Jane’s Addiction, Then She Did… - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction

An excellent reaction and breakdown. I always love it when you find several things in a song that really catch your musical ears and attention, your enthusiasm exploring it shows. Really interesting associations from Prokofiev in the piano part and Pink Floyd in other parts. I really like Jane's Addiction. I think they are a great example of 90s alternative rock. My own experience with them is mostly limited to their "Best of..." CD, so I don't think I have heard this before. But I really like it, and since it really has that unique artistic sound and vibe of theirs it sounded familiar just the same. Loved your lyric breakdown. They have several other really good songs for you to explore.

Glad you like my piano playing!

I'd highly recommend Three Days by Janes Addiction. One of my favourite rock songs.

The Jane´s music is just a beautiful ride for the imagination.

Of all the JA songs that I adore, this is the one that gets me to my core. Makes me think of my mother and the struggles she faced before she passed. Brilliance.

This is one of my favorite all-time songs of any artist. I also lost my mother as a child.

YES! Jane's Addiction!! Love this band and all their albums...🤘🤘🤘☮ Also... "Three Days" !!

The second side of Jane's Ritual de lo Habitual is one of my favorite sequences of songs ever... The song before this one, Three Days, is even more epic.

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your doing this one. The entire second side of this album (not to diminish the brilliant first side) is one of the most important sides of an album to my life, both musical and personal.

This makes me so happy. Jane’s Addiction are far and away my favourite band of all time. And this was the song I was hoping she would hear first if the band was ever brought into this mix. They are a band that I feel get a tremendous amount of respect and adoration from their peers in the rock world, but I feel the general public has largely overlooked them. (Fishbone is another band that’s the same way.) Jane’s Addiction’s debut studio album, Nothing’s Shocking, is my favourite album by anyone, though I love all their albums. This song is one of my favourites of theirs and has so many beautiful aspects to it. I’m happy this was the one that was chosen for your first listen. Music is a big part of my life. I lost my hearing about a month ago in noisy circumstances that I’m told shouldn’t have had any long term effects on my hearing, but I can no longer listen to music at the moment. Since the day it happened I feel I have only regained a very small amount of my hearing, and I fear what I have now is about it. Some tests and investigation to come, but I’m probably in the boat I’m in for the duration now. This saddens me immensely. I’m waiting to be fitted with hearing aids and that may bring back some musical enjoyment, I’m told, and I sure hope it will. I’ll be lost without music. I hope I can continue to enjoy songs as beautiful as this one again soon. I’m very glad to see you enjoyed this one.

Saw them live in Toronto in '92 at a small venue and it was transcendent - everyone was so enraptured it was like a religious experience. "All now with wings"

My favorite song of all time

What pleasant surprise on this rainy morning. Jane's has sat proudly at my table of top ten for at least 35 years. I also took a few listens before finding the masterful play of emotion. I even remember where I was as well as who was with me and even the rusty Dodge Omni the underground bootleg tape was struggling to give the justice deserved by the artists. Sadly that first listen ended on the corner of 46th and Grand and I failed them. Years later on a more refined music system I found my place within their art. Peace/JT

Hi Amy, I went to see a band play in my local nightclub back in 1990? (I think it was 1990 might have been 88 or 89) in Northampton MA. The band was terrible so we went down into the basement where another band was set to play. It was Janes Addiction before they exploded onto the music scene. I was mesmerized for over an hour through their set. Their performance took me out of my body and into new and exciting places I never thought existed. That happenchance peek into what would eventually come to be called "alternative music" really did leave an impact on me, and as a musician opened my eyes to so many new possibilities. Been a fan ever since, PS- If you ever get the chance, listen to their opus magnus - "3 Days" off of "Ritual De Lo Habitual"

Between this and their song "Had a Dad" no songwriter's work has ever hit me on such a personal level - having lost a father at a very young age & having a mother who, after that, was.. never the same as she had been. In fact, a whole extended family on each side was never the same. And that's where my brother and I came into the picture. Surreal and tragic. I was his age when I first heard it.

Wow, one of my favourite songs ever. I never expected to see it on this channel because it's something of a deep cut, so this is indeed a pleasant surprise. Not seen the reaction yet but very much looking forward to it!

This is one of my favorite songs, and nobody talks about it. To say I was excited to watch this is an understatement. I think it was the summer before I started high school that I heard it the first time. A friend had recommended the band to me and I bought the CD before I had heard a song on it. At the time, I had lost interest in most music- the rock at the time (c.1991) had gotten very very conventional- this was the zenith of hair metal- which was in part spawned by a couple of the bands you've listened too- Motley Crue and Bon Jovi, but considerably staler at least to me at the time. I've grown more charitable over the years to that music but I was very much over it by the time I was starting high school. The album Ritual de lo Habitual was a challenging listen for me at this point- I didn't like it on first listen. I think it took 6 or 7 full listens before it was literally bringing me to tears. I don't think I would have the patience now, but at the time a CD was an investment and there was no internet to speak of so I just kept listening until I got it. It has grown with me over the years, especially after going through the same loss. I just find it beautiful, deeply personal, and tragic. I don't find it dark- it seems too colorful- too pretty to my ears to be called that. I am happy to report that after 30 odd years the builds still give me goosebumps and the last verse still makes me misty. "Then She Did..." is often overlooked by the slightly longer and slightly more epic sounding "Three Days" off the same album. "Three Days" is an amazing song, btw and well worth a listen but a track about a particularly memorable sexual encounter is just never going to hit as hard for me as a song about lost mothers. Thank you so very very much for covering this track and thank you to whoever suggested it. Also, thank you for not hating it- that would have ruined my day for sure. 🥰 *also a bit of context for the last verse I recently learned: The song was written shortly after the accidental overdose of the singer's lover and friend, Xiola Blue. He is asking her to visit his mother in the afterlife- as if the song couldn't get any sadder.

Covering 'Then She Did' as a first listen to Jane's Addiction is stepping in pretty deep. IMHO this one, 'Three Days', 'Summertime Rolls', that's some of their most evocative work. With this one they even treat us to a bit of Miles Davis meets King Crimson in the middle.

This is in the top five of my all-time favorite songs, and I am so glad that you are featuring it. More people should experience it.

Thank you, Amy. I once went to a concert in San Francisco. My friend invited me. She had told me only that it was modern classical music and of course, I didnt recognize the names. To me, the dissonance was almost unbearable. While my friend was in restroom, i struck up a conversation with older woman sitting at my right. To my admission to her that i really disliked the concert so far. She smiled and said, that You aren't a good listener! Ib was taken aback. Then she told me to educate myself about music and "do the work!" Now after watching your videos since you first arrived on YouTube, I understand what she meant. Thank you again for teaching (all of us )about the music that I've aways loved. I'm hearing it finally. Do i dare to listen to Prokofiev ? I'll give it a try. Btw, I loved this song by jane's addiction. I'm 75 years old and the 80's were a blur to a far as music goes. Those years were spent on medical school and residency with its brutal schedule. Yes, I'm still working part-time and I'll continue to work as ( long as have a few brain cells to rub together.?" Too much information but I want you to know how varied your audience is. Joy of learning!