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| Artist: Jane's Addiction
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  107 reviews
Sales Rank: 234886
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 11.8 x 0.2
MPN: 25993
UPC: 075992599313
EAN: 0075992599313
ASIN: B000002LIW
Release Date: August 10, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Stop! | | • | No One's Leaving | | • | Ain't No Right | | • | Obvious | | • | Been Caught Stealing | | • | Three Days | | • | Then She Did... | | • | Of Course | | • | Classic Girl |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
By far Jane's Addiction's best album, Ritual De Lo Habitual is chock full of songs that are both catchy and experimental. The singles "Stop" and "Been Caught Stealing" are good examples; "No One's Leaving" has a nice funk edge with some busy guitar work, and "Ain't No Right" and "Obvious" are strong as well. Unfortunately, "Three Days" and "Then She Did . . ." are overlong and get bogged down well short of halfway through, but the album finishes strongly with "Of Course" and "Classic Girl". Jane's Addiction's funk-punk-rock mix is appealing, and never more so than on this album. --Genevieve Williams
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| Customer Reviews:
 great music, poor conversion October 15, 2008
Joseph Knecht (Chicago)
Well deserved praise has been bestowed upon this album by others. I echo all of it. But the MP3 conversion here leaves much to be desired.
Pay no attention to the Amazon.com review blurb July 5, 2008
J. Clifford (CT, United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Amazon's reviewer Genevieve Williams sets out writing something about the "by far best" of Jane's Addiction, an album that centers around the artistic achievements of the band's masterpiece "Three Days", and the very wonderful "Then She Did", and misses the point entirely. This review generated a really strong reaction in me because it is featured on here and is so off base it is negligent. She writes,"Unfortunately, "Three Days" and "Then She Did . . ." are overlong and get bogged down well short of halfway through". I think any fan would say that both songs are exactly as long as they need to be.
To say that "Three Days" gets bogged down well short of halfway through seems to suggest that she didn't really listen to the song because for one thing, the song doesn't even really get started until halfway through. More than that, it's a dynamic song with multiple parts that builds to a heavy emotional crescendo and has purpose and meaning for each fantastic experience that each minute brings. The song only gets better as it progresses, particularly in the middle section, which features some of Navaro's best guitar work. Every art rock band needs their epic, and "Three Days" is theirs. "Three Days" is in fact the corner stone of the artistic ability of Jane's Addiction and to me their definitive statement. To undermine it's quality based on it's length shows a real lack of understanding of the song and therefore of the "by far best" album and therefore of the band.
Not to mention that "Then She Did" is a song that exemplifies Jane's Addictions other side, a compliment to their fast and blazing hard funk rock, a side that was also flawlessly executed with "Summertime Rolls". It is a slower, more meditative and sometimes experimental side. To lose the middle solo section would take away so much from the nature of the song. It's also a nice bring-down song from the epic experience of "Three Days".
This album is nearly 100% amazing from start to finish. It has a great blend of hits, innovative funky alternative hard rock, and experimentation. It's the kind of album I'd bring with me on a desert island. When bands with the kind of talent of Jane's Addiction put their power into lengthy pieces like those mentioned above, they deserved to be given more justifiable criticism than lazy words like "overlong". You can't expect a band that reintroduced art rock to popular music to stick to their 4 minute funky rock formula all the time. Personally, I don't believe calling the heart of an album "unfortunate" for any reason is really understanding what the album is going for. Jane's Addiction will take you on a trip, you just have to let them take you there. Ritual de lo Habitual
 Ritual De Lo Habitual March 8, 2008
Morton (Colorado)
Jane's Addiction-Ritual De Lo Habitual ****
Easily the bands strongest album released with the original line up of Perry on vocals, Dave Navarro on guitar, Stephen Perkins on drums, and Eric on bass. As far as the Strays album which was released with another bass player it was good for an arena rock band, but not for an alternative act of Jane's callober. Released in 1990 before a world tour which would be the bands last due to creative difference this would only be the bands second studio before they imploded.
In a nut shell the album is based and centered around the focal point of the album, the song 'Three Days' which is the story of a three day sexual experince Perry had with two other women, which is also dipicted on the albums cover. This song is a roller-coaster filled with slowed tempos and fast breaking instrumental assaults. Dave Navarro's guitar solo is easily the best thing he ever recorded. Other highlights on the album include the opening track and minor hit 'Stop!' which starts the album off perfectly. 'No One's Leaving' is another rocker which keeps the albums going nicely. 'Been Caught Stealing' is the albums big hit single, and went on to be one of the 1990's most memorable songs. 'Classic Girl' closes the album and may very well be the very best song that Jane's Addiction ever pinned. Describing the song would do no good as you really must hear it to understand it, and beside describing it would be damn near impossible. 'Ain't No Right' and 'The She Did...' are also memorable.
Ritual was quite the swan song for Jane's Addiction. I brought everything the band stood for and wanted to convey with their music and art to the mainstream even more so then their fantastic debut, Nothings Shocking. After this Navarro would join the Red Hot Chili Peppers for a short stint and Perry would form the great Porno For Pyros but none of those side projects could compare to Jane's and Ritual in prticular. Navarro never played better guitar before or after, and Perrys lyrics are his all time best. This is the album to get if you want Jane's Addiction.
My focus Three Days old... January 1, 2008
Howlin' Wolf
This album is a masterpiece by my fav band, Jane's Addiction. Three Days alone is worth the price of this album, it is such a well written epic that twists and turns with different emotions. Plus you get other J.A classics like Stop!, Ain't No Right, Been Caught Stealing and Classic Girl. Then She Did is another epic that is beautiful, grand and somber at the same time (actual title was Then She Died). No One's Leaving, Obvious and Of Course are good too. If you have not gotten this album yet you really should, it's an all time classic. The cover art done by Perry is great as well.
The early 90s music revolution began RIGHT HERE!! November 21, 2007
JP (Macon, GA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
With international fame and over 100 reviews I felt that there was really noting more that needed to be said about this magnificent masterpiece but a recent conversation lead me to post the following theory - it was really Jane's Addiction that began the early 90s music revolution, NOT Kurt Cobain and Nirvana!!
The reason I say this is simple - it was the shocking appearance of this, formerly "underground", band's 3rd album at the top of the Billboard charts that sent record companies everywhere scrambling to sign their own "independent", "underground" band!! And, as a DIRECT result, Geffen signed, and more importantly promoted, Nirvana while Sony/Epic grabbed up Pearl Jam, Atlantic signed the Stone Temple Pilots and A&M signed Soundgarden! And those are just the best known examples!!
I also feel that the original Lollapalozza tour in the summer of '91 primed audiences all over America for all these various styles of music, which also aided the assimilation and acceptance of "Alternative" music into the mainstream.
But, all that aside, this is simply one of THE greatest albums EVER recorded and, as good as Nothing Shocking is, it was merely a promise of things to come! For all the hype surrounding the so-called "Alternative" music scene - these guys were the REAL DEAL!! There's not a bad song on the album though "3 Days" is clearly the centerpiece and high point of the album and "Then She Did..." is just as clearly a part 2, meant to be heard immediately after 3 Days, not separately! And what to make of "Of Course"...well that's the alternative part!
An all around great band, containing the man I personally feel was the best guitarist to come out of the late 80s/early 90s, Dave Navarro! Also one of the best, most entertaining live bands I have seen in over 30 years of attending concerts and, although it took 12 years for them to release another album of all new material, it was definitely worth the wait and Strays proved that they had lost ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during the intervening years. I did find the 97' tour with the Chili Peppers Flea on bass quite interesting and wonder what the possibilities of that team up could produce in the long run!!
Bottom line.........an absolute MUST-have addition to any music collection and here's hoping they are FAR from done with the Jane's Addiction story!!
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