Another Soulmate

[hydro]

Jane's Addiction Find and Lose 'Another Soulmate' - Song Premiere
'I’m really happy that we have a good song that will serve as our calling card,' says Perry Farrell

By Steve Baltin

August 8, 2013 8:00 AM ET



Click to listen to Jane's Addiction's "Another Soulmate"

Jane's Addiction have a busy end of the summer ahead. They will hit the road tomorrow with the Uproar Festival, joining Alice in Chains, Coheed and Cambria, Circa Survive, Walking Papers and more. As part of their set on the five-week tour, the rockers will perform a new song, "Another Soulmate," which fans can hear first exclusively at Rolling Stone.

"Being that we have a tour, I'm really happy that we have a good song that will serve as our calling card when we hit various cities," frontman Perry Farrell tells Rolling Stone. "Jane's is kind of known for long songs; being this is a one-song single, I thought it'd be interesting to try and write a Beatles-esque short song that would be fast and furious and it would just be fun, dig it and move on, short attention span."

The quick-hitting track is unmistakably Jane Addiction, and was inspired by true events. "Etty [Lau Farrell, Perry's wife] had a girlfriend and this girlfriend, as all people do, really wanted a mate, and I think she shortchanged herself an awful lot in life," Farrell says. "She's a good-looking woman, she had a career, but when it came to love and romance, she sold herself short all the time and she would reach out to guys that we would scratch our head like, 'What is she doing with this guy?' She said, 'I feel like he's my soul mate.' Any time she'd meet a guy she'd say, 'I feel like he's my soul mate.' So I wrote this song."

Farrell already has a video concept in mind for the single. "I want to make something that would go viral; you can have a sense of humor and a creative young man or woman and put together a video. I said, 'Think about the dating services, how wacky they are. Let's do a parody of [an] online dating service: quick, simple, inexpensive, hilarious and compelling,'" he says. "So that's what we're doing. I think it needs visual stimulation to go along with it."

"Another Soulmate" will be a centerpiece of the band's live set this tour, along with such Jane's hits as "Three Days," which Farrell is particularly looking forward to playing. As the mastermind of Lollapalooza, Farrell is obviously used to sharing bills, but it's unusual at this point for Jane's to share a package tour.

"I've met the Coheed and Cambria kids; I like them a lot. I like how creative they are with their comic book stuff; it's amazing that they're so into making comics and superheroes and things like that. It reminds me a little bit of the Tool guys when I first met them and they were really into doing interesting and bizarre things with video," he says. "The Alice [in Chains] guys I've known forever; I knew them in their heyday and I've continued to stay in touch with Jerry Cantrell."
Alice in Chains and Jane's Addiction also share personnel on top of a tour roster; they've both featured former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan in their lineups. McKagan, who will join the Uproar Tour with his new band Walking Papers, left Jane's under sudden circumstances, but Farrell insists that all is well with the longtime friends. "We never really had differences – Duff, kind of, when he had issues with me and my band, he didn't let it be known to me," Farrell says. "But I can't wait to see him and give him a big hug."

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[hydro]

I've listened a few times over the last few days. The first few times not really "getting it"
Today I got out my good headphones, listened a couple more times then I found and read the article posted above.
A few of my thoughts....
the Rolling Stones article explain the lyrics
It sounded horrible being played just through my laptop speakers. Mixed way too loud!
Sounds much better like all songs through my headphones. I definitely have to keep the volume turned down. My ears can't bare anything 60% and above on the volume control. 32% is loud on this song.
I do like the energy, I can imagine this being a good "live" song to play to keep the audience's energy level high. When Stephens drum beat gets faster it has a cool punk sound too it, I can imagine people dancing and moshing to this song.
Like Perry said, it's just a short, fast and fun song to play live. I think when playing live they should focus and expand that section of the song where the drums get fast and the bass sounds awesome and keep it going a bit longer. Good slam dancing beat.

[ESFOS]

Wow.


It's over.

[Mingo424]

I just wanted to say that this isn't my FAVORITE JA song, but I don't think it's awful like I've seen ALOT of ppl say (in reply to FB posts/comments).
Spin posted about it the other day and I wasn't overly impressed w/ what they had to say: http://www.spin.com/articles/janes-addi ... infacebook
That being said, I think Another Soulmate sounds alot like TGEA as opposed to Ritual, etc. As much as I would love to see JA get back to making music like the old days, I'm just happy to still see them TOGETHER and making any kind of music!

[helicine]

Check out the final paragraph of that article (emphasis mine):

Former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan, whose own Walking Papers is also on the tour, will play in both Jane's Addiction and Alice in Chains during the festival tour.

um...

[tvrec]

The article also says "another Farrell-led band Bad Things" instead of framing it as the guesting on vocals for a few songs that it was...

[helicine]

very true

[Mike]

I just gave this a first listen on a PC with super shity speakers.
It sounds way different than what I remember hearing at the 5/5/10 show and soundcheck and as previously posted it sounds like it would have fit rather nicely on TGEA.

I'm not hating it or loving it but I need to hear it on something better than this PC I'm on.

[bman]

I don't hate the song actually..But I just got back from a mailed in show in CT. This band is lame. They are not a band. TGEA tour was actually ok. But this tour is mailed in. The setlist is mind boggling.

[helicine]

It sounds way different than what I remember hearing at the 5/5/10 show and soundcheck

that was my initial impression as well