Ozzy was a chronic maniac, right out of pure fiction, who partied so hard, that he commonly wet himself. Ozzy couldn’t write his own lyrics to save his life. Ozzy slept through most his bands rehearsals, was chronically absent from his own recording sessions & yet still managed to reap the rewards from his God gifted golden voice, after surrounding himself with trend setting world class musicians, whom associated Ozzy with classic masterpiece hit records, which were far ahead of their time. Clearly Sharon was a home wrecker groupie, Yoko Ono type of sociopathic manager, who imagined it would be a simple matter to lash onto & control Ozzy, by breaking up the band, in short sightedly firing Bob & Lee out of pure greed & egomania, which upset Randy, to where he decided that he wanted to get off the Crazy Train, & was then openly attacked by Ozzy. All for Sharon to discover, that while Tommy & Rudy could mimic the material in live settings, while working cheap, they were far inferior subpar songwriters, that couldn’t hack it in the studio. Sharon was forced to call back Bob Daisley & eventually bring in Carmine Appice, after Sharon’s management style ruined the band, and created such a violent reckless, bat chewing bloody dove decapitating, urine & drug fueled chaotic “Prince of Darkness” culture on the road, that Randy got killed off in a wild senseless A.W.O.L. dive bombing accident under Sharon’s watch. Which never would have happened had Bob remained in the band, as the cool, calm, collected, level headed, adult voice of reason. Sharon apparently assumed that Ozzy could just easily luck into catching lightning in a bottle again automatically, after Black Sabbath & the band Blizzard of Ozz, yet Ozzy would never again attract the sort of extraordinary gifted brilliant musicians, that he’d miraculously found himself among twice in the past…Ozzy was lucky to get hired guns like Brad Gillis & Jake E Lee in his band & treated both of them horribly, & when Ozzy & Sharon lost a lawsuit to Bob Daisley & Lee Kerslake they tried to remove them from Ozzy’s most treasured classic album, when the backlash from the fans grew so severe that they got publicly forced to replace Bob & Lee’s original tracks on the albums. I believe the Blizzard of Ozz band would have eclipsed Van Halen & grown bigger then Led Zeppelin if they had more loyally supportive management team, that truly appreciated how uniquely special, phenomenally gifted & exceptionally rare, once in a million collection of talent, that original band was at the time, to be abled to carry Ozzy all kicking screaming & wetting himself, back to the forefront of heavy metal, in spite of himself……”The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side”.- Hunter S. Thompson

10/10 this album is a masterpiece

For me this was the first record I bought by myself at 13 and for me it is a masterpiece. I love the Robert Smith pic on your wall by the way!

I’m a huge Duran Duran fan and this was the first album I generally can’t vibe with. I agree with your review of Evil Woman. I think ‘Confession In The Afterlife” was the best and most listenable song on the album. Evil Woman felt like Simon just wanted to have a “new” fun song he could play live

I just found Terry Reid’s music a couple of years ago. I’m so taken with him! His music gives me life again. So glad to find your channel ♥️

I'm turning in ✌️

no skipsssss

Great takes my man. Very great takes. EXCEPT that you said that Mezmerize and Hypnotize doesn’t hold up and I think that’s where SOAD is at their SOAD-ist! Anyways I liked and Subed! Please review the other soad albums, I want to hear your smelliest take lol. Jk Have a good day

My #1 album of all time for the last 25 years and counting. Not a second wasted. Every decision was for the best ❤

Wow, someone else knows who this great band is. I live in Texas, but I discovered them in 2006 when I went to the Montreal facility of the company I worked for at the time. I was working out in the hotel gym and the TV was tuned to a Canadian Music Channel and the video of "Red Flag" and was hooked. I have been a fan ever since.

oh i fckn love Negative Witness. Cosmo has such a pretty voice. Hahah and i love how u said u love the bass work (that’s probably bc he mainly plays bass)

Freaking Fantastic!!! Saw Jane’s many times in their fame. Saw them get kicked off the stage in SF at Bill Graham’s club. They just turned off the power because Perry was such an asshole. However it was great.

Shut the hell up. You don't know shit.

One of the best albums I ever owned . Had sex to it more times then I can count ❤

One great song! And one other ok track. ......I hope they saved their $$$$$

It is a fantastic song. One of the best chorus lines out there. That switch melody is my jam.

flawless album, and i was lucky enough to see them in Phoenix AZ two nights in a row in Jan of 1989 for this tour in a makeshift club called The Underground meant to hold roughly 500 people but oversold both nights to at least twice that capacity, by the next time i saw them on the tour for Ritual they were selling out10k seat stadiums

One of the most influential album of all time! The fact they are not in the Rock Hall is complete Bullshit! Mixing Metal and psychedelic is changed music forever...them and the Chili Peppers brought freakiness to tame music! 11 of 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1988 Janes Addiction's, Mountain Song, 1989 I hear NIN, Pretty Hate Machine, and Nirvana, Bleach. I really can say these changed my music taste 100%

Brilliant album. Jane's Addiction are or were the American Led Zeppelin. Nothing but sonic boom on this album. The 80s were a shit decade for music. 1983 to 1987 was a wasteland for rock. Then this album came along in 1988 and set the stage for Nirvana and all the alt rock and grunge acts of the early 90s. A classic of proper rock.

Hey little known fact, there’s no difference in anyone that’s a reviewer “professional” or not. They might say that but they are lying. All it is is if you like it or not and why.

The most overrated band ever… Perry’s voice is atrocious

Thanks for doing research and showing respect for these Canadian legends. I never realized about the endings, your critique feels somewhat like you're caught up in musical formality and tradition (a "proper" ending). But everyone has their pet peeves or quirks, and different things stand out to different people.

The album is good,not great. The vocals are too high pitched and the Navarros guitar is too metal. These songs deserved some other production

BTW, NOTHING'S SHOCKING is their second album. Their first is epponymous.

I had their first 3 records,they were very popular then. By the time of STRAYS,i lost interest. But the album is better then i expected.

This record changed my life.

12:15 No, that's Perry's voice, not Flea on trumpet.

Your bg music is 💩 btw

F****** dumbest rant I’ve ever heard. And who the f*** are you??

Well sorry, but I rate you as “not interesting.” WTF do you actually know actually the Pumpkins? Are you a musician? Let’s see what you can produce.

10/10

I can't believe dude just claimed that one of the greatest guitar tracks in history should have been done more mainstream. The guitar work in mountain song is absolute perfection. Guitar solo is maybe my all-time favorite guitar solo, though I know that's partly because at that time in history guitar solos were supposed to be where you showed off your speed and instead Dave just creates all these textures. It's brilliant in a way that's understandably lost to history.

I know in 2014 this is hard for anyone to imagine, but when this album came out no one had blended funky grooves with the hard sound the way "Standing in the Shower Thinking" does. In current reviews people always hate on that song, but at the time we couldn't get enough. It felt absolutely fresh and new to our ears and beings. It was so wiggly and slithery but ripping, yet unlike other Rock of the time it didn't take itself seriously. It was fun during a serious era. Also remember that this album came out a full year before the Red Hot chili peppers "mother's milk" album, what is the album that really funk Rock to the mainstream. Yes, they had been doing it for a while but most people had never really heard it yet. And the guitarist from danger Dixon later join the chili peppers.... So you know the chili peppers have been listening to that album.

I've always felt "Ted, just admit it." was an absolute work of art, but a work of art I wasn't always in the mood to sit through. On the rare occasion I was in the mood for it, it was absolutely hypnotizing!

This album changed my life both musically and culturally. As a teenage boy in his early to mid teens living in Louisiana when does came out, this is a window into a completely different world. I had already started listening to things like the Cure and other alternative bands but this was a game changer. That said, I've always felt saddened by the fact that anthropologically this album surely has little relevance now. Like, I can't really show it to young people and say this is the greatest album of a decade because a lot of things sounded like it afterwards. People really don't get that when this album came out nothing else in the world sounded like this. This album was a universe in itself.

I've been listening to The Downward Spiral since it came out and have yet to get sick of it. It's hard for me to rank songs individually because I see this album as a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. The song sequence is flawless. Anyway, great discussion. I'll have to check out more of your videos.

Awesome review, initially I didn't care for CTD since they're pretty much a 'new band' at this point without Jeff,Jmann, Waylon, Shmotz, Stitch etc. But I'm glad I gave it more listens- its a grower of an album. Agree with you on how they went with the circus theme, was also disappointed with their 1st single Fall in line but enjoyed Prepackaged. yeah they should have had Doom Goose as a hidden song instead. My ranking is- 1. Eye To Eye 2. Hallelucination 3. Decomposition 4. UIOP (A Final Reprieve) 5. Prepackaged 6. Torn in Two 7. Emptiness 8. We Don't Care 9. Fall In Line 10. Grand Gesture 11. Shame in a Basket 12. Hideous 13. Doom Goose

Excellent review!

SP are not post grunge 😂 they started in 88. 🤦

GREAT LP

Wow, thank you for this. I've pulled up the album and am listening now. This has somehow flown entirely under my radar.

Reviewing this in November, commenting for your algo!

“Wanna be tom morello guitar solo….before tomorrow morello did it. Lol This whole album rips they started it all. 10/10

I remember this song leaked a few months before the release of with teeth. It blew me away. The first new nin since fragile era was this song. I was obsessed.

I share your feelings men. The downward spiral helped me so much till this day, I was struggling with a huge depression and I was hurting my self and I was closed to be death one time, i didnt love , I literally had no one but I had The downward spiral album, I had ruiner, eraser, hurt, Mr self-destruct, those songs helped me so much than any body else. If you ask me, my favorite song of with teeth is the line begins to blur .

Masterpiece. Was the real first band that was completely different than what was on the radio. Way before Nirvana, and a much better band than Nirvana. I'll take Mountain Song over Teen Spirit 10 days of the week.

I absolutely love this song and Ruiner off of TDS the same way you do, I'm really happy to see someone make a video on a very, very underrated song.

Great album. For what it's worth, if you're going to review old albums like this, it would work to your benefit to do some research before you start telling us about the album, otherwise you're just telling us things we already know -- not informing us or introducing anything to us. For example, you stumbled over what might be a bridge and what might be a chorus but, had you done some research, you'd have learned that, for Jane's Addiction's music, Perry Farrell wrote his lyrics by the paragraph -- not in a poetic form, so conventional song structures didn't really apply. I'll help you skip ahead: If you didn't like Nothing's Shocking, turn back now. You won't like any of the albums which follow Nothing's Shocking either. And yes -- "Pigs In Zen" is one of the older songs on Nothing's Shocking -- it appeared on the album which preceded Nothing's Shocking (so did "Jane Says") which was a live album, but which definitely had some studio overdubs. See how useful some research can be?

I was feeling anxious the other day and I just keep repeating/singing the refrain: "What a beautiful world..." And I soon started to relax and feel at peace.