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."
"Oh, this song is called Opinion"
Congratulations, you have won
It's a year subscription of bad puns
And it makes your story of concern
And you set it up before it burns
My opinions, mmm (x4)
And it seems to be a problem here
And the steer of emotion seems to clear
Now they rise and fall like wall street stock
And they have an effect on our peace talk
Our opinions, mmm
My opinions, mmm (x3)
Congratulations, you have won
It's a year subscription of bad puns
And it makes your story of concern
And you set it up before it burns
Your opinions, mhm (x4)
Your opinions
Congratulations, you have won
It's a year subscription of bad puns
And it makes your story of concern
And you set it up before it burns
My opinions, mmm (x4)
And it seems to be a problem here
And the steer of emotion seems to clear
Now they rise and fall like wall street stock
And they have an effect on our peace talk
Our opinions, mmm
My opinions, mmm (x3)
Congratulations, you have won
It's a year subscription of bad puns
And it makes your story of concern
And you set it up before it burns
Your opinions, mhm (x4)
Your opinions
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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,
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This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave.
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This song means that people with opinions always set themselves to argue which is fine. Arguing is normal among people.However, this isn't always good because it can complicate things. Which brings me to my next point. Their will be people arguing about songs and what they mean them branching them out and talking about subjects that that do not relate to the song. Soon some of these songs will have 300 threads with over 200 being about fuck you idiots and I disagree with you so that makes you stupid. I know it will happen. It already is.
He is also playing the role of a sales person. It makes sense. Opinions are always returned once they are received.
Thank you finally people sharing what the song means (the point of the website) rather than arguing about "this song sucks!" "no you suck!" and for explaining how arguing people on this site relates to the lyrics.<br /> Thank you.
I heart this song
Possibly about paparazzi and people who work for those phony magazines who always spread rumors about people in he music bussiness
i love this song.
I heard the acoustic version he did on the radio. He said he had written the song on the way over. I don't know when its from, but to me it sounded like he wasnt famous yet, from what the dj said. He isn't specific enough to immply a meaning, and i am clueless.
I love this song. I heard it first on one of the Outcesticide cds, and I fell in love.
oh well..... on which cd? Outcesticide? there is a cd called that? hey freaky.
it was recorded in 89 i believe..anyway..there's an electric version of this out, but its not Nirvana..whoever covered it did 1 hell of a job though!
I heard he wrote the song on the way home from somewhere to seatle. He wanted it to be as spontaneous as possible. They have something about it at digitalnirvana.net
he wrote it on the way to the radio show where he performed it