The Pointless Afterlife of Jane’s Addiction [SPIN Magazine]

[Tyler Durden]

https://www.spin.com/2024/01/this-is-am ... linkin.bio

[phenobarb_bambalam]

What bloviated bollocks. That was a painful read.

[Hokahey]

What a bizarre article. I went in to it prepared to say “as much as it stings, he’s right, and saying much of what we’ve been saying.” But it briefly contrasts one incredible 1991 Janes show with a lackluster 2003 show, and then it’s pretentious word salad that has little to do with Janes for another dozen or so paragraphs. This was more of an attempted dissertation on how rock must embrace its extremes, or find a way to age with an edge than anything about Janes. Although the obvious relevance to the band is there, it never really goes back to the band. It’s almost like it was a different article and they shoehorned it into being about Jane’s Addiction by using a negative 2003 concert review. Very weird. And there’s a certain irony here about Spin trying to wax philosophical on trotting out the corpse of a once great thing.

[phenobarb_bambalam]

Exactly. I went in with a wince, prepared to have a well thought out kick at them, in line with much has been said around here over the years, but then there was the self-indulgent, meandering rubbish that followed. Much of it read like what you'd have find in a 'zine, back in the day.

I had to chuckle at the response - "mongrel soul", well played.

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[esqfool]

I started reading it, then I just started skimming the paragraphs and went to the next one when I didn't see anything about the band mentioned. I mean yeah, its not 1991 anymore, no shit huh? I still thought their tour in 2022/2023 was pretty damn good all things considered.

[Hokahey]

Relapse and Jubilee were decent. He went straight to their worst era, 20 years ago, and acted like that was it.

[tubro]

What a load of lazy shite. It’s like he asked ChatGBT to describe how Janes Addiction used to be good but isn’t anymore. Also, change a few details and it could be part of a series called the pointless afterlife of [fill in band name]. The list could go on forever, as about half of today’s national touring acts are legacy acts whose last great creation was in a different millennium.

[nestos]

The Pointless Afterlife of Musical Magazines

[Essence_Smith]

I didn't read SPIN when it was "fashionable" & I certainly won't be starting now

[Toddo]

Shit maybe next week Details magazine will roast them