Strays

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Strays
Studio album by Jane's Addiction
Released	July 22, 2003
Recorded	2002-03 at Henson Recording Studios
Genre	Alternative
Length	48:22
Label	Capitol Records
Producer(s)	Bob Ezrin & Brian Virtue
Professional reviews
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Jane's Addiction chronology
Kettle Whistle (1997)	Strays (2003)	Up From the Catacombs - The Best of Jane's Addiction (2006)

This article is about the album. For the areas of open land in York and Harrogate see Strays of York.

Strays is Jane's Addiction's third and final studio album. It was released on July 22, 2003, and was the only album the band released when they reformed with Chris Chaney on bass. Upon its first week of release in America this album sold 110,500 copies and had sold 412,000 copies as of September 25th 2006.

It was their first new album since Ritual de lo Habitual, which was released in 1990. The song "Just Because" was nominated for the Grammy Awards in 2004.

The song "Superhero" is used during the opening credits of the HBO series Entourage.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Singles released 3 Personnel 3.1 Band line-up during recording 3.2 Producers 3.3 Engineers 3.4 Mixing 3.5 Additional musicians 3.6 Orchestral arrangements 3.7 Mastering 4 Selected quotes

[edit] Track listing

1. "True Nature" – 3:49 (Perry Farrell/Dave Navarro/Stephen Perkins/Bob Ezrin/Martyn LeNoble)
2. "Strays" – 4:32 (Farrell/Navarro/Perkins/Ezrin/Arron Embry/David J)
3. "Just Because" – 3:51 (Farrell/Navarro/Perkins/Ezrin/Chris Chaney)
4. "Price I Pay" – 5:27 (Farrell/Navarro/Perkins/Ezrin/Chaney)
5. "The Riches" – 5:44 (Farrell/Navarro/Perkins/Ezrin/Embry/LeNoble)
6. "Superhero" – 3:58 (Farrell/Navarro/Perkins/Ezrin/Embry)
7. "Wrong Girl" – 4:32 (Farrell/Navarro/Perkins/Ezrin/Chaney)
8. "Everybody's Friend" – 3:18 (Farrell/Navarro/Perkins/Ezrin)
9. "Suffer Some" – 4:14 (Farrell/Navarro/Perkins/LeNoble/Ezrin)
10. "Hypersonic" – 3:32 (Farrell/Navarro/Perkins/Ezrin/LeNoble)
11. "To Match The Sun" – 5:25 (Farrell/Navarro/Perkins/Ezrin/LeNoble)

[edit] Singles released

• "Just Because"
• "True Nature"

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Band line-up during recording

• Perry Farrell - vocals, programming
• Dave Navarro - guitars, piano
• Stephen Perkins - drums, percussion
• Chris Chaney - bass, piano
• Martyn LeNoble - bass, guitar

[edit] Producers

• Bob Ezrin
• Brian Virtue

[edit] Engineers

• Brian Virtue
• James Murray (additional engineering)
• Alex Gibson (additional engineering)

Assistant Engineers

• Brian Humphrey
• Alex Uychocde

[edit] Mixing

• Bob Ezrin
• Brian Virtue

[edit] Additional musicians

• Aaron Embry - keyboards, kalimba
• Zack Ray - keyboards
• Joe Bishara - programming
• Brian Virtue - programming
• Bob Ezrin - additional keyboards, percussion
• Scott Page - saxophones
• John Shanks - mandolin
• Mike Finnegan - organ
• Brenden Hawkins - additional programming
• James Murray - additional programming
• Kim Hill - backing vocals
• Dionna Brooks-Jackson - backing vocals

[edit] Orchestral arrangements

• Leanna Sterios
• Bon Ezrin

[edit] Mastering

• Brian "Big Bass" Gardener

[edit] Selected quotes

• Stephen Perkins: It all started (around March or April 2002) with Bob Ezrin producing a Porno for Pyros track for the movie Dark Blue...an incredible song called "Streets of Fire" which was just epic. That segued into the Strays project.

• Perry Farrell: Working with Bob Ezrin on Strays meant a lot because I knew that Dave loved Pink Floyd's The Wall, which Ezrin produced. Dave learned The Wall (as a kid). He can play the whole album note for note. I knew he'd instantly have a lot of respect for him.

• Martyn LeNoble (ex-Porno for Pyros bassist, ex-Jane's Addiction bassist): I recorded pretty much the whole Strays record. And Perry erased it. He suddenly fired me on the spot in Japan when we still had a whole flight back to the US. That's the last time I talked to him.

• Bob Ezrin: My job on Strays was to bring a sort of commonality to the process and make everyone think it was a group effort again and not just a bunch of solo projects trying to be strung together.

• Martyn LeNoble: Bob Ezrin didn't really understand Jane's Addiction musically. I remember arguing with him, "Like man, have you listened to Ritual?" He goes, "Frankly, I can't get through it. I think it sounds horrible. I'm going to make this a real rock band instead of an art rock band." Well, he succeeded. He took all the magic out of it. He made a rock record. The most magical moments on the Jane's Addiction records are the quiet little adventures to the left, and, of course Eric's magic bass. Eric Avery is the man.

• Martyn LeNoble: Perry and Bob (Ezrin) replaced all my bass parts on Strays. Perry was saying everything I played sounded like shit, but then they had the new guy pretty much play exactly my parts, maybe a couple of little changes, so I guess they couldn't have been that shitty.