Great Escape Artist followup

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Will we see another JA studio album?

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Tyler Durden
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Re: Great Escape Artist followup

#26 Post by Tyler Durden » Mon Aug 10, 2020 3:09 pm

someguy wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 2:47 pm

Also in Beneath the Ground even though his drums are heavily edited he is playing what I feel is a really interesting drum part that is ritual-esqe.
Can't remember if I've heard this one or not. Where can I listen?

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Re: Great Escape Artist followup

#27 Post by Noonesshocking » Mon Aug 10, 2020 5:56 pm

Tyler Durden wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 3:09 pm
someguy wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 2:47 pm

Also in Beneath the Ground even though his drums are heavily edited he is playing what I feel is a really interesting drum part that is ritual-esqe.
Can't remember if I've heard this one or not. Where can I listen?

https://youtu.be/mIdGFBwnC2g

The bassline was originally for “I’ll Protect You” - the other reznor session song that didn’t get finished. Eric said in the xiola interview that he was gonna keep perkins’ demo drums. Sounds cool.

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Re: Great Escape Artist followup

#28 Post by cabangbangq » Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:46 am

someguy wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 2:47 pm
cabangbangq wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:29 pm
Larry B. wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:43 am
Hokahey wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:50 am
I think Perry wanted that too as some point, but he's too goofy to sell out correctly.
:lol: :lol: That's so fucking true.

And I'd find it hard to believe that Perkins has been playing so standardly only because of Ezrin. To me, someone who actually studied him quite profoundly at some point, it feels like he just ran out of patterns to play. It was already happening in the original albums (Had a Dad and Pigs in Zen are basically the same; Been Caught Stealing and Standing in the Shower; the fast sections of Ted and No One's Leaving; etc.), but now he just ran out. In Porno For Pyros, the greater variety of drums and percussion items helped him come up with beautiful stuff, but back to a standard drum set there's not much else for him to do. Although I love Banyan's second album, most of those drum patterns are as standard Perk as you'd get. Price I Pay was, to me, the last outstanding drum pattern he came up with. So cool. After that, it's 33% Stephen Perkins, 33% Radio-Friendly Unnamed Rock Drummer and 33% Larry Müllen Jr.
His work in Porno is nuts. Some of the most creative and melodic playing I've heard. Whenever I go back to the s/t I'm always blown away by how much he does in between beats. Shame he fell off. Price I Pay, Strays, and Underground are probably his best works post EA.
What kills me is the clip of Embrace the Darkness sounded like a step in the right direction drum wise. Just a cool tribal trippy beat.

Also in Beneath the Ground even though his drums are heavily edited he is playing what I feel is a really interesting drum part that is ritual-esqe.

At this point there is literally no point in doing a follow up unless Eric is involved. I just can’t see how they would stir up any excitement and I think at the very least Dave knows this.
Wait where is Embrace the Darkness?

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Re: Great Escape Artist followup

#29 Post by intertwoven » Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:49 am

intertwoven wrote:
Fri Feb 07, 2020 1:55 pm
Here's an mp3 of just the clip for easy downloading: http://defgav.com/sdw/audio/Janes%20Add ... 0clip).mp3

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Re: Great Escape Artist followup

#30 Post by somethindalisomethin » Wed Aug 12, 2020 1:04 am

I've been listening to a lot of old Jane's and Porno recently (That's why I came to this forum to see what's up).

I haven't even heard TGEA and would only imagine that any new album from Jane's right now would suck balls.

Perry's turned into Liberace, it's been happening before our eyes for years. Can you Imagine Liberace trying to make a new album when he was 60 with the same intensity of Perry at 20? All it does is stain all of the old albums and recordings.

Perry, go to Las Vegas, take your wife, please (lol), set up your "Residency" just like Liberace did and live happily ever after and just leave Jane's and Porno alone, you just don't have it in you right now to make anything good of it.

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Re: Great Escape Artist followup

#31 Post by kv » Wed Aug 12, 2020 2:03 am

He already tried that..

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Re: Great Escape Artist followup

#32 Post by cabangbangq » Wed Aug 12, 2020 8:52 am

somethindalisomethin wrote:
Wed Aug 12, 2020 1:04 am
I've been listening to a lot of old Jane's and Porno recently (That's why I came to this forum to see what's up).

I haven't even heard TGEA and would only imagine that any new album from Jane's right now would suck balls.

Perry's turned into Liberace, it's been happening before our eyes for years. Can you Imagine Liberace trying to make a new album when he was 60 with the same intensity of Perry at 20? All it does is stain all of the old albums and recordings.

Perry, go to Las Vegas, take your wife, please (lol), set up your "Residency" just like Liberace did and live happily ever after and just leave Jane's and Porno alone, you just don't have it in you right now to make anything good of it.
TGEA has moments. Nothing that really sustains itself, but Dave tried hard and you can hear it. Underground could be a Jane's 1.0 song, although the lyrics are a bit corny. Curiosity Kills has a bit of a GGU / Cure vibe, it's just not a typical Jane's song. End to the Lies is decent, but it's more a TV on the Radio song than a Jane's song. Twisted Tales is decently catchy, just a little too dancey to feel like Jane's. The rest of the album is a bit too mid 2000's radio rock.

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