Jane's Addiction (album)
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| Live album by Jane's Addiction | ||||
| Released | May 15, 1987 | |||
| Recorded | 1987 at The Edge Studio in Los Angeles, California January 26, 1987 at The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, California |
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| Genre | Alternative metal, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 39:08 | |||
| Label | Triple X | |||
| Producer | Mark Linett and Jane's Addiction | |||
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| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |
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Jane's Addiction is the eponymous live album by Jane's Addiction, released on May, 15 1987. Its basic tracks were recorded live at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles on January 26, 1987, with additional overdubs and corrections recorded at The Edge Studio in Los Angeles. An audience applause dub from a Los Lobos concert was overlayed onto the final mix.
The basic tracks for the album were recorded live over a single night in Los Angeles with additional recording and overdubs done later, in studio. Many of the songs from the album would later be re-recorded for other releases. Of the band-written songs on the album, only four ("Trip Away," "1%," "I Would For You," and "My Time") have not been re-recorded and re-released, although an alternate studio demo cut of "I Would For You" was released on the 1991 compilation album Live and Rare. This version was recorded in 1986, however, and predates the Jane's Addiction album.
"Jane Says" and "Pigs in Zen" were later studio recorded and released on Nothing's Shocking, the band's major label debut. "Whores" and "Chip Away" were re-recorded in 2009 by a reunited Jane's Addiction for release on the NINJA EP, a collaboration with Nine Inch Nails to help promote the joint NINJA tour.
The album included two cover songs: "Rock & Roll" by The Velvet Underground, and "Sympathy for the Devil" by The Rolling Stones, although the latter was titled "Sympathy" on the album.
At least one other song, "Slow Divers," was recorded for the album but left off for unknown reasons. "Slow Divers" would eventually be released ten years later on the band's 1997 out-take/alternate cut/live & new track compilation album Kettle Whistle.
There were no singles released from Jane's Addiction.
"Here is proof that Jane's Addiction surpassed puberty before they came of age," wrote Nick Griffiths in a review of a CD reissue for Select. "Jane's Addiction is sex, obsession, tortured-soul food – a rape of the senses. It's no Immaculate Conception, but it's immaculate."
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