Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, for… Read Full Bio ↴Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1985. The band consists of vocalist Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Eric Avery.

Founded by Farrell and original bass guitarist Eric Avery, following the disintegration of Farrell's previous band Psi Com, Jane's Addiction was one of the first bands from the early 1990s alternative rock movement to gain both mainstream media attention and commercial success in the United States. Jane's Addiction's first release was a self-titled live album in 1987 and quickly caught the attention of Warner Bros. Records. The band's first two studio albums, Nothing's Shocking (1988) and Ritual de lo Habitual (1990), were released to widespread critical acclaim, and an increasing cult fanbase. As a result, Jane's Addiction became icons of what Farrell dubbed the "Alternative Nation". The band's initial farewell tour, in 1991, launched the first Lollapalooza, which has since become a perennial alternative rock festival.

The band briefly reunited in 1997, with Flea, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, replacing Avery on bass guitar. In 2001, a second reunion took place, with Martyn LeNoble—and later Chris Chaney—occupying the role of bass guitarist. In 2003, the band released its third studio album, Strays, before dissolving again the following year.

In 2008, the band's original line-up reunited and embarked on a world tour. Eric Avery, however, subsequently left the band in early 2010 as the group began working on new material. The band released its fourth studio album The Great Escape Artist in 2011, with Chaney returning to the band for its recording and subsequent tour. In 2016, Jane's Addiction were nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Up the Beach
Jane's Addiction Lyrics

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Here we go now
Home...
Home...
Home...

Overall Meaning

The opening lines of Jane's Addiction's song Up The Beach, "Here we go now, Home...", sets the tone for the entire track - a journey that the listener is about to undertake. The use of repetition in the word "home" emphasizes the idea of returning to one's roots, a sense of comfort and familiarity, but also hints at the idea of the end of a journey. The song is about taking a trip, whether it be an actual physical journey or a metaphorical one, and realizing that no matter where you end up or what you experience, you will always end up back where you began.

The lyrics in Up The Beach are intentionally ambiguous and full of metaphorical imagery. However, the theme of a journey is constantly present, and the song's energy and driving beat reflect the feeling of moving forward. The lyrics, "I been livin' for tomorrow all my life, never thinkin' about today," is a commentary on the idea of always looking toward the future and never being present in the moment. The song suggests that perhaps the journey is more important than the destination, and that life is about living in the present moment.

Line by Line Meaning

Here we go now
It's time to begin, let's get started

Home...
The feeling of comfort and familiarity, a place of safety and belonging

Home...
The longing to return to a place of familiarity and comfort

Home...
The repetitiveness of returning to a familiar place

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: PERRY FARRELL, DAVID MICHAEL NAVARRO, STEPHEN ANDREW PERKINS, ERIC ADAM AVERY

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@DJJezzebella

4y↑9

Jane's Addiction - Up The Beach

Here we go now
Home...
Home...
Home...

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Perry Farrell / David Michael Navarro / Stephen Andrew Perkins / Eric Adam Avery
Up the Beach lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

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@percybyssheshelley9694

5y↑1.2K

I can’t believe these guys sampled Death Grips back in the 1990s.

@MWorsa

4y↑16

TheFlyingShrimp 1988 😉

@SlapperFlapperGaming

4y↑22

I know bro I'm surprised deaht grpis hasnt sued them yet!

@mihirlavande

4y↑47

@@SlapperFlapperGaming they did though, the track title 'Beware' is a subtle warning.

@runnergo1398

3y↑4

Naw. Death Grips stole from Jane's Addiction.

@sarahaziz3158

3y↑7

Wow it already sounds scary then the death grips i see why now

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@mrsugarcoffee429

4y↑348

Jane's addiction fans: Wow, this brings back memories, takes me back

Death Grips fans: haha angry man go brrr

@MjkLooToS000

3y↑46

angry man go YUH

@alphalax7747

3y↑23

Who said exmilitary era aint nostalgic

@zackzallie8735

3y↑12

I never expected Death Grips to sampled one of my favorite bands. Now I have full eargasm.

@nitro5247

2y↑5

Fans of both:

@peroxide0666

2y↑1

hehe mr grips go yuh

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@AsTheSeasonsGray

9y↑837

"He come to me with money in his hand. He offered me, I didn't ask him. I wasn't knocking someone's door down; I was running from that. When I got out I was in that, I was already through that, I had that. I had the studio. I went to the studio. I went to Fox studio, and said 'This is a bigger jail than i just got out of.' I don't want to take my time going to work. I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell do i want to go off and go to work for? Work for what, for money? I got all the money in the world! I'm the king, man! I run the underworld, guy! I decide who does what and where they do it at. What, am I gonna run around and act like i'm some teeny bopper somewhere for someone else's money? I make the money, man. I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards."

@visions.of.excess

9y↑8

***** yeah right i thought they were really similar so it's a sample or what

@cookiedude2009

7y↑4

Where is that from?

@gameguy301

6y↑44

cookiedude2009 its a quote from Charles Manson, in the death grips song “beware” they open with that quote played over the sample of up the beach.

@craftyssg4475

5y↑13

Vox studios*

@kilroy7506

4y↑21

I CLOSE MY EYES AND CEASE IT

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@okgoogleplay3500

2y↑13

"He come to me with money in his hand, he offered me, I didn't ask him"

@calvin7978

3y↑14

love Jane’s Addiction but I was waiting for a....
BEWAARRRRRREEEEE

@jacobunderwood57

2y↑12

i close my eyes and seize it

@kiktssink7844

2y↑6

I clench my fist and beat it

@frogloti6319

1y↑2

I light my torch and burn it

@GiMu-NB

11w↑1

I am the beast I worship

@marklynch5284

38w↑6

It's a relatively heavy scene but one that takes you into another dimension when you're hopelessly pissed

@nge1301

10y↑322

He come to me with money in his hand, he offered me, I didn't ask him...

@cookiedude2009

7y↑2

Where is that from?

@BlueSkies-hy8nj

7y↑15

cookiedude2009 Charles Manson

@m4n0fsteel23

5y↑10

BEWAAAAAAAAAAAAARE

@nochillnate261

nick englebert likes exmilitary

@JK-gm6kk

2y↑5

I got
( ) a motorcycle
( ) a sleeping bag
( ) 10-15 girls
( x) all of the above

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@speakertreatz

7y↑269

the power..the POWER of this..one of the best intros to an album, ever.
if only they hadn't broken up when they did they've have been one of the biggest bands on the planet. no amount of re-unions will put them where they were in 1991, i remember getting into them right then, just before they broke up, it was such a shock to hear that this band who were starting to create an incredible buzz, really huge, had just split, at the peak of their potential, after three stunning albums, they were set to be bigger than Chilli Peppers, NIN, the lot

@pitchpolemusic3555

5y↑9

The best debut song on a debut album since Led Zeppelin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZG7n7ries
Jane's was every bit as good as them. It's just a shame that the only song that a lot of people know by Jane's is Been Caught Stealing.

@speakertreatz

5y↑3

@@pitchpolemusic3555 its a good entry point though. That's how I got into them first, hearing Been Caught Stealing in the rock clubs and seeing it on MTV. I loved it, I checked out the other albums and found loads more to love.

@marcocave8867

4y↑11

Amen my friend!!! It's my favourite band ever. No other band was that good at mixing music genre like they did. I always loved their hypnotic bass groove, Avery was a god.

@tyrannicalthesaurus4672

4y↑9

It's actually a great start to two great albums (Exmilitary is the record that made me fall in love with death grips)

@speakertreatz

4y↑1

@@tyrannicalthesaurus4672 is that one of their later post-break up albums or another live album? I'll have to check it out thanks :) I've never bothered with the stuff released after Ritual

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@willtisdell7703

4y↑30

I CLOSE MY EYES AND SEIZE IT

@GalacticLightN

2y↑6

One of the best unofficial music videos ever

@deetestlogins5269

7y↑157

The man on the wave was my roomy, & one of the most influencial ppl in my life. He's the best.

@lamolambda8349

5y↑3

@ChristelMontoya

5y↑1

deetest logins do you know what big wave this is? I’ve searched all over trying to find out 🙄

@RTC1655

5y↑7

@@ChristelMontoya"jaws" peahi, maui, hawaii

@lihy1

5y↑1

surf legend

@vertical2923

Christel Thomas one year late but here https://youtu.be/krsqU2HFJkw

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@BubbaZen10

4y↑47

This is seriously one of the best things on the internet

@larch6509

4y↑3

trm agree

@Beerlejuice

4y↑115

It's really a shame that Jane's Addiction didn't make a lot more music, because Nothing's Shocking is a such a brilliant, classic, timeless album!!!!!

@dantonsteele8128

2y↑2

between porno for pyros and a few solo albums..janes has quite a few records to enjoy/ surf

@dantonsteele8128

between porno for pyros and a few solo albums..janes has quite a few records to enjoy/ surf

@mayacandelaria6099

The 1st time I had seen them was in Hollywood in 1988
I’ve been to more shows than I can remember
The Go go girls
I went to 3 of thier shows at the palladium in 1989 and was near the stage And someone threw thier berkinstock sandal at Perry while he was singing and hit him in the face.

@mayacandelaria6099

If someone was there and remembers that lmk
There’s something Perry said afterwards that only someone who was there would remember

@samuelmartin3635

2y↑3

@@mayacandelaria6099 ,I wasn’t there for that show, but remember seeing them in 2009 when Eric A was back.
People were throwing water bottles onstage, one hit Perry, he said “don’t throw shit at me, throw it at Eric!”, lol, true story, Mansfield MA Tweeter Center.

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@ianm5067

That wave is huge...so is this track.....never gets old

@dr.betterthanyou

2y↑20

I saw them at Beach Life Festival, it was such an enchanting experience, with every note I felt the build up. I was really shaken by the greatness this was live. Truly an honor to say I saw them live, and felt the energy of a true fan.

@jsmexyrose5

4y↑15

its crazy to grown up with janes addiction and now every comment is death grips related. i feel both great and gatekeepery about it

@reneefernandez9866

Exactly it's stupid...

@dakotag6056

Don’t feel that way. Just get into Death Grips

@Vanoffy

25w↑2

I have to agree this is the most ball busting intro track of all time. I’ll never forget my drummer friend introducing this band to me for the first time in 8th grade LOL time flies

@elloko25

10y↑186

beware

@chi3fgri3f

10y↑12

Death Grips

@rollotomassi2390

10y

shuh chucker

@robashlicarrafa4876

4y↑42

That is insane!!! I've never paid much attention to surfing but this is incredible! I'll bet there aren't many people on the planet that can ride a wave like that. And I kept waiting for the wave to take him out but it never did! That was amazing!!!

@mikebodrazic1427

1y↑3

I want this played at my funeral.

@audiobunny1767

3y↑11

One of my favourite slices of JA. Simple, Powerful, Brilliance.

@danakim3746

6y↑32

My god, the timing of the video to the music is a work of art! At 1:25 Parsons appears out of the mist, just as Dave starts his guitar solo. Bravo, gents!

@buhayamerica888

I saw that and am amazed.

@s.t.7169

7y↑33

This song was first released almost 30 years ago, and in my mind, it REMAINS probably the most intense 3 minutes in Rock history ever composed and executed. Pure, raw, magical EMOTION.

@losergirl3230

6y↑2

S. T. I must agree. I can't describe how I feel when I hear this.

@sarahemikula

6y↑1

No doubt! Best intro to an album ever! Just laying the groundwork

@salvinni3434

Agreed. With Cashmir being second

@clintwilson6380

Still sounds like it came out 2day

@Daboo025

47w↑5

Gracias señor apretón por hacerme conocer este rolón ❤

@Outtra_

11w

Uau. This is beautiful. I must say this video with the music, touches the mystery of life. Sublime.

Thanks to all the beings involved.

@anthonypetercoleman3575

3y↑7

This is the greatest unofficial music video I have ever seen. Absolutely perfect from beginning to end, well done Keiv Spare.

@stephenvelez9710

2y↑4

This is utterly amazing, the perfect marriage of song, ocean, and surfing🤩

@kendavid891

3y↑4

Saw Jane's at lollapalooza, definitely amazing show,that clip fits perfectly,powerful ocean, my friends love to surf back in the 90s,miss them

@GNRlast

9y↑36

Juanas addikcion !

@goodmansteve2481

3y↑1

Ba baba ba ba ba badadada

GO!!

@myownruin187

6y↑6

Down to the soul it goes stirs up hope and dreams that within my reach..
Absolutely beautiful music..

@ChristelMontoya

5y↑12

Still gives me chills this band, this surf footage it’s too much for my black heart to take ☠️

@22z83

1y↑1

I feel.. my pentablack heart bleeding to this

@johnr6676

3y↑8

Wow what a video for this song. I was hooked to this band with mountain song. I must have seen them live about 6 times in the late 80s and early 90s. I miss those days so much watching a band and passing around a joint to people who you don’t even know. Watching these old videos somewhat transports me back to those memories.

@SanctuaryReintegrate

23w↑4

BEWAAAARE,
No wait, wrong song

@jasonpeters9716

39w↑1

Seen Jane's Addiction open a show with this tasty number!

@lisacipriani6105

10y↑11

This is the epitome of coming out of a place that is scary and winning.

@captainamerica3531

16w

Amazing. Like no way he keeps continuing through the spray! And then it finally gets him. All time epic wave. I’m jealous.

@BubbaZen10

11w

This is the greatest video on YouTube

@jackpitts5561

6y↑3

Gotta be the greatest surfing video ever made, nice of the surfer to survive this monster two or four times to allow the song to continue... (but in the end the water always wins)
Hats-off to Keiv Spare for making this.

@witchfindergeneralelectric8758

2y↑2

Don't think I've even seen such a perfect combination of audio and visuals. So perfect.

@ghostsballz

1y↑5

I close my eyes and seize it

@frogloti6319

1y↑4

I clench my fist and beat it

@goober4135

1y↑2

I light my torch and burn it

@aztro.99

1y↑1

i am the beast i worship

@genarocuellar777

2y↑1

Mother earth and man as one!

@TurnOffYourTV

⛵🦁😎
The Greatest Video of AllTime

@sheerasoomai3980

1y↑1

I was swept into the Columbus channel many times young island girl, I love my fears.

@craigholliday

25w↑1

Made my morning. Great video

@pablodelamora535

7y↑35

Legion brought me here!

@Halopend

7y↑4

Me too!! Soo good.

@MrMickenval

The same here! But that wave is insane and the way Mike Parson take it is unbelievable!

@davidarbuckle7236

10w

The Beauty of this Video is when the Camera zooms out and you realize the surfer is riding a monster wave. Up until that moment, it just looked like another big wave. Not a skyscraper of millions of gallons of water.

@leilawade2279

2y↑2

I just love this 💋💋💋

@bradwheelock1438

8y↑56

The person who made this video is the one true prophet, I hope they are living well.

@deetestlogins5269

7y↑2

If you are able to buy or borrow the dvd called "Billabong Pro" it will have Mike's name on the back you will see some of the worlds best waves, surfed by one of the world's best surfers.

@kat1york

deetest logins Please excuse my ignorance for I've never surfed and live in New England where we never get swells like this unless we're having a hurricane. Lol
Here's my question: How does the guy on the jet ski get back to shore safely?

@WoolyColdie

ride ahead of the waves

@jasonmahon7355

Fucking Amazing,Poetic Harmony

@eganc1976

5y↑1

@@kat1york this wave is Outside Log Cabins on Oahu,Hi... they launch the ski from the Haleiwa boat harbor

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@monoko6279

3y↑3

I cried to this song

@josephmcfarland8442

Then She Did for like 6 months at 56

@skidmarkthedumpgod7870

8y↑53

BEWAAAAARE

@Atraslin

19w

Awesome! Perfect song for this clip! Yeah doggie! 🤘🔨

@junepollard3955

2y↑1

What a powerful video supa dupa cool 😎

@jfragghianti

1y↑2

My all time favorite band

@seahag831

10y↑8

Perfect song for this video, good job.

@garden0fstone736

26w↑2

They played this live opening for smashing pumpkins last year in Tampa and I just sat down maybe not even 15 mins and the edibles just started to kick in when they opened with this song and just looped the intro for what felt like eternity. The power this song had live was unbelievable. I wasn’t even there for janes addiction. But I always liked them. But after that I really said whoa and had a whole new appreciation. It was ocean size. I almost wanna say I left feeling more impressed by janes addiction than the pumpkins. Wanna catch a pno for pyros live show next

@BubbaZen10

5y↑1

Been on the internet almost 10 years, Still the coolest vid i've seen, with the perfect music for it.

@ethanwhitcombe3225

2y↑3

BEWAAAREEEEEE

@BubbaZen10

8y↑29

Here we go now!!!!

If there's a better video that goes more perfectly with a song, please, PLEASE show it to me.

@kouka7221

7y↑6

Death Grips - Beware

@littlegoatgt

Boards of Canada - Dawn Chorus. Someone set it to vintage clips of the space program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfVfRWv7igg

@ryankeenan4425

5y↑2

A paranoid man running through the desert

@pizzapastaparty3095

3y↑2

Death Grips - Beware

@themetalmaster01

10y↑5

really wow that's the best video iv ever seen

@dabarnes7

10y↑120

So, now whenever I hear the beginning of this song, I keep expecting the Charles Manson quote to start because of Death Grips.

@goodmansteve2481

When I listen to beware I expect an awesome guitar solo to come on

@NoCoverCharge

2y↑1

I’ll be seeing them this Friday night !

@andrewnapthali1831

Everytime I hear this song it reminds me of the beach!!!!!! ✌️🇦🇺

@SPARKY4944

7y↑1

Best video of all time.

@anthonyjaswinski5732

1y↑1

Whatever the next Apocalypse Now is, this needs to be the opening song that defines it all.

@jamesonmarquardt7741

The soundtrack of my life in late 80s early 90s. still rock it today...

@blootoober

6y↑5

such an underrated jane's tune

@susanagraciela254

6y↑2

Flip my mind out from this. Greetings from Córdoba Capital, Arg.

@pootytang4970

8y↑7

magnificent

@thesurfacelevelgamer

Thanks for making this. It,'s now actually my favorite music video

@BubbaZen10

This is just always gonna be one of my favorite videos. Just makes me feel good,

@kentvaughn6685

Absolute Perfection
Favorite Album Ever....

@8MoonsOfJupiter

3y↑6

What a band - this song just soars above everything else; a true epic

@zoloswaqqer

2y↑5

Heard the sample from Death grips and loved it

@savingadrian12

5y↑1

This song mentally and spiritually takes me back to Santa Cruz!

@adampecsek

3y↑4

I loved - and I mean loved - Ritual when I first got into it, several years after the band broke up, but Nothing's Shocking didn't really move me the same way. I recently started listening to it again, on a whim, and it's brilliant. This was years before the grunge scene, when rock was basically all hair metal, and the rest of the radio was R&B. It's fun to go back and look at the Billboard top 40 lists from 88 and realize how incredibly weird this music is compared to everything else. I don't know anything that sounds remotely like this, especially not from that era.

@Itsyrm8

Yes indeed, remember first listening to ritual habitual. I was already a heavy goth rock metal fan but after listening to three days i literally tripped. For the first time

@DJJezzebella

4y↑9

@DerNachtmar

Thank you

@masteroutlaw100

6y↑3

𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇 𝐈 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏

@bvdatech1

38w

Billabong Odyssey ❤❤❤

@jasonpeters9716

39w

Seen Jane's Addiction 3 times.

After watching their Bio/History?

Lol..I now consider myself LUCKY AF seen them even once living in Kansas City.
Let alone 3times!

2003 ×2, 2009 NIN opened

@josephmcfarland8442

1y↑1

Great Tune

@matthewseidl5534

6y↑1

Awesome video for a song that is perfect.

@starblazer64

9y↑2

One word comes to mind......E P I C !!!!!!!!

@antcawdor

5y↑81

Every time I hear this track I am just so thankful that I am alive.
Truly fucking inspiring.
Thank Christ for Janes Addiction.

@itsunclemonty5206

Agree

@Guillermohistoriador999

Amen

@the2ndcoming135

When you and your cousin are surfing some killer waves, and then have a bro moment, where you look at each other like, holy f*ck that was a good idea bro😅😅

@athousandwords5469

6y↑1

love the sync up between the video and song

@n4veg4nte_

15w↑1

Ok this is epic

@sapoperro095

28w↑2

me when im running naked in a dessert

@WillStephen1977

Wow the way riding in this is amazing

@gesu5286

L’onda... la storia si propaga ad onde... frequenze... la radio... di oggi...
È un Movimento Ascensionale...

@guillermoparra3408

9y↑2

INCREIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IMPRESIONANTE, la mejor banda de sonido para esa increíble muestra de habilidad!!!!

@jorgeparra68

Es en viedma??? Jajajjjajajja

@blackopssavage

I am the beast I worship.

@eponymous_graphics

no way ! No Way ! NO WAY ! ... my hear is beating so fast ! Coupled with the languid tempo of the an amazing Janes Addiction song, this is a 1:01 experience ! thank you. Man, my chest hurts from my heart beating so fast. That was amazing surfing by Mike Parsons, and Janes Addiction in my top 3 alt rock bands. I think i might throw up my stomach is in knots. That video / track compilation was awesome.

@mywetcell4078

4y↑2

i am the beach i worship

@T.2.S.A.

3y↑1

Summertime is rolling soone again.

@joashha

9y↑1

perfect ride - perfect song

@johnchurch5101

So perfect with the billabong opening

@mistabootiful488

CHOOSE

OK..

LOOK AT EM TAKE ON THE MOUNTAIN AND RIDE IT..SUCH BALLS..SUCH PASSION. BEAUTIFUL ISNT IT

@dapsisifo6613

8y↑2

La ola rompe a 1:43, después hay una edición que repite y alarga la escena, pero qué lo parió, hay que aguantar una ola de nueve metros, es un verdadero huracán.
Muy buena la cortina de Jane's Addiction para esta escena.
Pulgares arriba.