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."
Back in the country
Living on the Double E
In the sunshine of her life.
There's a really young filly
But Mom and Daddy won't let her leave.
Mom and Poppa won't let her go.
But when she goes out dancing
She breaks out on her own.
She's hot enough to burn the house down.
Mom and Poppa don't know.
When Edith and Earl renamed the Double E
They nearly made history.
The locals rose up and some of them were mad as hell
'Cause it used to be the Double L.
Change comes slow in the country.
When you're new there's a lot of distrust.
Years fly by uneventful.
Memories turn to dust.
Meanwhile Granny has got her bright colors on
And the sunshine in her eye.
Cruising by the bars and honkey tonks
Where she met grandpa
And caught that young man's eye.
Dusty white Eldorado,
Cruising through the trees.
Slipping through the shadows
Of what used to be.
Back in the day,
Living in the summer of love.
Living in the summer of love.
Grandma's okay,
But not the same since Grandpa's gone.
She's living in the summer of love.
Back in the day,
Living in the summer of love.
Living in the summer of love.
Back in the day,
Living in the summer of love.
Living in the summer of love.
Living on the Double E
In the sunshine of her life.
There's a really young filly
But Mom and Daddy won't let her leave.
Mom and Poppa won't let her go.
But when she goes out dancing
She breaks out on her own.
She's hot enough to burn the house down.
Mom and Poppa don't know.
When Edith and Earl renamed the Double E
They nearly made history.
The locals rose up and some of them were mad as hell
'Cause it used to be the Double L.
Change comes slow in the country.
When you're new there's a lot of distrust.
Years fly by uneventful.
Memories turn to dust.
Meanwhile Granny has got her bright colors on
And the sunshine in her eye.
Cruising by the bars and honkey tonks
Where she met grandpa
And caught that young man's eye.
Dusty white Eldorado,
Cruising through the trees.
Slipping through the shadows
Of what used to be.
Back in the day,
Living in the summer of love.
Living in the summer of love.
Grandma's okay,
But not the same since Grandpa's gone.
She's living in the summer of love.
Back in the day,
Living in the summer of love.
Living in the summer of love.
Back in the day,
Living in the summer of love.
Living in the summer of love.
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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,
Just A Little Lovin'
Dusty Springfield
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Magical
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Amazing
Ed Sheeran
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