Jun 26, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 14 segments
Tonight on Summer Album / Winter Album: Ritual de lo Habitual. 1990. Our special guest: Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen. Craig Finn is arguing Summer, Jody Avirgan is arguing Winter. Jody won…
Jody AvirganHost
Craig FinnHost
Hamilton LeithauserGuestIan Wheeler
Craig, if you asked me to guess when this album came out, I would have probably said 1995 or 1996, when I was in middle school and high school, first really getting into music, glued to good old WHFS in Washington, DC.
You'd have thought it had just come out, but I guess by that point, it had simply worked its way into permanent rotation.
Because I remember the first time I heard about Jane's Addiction, and they kind of scared me.
Like I knew that sex and drugs and rock and roll was kind of the thing, but this band seemed to actually have sex, like actually do drugs.
What I'm trying to say is, if I had been five or 10 years older, I think I would have been all in.
These witchy punks out of LA, Red Hot Chili Peppers meets Led Zeppelin, they would have immediately hit for me.
And the version of Jane's Addiction that I picked up on in the mid-90s, well, it was a little bit wintry.
Because I mostly spent time with the second half of this album, Ritual de lo Habitual.
I am
Side A is a ramshackle collection of snotty punk songs, Been Caught Stealin', Stop, music that evokes hazy, hot days spent on LA concrete, skateboarding, hitting the beach, a stolen 40 tucked into your cargo shorts.
Two almost 10-minute songs back-to-back, more reverb than a My Morning Jacket album, It's a spacey exploration of love, loss, and grief.
Because somewhere in the mid-90s, someone clued me into the fact that the band that had sung Been Caught Stealin' also wrote a song called Three Days.
It became a mixtape staple of mine, a song that you could get lost in, one that felt like it was happening in the middle of a long night in, say, November or December.
Craig, if you asked me to guess when this album came out, I would have probably said 1995 or 1996, when I was in middle school and high school, first really getting into music, glued to good old WHFS in Washington, DC.
You'd have thought it had just come out, but I guess by that point, it had simply worked its way into permanent rotation.
Because I remember the first time I heard about Jane's Addiction, and they kind of scared me.
Like I knew that sex and drugs and rock and roll was kind of the thing, but this band seemed to actually have sex, like actually do drugs.
What I'm trying to say is, if I had been five or 10 years older, I think I would have been all in.
These witchy punks out of LA, Red Hot Chili Peppers meets Led Zeppelin, they would have immediately hit for me.
And the version of Jane's Addiction that I picked up on in the mid-90s, well, it was a little bit wintry.
Because I mostly spent time with the second half of this album, Ritual de lo Habitual.
I am
Side A is a ramshackle collection of snotty punk songs, Been Caught Stealin', Stop, music that evokes hazy, hot days spent on LA concrete, skateboarding, hitting the beach, a stolen 40 tucked into your cargo shorts.
Two almost 10-minute songs back-to-back, more reverb than a My Morning Jacket album, It's a spacey exploration of love, loss, and grief.
Because somewhere in the mid-90s, someone clued me into the fact that the band that had sung Been Caught Stealin' also wrote a song called Three Days.
It became a mixtape staple of mine, a song that you could get lost in, one that felt like it was happening in the middle of a long night in, say, November or December.
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