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."
20 ft. high on Blackpool promenade
Fake royalty second hand sequin facade
Limited face paint and dyed black quiff
Overweight and out of date
Overweight and out of date
Oh well
American trilogy in Lancashire pottery
American trilogy in Lancashire pottery
Is so fucking funny, don't you know
Is so fucking funny, don't you know
All American trilogy in used up cars and bottled beer
All American trilogy the future's dead, fundamentally
It's so fucking funny, it's absurd
It's so fucking funny, it's absurd
20 ft. high on Blackpool promenade
Fake royalty second hand sequin facade
Limited face paint and dyed black quiff
Overweight and out of date
Overweight and out of date
Oh well
American trilogy in Lancashire pottery
American trilogy in Lancashire pottery
Is so fucking funny, don't you know
Is so fucking funny, don't you know
All American trilogy in used up cars and bottled beer
All American trilogy the future's dead, fundamentally
It's so fucking funny, it's absurd
It's so fucking funny, it's absurd
20 ft. high on Blackpool promenade
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It's about a statue of Elvis that is located on blackpool pier well literally anyway. It's also a comment on the americanisation of britain or so I read somewhere. The irony of having an american hero built out of lancashire pottery.
you would never expect something this harsh to feature a harp as a significant part of it
but what's with the line "all american trilogy"?
@pumkinhed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Trilogy
"American trilogy" was a medley of songs performed by Elvis. Anyway, the meanings's clear. One of my favorite album openers ever.
I think it's about a guy who's about to commit suicide by jumping of Blackpool Pier, because he feels 'overweight and out of date'
We take so much from America but what have they got to give? Elvis Presley, Mickey Mouse, Playboy Magazine and McDonalds. 'It's so fucking funny, it's absurd'.
Yes, just the way that Britain is just trying to become a smaller version of America, right down to the tiniest detail. I think this applies to now more than it did when it came out.
although it is not very likely (according to nicky wire enola/alone is a melancholic song inspired by looking at a picture taken at his wedding of several people of whom two - richey edwards and philip hall - were not in his life anymore), mirroring 'alone' to 'enola' may partly have been inspired by the fact that THE PLANE THAT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA WAS CALLED 'ENOLA GAY'. At 2:45 a.m. on Monday, August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber, the 'Enola Gay', took off from Tinian, a North Pacific island in the Marianas, 1,500 miles south of Japan. The twelve-man crew were on board to make sure this secret mission went smoothly. Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot, nicknamed the B-29 'Enola Gay' after his mother. Just before take-off, the plane's nickname was painted on its side.
Americana in Britain-very relevant!
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