Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Wicked
Wick wick
Wicked
Wicked awesome, mmm
Yea, yea, widen your view
And tune on into the frequency
Chill all alone
Love is the rule
Follow it to the frequency
Couple girls, couple stories, and a couple shrooms
Couple girls, couple stories, and a couple shrooms
Couple clubs and I'm in the zone
Rather take the party home
Took it in the groove
Wet sex passionate in a dark tomb
In a dark tomb
If it twine inside then hold tight, never let it loose
Wet it up
Couple girls, couple stories, and a couple shrooms
Couple girls, couple stories, and a couple shrooms
Couple girls, couple girls make a nigga feel less lonely
I trust them, my riders
Easing my frequency
Curiosity, is the key to my frequency
Explore what you find
And now
Yea, yea, widen your view
And tune on into the frequency
Chill all alone
Love is the rule
Follow it to the frequency
Yea, yeow
Yea
Yea, oh
Boo
I'm done up 'til sunup
I'm done up 'til sunup
I'm real close stroking in another room
Done up 'til sunup
I'm done up 'til sunup
I'm real close stroking in another room
Wet and passionate
Real close, shed tears and the sweaty groove
And I love the love
Hot sweat in the sheets never speak on cue in the cyclone
Cyclone, wet uh
A couple trippy girls, couple stories, and a couple shrooms
Now a couple nudes
Sucking boobs
Seeing double, seeing double
And it zoom
Yea, yeow, oh, boo
Yea, yea, widen your view
And tune on into the frequency
Chill all alone
Love is the rule
Follow it to the frequency
Yea, yea, color outside the lines
And tune in to the frequency
Chill all alone
Love is the rule
And follow it to the frequency
Wick wick
Wicked
Wicked awesome, mmm
Yea, yea, widen your view
And tune on into the frequency
Chill all alone
Love is the rule
Follow it to the frequency
Couple girls, couple stories, and a couple shrooms
Couple girls, couple stories, and a couple shrooms
Couple clubs and I'm in the zone
Rather take the party home
Took it in the groove
Wet sex passionate in a dark tomb
In a dark tomb
If it twine inside then hold tight, never let it loose
Wet it up
Couple girls, couple stories, and a couple shrooms
Couple girls, couple stories, and a couple shrooms
Couple girls, couple girls make a nigga feel less lonely
I trust them, my riders
Easing my frequency
Curiosity, is the key to my frequency
Explore what you find
And now
Yea, yea, widen your view
And tune on into the frequency
Chill all alone
Love is the rule
Follow it to the frequency
Yea, yeow
Yea
Yea, oh
Boo
I'm done up 'til sunup
I'm done up 'til sunup
I'm real close stroking in another room
Done up 'til sunup
I'm done up 'til sunup
I'm real close stroking in another room
Wet and passionate
Real close, shed tears and the sweaty groove
And I love the love
Hot sweat in the sheets never speak on cue in the cyclone
Cyclone, wet uh
A couple trippy girls, couple stories, and a couple shrooms
Now a couple nudes
Sucking boobs
Seeing double, seeing double
And it zoom
Yea, yeow, oh, boo
Yea, yea, widen your view
And tune on into the frequency
Chill all alone
Love is the rule
Follow it to the frequency
Yea, yea, color outside the lines
And tune in to the frequency
Chill all alone
Love is the rule
And follow it to the frequency
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Frequency Lyrics as written by Mike Dean Scott Mescudi
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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This song pretty much speaks for itself; Cudi gets a couple girls to take shrooms, tells them a few things about his life, then he has sex with them. A nice consistent formula that has a catchy roll off the tongue. I am unsure what the actual frequency is.