Editing Nothing's Shocking (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/nothings-shocking-mw0000196037 |title=Nothing's Shocking – Jane's Addiction |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=November 7, 2015 |last=Prato |first=Greg}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Kerrang!]]''
| rev2score = 5/5<ref name="Kerrang">{{cite magazine |title=Jane's Addiction: Jane's Addiction |magazine=[[Kerrang!]] |issue=202 |date=August 27, 1988 |last=Wilding |first=Phil |page=20}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="LAT">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-28-ca-1517-story.html |title=Jane's Hard and Soft Edges |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=August 28, 1988 |access-date=November 7, 2015 |last=Cromelin |first=Richard}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev4score = 7/10<ref name="NME">{{cite magazine |title=Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking |magazine=[[NME]] |date=September 3, 1988 |last=Barron |first=Jack |page=31}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref name="PI">{{cite news |title=Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking (Warner Bros.) |newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=September 22, 1988 |last=Tucker |first=Ken |author-link=Ken Tucker}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev6score = 9.3/10<ref name="Pitchfork">{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/janes-addiction-nothings-shocking/ |title=Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking Album Review |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=September 11, 2022 |access-date=September 11, 2022 |last=Cohen |first=Ian}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Q">{{cite magazine |title=Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=26 |date=November 1988 |last=Aston |first=Martin}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/nothings-shocking-85311/ |title=Nothing's Shocking |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=October 20, 1988 |access-date=November 7, 2015 |last=Pond |first=Steve |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812180854/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/nothings-shocking-85311/ |archive-date=August 12, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev9score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="RSAG">{{cite book |chapter=Jane's Addiction |last=Hochman |first=Steve |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |editor2-link=Christian Hoard |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/421 421–422]}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev10score = B−<ref name="VV">{{cite news |url=https://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv289-89.php |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide |newspaper=[[The Village Voice]] |date=March 14, 1989 |access-date=April 29, 2013 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau}}</ref>
}}

Reviewing ''Nothing's Shocking'' for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', Steve Pond praised Jane's Addiction as "the true heir to [[Led Zeppelin]]" and called the album "simultaneously forbidding and weighty, delicate and ethereal", while also distinctly more "hardheaded and realistic" in sensibility than Led Zeppelin's music.<ref name="RS"/> ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' critic Richard Cromelin commented that Jane's Addiction "sounds supremely assured as it alternates its taut, brutal [[heavy metal music|metal]] alloy with oddly endearing moments of reflection", describing their style as "a bracing throwback to rebellious sources and forces of excess like old [[Black Sabbath]] and [[Alice Cooper]]".<ref name="LAT"/> [[Ken Tucker]], writing for ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', found the album's lyrics incomprehensible in meaning, but viewed them as secondary to the music, which he deemed "first-rate – deceptively slapdash, passionately messy, thoroughly exhilarating."<ref name="PI"/> ''[[Kerrang!]]''{{'}}s Phil Wilding hailed Jane's Addiction as "the second coming" and posited that their innovation would be "understood" over time,<ref name="Kerrang"/> while ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''{{'}}s Martin Aston wrote that the band manages to recall acts such as Led Zeppelin and [[Van Halen]] without resorting to "the plagiarism that plagues the [[heavy metal music|HM]]/[[hard rock]] genre."<ref name="Q"/> Jack Barron of ''[[NME]]'' credited Jane's Addiction for having "breadth" and concluded that they "come from a town ruled by glam where talent is only mascara deep, but this is no five-year-old's IQ on show here."<ref name="NME"/>

At the end of 1988, ''Nothing's Shocking'' was voted the 34th best album of the year in ''[[The Village Voice]]''{{'}}s [[Pazz & Jop]] critics' poll.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres88.php |title=The 1988 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll |newspaper=[[The Village Voice]] |date=February 28, 1989 |access-date=October 20, 2022}}</ref> The poll's curator, [[Robert Christgau]], was lukewarm toward the record, summarizing Jane's Addiction as "Alice Cooper revisited" while conceding that "if they stick at it like the pros they'll be, they might land an '[[Only Women Bleed]].'"<ref name="VV"/>