Positively Propulsive!
Written: Nov 21 '99
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Pros: Fantastic energizing music - positively propulsive!
Cons: Not enough Jane's Addiction music to listen to.
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| Fusty's Full Review: Jane's Addiction |
Jane's Addiction had amazing spirit. As a band, they challenged musical genres, sexual roles, the concert experience, album cover art, and what was possible with young music in the late 1980s.
Any of their albums is a driving force - it cannot help but stir you. In this way, some people are turned off by the "artiness" or they find the music ponderous. You have to be willing to go along with the flights of fancy, the soaring guitar solos, the strange religio-intoxicated media criticism of the lead singer Perry Farrell. But along the way, you'll be guided by some seriously skillful and intelligent musicians. The drummer Stephen Perkins wages wicked funk through most of their songs, and at other times, brings a welcome sense of play to the music. There's something deeply tribal in much of his work. Eric Avery is also slightly funky, and also classical - pulling the strings of his bass into intricate and still tight patterns beneath all the songs. And Dave Navarro, the guitarist brings heavy metal, blues and funk sensibilities to his guitar work - sometimes playing high into transcendant hard rock, at times playing a low down groove. Perry Farrell's charisma and wild consciousness are a challenge and an inspiration - whether or not you agree with his notions of personal freedom and exhibitionism, you will likely feel yourself motivated by the spirit invested in his works.
Jane's Addiction transitioned America from Guns and Roses to Nirvana. They took a big sound (and big hair), and made it more powerful by combining a sense of the sacred with otherwise meaningless hedonism. This is romantic music.
Recommended:
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Fusty
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