Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

history lessons /
teachable moments throughout,
and ROCKIN SOLO

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

"mormon school girls rule"

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.

is it really their first in four years?!! It feels like Californication only came out quite recently.

"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."

Worst imitation of Lars Ulrich yet.

lol! They couldn't get their Megadrive to work...

ALSO THIS

Okay, so are you going to tell us who is your second favorite band from Cali?

what year did the first malkmus album come out - i remember enjoying that a lot more than californication at the time...

i think one hot minute is a good album though, always had a soft spot for it. it's kinda prog rock in many ways.

That's not all that strange. It's usually 3-4 years between their albums, ever since Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

Love him or hate him. You HAVE to love those pants.

Everything about Stadium reeks of a coddled, multiple-platinum-sellling band dictating terms to their record company, indulging in their guitarist's peccadillos.

"give it away" is still a good song.

I dunno, I kind of looked at that as the one scene in the video that's more earnest tribute than mocking exaggeration, given it's juxtaposed with the line "gone too fast" and a dramatic image of a candle's light going out and all that bullshit. I'd be kind of surprised if they intended the same 'hey dig this asshole' tone as for, say, the hair metal scene, but I could be wrong. The most offensive thing about the video, I think, is that current day RHCP is seen as some how the result of all those generations of rock music, or as if the 'real' Kiedis wearing a necktie with shorts is less ridiculous than any of the other fashion statements they sport in the video as caricatures.

Oh, I'm sure they didn't. Kiedis has spewed plenty of "Kurt was a beautiful creature, a genius of our era, I loved him with all of my soul blah blah moo moo" shit over the years. All of it was meant as tribute, I just thought it was just interesting because 1) Nirvana is without a doubt YOUNGER than RHCP - hair metal more questionable, 2) seeing Nirvana treated as a link on the chain, 3) a chain of beauty currently resting in the hands of RHCP, who combine all these eras into a brilliant blast of boomshackalacka.

NO MORE FM RADIO AIRPLAY FOR YOU THEN YOU TOOL

"...the Peppers' summer-fun pop is a guilty pleasure as mainstream radio fare goes, and far superior to, say, anything by Kelly Clarkson."

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