Old Review of "Soul Kiss"

[helicine]

I thought you all might get a kick out of this. It's a quick review of Soul Kiss (although the review calls it "Something Shocking") from the April 7, 1989 issue of BAM:

BAM – April 7, 1989

Jane’s Addiction
Something Shocking [Soul Kiss]
By Rosemary Galten
Pg. 30

Anyways, I was at my other part-time job at an animal emergency hospital, where you see a lot of smashed cat and dog faces from unpleasant confrontations with nasty autos, when just such a cat was brought in. After most of the blood was sprayed off, I was the lucky individual who had to take its temperature, and for those of who don’t (sic) know, that means taking a thermometer and… So this pathetic feline is looking up at me with the eye that’s still in its socket, as if to say, “You’re not going to shove that into my rear, are you?”

Which brings to mind Something Shocking, the latest video treat from Jane’s Addiction. Except for “Mountain Song” and a good little acoustic number, “City,” the rest of this 24-minute vid features the spry antics of Perry Farrell and the rest of his Nothing’s Shocking gang. What, exactly do we have here? Well, as Joe Bob might say… 21 breasts (Perry’s, mostly). No dead animals. A gratuitous bathroom scene from Eric Avery. Eel-beating-fu. Bottle rocket in bedroom-fu. Gratuitous Perry underwear scene. Imitation John and Yoko scene. Luscious apple-eating by Steve Perkins. Diaper-dancing-fu. Plaster-casting-fu. Perry with makeup. Perry without makeup. Bandmembers french-kissing each other. Roosters. Cats. Handcuffs. Rose’s Video Award nominations to Perry’s girlfriend, Casey, for giving him a snuggy in SupperSlowMo, and to Dave Navarro for the line, “I want to show you guys a trick my eel can doo.” Four-and-a-half Twinkies. Rose G. says, check it out.

[helicine]

Here is a scan of the review:

[TrevorAyer]

yup the vhs box does say something shocking on it tho so hmmm ... cool review tho makes me wanna watch it ... its been a while i used to watch it 3 times a day like ever day for like 3 months when it first came out

[Mike]

yup the vhs box does say something shocking on it tho so hmmm ... cool review tho makes me wanna watch it ... its been a while i used to watch it 3 times a day like ever day for like 3 months when it first came out

Yeah we have scans of it where "Something Shocking" is right up top.
Both what I assume is the original domestic version and the pal version have it.

I've even seen it for sale on http://www.gemm.com listed this way.
My version of it lacks this.
I'm 99.9% sure I got my copy on November 27, 1990 and I assume they removed that bit due to confusion.
By then sadly they'd also removed the junkie aerobics.

I'll scan mine so you can see the differences.

http://janesaddiction.org/discography/j ... soul-kiss/

[Mike]

Here's some scans of the copy i picked up in 1990 without "Something Shocking" printed on it.

[helicine]

Very good point Trevor - totally forgot about that. Makes me glad I took the time to post this review

I'm pretty sure my tape has the "Something Shocking" label, and I know it lacks the RNR Aerobics scene. I'll have to dig my tape out of storage to make sure.

[helicine]

this isn't my tape, but digging through my picture archives - here is a picture of the tape w/ the "Something Shocking" label. On this version, the tape has a black label w/ green text, which lacks the text "Something Shocking"

soul.jpg

The PAL tape is similar, but does have the added text:

[TrevorAyer]

what no rock n roll aerobics? that sucks! i feel bad for u ... perry n etty should put out a full aerobics tape rooster included ..

[helicine]

what no rock n roll aerobics? that sucks! i feel bad for u ... perry n etty should put out a full aerobics tape rooster included ..

eh, the whole thing, RNR Aerobics included, is in Cabinet - so no worries there