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."
Yo, Uh. Word. Adjective. Pronoun. Adverb.
Run on and on and on.
Where my gerunds at?
Parenthetical, uh.
Shit motherfucker ass tits cunt cock motherfucker shit ass tits motherfucker shit
Come on
Fickity-fuck fickity-fuck fickity-fuck fickity-fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Shit motherfucker ass tits cunt cock motherfucker shit ass tits motherfucker shit
Come on
Fickity-fuck fickity-fuck fickity-fuck fickity-fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
You take some shit, put it up on the wall, check it out for a while.
You take that shit up off of the wall, put it down on the floor in a glass bowl.
You take some fuck, put it up on the wall where the shit used to be.
You take that fuck up off of the wall, put it down on the floor
with the shit in a glass bowl
What? Yo, here's another little piece of advice-vice
You take some fuck then some shit
then some fuck then some shit
You've got a fuck-shit stack
A fuck-shit stack
Take some fuck then some shit
then some fuck then some shit
You've got a fuck-shit stack
A fuck-shit stack
It's a stack of fuck-shit on top of itself, nigga
I make references to weaponry,
ancient or new.
I wear bullet-proof vests for no apparent reason
other than to create a false sense of importance
of which I could never retain on my own.
I like to create a buffer memory of incredulity
So y'all motherfuckers could never get near to me.
I'm a cartoon character.
You'll never be able to be like me! (me me)
I like women
I like women
I like the concept of a woman
I like to take that concept and reduce it to an object
I like to take those objects and put 'em in my videos
Have them shake they jiggly bits so they looks like hoes
I like to take some car polish, smear it all over they asses
and buff that shit out so it looks like fresh peaches and shit.
I like to take some more of that car polish and smear it all over they tits
and buff that shit out so it looks all sparkly, like diamond necklaces and shit.
Why?
Cuz I'm a lady's man
a lady's man
a la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lady's man
I'm a materialist.
I'm a materialist.
I'll take a piece-of-shit car and I'll lower the motherfuckah;
Put some 18-inch rims on the motherfuckah;
Take some neon, put it underneath the motherfuckah
so when I roll around this town it looks like a hover (hover hover)
I like to take a flat-panel display monitor,
put one on the steering column,
one inside of the glovebox,
one on top of the dashboard,
two in back of the headrests,
one mounted in the ceiling,
two still in the motherfucking packaging, on the back seat
so when my motherfucking friends go and sit on the shit and break it (word?)
I can honestly say:
I. Just. Don't. Give. A. Fuck.
You take some fuck then some shit
then some fuck then some shit
You've got a fuck-shit stack
A fuck-shit stack
Take some fuck then some shit
then some fuck then some shit
You've got a fuck-shit stack
A fuck-shit stack
Take some fuck then some shit
then some fuck then some shit
You've got a fuck-shit stack
A fuck-shit stack
Take some fuck then some shit
then some fuck then some shit
You've got a fuck-shit stack
A fuck-shit stack
It's a stack of fuck-shit on top of itself, nigga
Yo, where my girls at?
Where my girls at?
Where my grills at?
Where my grills at?
Where my girls at?
Where my girls at?
Where my grills at?
Where my grills at?
(Where is they?)
Fuck shit, fuck shit,
Fuck shit, fuck shit
Fuck shit, fuck shit,
Fuck shit, fuck shit
Run on and on and on.
Where my gerunds at?
Parenthetical, uh.
Shit motherfucker ass tits cunt cock motherfucker shit ass tits motherfucker shit
Come on
Fickity-fuck fickity-fuck fickity-fuck fickity-fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Shit motherfucker ass tits cunt cock motherfucker shit ass tits motherfucker shit
Come on
Fickity-fuck fickity-fuck fickity-fuck fickity-fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
You take some shit, put it up on the wall, check it out for a while.
You take that shit up off of the wall, put it down on the floor in a glass bowl.
You take some fuck, put it up on the wall where the shit used to be.
You take that fuck up off of the wall, put it down on the floor
with the shit in a glass bowl
What? Yo, here's another little piece of advice-vice
You take some fuck then some shit
then some fuck then some shit
You've got a fuck-shit stack
A fuck-shit stack
Take some fuck then some shit
then some fuck then some shit
You've got a fuck-shit stack
A fuck-shit stack
It's a stack of fuck-shit on top of itself, nigga
I make references to weaponry,
ancient or new.
I wear bullet-proof vests for no apparent reason
other than to create a false sense of importance
of which I could never retain on my own.
I like to create a buffer memory of incredulity
So y'all motherfuckers could never get near to me.
I'm a cartoon character.
You'll never be able to be like me! (me me)
I like women
I like women
I like the concept of a woman
I like to take that concept and reduce it to an object
I like to take those objects and put 'em in my videos
Have them shake they jiggly bits so they looks like hoes
I like to take some car polish, smear it all over they asses
and buff that shit out so it looks like fresh peaches and shit.
I like to take some more of that car polish and smear it all over they tits
and buff that shit out so it looks all sparkly, like diamond necklaces and shit.
Why?
Cuz I'm a lady's man
a lady's man
a la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lady's man
I'm a materialist.
I'm a materialist.
I'll take a piece-of-shit car and I'll lower the motherfuckah;
Put some 18-inch rims on the motherfuckah;
Take some neon, put it underneath the motherfuckah
so when I roll around this town it looks like a hover (hover hover)
I like to take a flat-panel display monitor,
put one on the steering column,
one inside of the glovebox,
one on top of the dashboard,
two in back of the headrests,
one mounted in the ceiling,
two still in the motherfucking packaging, on the back seat
so when my motherfucking friends go and sit on the shit and break it (word?)
I can honestly say:
I. Just. Don't. Give. A. Fuck.
You take some fuck then some shit
then some fuck then some shit
You've got a fuck-shit stack
A fuck-shit stack
Take some fuck then some shit
then some fuck then some shit
You've got a fuck-shit stack
A fuck-shit stack
Take some fuck then some shit
then some fuck then some shit
You've got a fuck-shit stack
A fuck-shit stack
Take some fuck then some shit
then some fuck then some shit
You've got a fuck-shit stack
A fuck-shit stack
It's a stack of fuck-shit on top of itself, nigga
Yo, where my girls at?
Where my girls at?
Where my grills at?
Where my grills at?
Where my girls at?
Where my girls at?
Where my grills at?
Where my grills at?
(Where is they?)
Fuck shit, fuck shit,
Fuck shit, fuck shit
Fuck shit, fuck shit,
Fuck shit, fuck shit
Lyrics submitted by LilyBear
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Great version of a great song,
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Satire done right... That is all I have to say about this song...
Yep, that's it. He is making fun of materialistic, misogynistic, shallow rap.
i love this song.
This song is the shit. Maybe a stack of the shit with some fuck thrown in. I dig it. What's it mean? I think it is just poking fun at gangsta hiphop. T
None of you get the deeper meaning here. It's not unlike an onion, with layers of meaning, and as you get deeper you start to perceive the illusion - not unlike a "Magic-Eye" photographs of the late 1990s - of a less viable gestalt as the tears welling up, a metaphor for suppressed childhood trauma, compel you to go still deeper. One must get through so many "layers" (elements of a stack) of, particularly, shit (in life), but you also get "fuck"-ed over by various "layers" of bureaucracy and institutionalism, compounded by quasi-megalomaniacal authoritarian qualities inherent in post-modern examples. The fact that you get a Fuck-Shit stack, primarily through layering, and that putting another stack of Fuck-Shit "on top of itself" essentially creates a taller stack of stacks, leaving the user to doubly-dereference every instance of retrogression for him-(or her) self.
So fuckin' good. Dammit, Reginald, y'do some quality shit here. Fuck, some quality shit.
if this song is a commentary on the deteriorating quality of hiphop and "FUCK" is a reference to blatant sex appeal for no other reason than for the sake of sex appeal while "SHIT" is supposed to be the terrible fucking music that accompanies it then what is the glass bowl? this is a part of the song i have the most trouble understanding. is the glass bowl a drug reference to a glass water pipe or is it a glass bowl because bowls are used for consumption and its glass to enunciate it's transparency? i mean hell the song starts out with reggie saying "how come hiphop artists seem to be proud of the fact that they cant even fucking read?" i think the whole song is just a call to pay attention to what we listeners are consuming because really its just a stack of fucking shit and we eat that shit up.
"I like the concept of a woman. I like to take that concept and reduce it to an object"...Man, this is BADDDDDDDDDDDD. Just dropped a door on my toes and the only word that came up through my throat and out through my lips was the F word (said many times consecutively)."Where my girls at" must mean this is a rap song. No music objectifies and demeans females more than rap (but I still like much of it:).
^Doesn't understand satire.<br />
This is a perfect example of an awesome song about nothing... or is it ? :) Catchy as hell too!
The song is making fun of major artists in hip hop and crunk rap. They're not putting out lyrics, they're just stacking cus words. reggie points out that music videos for these genres reduce women to objects and just have them wear promiscusous clothing and dance in front of camera. the "im a materialist" portion shows that these big artists are full of themselves and their image "I wear bullet-proof vests for no apparent reason other than to create a false sense of importance of which I could never retain on my own" Basically he's trying to say that the crunk rap and hip hop culture is fucking stupid as are the artists who perform the music.
dont get me wrong i fucking love reggie and his song. i hate the culture he's talking about though.