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Format: CD
Aug 2003
Record Label: Toshiba EMI (Japan)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 4988006813540 |
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Track Listing
1. True Nature
2. Strats
3. Just Because
4. Price I Pay
5. Richies
6. Superhero
7. Wrong Girl
8. Everybody's Friends
9. Suffer Some
10. Hypersonic
11. To Match the Sun
12. Suffer Some (Live)
| Details | | Distributor: | MSI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular tracks and multimedia computer files.
This limited edition includes a bonus DVD.
Jane's Addiction: Perry Farrell (vocals); Dave Navarro (guitar); Chris Chaney (bass); Stephen Perkins (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: John Shanks (mandolin); Scott Page (saxophone); Bob Ezrin (keyboards, percussion); Aaron Embry (keyboards, kalimba); Zack Ray (keyboards); Mike Finnegan (organ); Brendan Hawkins, Joe Bishara, Brian Virtue (programming); Donna Brooks-Jackson, Kim Hill (background vocals).
"Just Because" was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance.
This Japanese reissue contains the bonus track "Suffer Some (Live."
Thirteen years after emerging from the studio with RITUAL DE LO HABITUAL, Jane's Addiction returned in 2003 with STRAYS. Unlike many comebacks, Jane's chemistry remains, even with new bassist Chris Chaney stepping in for founding member Eric Avery. With Perry Farrell in fine fettle and legendary producer Bob Ezrin aboard to oversee this highly risky project, the band's gamble has paid off in spades. Despite Jane's extended hiatus, the group's aggression hasn't abated at all, whether it's Dave Navarro's crunching guitar behind the stomping opening cut "True Nature," the mosh-ready groove "Just Because," or the ultra-funky "Wrong Girl," echoing Navarro's time in the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Unlike so much of the aggro-rock this quartet influenced in their aftermath, part of JA's magic was its ease with more eclectic fare. Some of this outing's more interesting moments include "Everybody's Friend," an acoustic-soaked ode to a lost chum and "The Riches," which draws from a palette of spiky hooks and Chaney's fat basslines that give way to an ethereal outro of chiming guitar and swirling keyboards. With only their third studio album (!), Jane's Addiction makes a triumphant comeback that feels as if they never really left.
Industry Reviews
...STRAYS proves that Jane's hasn't lost its signature sound...
CMJ (07/28/2003)
4 out of 5 - ...Dave Navarro and newly recruited bassist Chris Chaney crank the distortion and tighten the riffs...
Alternative Press (09/01/2003)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Their old magic surges through: you won't be disappointed...
Uncut (09/01/2003)
4 out of 5 stars - ...[Features] Jane's signatures that have been re-jigged to dazzle; the digital delays which lift Farrell to altitude; the loping bass lines; the quiet guitars...and loud ones that trick the Richter Scale with each caustic kerrang!...
Mojo (08/01/2003)
...An ambitious, exuberant effort that moves through hard-rock cave stomps into swaggering funk and loopy folk, STRAYS sounds like the work of a committed band intent on hanging around longer than the current Lollapalooza life span... - Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly (07/25/2003)
4 out of 5 stars - ...The band sounds familiar, with its old gambits intact: the serenely rippling ballads that give way to battering-ram riffs, the odd-meter funk vamps, the sudden swerves from metal stomp to thoughtful melody, the ocean-size crescendos...
Rolling Stone (08/07/2003)
Ranked #10 in Q's The 50 Best Albums of 2003 - [A] heady blur of twisted art-metal...
Q (01/01/2004)
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