I've Seen Color Changed By a Kiss
This morning, I was going through a CD wallet and I got to the last page. I was just trying to find something a little different than the same fifteen or so CDs that I've been listening to all week. On the last page, there was Yusef Lateef, Entombed, and Jane's Addiction. Not in the mood for jazz or the pathetic later album from sludge-metal gods Entombed, I pulled out Ritual de lo Habitual.
Does anyone remember the first time they heard this album? I know I bought it because I saw the video for "Been Caught Stealing" on MTV's "120 Minutes." In fact, I had to order it from the local record store because it wasn't out yet, but they had no plans to order it until I enquired. I had it on cassette because this was a couple months before I got my first CD player.
It was my first experience with a modern-rock epic. The White Album was already carefully etched on the inside of my skull, so I was familiar with the concept. But nothing I had already heard could have prepared me for this.
This morning, I got in the car, put in the CD, and headed to work. I had forgotten. I'd forgotten the stop/start rushes in "Stop!" and the funk of "No One's Leaving." I'd forgotten the "my sex and my drugs and my rock 'n' roll" bit that opens "Ain't No Right." The creepy stalker intro to "Three Days" and the later build up and money shot around the seven and a half minute mark had totally escaped me.
Fuck, how does this record still sound so fresh and exciting? After hearing too much of it long ago, I grew tired of Jane's Addiction, but I'm thinking of going and picking up some Porno for Pyros cuz I always liked them, too. Perry Farrell is one twisted, gifted weirdo.
2 comments:
it's so strange. pat and i just had a similar experience. we were over at a friend's house drinking a few weeks ago and pat put on one of her jane's addiction cd's we were all singing the lyrics and proceeded to listen to all of the albums she had as well as the first porno for pyros album. it really took me back. to when i was first getting in to music ini a real way. i listened to those tapes over and over, and even fell asleep to them.
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in high school I fell asleep on a bus from Wisconsin to Michigan listening to "classic girl" on repeat. I must have heard that song 30 times in a row. I've gotta pull that album back out now.
"some will say
those were the days
but in a way, y'know
for us these are the days"
SO high school!
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