Jane's Addiction

Ritual De Lo Habitual is the Jane's Addiction album to turn newcomers onto the band. On their sophomore studio effort, the band successfully incorporated hooks and big choruses into their blistering, esoteric sound, and were "rewarded" with a proper radio/MTV hit as a result. Start here and move backward on the road to discovering Jane's Addiction.

One of the funniest things about Nothing's Shocking, Jane's Addiction's much-ballyhooed
1988 release, was how it skewed the conventions of L.A. Sunset Strip metal, managing to be
distinctively perverse in a world already saturated with bad taste and bacchanalia. At times
the music was glorious, playful psychedelic metal, as Perry Farrell's avant-gypsy garb,
weird eye makeup and prepubescent voice plugged you into the visionary amor... More >