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Jane's Addiction
Publisher: Warner Bros.
Thu, 1 January 1970
by: Mugwai
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“HERE WE GO!” screams vocalist Perry Farell as the concord searing guitars of Dave Navarro propel the band into the highly energised album opener “STOP!”.
This is Jane’s Addiction’s Ritual De Lo Habitual. From here on in you are welcome to a physical, spiritual and most essential aural sensation.
“STOP!” instantly commands your attention with it’s furious rhythms and Farell’s distinctly unique voice and with further listening the realisation will strike you – this is not your standard “alternative rock” music, this is not fuzzy bar chords, flannelette shirts and (thank christ) the lamentation of teen angst (bands over the age of twenty five still scream like a thai hooker about it). ”STOP!” then continues to traverse from blistering speed to a slow spinning vortex of madness and emotion and the rest of the album will proceed to travel in the same direction, just not necessarily in the same order.
“No one’s leaving” and “Ain’t no right” are further fuelled with the same manic conviction, displaying Navarro’s highly original guitar lines and subsonic soundscapes. Eric Avery's highly supportive yet tastefully creative bass lines are a wonderful meld of bottom end groove and melodic chordal melodies as well as throwing in hard-edged punk lines (listen to “Ain’t no right”).
It ain’t all in your face like a Mormon on your doorstep though, check out the funky as “Been caught stealing”. The groove is so infectious that you will already be at the local 7-11 stuffing Skittles down the front of your pants (I prefer the front). Navarro’s jangly guitar, Avery’s smooth yet punctuating bass and drummer Stephen Perkins’s impeccably and undeniably grooved beats are pure joy, plus how many songs do you hear about shoplifting?
The second half of the album takes a mellower though non-less impactful turn. Here we experience the softer, yet rich beautiful ambience of the band on songs like “Classic girl” and the Arabic touched “Of course”. Farell has a deeply sensitive and poignant side to his lyrics, check out “Of course”. With it’s totally disarming story telling that suprises you with an almost comedic catchline while displaying it’s childlike emotion.
The shining jewel in the crown that is Ritual de lo habitual is undeniably the song “Three days”. This is an epic song, a cascade of sadness yet joy, complimented by a musical grandness that will guide you through the many tiers of this tremendous opus. There is pain yet redemption complimented by a soundtrack that begins as a quiet sorrow then continues to slowly grow and transform into a furious and glorious, triumphant ending.
Jane’s Addiction soon departed ways after this album (though recently after 12 years have reformed), leaving on a musically creative peak and leaving us with an album that never fails to impress me. The mark of great album is when every song on the record is a masterpiece and that is exactly what Ritual de lo habitual is.
by: Mugwai
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