Talk:Nothing's Shocking

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The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · refresh) I gave this album a start classification. Hope that works. Anoncow 19:46, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

The article had the following sentence:

Before one of the songs were in Nothing's Shocking, they were taken from the 1987 self-titled debut album as a live recording and then Nothing's Shocking was last.

I can't make head nor tail of it, and suspect others also won't be able to. Could it be reworded so it's clearer? --Camembert

I think it's saying that one of the songs was in the band's 1987 self-titled debut album, which was recorded live, before it was in Nothing's Shocking. (googles) No, it was two of them: "Pigs in Zen" and, unsurprisingly, "Jane Says". I'll reword now. --Paul A

Thanks Paul, much appreciated. --Camembert

[edit] The hidden secret inside the album artwork.

It is apparent that Perry Farrell was fully nude (at least from the knees up) when he took his individual picture for the CD booklet. Although only his head and shoulders appear in the frame of the shot, PERRY'S PENIS AND PUBIC HAIR CAN BE SEEN IN THE REFLECTION OF THE MIRROR TINTED SUNGLASS LENS OVER HIS LEFT EYE. It is apparent that this was accomplished by carefully aligning an oval shaped or parabolic mirror, the kind you would see in the back corner of a convenience store. The mirror was likely held in front of his face and angled down in order to place a reflection of his nude body in the sunglass lens. The portion of his body that can be seen is between his neck and lower thigh.

In order help distinguish the image in the reflection, look for Perry's long black dreadlocks which are hanging down his chest. His white body seems to be in a lounging position with his arms held down and away from his sides. His white penis can clearly be seen extending down from his black patch of pubic hair. Upon closer inspection, it appears that the right hand of the person holding the mirror and possibly their head can be seen outside the mirror, but this is debatable.

I discovered this on my own in the late 1990's. I saw that there were some distinct forms in the reflection of Perry's sunglasses. I incorrectly assumed that the reflection would show what was in the background behind the photographer at the time when the picture was taken.

I googled this and couldn't find any other references to this information.

Brian Thompson. 11/09/2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Karacter0 (talk • contribs) 06:51, 9 November 2007 (UTC)