MEMORIES OF ADDICTION

Got a press release this morning about the forthcoming Jane's Addiction boxed set A Cabinet of Curiosities, which will contain rarities - demos, liveage, compilation tracks - from the band's original incarnation (roughly 1986-1991), plus a DVD with videos and live footage. Track listing is as follows:

A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Disc 1
1. "Jane Says" ‹ Radio Tokyo Demo *
2. "Pigs In Zen" ‹ Radio Tokyo Demo
3. "Mountain Song" ‹ Radio Tokyo Demo
4. "Had A Dad" ‹ Radio Tokyo Demo
5. "I Would For You" ‹ Radio Tokyo Demo
6. "Idiots Rule" ‹ Demo *
7. "Classic Girl" ‹ Demo *
8. "Up The Beach" ‹ Demo *
9. "Suffer Some" ‹ Demo *
10. "Thank You Boys" ‹ Demo *
11. "Summertime Rolls" ‹ Demo *
12. "City" ‹ Demo *
13. "Ocean Size" ‹ Demo *
14. "Stop!" ‹ Demo *
15. "Standing In The Shower...Thinking" ‹ Demo *
16. "Ain't No Right" ‹ Demo *
17. "Three Days" ‹ Demo *

Disc 2
1. "Ted, Just Admit It..." ‹ Demo *
2. "Maceo" ‹ Demo *
3. "No One's Leaving" ‹ Demo *
4. "My Time" ‹ Rehearsal *
5. "Been Caught Stealing" ‹ 12" Remix Version
6. "Ripple"
7. "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" ‹ with Ice-T & Ernie-C
8. "L.A. Medley: L.A. Woman/Nausea/Lexicon Devil" ‹ Live 1989
9. "Kettle Whistle" ‹ Live 1987 *
10. "Whole Lotta Love" ‹ Live 1987 *
11. "1970" ‹ Live 1987 *
12. "Bobhaus" ‹ Live 1989*

Disc 3
1. Drum Intro ‹ Live 1990 *
2. "Up The Beach" ‹ Live 1990
3. "Whores" ‹ Live 1990 *
4. "1%" ‹ Live 1990 *
5. "No One's Leaving" ‹ Live 1990
6. "Ain't No Right" ‹ Live 1990
7. "Then She Did..." ‹ Live 1990 *
8. "Had A Dad" ‹ Live 1990 *
9. "Been Caught Stealing" ‹ Live 1990 *
10. "Three Days" ‹ Live 1990
11. "Mountain Song" ‹ Live 1990 *
12. "Stop!" ‹ Live 1990
13. "Summertime Rolls" ‹ Live 1990 *
14. "Ocean Size" ‹ Live 1990 *

Disc 4 (DVD)
Soul Kiss: The Fan's Video
1. "Mountain Song" ‹ Unedited Version
2. "City"
Music Videos
3. "Had A Dad"
4. "Ocean Size"
5. "Stop!"
6. "Been Caught Stealing"
7. "Classic Girl"
8. "Ain't No Right"
Live at the City Square, Milan, Italy (for MTV Italy) (10/11/90)
9. "Whores" *
10. "Then She Did..." *
11. "Three Days" *

[*previously unreleased]

Some of this stuff was on the "Been Caught Stealing" and "Classic Girl" CD singles, and those tracks plus more turned up on the Live & Rare disc the band put out back in '92 or so as an import; I haven't owned a copy of that in years. I'm pretty sure the demo version of "Mountain Song" is the same version that's on the soundtrack to the movie Dudes, which I also don't own. And I don't know where, if anywhere, that version of "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" ever appeared; I knew it existed but have never heard more than a few seconds of it.

The live stuff, particularly the full concert on Disc 3, is what really interests me, though. I saw Jane's Addiction live twice; once at the inaugural Lollapalooza in Stanhope, NJ, and once in L.A. just before Christmas 1990. They did a three-night stand at the Hollywood Palladium, with Primus and (on the second night at least; don't know about the others) the Pixies opening up. And it turns out that the show I saw, a week or so before leaving California for what's been to date the final time - I've never been back - is the very one that appears on Disc 3 of this box. So I'm kinda excited to see how it stacks up to my memories.

(Of course, none of this should be taken as any indication that I'm gonna see the band when they tour with Nine Inch Nails this year, even with only true original bassist Eric Avery back in the fold.)