Mountain Song (Jane's Addiction song)

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"Mountain Song"
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Single by Jane's Addiction
from the album Nothing's Shocking
B-side "Standing in the Shower...Thinking"
ReleasedDecember 1988
Recorded1986, 1988
Genre Alternative rock [1]
Length4:03
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) Perry Farrell, Eric Avery
Producer(s) Dave Jerden, Perry Farrell
Jane's Addiction singles chronology
"Jane Says"
(1988)		"Mountain Song"
(1988)		"Stop!"
(1990)

"Mountain Song" is a song by American rock band Jane's Addiction, released as the second single from their debut studio album Nothing's Shocking (1988). "Mountain Song" was the first song written by the band in 1985, before a band name had even been decided upon. [2] The song was initially recorded in 1986 and featured on the soundtrack to the film Dudes , starring Jon Cryer. This version can also be found as a track on the 1997 alternate & live cut compilation album Kettle Whistle . The song was re-recorded in 1988 for Nothing's Shocking.

Contents

The single, first released in December 1988, features only the Nothing's Shocking version and not the 1986 original. The b-side "Standing in the Shower... Thinking" is also taken from Nothing's Shocking. The single was re-released on April 18, 2009, to help promote the Jane's Addiction box set A Cabinet of Curiosities , released the same month. The packaging was generally the same but contained several inserts promoting the box set and the band's albums. [3]

"Mountain Song" was named the 71st best hard rock song of all time by VH1. [4]

Music videos

There are two different music videos for this song. The second video, directed by Perry Farrell [5] with live footage directed by Modi Frank, [5] exists in three different versions: the original, the original censored for MTV, and Modi Frank's director's cut. [6] Footage for this video was shot at the Scream in Hollywood on August 19, 1988. Banned from MTV because of nudity, a censored version which puts black bars and shapes over Perry Farrell and Casey Niccoli's genitals was created and MTV agreed to air it on Headbangers Ball and 120 Minutes . [7] As a means to make the official, unedited version available to fans, Jane's Addiction released the "videomentary" Soul Kiss on Valentine's Day 1989. [7] In addition to the "Mountain Song" video, the VHS also features footage of the band performing comedic sketches and footage of the band performing a song called "City" which would not appear on an album until the Kettle Whistle compilation in 1997. [8] Angelo Moore of the band Fishbone can be briefly seen in the video.

The first video for the song was created without the band's knowledge, involvement or input by Andrew Doucette in September 1988 from existing performance footage provided to him by Warner Bros. Records. As the band disliked it, it was shelved and the second video was made. [9] The first video also features some of the footage shot at the Scream. It is this video that was primarily shown in Europe and Australia. Excerpts of the video were included in an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head . [2]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Mountain Song" (Nothing's Shocking version)4:03
2."Standing in the Shower... Thinking"3:03

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Jane's Addiction Resource: Mountain Song". JanesAddiction.org. March 6, 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
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  5. 1 2 End credits of the Soul Kiss VHS.
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  7. 1 2 DiMartino, Dave (February 4, 1989). "The Beat: Coil, Zoogz Albums Bear Buckley Tracks; MTV Sets Censored Jane's Addiction Clip". Billboard . Vol. 101, no. 5. p. 36.
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