It
amazes me that this song came out in 1990 and this performance was
recorded nearly 34 years ago.
I remember hearing Jane's Addiction
for the first time in 1991 and they blew my mind. This 10 minute epic is awesome, at
their peak Jane's Addiction were one of the all time great bands,
talented musicians & totally original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Y-v5twoGw
Ritual
de lo Habitual served as Jane's Addiction's breakthrough to the
mainstream in 1990 (going gold and reaching the Top 20), and remains one
of rock's all-time sprawling masterpieces. While its predecessor,
1988's Nothing's Shocking, served as a fine
introduction to the group, Ritual de lo Habitual proved to be even more
daring; few (if any) alt-rock bands have composed a pair of epics that
totaled nearly 20 minutes, let alone put them back to back for full
dramatic effect. While the cheerful ditty "Been Caught Stealing" is the
album's best-known track, the opening "Stop!" is one of the band's best
hard rock numbers, propelled by guitarist Dave Navarro's repetitive,
trashy funk riff, while "Ain't No Right" remains explosive in its
defiant and vicious nature. Jane's Addiction always had a knack for
penning beautiful ballads with a ghostly edge, again proven by the album
closer, "Classic Girl." But it's the aforementioned epics that are the
album's cornerstone: "Three Days" and "Then She Did...." Although Perry
Farrell has never truly admitted what the two songs are about lyrically,
they appear to be about an autobiographical romantic tryst between
three lovers, as each composition twists and turns musically through
every imaginable mood. And while the tracks "No One's Leaving,"
"Obvious," and "Of Course" may not be as renowned as other selections,
they prove integral in the makeup of the album.
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