Reviews (page 8 of 8)
could hardly get through (didn't) - just not my kind of music
Bråkete
it’s a no from me, dawg
I cannot sing. I wish I could I cannot. So I don't record music. Someone should have told this guy he can't sing either. My poor ears are now mad at me for putting them through this. 1
Didn’t like this noise at all, far too heavy for me.
Furchtbar!
What I've learned is that these guys like naked women and just-off-pitch singing. 90% of my issues with this band are the singer, honestly. He's like a slightly higher-pitched and more repetitive Fred Durst with equally as little charm to his vocals. There were a few songs I almost liked before he opened his mouth. The instrumentals aren't really interesting either. I spent a lot of time having them go in one ear and straight out the other. It really doesn't help that every song on the second half of the album is beyond tedious. Just listen to literally any other alt-rock record that came out in 1990.
13/13 white male rock or white male rock adjacent albums. I'm tired, boss. Saved a song: N RYM: N
Absolutely nothing interesting about this one.
Not my cup of tea.
actually bad
Just no. I should like it but I hate it.
Got Caught Stealing is the only decent song.
Never got going, the same throughout.
jebem ti mater, kakvo sranje. nevjerojatno je, kakvog god stila se late ovi dečki, zvuči ko generično smeće na autopilotu. a glas? većina ljudi ljepše pjeva pod tušem kad ih nitko ne čuje. dajem kečinu jer sam već morao jedan njihov album preslušat, i to relativno nedavno
I tried to listen but.
I listened. I did not enjoy.
Shite
Next to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction might be my least favorite band to come out of the 80's independent rock scene. This albums blows.
Could barely make it through the first few songs
Guess you can call them an alternative band. Two decent songs. The rest not so.
Nämä tasaisen taitavat hupailijat etsivät vakavasti otettavuutta toistosta ja 60-luku-Intia-psykehtävistä melodisista ratkaisuista. Korkeintaan ei-kamalaa.
i hates this
Never have understood the appeal of Janes Addiction. Did someone once put on three different Van Halen albums at 45 through cheap speakers and go "that's our sound" ?
I have hated this band since their debut record. Vapid lyrics, annoying vocals, trite songwriting. The "didn't wanna pay for IEEIT" chorus in Been caught stealing is one of the most annoying earworms of the 90s.
No.
Was intrigued by the start of the first song, but immediately disappointed when I heard the singer. Had a short surge of hope with the start of "Of course" but back to immediate disappointment when the singer started screeching again.
eh
Been caught stealing is great, not much else
Sorry - didn't make it through the whole thing. I'm getting picky in my old age, and I didn't like it.
I don't, and never have, understood the popularity of this band. This album is really not anything I like. I will concede that there was no other alternative (or any other kind) band that sounded like this back in the 80s for that I give them a star
DNF this was hot garbage. Absolutely hated it. Been Caught Stealing was okay. Everything else is complete ass. They’re kind of like if turnstile was absolute dogshit.
Not my thing.
Absolutely hate it, no redeeming qualities about it. Not for me.
1. ztop - 1 2. leaving - 0 3. right - 1 4. obviouz - 0 5. ztealing - 1 6. three - 2 7. zhe did - 1 8. ofcourze - 1 9. girl - 0
Very meh
Garbage
This album does not deserve to be among the best.
Now I understand what old people mean when they say some music is merely ‘noise’.
Wailing, wailing, wailing, and wailing! Honestly I'm not a fan of Jane's Addiction. I respect the quality of the music, but I truly dislike the style.
Painfully bad. Every song initially was fine, but they each got so much worse. It's kinda baffling.
Couldn’t finish this. Absolute garbage. Maybe Jane should get her act together and make a decent album.
Dysphoner alternative HardRock.
Honestly just not something I’d go back to, idk if it’s the vocals or song consistency but not my fav
no se pero jacosillo
If the purple hand gang started a band, this is what it would sound like. Reading about tragedies endured by the band members made the music make more sense, but I still wasn’t enough to make it enjoyable. Just loud amateurish noise.
it was okay - wasn't my favorite
I don’t know who this is for, genuinely sucks to listen to. Sort of the worst parts of the 90’s aesthetic and sound condensed into a group, with all the fun taken out. Annoying vocals, nonsense instrumental choices, boring writing.
Not a fan
I’m too old for that, and I like it!
Merkwürdig, seltsam, schräg, entzieht sich den durch das Radio und Bryan Adams domestizierten Ohren. Oder ich bin einfach zu alt für Dissonanzen. Ich stecke mir jetzt erstmal die Finger in meine blutenden Ohren.
So much shouting and so loud Every song in this album sounds the same There is no variance, it's really boring to listen to There's nothing to look forward to listening to the songs
Horrible
They sound like every other band trying to sound like that. Noisy and the voice is a bit too shrieky. I wanted to give this a 3, but decided to go with a 2, and then changed it to a 1 because I just couldn’t get to the end.
i just sat though the finale of beethoven 9. we closed at the usher hall and i got to sneak in during the scherzo. tears where streaming down my face. "All who can call at least one soul theirs, Join in our song of praise! All creatures drink of joy at Nature's breast, All, whether good or evil! Even the worm can feel contentment!" and he says having never actually heard the majority of his own music, "You millions, I embrace you. This kiss is for all the world!" he died before he completed another symphony. did he die for our sins? anyway now i have to listen to ritual de habitual by janes addiction. this album fucking stinks. *ring *ring *ring "ayo its robert dimery, the slime, the prime, the dime, just checking in - do we seem to have a problem here?" "janes addiction get to have two fucking albums? janes addiction fucking suck!!" "been caught stealing was a 90's drivetime classic bob." "you know james brown only got one!? the king of soul?" "i would watch your tone if i were you..." "blue is the colour by the beautiful south is a beautiful record from the 90's! and if you want alternative whats wrong with core by stone temple pilots?!" "i own this list and i own you, worm. dont make me send in my goons.." "YOU HAVENT HEARD THE LAST FROM ME!" *beeeepppppppppppp*
This is so 90's, but not my 90's vibe. It's wailing and boring honestly. I feel like they were ALMOST doing something interesting, but they didn't get there
Un disco de rock que junta todas las peores tendencias de los ‘80s y ‘90s, formando un sonido casi ofensivo, manteniendo vivo el espíritu del “sexo, drogas y rock n roll”.
En stjerne
Just don't like them
Solid 1. Not for me. 1/5
Can't really stand Jane's Addiction. Feel like Been Caught Stealing is by far one of their better songs...and it is just average in the 90's pantheon. 1.5/5
What a dumb album. None of these songs needed to be 6 minutes and I would argue this album does not need to exist.
Nope. That's not good. I cut vocalists a lot of slack because they've got a real hard job but Perry Farrell can piss right off with that noise. I only got about a track and a half into this before I wanted to start punching things. Jane's Addiction is a great example of a group of really talented musicians saddled with a real crap frontman. At times, it feels like the rest of the band is trying to hard to match the frantic, whining chaos of Farrell and still managing to fall short because they're just not willing to go that far. And good on them. "Ritual Do Lo Habitual" is a great alt-metal album ruined by a horrible, one-trick-pony frontman who writes shitty lyrics and then can barely sing them.
Listening to this album was truly a chore. The songs were all bland and annoying and the singer's voice was very unpleasant
Too noisy
Really not a fan of this. Sounds so dated and almost like a parody.
niggers
Saw Jane's in 2002, everyone walked out after the first song and Perry was left screaming on stage "get out!"
With a sound reminiscent of a Sixth Form band and vocals by a 14 year old, this really is mediocre.
Jane's Addiction is so fucking bad 1
Mostly, yuck. The moments of cultural appropriation. The pervasive moments of wannabe-rock-starriness. However, to my surprise, I do mostly like the sound and production on this record. It manages a middle ground between stadium-filling vocals coupled with fast, reverbed-out guitar licks, against an overall grimier, punkier feel. I'm sort of partial to Perry Farrell's vocals too. Just the sort of childish, adolescent silliness he brings to some of the deliveries. His sing-shoutiness that never really manages to be either singing or shouting. The tone of this music lives somewhere between the annoying self-seriousness of, say, Guns N' Roses, and the complete funk idiocy of say, The Red Hot Chili Peppers. (For the record: I mostly abhor Guns N' Roses and I am much more partial to the Chili Peppers funk idiocy.) Undoubtedly, Jane's Addiction would have been fun to see live in the Echo Park, Los Angeles of the late 1980s (I've heard some amazing stories of Farrel's sexually explicit acts on stage, complete with dildo and bare a**hole, for example), but now, this whole scene just seems like an unfortunate cultural misstep. The last gasp of weirdo artists attempting to achieve fame and fortune by attempting to be bonafide rock stars—complete with "sex, drugs, and rock and roll..." (sigh). Any irony is of course lost, and I just can't really abide by the band's image and likeness, even if the music itself isn't that bad. Sure they are a pioneering alternative act, but the acts they pioneered for are largely nu-metal...so I kind of wish they just hadn't. This is a distinct precursor to say, the horrors of Woodstock '99, for example, and I kinda just wish this music lived in the opening credits of an Entourage episode and nowhere else. "Three Days" is actually interesting as it adopts a more straight-up grunge, indie rock sound. And stretching itself out to a whopping 11 minutes, it's a pretty daring number for a group whose lead singer is known to stick things up his pooper on stage. It even achieves a post-rock adjacent jam from about the 5-minute to 8-minute mark and really highlights the band's control and musicianship in spite of the chaos I typically associate with these musicians. "Then She Did..." falls in this camp too. Though this song gets pretty annoying with the backing strings. It takes itself way too seriously. "Of Course" is also kind of garbage. I can't figure out what the hell these guys are doing or going for. Same goes for the closing track. I don't want to hear these guys croon. What are they doing? In closing, I only really liked that one track ("Three Days"). I actively disliked everything after. And everything before is just fine. Like, if I was outside doing some gardening and listening to a little portable radio and any of those first 5 songs came on, that'd be fine. I wouldn't get up and brush the dirt off my hands to change it. But I wouldn't turn it up or put those songs on either. They can just exist and that’s fine.
Very poor introduction. The artwork, vocals, and first 3 songs in general really grated with me. A lot of it reminds me of the worse examples of 2000s pop-punk, which is probably unfair to say, considering how this sound influenced so many great and terrible bands from that period. Three Days is good, not as good as I had expected based on the reputation it has. Obvious is ok, but the other tracks are either short and annoying, or long and meandering. Overall, big disappointment considering I'm really fond of alt-rock, grunge and most 90s sounds. Feel bad giving it a 1, probably not fully deserved, but there's nothing here for me to return to, and I just did not enjoy it at all. 25/10/22
Nah
It's a pity they couldn't have sprung for a decent vocalist.
p648. 1990. 1 star. Shouty power pop with no redeeming features. Green Day without the tunes. No thank you. Why is this on the list?
Braucht kein Mensch
Too heavy for me
Man, this morning I was listening to a track from Kanye's Donda 2 (the album that still isn't really out), and it was so amazing. Kaycyy's autotuned crooning, the type of style you'd expect on a trap beat, but it was on a gorgeous string arrangement that made it so heavenly. It just struck me how beautiful music can be. Then I had to listen to this, and maybe it was because it followed that song and revelation, but this did so little for me and was pretty grating overall. I barely liked one song, the rest ranged from tolerable to skippable. It's been a minute since I rated one this low, but I guess we need to balance out the recent five star. I'm not addicted to this at all, it's just grungy, noisy rock with little semblance of melody. Kind of crazy since I really dug the other album we got from them, but that's how it goes I suppose. Favorite tracks: Favorite is a strong word here, but Been Caught Stealing. Album art: Pretty disturbing claymation vibes coming off this one. I just know my parents are gonna hate it. I do really appreciate the attention to detail though, it may be disturbing but I think it's a good, bold statement of a cover. 1.5/5
Jag tyckte det kändes lite platt och planlöst. Gitarrerna höll på och jävlades åt alla håll utan att det kändes som att de hade coola riff, svängde eller hade backning från resten av bandet. Sången lämnade mig också rätt kall, fanns nånting med lite driv i tree days, men ne not for me. funderade på att ge en tvåa, men med den skalan vet jag inte vad jag skulle ge en etta
olyssningsbart
Not even Been Caught Stealing redeems this album
Nisam ni sve poslusala, bas mi se nije nikako dalo, it felt like mučenje.
1990. Stop
Too heavy for me. Couldn't get through it.
How does this band have so many records on this list? Did Perry Ferrell have something to do with the list compilation? Because I think Janes Addiction has more records on this list (so far) than either the Beatles or Stones. What is it about this band? Is it the solid state guitar tone made more sally by wah-wah pedal? Is it the same exact production on every record? Is it the complete lack of hooks? It's all way over my head.
“Junk syncretism (kitchen-sink eclecticism? styleless mish-mash?)”
Did nothing for me.
לא לא ולא טו מאץ צעקות בשבילי
Poor mans Metallica
Inject some heroin right in my balls! This was back-breakingly painful to get through. There is just something so insincere about the whole thing. Just like when your mother told her that she loved you, but really she attempted to abort you sixteen times, you resilient bastard.
Urgh
Nah
Every song sounded the same, pretty boring. Although I feel like a cool cholo in the 90’s.
Haven’t really listened to it too much because I WAS IN HOSPITAL, GUYS. But what I have it sounds much as I expected. There was a period post-Nirvana and pre-nu-metal where it seems like everything sounded like this. Everything built on grooves and wailing vocals and so much bass. And it’s not really my thing.
Terrible
I enjoyed Obvious, but otherwise I didn't identify with it. Wouldn't go back or recommend, but can see how it was influenced by bands like Styx and influenced the likes of Offspring.
Utter rubbish
There was a few cool instrumental bits, e.g on the track Three Days, but on the whole, this was not my vibe at all. Sorry Jane
Didn’t enjoy this at all and struggled to make it to the end.
Jako ze nazwy bandy nie kojarze, albumu tym bardziej, wiec bez uprzedzien moge stwierdzic, ze jest to harde rokowanie w iscie hamerykanskim stylu, sam seks kamienie i lekarstwa w najgorszym wykonaniu, wokal to w wiekoszsci przepite wycie, banda instrumentalistow to basior, drumy oraz gitarka, takze niczym szczegolnie pozytywnym sie nie wyrozniajaca, a gitarka w rekach samego navarro, ktorego kojarze glownie z najslabszego albumiku hot peppersow, wiec wszystko sie uklada w sensowna calosc, jedynym pozytywnym punktem odsluchu bylo znalezienie kawalka znanego z gta SA, klasyka radia X its mine mine all mine, ktory ma tytul been caught stealing, najciemniejszy fragment, to byl zdecydowanie 10 minutowy traczek three days i jego potworne solowania gitarowe a nawet podwojnie gitarowe, bo na tym traku wokalista tez postanowil dac popis skilsowy, tak jak wiekszosc albumiku kontent mocno erosomansko pijacki, wiec mocny rok
barely could make it through any tracks, some of my least favorite style of music
Really not my kind of music. I only understood the lyrics to one song, and I didn't really care for it.