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."
Dear diary, mood, apathetic. my life is spiralling downward, I couldnt get enough money to go to the blood red romance and suffocate me dry concert, it sucks cause they play some of my favourite songs like stab my heart because I love you and rip apart my soul and of course stab me rippie stab stab. And it doesn't help that I couldn't get my hair into that flippy thingy either, like that guy from that band can do somedays.
I'm an emo kid noncomforming as can be you'd be noncomforming too if you looked just like me. I have paint on my nails and make up on my face I'm almost emo enough to start shaving my legs. cause I feel real deep when I'm dressing in drag I call it freedom of expression most just call me a fag cause our dudes look like chicks and our chicks look like dikes, cause emo is one step, below tranvestite
stop my breathing and slit my throat, I must be emo. I dont jump around when I go to shows, I must be emo. I'm dark, and sensitive with low self esteem, the way I dress makes everyday feel like Halloween. I have no real problems but I like to make believe. I stole my sisters mascara now I'm grounded for a week, sulking and writing poetry are my hobbies, I can get through a Hawthorn Heights album without sobbing. girls keep breaking up with me it's never any fun, they say they already have a pussy, they dont need another one.
stop my breatihng and slit my throat, I must be emo. I dont jump around when I go to shows, I must be emo. dye my hair and put polish on my toes, I must be emo. I play guitar and write suicide notes, I must be emo.
My life is just a black abyss, you know. its so dark. and it's suffocating me grabbing hold of me and tightning its grip, tighter than a pair of my little sisters jeans, which look great on me by the way
When I get depressed I cut my wrists in every direction. Hearing songs about getting dumped give me an erection. I write in a live journal and wear thick rimmed glasses, I tell my friends I bleed black and I cry during classes. I'm just bad cheap immitation of goth, you could even be catcher in the rye and watch me jack off. I wear skin tight clothes while hating my life, if I said I liked girls, I'd only be half right. I look like im dead and dress like a homo, I must be emo. screw xbox i play old school nintendo, i must be emo. i like to whine and hit my pa-rent-als, i must be emo. me and my friends all look like clones, i must be eeemo.
My parents just dont get me you know, they think I'm gay just because they saw me kiss a guy, well... a couple of guys. but I mean it's the 2000's...can't two, or four dudes make out with each other without being gay? I mean chicks dig that kind of thing anyways, I dont know diary, sometimes I think you're the only one that gets me... you're my best friend... I feel like tacos...
I'm an emo kid noncomforming as can be you'd be noncomforming too if you looked just like me. I have paint on my nails and make up on my face I'm almost emo enough to start shaving my legs. cause I feel real deep when I'm dressing in drag I call it freedom of expression most just call me a fag cause our dudes look like chicks and our chicks look like dikes, cause emo is one step, below tranvestite
stop my breathing and slit my throat, I must be emo. I dont jump around when I go to shows, I must be emo. I'm dark, and sensitive with low self esteem, the way I dress makes everyday feel like Halloween. I have no real problems but I like to make believe. I stole my sisters mascara now I'm grounded for a week, sulking and writing poetry are my hobbies, I can get through a Hawthorn Heights album without sobbing. girls keep breaking up with me it's never any fun, they say they already have a pussy, they dont need another one.
stop my breatihng and slit my throat, I must be emo. I dont jump around when I go to shows, I must be emo. dye my hair and put polish on my toes, I must be emo. I play guitar and write suicide notes, I must be emo.
My life is just a black abyss, you know. its so dark. and it's suffocating me grabbing hold of me and tightning its grip, tighter than a pair of my little sisters jeans, which look great on me by the way
When I get depressed I cut my wrists in every direction. Hearing songs about getting dumped give me an erection. I write in a live journal and wear thick rimmed glasses, I tell my friends I bleed black and I cry during classes. I'm just bad cheap immitation of goth, you could even be catcher in the rye and watch me jack off. I wear skin tight clothes while hating my life, if I said I liked girls, I'd only be half right. I look like im dead and dress like a homo, I must be emo. screw xbox i play old school nintendo, i must be emo. i like to whine and hit my pa-rent-als, i must be emo. me and my friends all look like clones, i must be eeemo.
My parents just dont get me you know, they think I'm gay just because they saw me kiss a guy, well... a couple of guys. but I mean it's the 2000's...can't two, or four dudes make out with each other without being gay? I mean chicks dig that kind of thing anyways, I dont know diary, sometimes I think you're the only one that gets me... you're my best friend... I feel like tacos...
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Mountain Song
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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."
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
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,
Head > Heels
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
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Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
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i love this song ^_^.
as you may have guessed, its a complete piss take of emo kids.
i have nothing against emo kids... but i love this song...
hahah this song makes me crack up its so mean and its basicly just goes along with the whole sterotype thing which i am comepltly againist but this song is funny
LMFAO this song is hilarious, who sings it? And where can I hear it? I keep seeing these lyrics, but I can't find it anywhere and of course it doens't say on here who sings it, so if anybody knows where I can find the artist or listen to the song it's self. Please tell me somehow however you can. :)
Oh wait nvm i just saw it, Adam and andrew, but still can anybody tell me where to hear this?
If you want to see this video along with a free Mail-Order bride here is the link wimp.com/beemo
Ok so I lied about the mail order bride but at least you get this HILARIOUS song. Panic=Love
Thank you fallingXfast for the link to the video, I nearly pissed myself laughing. The song is even funnier with the video.
AHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH this is so fucking funny,
Because it's so true!!!!
EMO KID 1: "behold, i am emo, I do not conform....." EMO KID 2: "behold for I am also emo,.... and somehow, even though I do not conform I look like you"
EMO KID 1:" LOL (he actually says lol) isnt that cool because I look like my cousiin and he gets his look from the lead singer of Hawthorne Heights!"
EMO KID 2:" that is strange, because I noticed that I look like alot of other emo kids, why is that"
EMO KID 1:" because we belong to "THE SCENE" it means we're cooler than the rest of the world and can act more sensitive and stand-offish when in reality we are all total dumb asses...
EMO KID 2: "Oh I see ok, well dude Ohio is for Lovers" ( the "scene" way to say; good bye, hello, i am hungry, my mascara is running, do your balls feel as cramped as mine?
EMO KID 1:" Ohio is for lovers too"
::they part::
BOTH EMO KIDS SIMULTANMEOUSLY: " I am so lonely ;'(" yes they somehow manage to say this----^
i LOVE this song! so hilarious! these guys have some other funny songs 2 but this 1 is my fav by far. i found them on myspace and they have like 4 songs listed. i laugh so hard i whenever i hear it esp when emo kids r nearby!
what the fuck its not called 'the emo song' its called emo kid
A couple of lyrics are wrong...but fuck it that songs a work of art..yeh Emo kid is the correct name