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1	[[quoteright:358:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/JA.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:358:Left to right: Navarro, Avery, Perkins, Farrell]]
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4	->''Señores y señoras,\
5	nosotros tenemos más influencia con sus hijos que tú tiene,\
6	pero los queremos.\
7	Creado y regado de Los Angeles,\
8	Juana's Addicción!''
9	--> -- Spoken-word intro of '''"Stop!"''' [[labelnote:Translation]]\
10	Gentlemen and ladies,\
11	we have more influence on your children than you does [sic],\
12	but we love them.\
13	Created and nurtured in Los Angeles,\
14	Jane's Addiction!\
15	[[/labelnote]]
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17	Jane's Addiction are an extremely influential AlternativeRock band, one of the first from that genre to gain a degree of commercial success and mainstream attention before Music/{{Nirvana}} and grunge broke through, and the creators of the Lollapalooza festival in the early 1990s.
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19	The band was formed in 1985 by vocalist Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Eric Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins. They named themselves after Farrell's roommate Jane Bainter, who was addicted to drugs. They spent some time building up a following by playing various clubs in Los Angeles, attracting record company attention. They signed with Creator/WarnerBrosRecords, but released their first record, the live album ''Jane's Addiction'' on an independent label in 1987.
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21	The band went into the studio some time afterwards to record their first album, with Dave Jerden behind the mixing boards. The recording process was difficult, with Farrell quarreling with everybody else over wanting more royalties, and the album's cover depicting two naked female statues [[IncendiaryExponent on fire]] got them attention from MoralGuardians. Still, ''Nothing's Shocking'' was released in 1988 to critical acclaim and commercial success, showcasing the band's fusion of numerous genres into a specific style (AlternativeMetal with {{Funk}} and PsychedelicRock influences), energetic performances and Farrell's unorthodox vocals. Heavy touring followed, solidifying their "rising star" status.
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23	After the conclusion of tours, Jane's Addiction returned to the studio with Dave Jerden as producer once again. By this point, relations between band members had deteriorated so much that they recorded all their parts separately. ''Ritual de lo Habitual'' was released in 1990 to even more critical acclaim and commercial success, showing a progress from ''Shocking'': more EpicRocking was included and more [[InTheStyleOf experimentation with genres showed up]] besides the ever-present psych-funk-metal. The band even scored a hit single thanks to the [[LyricalDissonance catchy song about kleptomania]] "Been Caught Stealing".
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25	The ensuing tour was marred by intra-band conflict (including one on-stage fight between Farrell and Navarro during a show), and after it concluded the band broke up in 1991. Farrell took the time to start the alternative rock festival Lollapalooza in the same year, and JA played at the first festival shortly before breaking up.
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27	The band members went on to various side projects - Farrell and Perkins to Porno for Pyros, Navarro joined the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers for their [[FanonDiscontinuity derided album]] ''One Hot Minute'', and Avery formed Banyan - and periodic reunions, one of which resulted in an album of all-new material, ''Strays''. However, none of these reunions included Eric Avery and were generally short-lived. The band finally reunited for good with Avery in 2008, embarking on a tour with Music/NineInchNails. Then Avery left and was replaced on tour with Duff [=McKagan=], of Guns 'N Roses and Velvet Revolver fame. Then [=McKagan=] left before they could enter the studio. Dave Sitek of TV On The Radio plays bass on their upcoming album.
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29	!!Discography:
30	* 1987 - ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Jane's Addiction]]'' (live album)
31	* 1988 - ''Nothing's Shocking''
32	* 1990 - ''Ritual de lo Habitual''
33	* 1997- ''Kettle Whistle'' (a compilation of remixes, live tracks and rarities)
34	* 2003 - ''Strays''
35	* 2006- ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Up from the Catacombs: The Best of Jane's Addiction]]''
36	* 2011 - ''The Great Escape Artist''
37	* 2013- ''Live in NYC'' (second live album)
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40	!!Tropes which apply to Jane's Addiction:
41	* AbusiveParents: "Twisted Tales."
42	* AlbumTitleDrop: "Ted, Just Admit It..." for Nothing's Shocking.
43	* AlternateAlbumCover: The original release of ''Ritual de lo Habitual'' depicts a painting by frontman Perry Farrell depicting three nude figures -- one male and two female -- embracing in front of a makeshift shrine. Because some retailers refused to stock items depicting nudity, the band put together a second cover for them consisting solely of the band name, the album title, and the first amendment of the United States constitution against a white backdrop. Likewise, the back cover was changed from a red curtain (referencing the one draped around the nudes on the explicit version of the front cover) to the following blurb:
44	--> Hitler's syphilis-ridden dreams almost came true. How could it happen? By taking control of the media. An entire country was led by a lunatic... We must protect our First Amendment, before sick dreams become law. Nobody made fun of Hitler??!
45	* AlternativeMetal: One of the key early bands of the genre.
46	* TheAntiNihilist[=/=]ForHappiness: "Ain't No Right" arguably qualifies as this. With the repeated line "Ain't no wrong, now, ain't no right", one might expect a StrawNihilist view, but another possible interpretation of the song is that the only useful basis of ethics is centred around doing what makes people happy. (One of the things that makes the singer happy could possibly be masochism, but that's another story... though another possible interpretation is that the song is simply saying that pain is temporary.)
47	* CarefulWithThatAxe
48	* ClusterFBomb[=/=]PrecisionFStrike: Farrell alternates between the two in their songs. "Ain't No Right" is a rather pertinent example.
49	* ConceptAlbum: Side two of ''Ritual de lo Habitual''. (Or sides three and four on more recent vinyl pressings, since the original configuration had thirty-one minutes of music on a single LP side.)
50	* DayInTheLife: "Jane Says"
51	* DisappearedDad: "Had a Dad".
52	* DistinctDoubleAlbum: ''Ritual de lo habitual'', though it's not always a double album.[[note]]All CD issues and early vinyl pressings had the album on one disc; however, more recent vinyl pressings split it up onto two [=LPs=] to avoid having the B-side run for longer than thirty-one minutes.[[/note]] However, the last four songs are a lot more subdued and downbeat than the first five, plus much more prone to EpicRocking.
53	* DudeLooksLikeALady: Dave Navarro in the band's early days.
54	* EpicRocking: "Ted, Just Admit It...", "Three Days", "Then She Did...", "Of Course". ''Ritual de lo habitual'' has so much of this it practically qualifies as a ProgressiveRock album (and if it consisted of just the last four songs, it probably would be considered one).
55	* FunkMetal: [[AlternativeRock Among]] [[AlternativeMetal other things]]...
56	* FunWithAcronyms: When they co-headlined a tour with Music/NineInchNails in 2009, it was of course called [[GratuitousNinja NINJA]].
57	* GratuitousSpanish: The title of ''Ritual de lo habitual'', plus the opening narration of the album. The pronunciation is pretty good, but the grammar has some mistakes (in particular, the conjugation of "tener" for "tú" should be "tienes", and the correct translation of the band name is "La adicción de Juana", or simply "Adicción de Juana". A more correct form of the album title itself would probably be ''Ritual del habitual''; "lo" is mostly used as an object and wouldn't generally be used preceding a noun. The translation of the [[HammyHerald opening narration]], minus grammar mistakes, is something along the lines of "Gentlemen and ladies, we have more influence over your children than you do, but we love them. Created and nurtured in Los Angeles, Jane's Addiction!" The album title, of course, means "Ritual of the habitual".)
58	* GreenAesop[=/=]GaiasLament: "Stop!" seems to describe a flood in its third verse, and it instructs listeners to "turn off that smokestack", amongst other things.
59	* GriefSong: Side two of ''Ritual de lo habitual'' is dedicated to Farrell's deceased friend whom he referred to as Xiola Blue. "Then She Did..." is the only one that directly addresses her death (apart from the intro to "Three Days"); "Three Days" was actually written before she died (again, apart from the intro), while "Of Course" is simply about his grief itself. "Classic Girl" is placed at the end as a sort of EarnYourHappyEnding in music form. "Then She Did..." also addresses the death of Farrell's mother at age four; he explicitly compares her to Blue and appears to encourage the two of them to meet in the afterlife.
60	* IntercourseWithYou: "Irresistible Force" is about how the big bang was a sexual act, or, in other words, a [[{{Pun}} big bang.]]
61	* InterplayOfSexAndViolence[=/=]SexIsViolence: Hinted at in "Ted, Just Admit It..." (the title of the latter trope is even the chorus!), though that's not [[SerialKiller entirely what the song's about]]...
62	* InTheStyleOf - "Jane Says" is a chilled-out faux-Caribbean song, "Of Course" imitates Led Zeppelin's Mideastern phase, "Three Days" and "Then She Did..." are the band's take on ProgressiveRock, and so on.
63	* LeadBassist: Eric Avery's bass is probably just as important as Dave Navarro's guitar on most of the songs, to the point where many people just flat-out feel it's not Jane's Addiction without Eric Avery.
64	* TheLostLenore: Xiola Blue.
65	* LyricalDissonance: The catchy funk-rock song about kleptomania, "Been Caught Stealing".
66	* MalignedMixedMarriage: "No One's Leaving" protests racism in general and bigotry against interracial relationships in particular. It also explicitly calls the singer's sister's mixed-race son "gorgeous".
67	* MetalScream: "AAAAHHHHHHH C'MOOONNNN CCCC'MMMMOOOOONNNNN!" (from "Had A Dad")
68	* MissingMom: "Then She Did..." is mostly about the death of Farrell's friend Xiola Blue at age nineteen, but it also addresses the suicide of his mother when he was four years old.
69	* MoralGuardians: Not the band themselves but they did regularly get in trouble with them, especially as a result of their album art.
70	* PunnyName: Perry Farrell = "Peripheral".
71	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Several songs contain autobiographical elements, most famously "Three Days" and "Then She Did..."
72	* {{Sampling}} / SpokenWordInMusic - the Ted Bundy quote of "Ted, Just Admit It..."
73	* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: "My sex and my drugs and my rock'n'roll are my fuckin' own business..."
74	** "Three Days" is about a real-life experience involving these, but it has a ''serious'' DownerEnding with the next song.
75	* TheSomethingSong: "Mountain Song"
76	* StopAndGo: Happens twice in "Stop!", appropriately.
77	* SubduedSection: "Then She Did...", any of their long songs actually, "Stop!"
78	* TakeThat: Because it was inevitable that MoralGuardians would object to the nudity on the cover of ''Ritual de lo Habitual'', the band replaced it with the First Amendment of the United States (which forbids government censorship) for the censored version. The back cover noted that [[GodwinsLaw part of the reason Hitler was able to consolidate so much power was due to government censorship]] and encouraged the protection of the First Amendment.
79	* ThreeWaySex: "Three Days" is about an experience Farrell and his girlfriend at the time had with a friend of theirs who died young (which is addressed in "Then She Did...").
80	* WordSaladLyrics
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