Whores

"Jane's Addiction's 1988 breakthrough album, Nothing's Shocking, had a seismic impact. With a bracing combination of metal, punk, and psychedelia, coupled with lead singer Perry Farrell's banshee-in-a-wind-tunnel vocals, Jane's Addiction helped put what would soon be co-opted as "alternative" on the map. The band freely mixed the decadent with the innocent and helped pave the way for the mainstream success of bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Nirvana. Along the way, Jane's Addiction released another classic album, Ritual de Lo Habitual (with the hit "Been Caught Stealing"), founded the…