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Jane's Addiction - Kettle Whistle

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Release date: 04 November 1997

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Jane's Addiction - Kettle Whistle: Wikipedia Album Entry


According to alterna-rock legend, Jane's Addiction was the band responsible for laying the groundwork of the alternative rock explosion in the early '90s, but like most legends, that's half true and half lie. Jane's was instrumental in making alternative rock accessible to the metal audience, mainly because they were essentially a metal band with neo-psychedelic, neo-prog pretensions -- two genres that have always appealed to metal and hard rock audiences. Nothing confirms that fact like Kettle Whistle, an odds and ends collection of live tracks, demos, alternate takes, and new tracks recorded by a "relapsed" Jane's featuring all the original members minus Eric Avery, who is replaced by Flea. Listening to Kettle Whistle, Jane's Addiction sounds more like an adventurous metal band than an alternative band, and that's not because the mainstream has changed -- it's because that the elapsed time has given a perspective on their sound. Above all, the live tracks capture both the power and the transcendence of Jane's Addiction's live performances.

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Jane's Addiction - Kettle Whistle Lyrics

Jane's Addiction - Jane Says Lyrics

Jane says, “I'm done with Sergio
He treat me like a rag doll”
She hides the television
Says, “I don't owe him nothin'

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Jane's Addiction - My Cat's Name Is Maceo (Edit) (Demo Version) Lyrics

My cat's name is Maceo
He's a little man in a cat's body
Well, he yawns just like I do
He's convinced, I won't eat him

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Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size (Demo Version) Lyrics

Wish I was ocean size
They cannot move you
No one tries
No one pulls you

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Jane's Addiction - Three Days Lyrics

Three days was the morning
My focus three days old
My head, it landed
To the sounds of cricket bows

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Jane's Addiction - Ain't No Right Lyrics

I am skin and bones, I am pointy nose
But it motherfuckin' makes me try
Makes me try, and that ain't no wrong
I'll tell you why, there ain't no right

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Jane's Addiction - Had A Dad Lyrics

I had a dad
Big and strong
I turned around
I found my daddy gone

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Jane's Addiction - So What! Lyrics

Man ain't meant to work come on build a machine
So we can sleep and make love deeper
Later we can dance or we can drink

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Jane's Addiction - Slow Divers Lyrics

She said, "Do you think you could?"
And I said, "Yeah, yeah in a second"

We're sitting by a waterfall

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Jane's Addiction - My Cat's Name Is Maceo Lyrics

My cat's name is Maceo
He's a little man in a cat's body
Well, he yawns just like I do
He's convinced, I won't eat him

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Jane's Addiction - Kettle Whistle Lyrics

What makes a kettle whistle?
What makes gold precious?
How come some people
They'll show you everything?

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Jane's Addiction - City Lyrics

In the city there is something to see
In the city there is nothing to breathe
I'm goin' 'bout my business
I'm wondering what I'm missing and

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Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing Lyrics

I've been caught stealing once when I was five
I enjoy stealing, it's just as simple as that
Well it's just a simple fact
When I want something, man, I don't wanna pay for it

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Jane's Addiction - Whores Lyrics

Way down low where the streets are littered
I find my fun with the freaks and the niggers
I don't want much, man, give me a little
I'm gonna take my chances if I get 'em

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Jane's Addiction - City Song (soul Kiss Version) Lyrics

In the city there is something to see
In the city there is nothing to breathe
I'm goin' 'bout my business
I'm wondering what I'm missing and

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