05-06-2017, 01:35 AM
(10-04-2016, 12:42 PM)Wyche Wrote: I'm just not into pop music, be it rock, country, hip hop, what have you. I like deeper lyrics, and musicianship. Perhaps that is why Nirvana never appealed to me in any manner whatsoever. I just couldn't stand Eddie Vedder....lol....but they were better than Nirvana, NIN, STP, AiC, Soundgarden, RHCP, Tool, Primus, Jane's Addiction, I mean SO MANY bands from that era were just better. I just never understood it.
FWIW, I hold AiC in high esteem, because I caught them in Louisville not long before Layne Staley passsed away. They were one of the best live acts I've ever seen.
Jane's may be one of the most under appreciated bands of the era. They really laid the groundwork for those bands becoming viable. On top of that, they were all really ***** good at what they did. Their catalog was small by the time their prime incarnation disbanded, but all of the material was excellent and different from what others were doing at the time.
I read that Tom Morello said something to the effect that Jane's deserved much of the credit that Nirvana got for "changing" rock, and I largely agree. They weren't posturing about not wanting to be rock stars. They absolutely did, they just wanted to do it on their terms.
For my money, there's not a better rock song than "Three Days".
Their downfall came at the hands of a voracious appetite for drugs and intense hatred for each other. If things had been a little different, I thing they'd have produced a lot more really good music. They've released stuff since, but it's not the same. Perry is a caricature of himself. He's probably cool with it though, because he's done as well as anyone from that era for himself.
