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."
Come on and break down, show us who you are
Memorable first impressions only get you far
When you stay true, from beginning to end
Flexing all your morals your environment will bend back
As you bend crooked
Come in and break down, fake personas from your heart
I used to hang on every verse when my days would get hard
Flash forward, to a present day and time
A fraud, a hoax, a method actor reading scripted lines back
Why'd you take that path?
There's no way back
We are the spark that once would ignite pilot light burning deep in your heart
We are the start of making yourself out to be bigger than you really are
Conscience is calling
Come and shut it up
And yeah I know life gets rough sometimes
Big dollars take the pressure off of hard times
But gluttony's a sin
And hunger will not let you in if you don't get a grip
Use some self help to control it
Woah, woah guys, um, is it cool if I get in on this here?
Hell yeah
Dude go for it
All right listen
Oh I see you ready, set go
With with unqualified pry orders of your disguise explode
Watch us double up on those who try to intimidate unaware yeses
Fabrications of a buster living within a lite
If you come back you'll have to get, get, get, get, get through all of us
We are the spark that once would ignite pilots light burning deep in your heart
We are the start of making yourself out to be bigger than you really are
You instilled, helped to build
A belief within in me that I carry to this day
Pass the torch, I can't no more
What a shame, who's to blame when the mighty fall from grace?
Go settle up, with the kids fed up
This time we can't for you to man on up
Right
I count for all your crimes
Go settle up, with the kids fed up
This time we want for you to man on up
Right now, I want you to sing it
I want to know why you abandoned this and now hate it
Just why? But you don't know why
Such an elusive, guileful, meaningless sham
Come on and break down
Come on and break down
Come on and break down
Come on and break down
Break down
Come on break down
Who, who's to blame?
Break down
I say who, who's to blame?
Break down
Who's to blame, take the shame, when the mighty fall from grace?
Memorable first impressions only get you far
When you stay true, from beginning to end
Flexing all your morals your environment will bend back
As you bend crooked
Come in and break down, fake personas from your heart
I used to hang on every verse when my days would get hard
Flash forward, to a present day and time
A fraud, a hoax, a method actor reading scripted lines back
Why'd you take that path?
There's no way back
We are the spark that once would ignite pilot light burning deep in your heart
We are the start of making yourself out to be bigger than you really are
Conscience is calling
Come and shut it up
And yeah I know life gets rough sometimes
Big dollars take the pressure off of hard times
But gluttony's a sin
And hunger will not let you in if you don't get a grip
Use some self help to control it
Woah, woah guys, um, is it cool if I get in on this here?
Hell yeah
Dude go for it
All right listen
Oh I see you ready, set go
With with unqualified pry orders of your disguise explode
Watch us double up on those who try to intimidate unaware yeses
Fabrications of a buster living within a lite
If you come back you'll have to get, get, get, get, get through all of us
We are the spark that once would ignite pilots light burning deep in your heart
We are the start of making yourself out to be bigger than you really are
You instilled, helped to build
A belief within in me that I carry to this day
Pass the torch, I can't no more
What a shame, who's to blame when the mighty fall from grace?
Go settle up, with the kids fed up
This time we can't for you to man on up
Right
I count for all your crimes
Go settle up, with the kids fed up
This time we want for you to man on up
Right now, I want you to sing it
I want to know why you abandoned this and now hate it
Just why? But you don't know why
Such an elusive, guileful, meaningless sham
Come on and break down
Come on and break down
Come on and break down
Come on and break down
Break down
Come on break down
Who, who's to blame?
Break down
I say who, who's to blame?
Break down
Who's to blame, take the shame, when the mighty fall from grace?
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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,
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
the first ???????????? is
"Come on and break down fake personas from your art."
and the second one in that verse is
"A fraud, a hoax, a method actor reading scripted lines back"
and one more change is " flash forward" not "slash forward"