* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic - "Mountain Song", "Been Caught Stealing".
** Basically all of ''Ritual de lo habitual'' and ''Nothing's Shocking'', really. Side two of ''Ritual'' deserves special mention because no one else was recording music like that in 1990, or at least not to any degree of commercial success.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
** "Thank You Boys" from ''Nothing's Shocking'', a minute-long upbeat jazz instrumental that sounds like nothing else on the album. Also qualifies as a GainaxEnding for the original vinyl release (CD issues end with "Pigs In Zen").
** To a lesser extent, the opening to "Ain't No Right" - an unrelated reggae jam based around a lyrical {{shout out}} to "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" by Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads, which fades into the proper song after just under a minute. It fits the theme of the song, but it's really weird and stylistically out of place.
* BlackSheepHit: "Jane Says" is a soft-rock ballad with a steel drum. Quite uncharacteristic for an AlternativeMetal band.
* EvenBetterSequel: ''Ritual de lo habitual'' is often seen as one to ''Nothing's Shocking'' due to the increased complexity and emotional depth of the compositions, although finding people who like the earlier album more isn't too difficult.
* EpicRiff: "Mountain Song" has an unforgettable one.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Lots of people disparage or outright ignore ''Strays'', and nobody really cares about the live album ''Jane's Addiction''. Actually, the good rule of thumb here would be: it's not a JA album if the cover doesn't have any nudity.
* GrowingTheBeard: No one much talks about the self-titled. ''Nothing's Shocking'' is where they established themselves as a force to be reckoned with and ''Ritual de lo habitual'' solidified their reputation.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: They have a few, particularly "Summertime Rolls", which practically borders on SillyLoveSongs (though it's sung too passionately to feel like one), and "Classic Girl", which, after the unrelenting bleakness of the three preceding songs, feels like a serious case of EarnYourHappyEnding.
* LifeImitatesArt: Jane did eventually get to Spain. And off drugs.
* RefrainFromAssuming: "Ted, Just Admit It..." tends to get called "Nothing's Shocking" - it has a NonAppearingTitle, but repeatedly does an AlbumTitleDrop of ''Nothing's Shocking''. "Sex Is Violent" is another common guess, and confusingly enough the edited version on the ''Film/NaturalBornKillers'' soundtrack album ''is'' called "Sex Is Violent".
* SignatureSong: Fans say either "Mountain Song" or "Been Caught Stealing", though "Jane Says" has proved a surprising success among the general public.
* SongAssociation: "Stop" appeared in ''Videogame/BurnoutParadise'', while "Just Because" was featured in ''[[VideoGame/ForzaMotorsport Forza Horizon 2]]''. "Mountain Song" was a disc song in ''Videogame/RockBand'' 2 and ''Videogame/GuitarHero'' World Tour. "Stop" was a disc song song in Guitar Hero 2 as the encore song for Tier 6. ''Nothing's Shocking'' and "Stop" later became downloadable content for the Rock Band series.
* TearJerker: The intro of "Three Days," most of "Then She Did...", but especially the end, beginning with the part where [[spoiler:Farrell tells Xiola to say hi to his mother]]
* ToughActToFollow: Nothing they do in the future will ever have the impact of ''Nothing's Shocking'' and ''Ritual de lo habitual''.
* ValuesDissonance: Much of the second half of ''Ritual'' deals with the loss of Farrell's former lover Xiola Blue. It didn't get a lot of attention at the time, but the fact that Blue was 14 and Farrell 20 when they first started dating would lead to accusations of grooming and pedophilia towards Farrell today.
* ValuesResonance: A lot of ''Ritual de lo habitual'' seems almost ahead of its time in terms of its lyrical content, given the anti-racism [[AnAesop Aesop]] in "No One's Leaving", the GreenAesop in "Stop!", the EthicalHedonism espoused in "Ain't No Right", and so on. It also helps that the album celebrates sexuality without actually objectifying women, which was something not many other male rock musicians besides Music/{{Prince}} were managing to do at the time.
* VindicatedByHistory: ''Nothing's Shocking'' wasn't a big commercial hit at release, barely selling 200,000 copies in its first year. However, as the bands legacy grew overtime it got more attention, and it was even given a Platinum certification ten years after its release.