It would be better if Song Yet To Be Sung was Album Yet To Be Made

 

Perry Farrell
Song Yet To Be Sung
(Virgin)

We should have all known this was coming when the former Jane’s Addiction front-maniac and notorious dumpster-diving junkie started yapping about how cool it was playing Dad to his new girlfriend’s little boy and how sexy his new green Lexus was. But we never could have seen this coming. Sure, Porno For Pyros was certainly not the edgiest or most challenging music to be found, but where Mr. Lollapalooza has ended up just simply could not be predicted nor can it be tolerated.

Maybe it had something to do with turning forty, or maybe Casey Niccoli was his musical muse. Regardless, it would be better if Song Yet To Be Sung was Album Yet To Be Made, but it’s here and it has been heard. And it is crap: repetitive, wishy-washy, bubbling trance-hop topped by Farrell’s plastic, banal and utterly empty coos. If you were trying to get on the bandwagon, Perry (those car payments can’t be cheap), you’ve just been run over by it. We can only hope that you cease such behavior immediately. Otherwise, we must strip you of your moniker (a goof on "peripheral"), and be done with you, Perry Bernstein with the Lexus. –Scott D. Lewis

 

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