[kj] OT: Jane's WAS: New October File vid

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

If "glam" means original sense of heroin thin, Iggy on the cover of Raw 
Power, 70s adrogyny and wearing makeup, etc., then Jane's were LA Glam, 
but taken forward a notch (or backward a notch, depending on what your 
perspective is). That doesn't mean they have to be a clone of every 
other LA band.

Alex also didn't appear to think BTATS sounded New Romantic, though, right?

-Oliver


Brendan wrote:

> Okay, I took the bait and agreed that Jane's addiction suck, perhaps not

> because they are LA glam metal (and I know all that stuff too...was a

> massive WASP fan in particular), but...dunno. Something about them just

> annoys me. Perhaps it's the adulation they got that overshadowed other

> bands that I thought were far more deserving...

>

> Saying something is just 'LA rock' or whatever isn't really a fair

> criticism...even though I'm not really into that sound. Motley Crue etc

> suck shit IMO, but not because they are LA glam metal or anything.

>

> There's still some gems in that genre...Dream On by Aerosmith I rate as a

> classic...most of the rest of their stuff seemed to be crowd pleasing pap,

> Dream On to me is a hint of what they could have become if they had

> ditched the circus sideshow and decided to make EPIC FUCKING MUSIC :).

> Tyler's voice was legendary, until he screamed it to death.

>

> GNR, well I'll agree to disagree, but I'll never have a fair perspective

> because they 'groundbreaking' (for me) band that I was contemporary with

> when I was rebelling at 13...

>

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