good for Flea, tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip61tzxpSQQ
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 03:05 (one year ago) link
inexplicable that these goofs are still huge while nobody under 30 has any idea who R.E.M. are.
I was at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta last month, with the Georgia Bulldogs from Athens one of the two teams. they played like three RHCP songs in the stadium that night and nothing by R.E.M. or the B-52's. a travesty.
― charlie brown from outta town (GM), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 04:02 (one year ago) link
John Frusciante, Flea “Fine” With Anthony Kiedis Naming Harmonious, Beautifully Intricate Song “Clappa Dap Funk Suckin’ Mama”
― charlie brown from outta town (GM), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 04:04 (one year ago) link
wait though, what would be the rem jam to play to a stadium of football fans?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 04:07 (one year ago) link
"It's the End of the World as We Know It," obviously. Maybe "What's the Frequency." I dunno, just saying it felt all kindsa messed up.
It was UGA vs. Ohio State, should've played nothing but Elephant 6 and Ron House.
― charlie brown from outta town (GM), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 04:09 (one year ago) link
maybe The One I Love, too? stadium jams are such a strange genre
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 04:12 (one year ago) link
Doo-doo dingle zing a dong boneBa-di ba-da ba-zumba crunga cong gone bad
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 04:26 (one year ago) link
Looks like the University of Northern Iowa(??) did an R.E.M. show (audio here)
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 04:34 (one year ago) link
I know most fans hate it but the R.E.M. song that could in some realistic universe have been a stadium jam is "Stand."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 04:37 (one year ago) link
OutKast has more stadium jams than REM or the B-52s.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 04:42 (one year ago) link
Honestly the best stadium jam out of Athens GA is probably Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 05:03 (one year ago) link
Hero Worship or Runnin' Around could be slipped in as jock jams.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 10:50 (one year ago) link
Scar Tissue is a great song btw
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:17 (one year ago) link
One of my students wrote beautifully about Scar Tissue last semester. I was a little dubious at first when she chose that song bc I had preexisting bias but she convinced me it was deeper than I thought.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:21 (one year ago) link
Idk why anyone is talking about REM jock jams but I’d vote for Stand!
Orange Crush > Stand
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:40 (one year ago) link
Turn You Inside Out could work, too. Or Finest Worksong, etc. Anything with big drums (which Stand lacks).
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link
but what is the Pylon stadium jam?
― Brad C., Wednesday, 8 February 2023 13:52 (one year ago) link
For various reasons I have fallen into a hyperlocal music scene where 30-year-old people inexplicably love 30-year-old music.
Seriously RHCP is implicated in a seemingly inexhaustible well of 90s jams that the young adults apparently crave. Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, Goo Goo Dolls, Counting Crows, Sugar Ray, Hootie, Killers, Smashmouth, Gin Blossoms, Foo Fighters.
I have sat in on drums with two bands that play this stuff and it is a complete mindboink.
It's like this - I load in, set up my kit, get a drink, look out at a normal bar crowd. Ho, hum, I've done this a thousand times and mostly get ignored. Then the band starts up with "Under the Bridge" or "All Star" and the place fucking EXPLODES. All of a sudden, five 20-something women in sparkly tank tops are going WOOOO and putting money in the tip jar and asking if we know any Coldplay and buying me drinks.
It's uncanny and I have no explanation for it. When this music was current I had no love for it (I'm an 80s creature) but I can play it all from memory without thinking. If I had known this was a thing, I wouldn't have bothered with half my repertoire.
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
Chili Peppers should do a "Shrek" song. Whether or not there's a new "Shrek" movie. Though for all I know, they're all "Shrek" songs. "Under the Bridge" is for sure about Shrek.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
Sometimes I feel like I don't have an ogre
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
Sometimes I feel like my only friend / Is the donkey I live with / A wisecracking equine
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link
Give it away give it away give it away now
Mike Myers walking like he talkin
Understand I don't wanna be a dorkwad
How come everybody wanna keep it like Lord Farquaad
― Auf Der Martini (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 16:19 (one year ago) link
I really like Flea’s playing on higher ground, it sounds like he’s climbing a stairmaster
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 16:20 (one year ago) link
"Under the Bridge" is for sure about Shrek"you're right. under sheck's bridge you find shrek's mud pool
― CerebralCaustic, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 23:59 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-H_nGieMMA
i had never seen this video before and omg i love it
― ivy., Wednesday, 29 May 2024 17:46 (one week ago) link
That first five or six years they were really just a bunch of dudes rapping about being weirdos and friendship
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 17:53 (one week ago) link
Weird, I must have seen it because I had repeatedly checked out Positive Mental Octopus from my local video store. The only thing that seemed familiar was dayglo Anthony singing into the camera around 2:30
― peace, man, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:03 (one week ago) link
that song is so terrible. maybe even mtv realized how bad it was and didn't play it a lot. they used to play true men don't kill coyotes a lot on mtv. which is a better song. but still worse than any bow wow wow song ever recorded.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:14 (one week ago) link
I've always wanted to dress up in costume as the radioactive chili pepper farmer from the True Men Don't Kill Coyotes music video, except that I can't think of an occasion to wear it that wouldn't require tedious amounts of explaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC3j1pNXhSU
― peace, man, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:23 (one week ago) link
I like all the RHCP stuff through Mother’s Milk, especially Uplift. Fight Like a Brave has never been one of my favorites of that era though but I’d never seen the video, thanks for posting, was a fun time.
― Slim is an Alien, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:29 (one week ago) link
I have often wondered if their penchant for wacky costumes and antics and the low production value of their early music videos created a significant Nickelodeon-to-RHCP pipeline.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:30 (one week ago) link
The Fight Like A Brave video is so much worse than I remember and I remember it being terrible
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:33 (one week ago) link
I never realized it until now but it really feels like a west coast response to Licensed To Ill. Goofy antics, costumes, call-and-response rapping, big drums, shreddy guitar solos...
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:39 (one week ago) link
lol Fight like A Brave video is weirdo goofball “Beat It” and if you are not on board with that vibe then idk how to help you <3 also i like this song? it’s dumb & funI definitely now in my old age prefer their pre-BloodSugarSexMagik outputi still love a lot of songs from BSSM & Californication & later albums too, but i primarily now enjoy the dumb weirdo vibes of their 80’s stuff so much more
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:53 (one week ago) link
I definitely now in my old age prefer their pre-BloodSugarSexMagik output
I was a big fan of their first five albums. Saw them live several times shortly before and immediately after Mother's Milk. Literally stopped listening after "Give It Away"; never even made it to side 2 of my BloodSugarSexMagik cassette, and never listened to any album after that.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 19:11 (one week ago) link
What was Hillel like as a performer?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 19:13 (one week ago) link
Never saw them with Hillel; all the shows I saw (April 1989, New Brunswick, NJ; July 1989, L.A.; and October 1989, NYC) were with baby John.
https://www.rhcplivearchive.com/show/apr-1989-new-brunswick-nj-2070
https://www.rhcplivearchive.com/show/jul-11-1989-los-angeles-ca-1170
https://www.rhcplivearchive.com/show/oct-27-1989-new-york-city-ny-1218
FTR, the July show is listed to history as a "Benefit for Father's Rights" but the sign outside the club that night read "Benefit to Pay Norwood's Alimony."
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 19:27 (one week ago) link
literally a boys' clublol
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 19:33 (one week ago) link
Norwood Fisher from Fishbone?
― bbq, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:01 (one week ago) link
I saw them with Hillel twice - '86, '87. He was phenomenal. I remember he had a lot of guitar pedals and he was always locking into these funk riffs that would get hypnotic. Slight of build, but had a manic presence and chops that drew your attention.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:10 (one week ago) link
I remember reading about the Father's Rights benefit in some magazine back then. Possibly Thrasher. May have been the first place I heard of the Chi Peps.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:21 (one week ago) link
What was Hillel like as a performer?― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, May 29, 2024 3:13 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, May 29, 2024 3:13 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
He’ll play a little guitar, sing a few bluesHe’s the kind-a-guy that you can’t refuseDespite the fact that he’s no bruteHe’s the skinny sweaty man in the green suit
Strike the magic groove make him jerk and moveLike an eight legged freak in snake skin bootsComing soon to a theatre near youIt’s the skinny sweaty man in the green suit
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:27 (one week ago) link
i saw them doing a couple songs on some late night fundraiser for local TV in Los Angeles late 80's and when it was done the host had no idea what just happened. it was amazing to me as a kid.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:33 (one week ago) link
then at some point years later KROQ would play them every hour and it wasn't so cool anymore
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:35 (one week ago) link
At this point, the original 10-song 1983 demo with Hillel and Jack might be the best Pep ever. Nine of the tracks were on Out in L.A. (now OOP), and kind of wish they would just drop a remastered version on a cassette
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqsni052XnfHTm_0m2E6ygSkvYxc4Fd6L
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:36 (one week ago) link
Actually I have no idea if it's actually out of print, but it's "not on streaming services" for whatever that's worth
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:37 (one week ago) link
Out In LA was a budget CD bin staple for years. I think it has been broken up and the tracks were added to expanded versions of the relevant albums.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 21:13 (one week ago) link