Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

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I fucking love that the "tears I cried a' blah blah blah to be part of the wave - can't stop" song....

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I think 'Scar Tissue" and "Under the Bridge" are great songs. I can do without the rest of it, though.

Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to bop around like a madman to "Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky" when I was about three.

Ian Riese-Moraine eats nation-states for breakfast! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link

i like some of the songs off of Freaky Styley, which I bought by mistake after hearing their version of Higher Ground on the radio, but i don't like RHCP. by the way, what the hell is the meaning of the song The Brother's Cup?? I remember when I was a somewhat homophobic teenager, that song made me feel strange even though it was one of my favorite songs on the album.

also, It's So Lonely off of Mother's Milk brings back good memories of the late 80's, especially the video with alex winter in fetal position and wearing a hat.

ugly and mean, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

oops, i meant Taste the Pain.

ugly and stupid and mean, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I wonder if Miccio still thinks there's a good 10-track album (out of 16) here.

really depends on my mood. I think its got a nice mood, good harmonies and if I'm feeling pleasant I can enjoy Kiedis' dippy new age sex king deal. That said, one of the few tracks that MAKES me enjoy the inanity is "The Zephyr Song."

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

"It's So Lonely" = "Knock Me Down"?

I think I pretty well dug 'em through BSSM (dude, it's their Joshua Tree!!). After that, they just seemed to fade into MORscurity.

Now when I hear Kiedis' voice on the radio, it secretly whispers to me "don't you wonder what's on that other station...? don't you wonder what's on that other station...?"

rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

that last "hit" of theirs off their last album is easily one of the worst songs I've ever heard by anyone

kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Mommy Where's Daddy, Pretty Little Ditty, Blood Sugar Sex Magic... thems are good songs.

Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I still dig them and I make no apologies for it. Hmph.

VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a hilarious interview w/ Nick Cave in a recentish Q or Mojo or somesuch where he goes on and on abt how BAD the RHCP are, how really fucking TERRIBLE they are, much to the discomfort of the Emap int. who mumbles a feeble "there are worse things out there" as rebuttal - really restored my faith in Cave!

Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

ok the idea of Cave watching an RHCP video in disgust is rofflicious.

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link

oh christ, he's rapping in his underwear..."what a way to finally smell her" damn I wish I'd thought that one up...

http://217.204.10.75/img_bg/6603.jpg

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

"Soul To Squeeze" is their best non-album track

"Sikamakaneko" and "Show Me Your Soul" are both outstanding. "Soul To Squeeze" may be third place.

billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Ever since Frusciante has become more of an "influence" on the band, they've become less of the mug-face short pants rock and started doing fantastic tunes more melodic and hookfilled than anything their early countertops have every come up with. Most of you hating them for being frat rock figureheads now is like hating Radiohead for that I'm a creep song.

And Frusciante's solo stuff is excellent. Fractured lo-fi songs that go everywhere melodically but always find their way home.

Viz (Viz), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

A fun greatest hits band. Nothing more.

Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to bop around like a madman to "Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky" when I was about three.

True story: While listening to that album, I accidentally kicked a hole in the wall.

My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Most of you hating them for being frat rock figureheads now is like hating Radiohead for that I'm a creep song.

A more than fair point. Now, since I hate Kiedis's voice, the rest follows.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually really like BSSM/Mother's Milk/Freaky Styley as they were sort of formative records for me, but listening now I'm mostly embarrassed by the lyrics. The new stuff does little for me, and the lyrics are still awful. I do kinda like the song "Standing in line for the show tonight /I got the light on /heavy load" or wtf he says.

Also, the thing about RHCP in the late '80s was they turned me on to about 500 other bands. There was a thing on MTV that I taped that Anthony and Flea were on and in the span of 5 minutes they mentioned the Meters, the JBs, Parliament, the Germs, X, Descendents, Adolescents, Big Boys, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Husker Du, Curtis Mayfield, Fela Kuti, etc etc etc. As a 14 year old with a burgeoning interest in funk and punk rock and whatever else, it had a huge impact on me.

mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

First three albums are STILL genius.

The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

nine months pass...
songs i like by chili peppers:

Love Rollercoaster (by far and away their best because it was on Beavis and Butthead and it sounds nothing like the chilis)

Sir Psycho Sexy (if only for the extended outro and decent bassline, hate the rapping bit)

Songs that are okay by chili peppers:
Taste The Pain
Aeroplane
Tearjerker
Walkabout
Scar Tissue

Songs that I don't like by Chili Peppers:
most of the rest.

Their best era was between 1992 and 1994 when they stopped releasing stuff for a while. They should continue in that direction. One Hot Minute was their best album obv. I don't know why I never liked them very much. Half of it was the erect-nipple, soxoncockjock longhair and tattoos jerk-off homomachismo of it all. RHCP instantly make me think of baggy shorts and genital warts*.

The other half is it reminds me of jerks at school. The other other half is is one minute they're trying to be all whacky and spazzed out and trying to be Rick James for dunderhead whiteguys, and next they're trying to write all these stupid lamearsed ballads for your girlfriend to like. Their lyrics put me off the idea of sex at a young age - they made it sound gross, like someone throwing up all over themselves at a party.
Their recent stuff is horrible and every time it comes on the pub jukebox I wanna kill myself.

Check out the cover of their new album, really what the fuck man?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh200/h259/h25993jdswo.jpg

Dunno, why I don't like them. Really I don't hate them I just reckon they're very very overrated. People tell me I might like John Frustrating's solo work - anyone know if it any good or what?

*wasn't meant to rhyme but it did. if Anthony Kiddies and Feal are reading this thread and want to steal my rhymes then they can.

dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

all saints cover of 'under the bridge' = better than any rhcp song esp the ghastly original.

only rhcp song i will tolerate = 'scar tissue'.

The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link

all saints cover of 'under the bridge' = better than any rhcp song esp the ghastly original.

except for that excruciating lyrics change from 'the city of Angels' to 'the city...of cities'

i might still like 'Breaking The Girl' but i can't offer any decent excuses for this.

that album cover and the new single and video are utterly awful.

Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link

all saints cover of 'under the bridge' = better than any rhcp song esp the ghastly original.

keep their hedz ringing lex

25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Is that new cover terrible or what tho???

gekoppel (Gekoppel), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

ok the idea of Cave watching an RHCP video in disgust is rofflicious.

-- miccio (anthonyisrigh...), June 29th, 2005.

otm, i'd love to see a reality show solely about cave watching tv and his reactions.

latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link

it sounds nothing like the chilis

there may be a reason for that

gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not so much that I hate RHCP as it is that I'm just generally anti the whole funk-rock-free-love-white-guy-shirt-off-California genre.
Also: They bear at least part of the blame for the proliferation of rap rock, and as far as I can tell, no one's been yet been punished.

Kali (Kali), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

what is the reason for that? Was it a collab?

I guess all their recent albums have had absoultely disgusting covers. This one takes the biscuit though. Looks like something I could knock up in powerpoint in about 15 minutes.

dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

ah it's a cover - had no idea! ok, chilis suck balls then. that was their only good song and i thought they wrote it.

dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

They bug the heck out of me, especially Californication-on, but I will say that Flea always seemed like an all right dude. I like his film appearances, especially "My Own Private Idaho" (though the results of Van Sant's association with the Chili Peppers are an indictment on them both). I saw Flea at a Dodgers game last year - people were coming up afterward and taking pictures with him; he seemed friendly.

I read an interview where someone was making fun of Flea, saying that he wanted to keep living in Los Felix "because he thought it was more 'punk rock,'" but then Kiedis or someone convinced him to move to Malibu... ha ha.

morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link

The RHCPs completely passed me by on the other side for years and years and years, owing to an assumption on my part that they wouldn't be My Sort Of Thing. Never having taken the trouble to find out anything about them, I had - and still have - no off-putting cultural context in which to place them. All I know is that, for me, By The Way was an astonishingly enjoyable album, which I played and played for months and months. I like nothing else from this genre, I still have absolutely no idea what, if anything, they are singing about, and I wouldn't recognise them if they passed me on the street. But I couldn't care less. Oh, and I *love* the whole sound of the vocals - there's a velvety timbre in there which really works for me, whether it has been electronically manipulated or not.

mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 08:23 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost -- Also, anyone who had a large part in Suburbia (the Penelope Speeris, hyperpunk film from forever ago, not the Bogosian movie) must be at least part good, right?

Kali (Kali), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link

chili peppers are my favrite band from cali, the second is sublime.

animal, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:30 (eighteen years ago) link

same here

j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread contains my favorite post in the history of the internet.

Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 4 May 2006 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link

which?

dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 May 2006 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

"This thread contains my favorite post in the history of the internet. "

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 4 May 2006 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I love the RHCP and Anthony Kiedis is so hot and i hate all you fuckers who diss them but shot all the people who like them!!
-- Brooke Hardy (brookie_luvs_...), June 14th, 2003.

Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link

actually yeh that might be my fave too.

dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i run hot and cold with these guys, but i saw the "give it away" vid on vh1 classic yesterday and yeah, that shit's pretty great. in its own way, BSSM holds up as well as nevermind (and much much much much better than ten).

jbr with a z (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

the only song i like (read: can stand) by rhcp is Coffee Shop.

AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link

better than '10', eh? bold claim.

xp

the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link

my kids and I watched
"dani california"
video today

history lessons /
teachable moments throughout,
and ROCKIN SOLO

Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link

they're just gonna keep writing songs about california until they die, aren't they?

just for kicks, they should write a song about utah.

jbr with a z (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

beach boys got there first.

dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

They make the same three songs over and over again, but I like them anyway.

deeej, Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

somewhere along the line I got it in my head that RHCP stood for "Red-headed Clown Posse" and it's still the first thing I involuntarily think everytime I see it

Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

just for kicks, they should write a song about utah.

"mormon school girls rule"

the real world meets laguna beach for adults (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

via BBC news:

Chili Peppers angry at album leak

Michael "Flea" Balzary (left) said the copy was a "pale imitation"
US rock band The Red Hot Chili Peppers have hit out at a music "pirate" who leaked their new album, Stadium Arcadium, onto the internet.

Bass player Michael "Flea" Balzary said the group would be heartbroken if fans downloaded it illegally before its official release.

Stadium Arcadium, the band's first studio album in four years, is due to go on sale next week.

A spokeswoman for the band said she did not know who leaked the album.

'Poor quality'

In a letter on the band's website, Flea wrote: "For people to just steal a poor sound quality version of it for free because some asshole stole it and put it on the internet is sad to me.

"I cannot put in words how much this record means to us, how sacred the sound of it is to us, and how many sleepless nights and hardworking days we all had thinking about how to make it be the best sounding thing we could.

"Now for someone to take it and put it out there with this poor sound quality it is a painful pill for us to swallow."

The Rolling Stones, Coldplay, Radiohead, Oasis and U2 are among the other stars who have fallen victim to internet leaks.

Falling CD sales have been blamed on piracy but an industry campaign to prosecute illegal uploaders has struggled to contain the problem.

In the US, people who copy music and films before their official release date face up to 11 years in prison under the 2005 Family Entertainment and Copyright Act.

sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link


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