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Nothing's Shocking [Explicit Lyrics]

~ Jane's Addiction
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (5 Sep 1988)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Explicit Lyrics
  • Label: Warner
  • ASIN: B000002LEE
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,807 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Up The Beach ( LP Version ) 3:01£0.69
Listen  2. Ocean Size ( LP Version ) 4:19£0.69
Listen  3. Had A Dad (LP Version) 3:45£0.69
Listen  4. Ted, Just Admit It....... ( LP Version ) 7:22£0.69
Listen  5. Standing In The Shower... Thinking ( LP Version ) 3:05£0.69


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Listen  2. Mountain Song ( LP Version ) 4:03£0.69
Listen  3. Idiots Rule ( LP Version ) 3:01£0.69
Listen  4. Jane Says ( LP Version ) 4:53£0.69
Listen  5. Thank You Boys ( LP Version ) 1:04£0.69
Listen  6. Pig's In Zen ( LP Version ) 4:30£0.69

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Though the songs aren't quite as good as those on Ritual De Lo Habitual, this album is much more consistent, with a heavy rock-funk-punk mix that's a pleasure to hear. The slower songs (especially "Summertime Rolls" and "Jane Says") work well, while the up-tempo material--in particular the closer "Pig's in Zen"--is both catchy and ambitious. It's a fine album overall, and if the band's Zeppelin-ward aspirations don't quite work, their music is still quite good in its own right. --Genevieve Williams


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Jane's Addiction may not have been a strict metal band, buttheir music was certainly full of traits inherent to metal substances: hard, gleaming, powerful. On NOTHING'S SHOCKING,which captured the much too short-lived quartet at its verypeak, they were a blazing metallic supernova--grooving up astreak across the sky one moment, setting off heavy rhythmic discharges the next. Feeding off radically diverse musicalelements--from art and classic rock, to hard-core punk and funk--Jane's Addiction was the last great precursor to the alternative revolution of 1991-92. Simultaneously, they were the sole inheritors of Led Zeppelin's mantra to make a different kind of sprawling heavy rock, and that they did in spades.
Thematically, NOTHING'S SHOCKING set out to prove that no subject was beyond the gleam in lyricist/vocalist PerryFarrell's (pronounced "peripheral") eye. Serial killer Ted Bundy ("Ted, Just Admit It"), punk ideology as Eastern philosophy ("Pigs In Zen"), mystic romances ("Summertime Rolls") and high-falutin', early-morning thoughts ("Standing In The Shower...Thinking") were all dissected through a psychologically-stimulating viewpoint, with a stream-of-consciousness delivery. Farrell's tales also served the band as a guide to attack the canvas, and the musicians burned heroically behind him, providing the songs with an expansive set of musical colours. Guitarist Dave Navarro continuously exploded on thedrop of a dime, while bassist Eric Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins proved to be among the most formidable rhythm sections in all of rock.
Above all, NOTHING'S SHOCKING helpedrevive the idea that heavy rock need not be formulaic, or lack any semblance of meaningful content. Rather than focus on the old-hat aspects of the rock rebellion myth (sex, drugsand rock 'n' roll), Jane's Addiction looked in the hard-to-find places for their muse, demonstrating that metal rebels didn't have to be idiots.

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Die, Big Hair Scum!, 19 Feb 2004
By Robert Johnson (The Remote Parts of, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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You have to bear in mind the context.

1988 and Bon Jovi are the biggest band on earth. Livin' On A Prayer was the biggest rock single and Poison (Poison!) were making a killing, selling albums by the truckload.

Rock's image was pink-candy and exploitative. Lyrics were banal and hair was poodle-massive.

David Lee Roth was something of a guru.

And then this album happened and killed the whole ridiculous, soulless scene. A band appeared with integrity, sexuality, black-magic intrigue and, my oh my, talent. They had tonnes of that.

Not only were they starnge, but they were brilliant. And they rocked!

Who do you compare them to? Led Zeppelin, definitely. After that, you were in pretty new territory. Nobody had, or does, sing like Perry Farrell. A wailing androgeny of noise that, somehow, remains a thing of beauty. A force of nature in a man's lungs.

And the songs. No wonder Bon Jovi went on a five year hiatus. From the pounding, spiritual of Up The Beach, all crushing waves and that beguiling backswards loop of Farrell's voice, to the filth of "Pigs In Zen", brutal, precise, catchy. It was all such a trip.

Stand-outs, though are "Ted, Just Admit It", a long discourse on the morals of sex and violence, bound together by a hypnotic bass-line and a chilling voice-over of denial from the then serial-killer-of-the-month Ted Bundy. Then there's "Idiots Rule" which is as funky an anthem as the Generation Xers could ever wish for.

Top of the pile, though, is the epic, spacial "Summertime Rolls". And for all its vastness it's only about a single pure memory of a Summer. At once uplifting and intimate, dense as syrup but razor sharp, this was probably the tune which most convinced me that Jane's Addiction had been left here by martians.

They were just incredible.

Buy it. You'll like it.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars No fan of alternative music should be without a copy., 16 Jan 2001
By Jd Martin "skipnicker" (Coralville, IA United States) - See all my reviews
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Hailing from the LA undeground scene of the late 1980's, Jane's Addiction debut studio album redefined rock music-simple! On its release in 1988, "Nothing's Shocking" sounded like nothing else released that year, or any year since, although many have tried to capture Jane's unique vibe. Vocalist and visionary Perry Farrell once described the band as a blend of Bad Brains and Duke Ellington, which gives you some insight into the diverse influences the record contains. Jane's Addiction fused rock, funk, dub and psychedelia, and took it someplace else. Tracks like "Had A Dad" or "Mountain Song" could floor you like a viscious right-hook whilst "Summertime Rolls" immersed you in its majestic beauty. "Nothing's Shocking" provided the blueprint which "Screamadelica" and "Nevermind" would later follow. An original and uncomprimising masterpiece.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Those were the days..., 24 Sep 2003
1988/89. Hard rock was dominated by poodle-topped guitar virtuosos, spandex clad gods-gift-to-women types and songs about lurrrve and having rock n roll nights with your baby.
Then along came bands like Faith No More, Living Colour and Jane's Addiction and a new alternative appeared. Funky beats, a smidgeon of politics and no duelling guitar solos.
It was great.
Nothing's Shocking was Jane's Addiction's first "proper" album after the half-arsed eponymous debut and to those who heard it, it changed their lives.
The album kicks off with the bizarre "Up the Beach", all acoustic guitars and sing-song nonsensical vocals at first then suddenly the power kicks in and uplifting guitars and a smattering of drums prepares you for what's coming next in the form of "Ocean Size" one of the most powerful tracks on the album. The moment Perry Farrell screams "Wish I was ocean sized...", you're lost in the seedy, subhuman world that Jane's Addiction inhabit.
No songs about love on here. The closest it comes is "Summertime Rolls" a long, lazy track suitable for stretching out on a balmy day with a bottle of beer and a "herbal" cigarette in your hand. The rest of the stuff is just too bizarre to describe. "Standing in the Shower, Thinking" is self explanatory, but "Idiots Rule" with it's blaring brass and "Pigs in Zen" defy what your concept of rock music really is. The acoustic "Jane Says..." breezes its way onto Jazz-esque "Thank You Boys", while prior to these you've been blasted away by the raw power of "Coming Down the Mountain".
Interesting to see that other reviewers have had this LP indelibly stamped upon their lives. It's still one of the few albums I can listen to today from the many I bought from that particular era, (so much so, I had to buy the cd to replace a worn out tape copy,) and it still shines through. All in all a fantastic recording well worth buying.
But can someone please tell me what the hell's "Ted, Just Admit It" about?
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