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Porno for Pyros
Perry Farrell — former leader and messiah of the L.A. band Jane's Addiction and all-around alternative-rock shaman and showman — didn't name his new band&
Porno for Pyros
Perry Farrell — former leader and messiah of the L.A. band Jane's Addiction and all-around alternative-rock shaman and showman — didn't name his new band&
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Perry Farrell — former leader and messiah of the L.A. band Jane's
Addiction and all-around alternative-rock shaman and showman — didn't
name his new band Porno for Pyros for nothing. The sight of his town
igniting in flames after last year's Rodney King verdict seems to
have left him literally hot and bothered. ''Ever since the riots, all
I really wanted was a black girlfriend,'' he croons dreamily on the
band's first album, Porno for Pyros (Warner Bros.). In another song,
he gets sexually aroused watching the flames consume parts of Los
Farrell disbanded Jane's Addiction at the height of its
popularity, and early scuttlebutt had it that he wanted his next
band, formed with ex-Jane's drummer Stephen Perkins, to be edgier and
more experimental, worlds apart from the lumbering, Zeppelinesque
swagger of Jane's Addiction. When that band, Porno for Pyros, made a
few unbilled appearances at last year's Lollapalooza '93 tour, the
music bore out the rumors. Before hordes of worshipful fans yelling
''Perry!'' Porno for Pyros played what could only be described as
vaguely Middle Eastern-influenced art rock-imagine mantras sung on a
roller coaster, with Farrell's taunting whine rubbing against the
whole shebang.
Porno for Pyros the album doesn't sound quite so exotic. If
anything, it sounds even sludgier: Guitarist Peter DiStefano's airy
chords have replaced the four-wheel-drive riffing of Dave Navarro of
Jane's Addiction, and Farrell's nasal voice is half buried in the
murky instrumentation. ''Murky'' could, in fact, describe the entire
album. Yet Farrell uses that sound to his advantage. Jane's Addiction
may have hinted at the excess and ennui of a city and a generation,
but Porno for Pyros trul the result is the most
compelling album Farrell has ever made.
Starting with its references to the L.A. riots, the album posits
the world as a nightmarish place that is nonetheless too fascinating
to leave (or stop listening to). Everything on Porno for Pyros sounds
squalid and back alley, be it sex (the slithering ''Orgasm'') or just
going for a walk along Venice Beach (''Bads---''). Farrell isn't too
optimistic about humanity, either: ''We'll make good pets,'' he muses
in the languid ''Pets,'' wondering whether aliens from outer space
could do a better job managing Earth. Grinding wah-wah guitars and
clanky, trash-can-style drumming heighten the creepy-crawly
atmosphere. Unlike too many pat alternative records, this record
sounds like one of those amusement-park tunnel rides where you never
know what's around the next corner.
In a larger context, Porno for Pyros couldn't have appeared at a
better moment. At a time when Daisy Chainsaw is plugged on an episode
of Roseanne and corporate ''postmodern'' rock bands like School of Fish
are glutting the record bins, alternative rock doesn't seem very
alternative anymore. Farrell is partly to blame for the situation:
Jane's Addiction was an arena act by the time it disbanded, and
Farrell himself co-organized the lucrative Lollapaloozas. On Porno
for Pyros, he sounds as if he realizes what he hath wrought — and, in
his own messianic way, is trying to reactivate the adventurous
underground spirit that once defined the genre. Call it Jane's
Withdrawal. B+
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