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During today's ALT Rewind we played 'Stop!' by Janes Addiction. It was the lead single off their 1990 album, Ritual de lo Habitual. Founding member and lead singer, Parry Farrell, said he wrote the song after seeing a film called Koyaanisqatsi. It’s a 1982 experimental environmental documentary with no words, just a hypnotic musical composition from Phillip Glass. You can get a sense of the vibes in this film by just watching the clip below.

The documentary seemed to make such an impact on Farrell, that he wrote 'Stop!' about the ever-worsening environmental crisis and our society's general malaise that often surrounds the topic. 

But on a more positive note, the music video is SICK and was filmed during a private outdoor performance at the Forest Preserve in Mt. Baldy, California.