Jane's AddictionBest Jane's Addiction Albums Ranked

Nothing's Shocking

pitchfork

9.3

“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the Los Angeles band’s 1988 debut, which infused the nascent alt-rock movement with a surreal vision of Hollywood hedonism.”

Up from the Catacombs: The Best of Jane's Addiction

pitchfork

8.5

“Rhino gathers the best from Perry Farrell's trailblazing band-- a group that somehow managed to capture the sum total of 1980s underground music culture and lay the sonic groundwork for the decade that followed.”

Nothing's Shocking

rollingstone

8.0

“Randy Newman and the members of Jane’s Addiction would probably be the first to tell you that they don’t have anything in common, that they don’t listen to each other’s music, that they shouldn’t be in the same record review. And that’s probably true: Newman, forty-four and unprolific, makes immaculate pop music, with a lushness […]”

Strays

rollingstone

8.0

“One of the funniest things about Nothing’s Shocking, Jane’s Addiction’s much-ballyhooed 1988 release, was how it skewed the conventions of L.A. Sunset Strip metal, managing to be distinctively perverse in a world already saturated with bad taste and bacchanalia. At times the music was glorious, playful psychedelic metal, as Perry Farrell’s avant-gypsy garb, weird eye […]”

A Cabinet of Curiosities

pitchfork

6.0

“This 4xCD set-- two CDs of demos/rarities, a third of a 1990 live show, and a DVD of video ephemera-- helps celebrate Jane's original-member reunion.”

Kettle Whistle

rollingstone

6.0

“From their birth in 1986 to their breakup in 1991, Jane’s Addiction were rock’s hip conscience in a square time. The band infused the stolid ’80s music scene with a Zeppelinesque, neometal sound that presaged the grindings of grunge bands. And in Perry Farrell, it gave the ’90s one of its first alternative-rock stars. Now […]”