than-life classic rock band. In recent years, the off-again-on-again group might be best known for the glitzy theme song from HBO’s ‘Entourage.'
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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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Diffuser
Jane’s Addiction — founded way back in the mid-'80s — is a seminal alt-rock band with colorings of funk, punk, '70s arena rock and glam metal thrown into the mélange, just for good measure. Perry Farell (Perry Bernstein) built the engine for this groundbreaking quartet, the high-octane fuel coming from David Navarro’s blistering guitar work, as well as the wild tribal beats of drummer Stephen Perkins. The bands has had its share of troubles -- over the years, they've broken up several times and cycled through several different bass players -- yet despite these ups and downs, the Jane’s crew has continued to make music and influence innovative rock.
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Sputnik
Jane's Addiction were a very energetic band on studio recordings, so this album adds even more energy live. But besides the energy being present, the record has obviously a much rawer sound than their studio recordings which is good and bad in ways, but I'm leaning more towards the good.
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Louder Sound
When Farrell talks about what set Jane’s Addiction apart from every other rock band of the era, he’s unequivocal. “I have a very identifiable voice. It’s a unique sound, the divinity of my vocal cords. In that sense I was gifted with this beautiful luxury. So everything I built around it was to protect the integrity of that voice.” He knows how arrogant this sounds. “Don’t get me wrong,” he says. “My band were great players.” But his phrasing is telling: “My band.”
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The Quietus
The centrepiece of Jane's Addiction - and arguably the band's greatest song – is 'Jane Says'. The track was written about Jane Bainter, "The First Lady Of Wilton House". Bainter was a drug addict (and the inspiration for the group's name) who was always promising, as the notorious lyric recites, to "kick tomorrow". It's a beautiful song (although I prefer the addition of steel drums on the version re-recorded for Nothing's Shocking) set to a heartbreaking narrative. From the opening couplets ("Jane says/ 'I'm done with Sergio /He treats me like a rag doll.'") the song is an unflinching homage to Bainter's struggles with heroin and the impact of her manipulative El Salvadorean dealer.
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Louder Sound
When Farrell talks about what set Jane’s Addiction apart from every other rock band of the era, he’s unequivocal. “I have a very identifiable voice. It’s a unique sound, the divinity of my vocal cords. In that sense I was gifted with this beautiful luxury. So everything I built around it was to protect the integrity of that voice.” He knows how arrogant this sounds. “Don’t get me wrong,” he says. “My band were great players.” But his phrasing is telling: “My band.”
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All Music
Like most great bands, it was not a single member whose contribution was greater: Perry Farrell's unique voice and lyrics, Dave Navarro's guitar riffs and wailing leads, Eric Avery's sturdy basslines, and one of rock's greatest and most powerful drummers, Stephen Perkins.
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Mikeladano
Jane’s Addiction is an emotionally honest offering. It is a very passionate and energetic recording that shows the full dynamic of the band better than any of their later releases.
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Evans Rock Album
Thus starting with a live album proved to be a sagacious strategy, winning a multitude of fans long before their proper studio debut. And from a qualitative perspective the decision to make their eponymous outing a live release scarcely made a difference; the band had decent enough instrumental chops, and their live material sounds much the same as their studio fare.
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