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Re: Kind Heaven review

#26 Post by farrellgirl99 » Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:49 am

I listened to it on my commute and I gotta say it’s nowhere near as terrible as I thought it was going to be. Will I listen to it again? No but I was expecting I like em big territory and it’s just like shitty and cringey old man rock territory.

Though I almost lol’d to myself during Machine Girl where the lyrics are ‘keep talking, sex talking’ because I’m pretty sure those were joke lyrics 67 posted one time.

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#27 Post by Hokahey » Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:08 am

farrellgirl99 wrote:
Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:49 am
I listened to it on my commute and I gotta say it’s nowhere near as terrible as I thought it was going to be. Will I listen to it again? No but I was expecting I like em big territory and it’s just like shitty and cringey old man rock territory.

Though I almost lol’d to myself during Machine Girl where the lyrics are ‘keep talking, sex talking’ because I’m pretty sure those were joke lyrics 67 posted one time.

No, it's just an old song that Perry is recycling. We've just been making fun of it for that long.

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#28 Post by farrellgirl99 » Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:06 am

Lol okay that would explain that then.

I’m also impressed Ettys voice still sounds awful with 2019 audio technology.

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#29 Post by ESY » Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:47 am

Fuck. I don’t know what happened. But I kind of like it. It’s weird in a good way. It’s better than TGEA :noclue:

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#30 Post by JOEinPHX » Fri Jun 07, 2019 10:19 am

ESY wrote:
Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:47 am
It’s better than TGEA :noclue:

A little early to be drinking, don't you think? :lolol:

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#31 Post by ESY » Fri Jun 07, 2019 12:04 pm

No! Or :cool:

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#32 Post by ja littlehelper » Fri Jun 07, 2019 12:56 pm

I bought the record. And it’s complete garbage!!! Although I give Perry credit for making new music. I just don’t dig it.

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#33 Post by Noonesshocking » Fri Jun 07, 2019 1:53 pm

Can we stop the Perry vs. Dave integrity thing? It's completely and utterly moot at this point.

SP was awful. Kind Heaven is a little better but still bad. His goofy, corny, out-of-touch uncle shit is a huge impediment to any chance of Jane's being good again. Not to mention his voice.

Panic Channel was HORRENDOUS. Dave hasn't released a note of music in eight years.

Eric at the very least lends his services to a good band that has a lot of integrity - Garbage. I think he still works on solo stuff, but doesn't release because he doesn't feel there is demand for it, which is a weak excuse. He's pretty stubborn and set in his ways to a fault. But I still admire him.

Perkins plays his ass off all the time with a many different artists, big or small. That's dope. He rules.

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#34 Post by JOEinPHX » Fri Jun 07, 2019 3:26 pm

Noonesshocking wrote:
Fri Jun 07, 2019 1:53 pm
Can we stop the Perry vs. Dave integrity thing? It's completely and utterly moot at this point.

No one brought that up in this thread. :noclue:

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#35 Post by Noonesshocking » Fri Jun 07, 2019 3:47 pm

Six7Six7 wrote:
Fri Jun 07, 2019 3:26 pm
[quote=Noonesshocking post_id=136429 time=<a href="tel:1559940827">1559940827</a> user_id=389]
Can we stop the Perry vs. Dave integrity thing? It's completely and utterly moot at this point.

No one brought that up in this thread. :noclue:
[/quote]

M8 have u read the thread/ur own poasts

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#36 Post by kv » Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:01 pm

He doesn't even get how his incessant perry bashing is old...

He just keeps beating away... :deadhorse:

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#37 Post by intertwoven » Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:56 pm

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 46411.html
Perry Farrell, Kind Heaven

★★★★☆

For Perry Farrell fans, the mere fact that he’s releasing his first solo album in almost two decades should be enough to generate excitement. But the former Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros frontman, who excels at the kind of psychedelic punk rock pioneered by Iggy Pop and David Bowie, clearly thinks that’s not enough. Not only does Kind Heaven feature an “orchestra” of musicians including Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Elliot Easton (The Cars) and Dhani Harrison, it’s also accompanied by the launch of an eccentric-sounding theme park in Las Vegas under the same name.

Fans will have to put this vision of “a dynamic world… offering the best of southeast Asian culture, music, food… exoticism and spiritual enlightenment” to one side in order to appreciate Farrell’s album, which is really very good. Kind Heaven opens on the Sixties-influenced “(red, white and blue) Cheerfulness”, with bounding rhythms and Farrell’s barking, Paul McCartney-like delivery (think “Back in the USSR”). This quickly veers into the industrial squall and distorted vocals of “Pirate Punk Politician”, which envisages Donald Trump as a would-be anti-Christ.

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#38 Post by intertwoven » Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:26 pm

My review..

(red, white, and blue) Cheerfulness - sounds like Sesame Street theme.
Pirate Punk Politician - catchy chorus, but not a very good song.
Snakes Have Many Hips - ok, this is a fine, fun, throw-away song.
Machine Girl - another catchy chorus but nothing else.
One - Actung Baby? ...And Justice for All? Eddie Lou Farrell shines, I kinda like it.
Where Have You Been All My Life - Not feeling this one at all. Yawn. Least fav.
More Than I Could Bear - sounds like a bastardization of FNM's "King for a Day"
Spend The Body - More like "declare bankruptcy on the body"
Let's All Pray For This World - autotuned apacolypse. Fitting ending.

overall: nothing I'll be compelled to listen to twice, but could be worse. C-

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#39 Post by trevor ayer » Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:34 am

I took a quick listen .. sounds like a meatloaf bat out of hell vibe to me .. except with stoopid electronic modern rawk production .. mostly tho it sounds like desperation .. old people trying to prove they are still sexual to the world .. kinda gross hearing crusty old plastic surgery disasters trying to sound sexy and sexual with musical production geared towards teenage audience .. like they think they are turning on teenagers with their sexual chemistry .. i think perry has some good musical ideas .. and this has a musical theatre vibe .. just the lyrical content and production do not work at all .. i give it a rating of DELETE DELETE DELETE .. that's 3 deletes out of 1 .. that's how bad I want this record off my hard drive

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#40 Post by Mescal » Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:04 am

trevor ayer wrote:
Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:34 am
kinda gross hearing crusty old plastic surgery disasters trying to sound sexy and sexual with musical production geared towards teenage audience ..



i give it a rating of DELETE DELETE DELETE .. that's 3 deletes out of 1 .. that's how bad I want this record off my hard drive
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Re: Kind Heaven review

#41 Post by Tyler Durden » Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:59 am

I checked out the track samples on iTunes. My general impression is that this album probably makes Chris Cornell's "Scream" album sound like Zeppelin IV.

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#42 Post by kv » Sat Jun 08, 2019 11:42 am

Kinda proud of myself for not even needing to hear it....I know what it is

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#43 Post by clickie » Sat Jun 08, 2019 12:33 pm

That song Cheerfulness reminds me of the ZZ Top's song Tush
Someone said this album is better than Satellite Party, I'm not so sure.

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#44 Post by JOEinPHX » Sat Jun 08, 2019 2:11 pm

kv wrote:
Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:01 pm
He doesn't even get how his incessant perry bashing is old...

He just keeps beating away... :deadhorse:
You know you're on the JANE'S ADDICTION message board, right?

:lol:

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#45 Post by kv » Sat Jun 08, 2019 2:21 pm

You know I'm not here for them right?

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#46 Post by Hokahey » Sat Jun 08, 2019 2:56 pm

kv wrote:
Sat Jun 08, 2019 11:42 am
Kinda proud of myself for not even needing to hear it....I know what it is

Ya know, I felt the same way. But there are moments I didn't expect. Like the first track. I mean, it's still a bad album. But I'd give it a quick listen.

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#47 Post by three_weeks » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:25 pm

First of all, the length of the album and a total number of tracks are a total joke. If you want to make a "theatrical concept" about anything then sure as hell it has to be something more than miraculously squeezed out 30 minutes with tracks dating back to 2010. I don't believe Perry can hold a "concept" for 9 years nowadays, let alone for a month. I'm 99% sure many of the production decisions were made to artificially lengthen the songs, pushing it hard towards the half an hour mark, which looks more acceptable than, say, a 26 minute "longplay". The fact that Perry had to rehash other people's songs under his own name, despite claiming having a few "hours" of material is just sad. It could've been a decent little LP, but instead of that we got one of the most generic and bland sounding pieces of faux-pop this year; my special golden turd award goes to the opening track (a Sesame Street comparison is a good one... it's not vaudeville, it's clowns on xanax) and "Spend The Body" which is probably the most sleazy thing you can get from an aging ex-rockstar. I'd give it half a star for a sadistic fun factor, but to be honest, it's really all that's left when it comes to post-nowadays-Jane's Addiction history. Perry's just a fucking clown with his wannabe diva wife, handful of plastic surgeries, failed attempts at launching own brands, failed attempts at modelling, failed attempts at being a popstar, failed attempts at being relevant. And it's not like I hate the guys' guts, Perry always seemed to be a extraordinarily humble, sweet and warm guy and he's still like that in interviews, but damn, he's better off with a new or better manager these days. And we all know that occupation is probably handled by Etty.

tl;dr new album is shit 1,5/10

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#48 Post by SR » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:56 pm

Ah, fresh eyes :thumb:

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Re: Kind Heaven review

#49 Post by JOEinPHX » Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:49 pm

three_weeks wrote:
Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:25 pm
First of all, the length of the album and a total number of tracks are a total joke. If you want to make a "theatrical concept" about anything then sure as hell it has to be something more than miraculously squeezed out 30 minutes with tracks dating back to 2010. I don't believe Perry can hold a "concept" for 9 years nowadays, let alone for a month. I'm 99% sure many of the production decisions were made to artificially lengthen the songs, pushing it hard towards the half an hour mark, which looks more acceptable than, say, a 26 minute "longplay". The fact that Perry had to rehash other people's songs under his own name, despite claiming having a few "hours" of material is just sad. It could've been a decent little LP, but instead of that we got one of the most generic and bland sounding pieces of faux-pop this year; my special golden turd award goes to the opening track (a Sesame Street comparison is a good one... it's not vaudeville, it's clowns on xanax) and "Spend The Body" which is probably the most sleazy thing you can get from an aging ex-rockstar. I'd give it half a star for a sadistic fun factor, but to be honest, it's really all that's left when it comes to post-nowadays-Jane's Addiction history. Perry's just a fucking clown with his wannabe diva wife, handful of plastic surgeries, failed attempts at launching own brands, failed attempts at modelling, failed attempts at being a popstar, failed attempts at being relevant. And it's not like I hate the guys' guts, Perry always seemed to be a extraordinarily humble, sweet and warm guy and he's still like that in interviews, but damn, he's better off with a new or better manager these days. And we all know that occupation is probably handled by Etty.

tl;dr new album is shit 1,5/10
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Re: Kind Heaven review

#50 Post by Larry B. » Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:32 pm

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