I just saw Jane's Addiction 2 days ago. They were great.

You should all go buy Farrell's "Satellite Party". It's one of the best albums I've heard in the past five years. Guy almost went broke and bankrupt (not joking!) after he recorded it - no one wanted to market it. "Stonking Great" isn't a strong enough sentence fragment to describe it's awesomeness.

Went to go see JA this past weekend in Jersey. Pure awesomeness.

I'm confused by the last part of this: "That guy was so influential for me as a writer, a performer and his lifestyle."

Hey Lou, wanna take a ride on the wild side?

Lou Reed has been surfing on his rep for nearly 40 years.
Must be nice.

Objectus: I'm confused by the last part of this: "That guy was so influential for me as a writer, a performer and his lifestyle."

Lou liked heroin. Perry likes heroin. What's confusing about that?

I prefer Terry Farrell

/just sayin'

Jedekai: You should all go buy Farrell's "Satellite Party". It's one of the best albums I've heard in the past five years. Guy almost went broke and bankrupt (not joking!) after he recorded it - no one wanted to market it. "Stonking Great" isn't a strong enough sentence fragment to describe it's awesomeness.

Damn, judging from reviews and online hate, I thought I was the only person that liked that album.

He makes a great pet, too.

Lou Reed is the biggest a-hole I have ever met in the music business. Good luck Perry.

vernonFL: I just saw Jane's Addiction 2 days ago. They were great.

you should have posted this tomorrow

/Three Days
//awesome song

Just saw Jane's a couple of weeks back in Detroit. Best live band I have ever seen.

ominousinc: Just saw Jane's a couple of weeks back in Detroit. Best live band I have ever seen.

My girlfriend (who likes JA) and her friends just saw them at a NIN/JA show.

Not good, not good at all was their verdict. Said he looks and sounds every bit his years and a few of the ones Helen Mirren is hiding.

Personally, I am a fan of neither (Lou Reed or JA/Farrell). So may your path by blessed with potholes and dead skunks, you two.

stephen74: Objectus: I'm confused by the last part of this: "That guy was so influential for me as a writer, a performer and his lifestyle."

Lou liked heroin. Perry likes heroin. What's confusing about that?

Fair enough. I guess I would just expect it to read "a person" rather than "his lifestyle" or perhaps more fitting would be "a lifestyle".

vernonFL: I just saw Jane's Addiction 2 days ago. They were great.

Saw them last night. Wasn't impressed. NIN FTW!

Saw the NIN/JA show in Denver.

Jane's Addiction were amazing. Fantastic live show. Tons of energy. The band looked like they truly enjoyed performing.

As for NIN. Them boys are a great comedy show. I swear Trent Reznor was going to cry in one of the songs. During one of the many songs about how harsh the world is to him, he held himself and wiped a tear. I wish I was joking about that. They were good fun, but about as serious as Weird Al.

Gonna see Jane's Addiction in August and I'm really pumped, never seen them live before.

mahoot: Saw the NIN/JA show in Denver.

Jane's Addiction were amazing. Fantastic live show. Tons of energy. The band looked like they truly enjoyed performing.

As for NIN. Them boys are a great comedy show. I swear Trent Reznor was going to cry in one of the songs. During one of the many songs about how harsh the world is to him, he held himself and wiped a tear. I wish I was joking about that. They were good fun, but about as serious as Weird Al.

you sir! make me hurt!
hehe

saw nin a long azz time ago. They played hurt and all the fat chicks were doing the mary jain dance (holding the ham hocks that they call arms in the air and moving back a forth slowly) to it.
then i saw one that was sporting a corset (ever seen a roast thats been bound? ) then i noticed that some of the strings were white. She had tied shoe laces to get some extra room.

i still laugh every time i hear hurt.

jaundice_joplin:

you sir! make me hurt!
hehe

saw nin a long azz time ago. They played hurt and all the fat chicks were doing the mary jain dance (holding the ham hocks that they call arms in the air and moving back a forth slowly) to it.
then i saw one that was sporting a corset (ever seen a roast thats been bound? ) then i noticed that some of the strings were white. She had tied shoe laces to get some extra room.

i still laugh every time i hear hurt.

Oh man. That is so wrong.

mahoot: jaundice_joplin:

you sir! make me hurt!
hehe

saw nin a long azz time ago. They played hurt and all the fat chicks were doing the mary jain dance (holding the ham hocks that they call arms in the air and moving back a forth slowly) to it.
then i saw one that was sporting a corset (ever seen a roast thats been bound? ) then i noticed that some of the strings were white. She had tied shoe laces to get some extra room.

i still laugh every time i hear hurt.

Oh man. That is so wrong.


hay i had to see it!

mahoot: As for NIN. Them boys are a great comedy show. I swear Trent Reznor was going to cry in one of the songs. During one of the many songs about how harsh the world is to him, he held himself and wiped a tear. I wish I was joking about that. They were good fun, but about as serious as Weird Al.

But a girl was once unkind to him!

I first wanted him to shut up about himself 15 years ago, can't believe he's still getting away with that tortured artist routine these days. He's just a self absorbed attention whore. People who are truly tortured learn to shut up about it.

J. Frank Parnell: But a girl was once unkind to him!

I first wanted him to shut up about himself 15 years ago, can't believe he's still getting away with that tortured artist routine these days. He's just a self absorbed attention whore. People who are truly tortured learn to shut up about it.

I think it's all theatrics. He's a performer, putting on a show. His fans eat it up and he makes money. That said, it sure makes for good comedy.

J. Frank Parnell:

But a girl was once unkind to him!

I first wanted him to shut up about himself 15 years ago, can't believe he's still getting away with that tortured artist routine these days. He's just a self absorbed attention whore. People who are truly tortured learn to shut up about it.

Yeah, he looks SO depressed

Was at the NIN/JA tour last night.

NIN was beautiful, Trent went through a good chunk of the catalogue (especially was digging on The Becoming and Somewhat Damaged). This live band sounds really great, and he puts on an amazing show. You know, I wouldn't say this in front of people I know, but since it's the internet, he's sort of the bruce springsteen of generation X. He writes really amazing songs about a whole range of issues, but 70-90% of people know nothing about him and try to pigeonhole him with the whole tired emo argument. Year Zero was a conceptual dystopian future allegory. Oh yeah, that's definitely sooo self loathing, he is definitely "He's just a self absorbed attention whore."

But since you're in this thread, Mr. Parnell, so that leads me to believe you are a JA fan. After watching a 45 minute set of showing off egos (Dave Navarro did tear shiat up, though) I really wondered if there was ever enough JA fans to justify it. Not to mention Perry Farrell prattles on like the burnt out hippie* he is.

Trent's set was a mixture of songs he put out 20 years ago to less than a year ago. That's all I have to say.

*NTTAWWT

threecigarettes: But since you're in this thread, Mr. Parnell, so that leads me to believe you are a JA fan. After watching a 45 minute set of showing off egos (Dave Navarro did tear shiat up, though) I really wondered if there was ever enough JA fans to justify it. Not to mention Perry Farrell prattles on like the burnt out hippie* he is.

Don't be fooled into thinking i actually care about the stories i show up in the comments for. But since you mentioned it, i think Janes Addiction are ok. I liked some songs off of Ritual De lo Habitual, but everything else never interested me, and i do find them overrated.

If you want to know the awful truth about me and NiN, i was pretty heavily into them back before and during the time The Downward Spiral came out. Still have Broken and Fixed on CD, as well as the Reptile EP and all kinds of other goodies, but after TDS i started to get into other industrial bands that predated him, and found they dealt with broader and more relevant issues. They also did all the 'innovation' people see in him ~10 years earlier. NIN served as a gateway band for me to get into Industrial music as a whole, and now i look back with a bit of disdain at how he tried to claim the entire genre as something he made himself, and used it mainly to biatch about things in his life like a petulant child.

J. Frank Parnell: as well as the Reptile EP

wait, what?

NIN is in my all time top 3. I'm also a fan of Jane's Addiction (I just dropped $60 on Cabinet).

Tampa 5/9 was either an off night for Janes or this thread is full of crack smokers. There was no contest that night. Dave was solid, but Perry was drunk off his ass for about 55 minutes of music. NIN tore through a wide range of catalogue gems, easily the better set.

Jane's 2003 Lolla (terribly underappreciated tour) set shiat all over their NINJA set

Saw the NIN/JA show in Columbia, MD just the other day and the NIN set was great. Lots of older stuff, soundtrack singles (Dead Souls, Burn, etc), a really good mix.

The JA showing wasn't too bad either, sounded good, but PF was almost indeciferable at times, he seemed more focused on his body convulsions than the lyrics...ohwell, still a good show though.

I also saw the NIN/JA show in Atlanta last month. NIN was awesome, but I was unimpressed with JA.

NIN live is comparable in awesomeness with their studio work, but JA sounded pretty terrible live.

attack of the: J. Frank Parnell:

But a girl was once unkind to him!

I first wanted him to shut up about himself 15 years ago, can't believe he's still getting away with that tortured artist routine these days. He's just a self absorbed attention whore. People who are truly tortured learn to shut up about it.

Yeah, he looks SO depressed

Is that Reznor or Vince Gill???

Perry ain't worthy.