Yacht Rock beat you to it. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

YEAAAAAAAAH YEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAAAAAAAAAH

Fun fact: I once listened to that song on the bus with headphones on and the people around me still changed seats at the screaming part.

Given that that album also has Do Me Baby on it, I think that that "accidentally saying the wrong lyric out loud" scenario could have gone a whole lot worse.

That's an excellent point, and the way he presents that corrupting, possessive influence in the context of really toxic, predatory male archetypes a lot of the time really strengthens a feminist reading of his work. Lost Highway, in particular, winds up being a really fascinating deconstruction of a certain kind of…

That album is way more influential than it gets credit for, too - I can't imagine someone like Lana Del Ray existing without it, to name just one example.

oh christ, I found it https://www.youtube.com/wat…

When I was a kid, I took those books out of the library along with a cassette tape that you read along with (as sometimes happens with kids' books). A few short stories in, the narrator encouraged me to continue reading on my own and stopped talking, but instead of silence the tape just started to produce more and…

Anyone who can't be bothered to look for revolutionary music outside of the context of the mainstream pop charts deserves to feel angry.

Yeah, that is some elitist dickshittery right there.

The Specials' two versions of Enjoy Yourself offa More Specials and Frank Zappa's America Drinks/America Drinks And Goes Home were the first things that sprang to mind.

OH GOD, THIS ISN'T EVEN THEIR FINAL FORM

Yeah, that sounds entirely plausible. Eric seems like a significantly more grounded individual than Perry, so it wouldn't surprise me if he was acting as Perry's lunatic-rambling-to-coherent-sentence interpreter some of the time.

Seeing Too Dark Park in that list of albums made me happy.

Huh. I'll have to give it a shot. I didn't think Strays was awful, just boring.

"Some people tell me home is up… in the SKYYYYYYYYYY!"

Hmm, I was under the impression that Perry wrote all of Jane's Addiction's lyrics! In any case, Eric Avery must have had an impact on the band's "dark side of LA" aesthetic, 'cause it's all over Deconstruction and nowhere to be found on the band's post-reformation albums.

Yeah, Ritual has all those amazing epic songs at the end, but I just find the the heavy songs on Nothing's Shocking pack more of a wallop. Regarding Ocean Size, I can think of few musical moments more powerful than when Perry screeches "three, four!" and then this fucking GARGANTUAN wall of sound just bursts forth…

(*sigh*)
It can be two albums.

I prefer Nothing's Shocking.