yes, I competely agree. But, if it's still called Jane's addiction that's how I'm going to judge it.Pandemonium wrote:The problem with this line of thinking is that JA took a 13 year break between Ritual and Strays, then another 8 year break between Strays and TGEA so there's obviously going to be huge changes in style and quality of singing, musicianship, etc when your talking 3 albums spaced almost evenly over 2 decades. I don't know of any artist or band off the top of my head that has maintained any sort of consistency or original level of quality faced with that kind of gap between albums. Add to that, looking at these guys output, especially Perry's over the last 10 - 15 years if you wanna fill in the gaps between Janes albums and you can see a clear, almost straight line mostly downhill.ThenSheDid wrote:Well, it's obviously tainted...I just don't even see the point. If you don't think you're doing your best you shouldn't be doing it. On the other hand they are musicians and they have to pay property taxes for their mansions, so there's that. Regardless, I shouldn't lower my judging standards on my favorite band. Older musicians just aren't usually as good and it shows. That young creativity is gone and it's not the same. I'm not even trying to argue but I don't judge music by any special circumstances. What else are you supposed to compare Strays and TGEA too? They're earlier albums. At least that makes sense just like you do with any other band.
I think that's part of the reason why many people here are somewhat happily surprised the album turned out as well as it did in their opinion and a few others, myself included aren't going overboard whining how crappy it is considering there was a pretty real possibility it could have turned out a *lot* worse. Yeah, that's diminished (and informed, realistic) expectations, but frankly considering the odds, the band did alright.
That's Just the way it is.
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