Good God’s Urge by Porno for Pyros

Good God's Urge, the second and last album from Porno for Pyros, came out on Warner Bros. on May 28, 1996, and it's the sound of Perry Farrell's post-Jane's Addiction outfit chasing waves instead of riffs. The songs took shape over a two-year surf odyssey through Tahiti, Indonesia, Samoa, Costa Rica and Mexico, trips that doubled as a chance for the band to dry out from serious drug habits, and the record they made at Shangri-La in Malibu is sun-bleached, acoustic and dreamy, a long way from hard-rock clang.

Those struggles run through "Tahitian Moon" and "Porpoise Head", the latter with Bauhaus alumni Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins sitting in. Dave Navarro rejoined his old bandmates Farrell and Stephen Perkins on "Freeway", bringing Flea along. Bassist Martyn LeNoble left before finishing his parts, so Mike Watt stepped in to see it through, and Peter DiStefano's cancer diagnosis put the band on ice not long after the tour.

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