Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

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I don't wanna ever feel like I did that day.....

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 11 October 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't ever wanna feel like I did that day.....

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 11 October 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"Under The Bridge" is a great song and _Mother's Milk_ is overrated.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 11 October 2002 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Freaky Styley and Uplift Mofo....were incredible albums at the time. If I didn't hear a lick of RHCP till Mother's Milk, I'd probably hate them too. And I do hate them for everything they've put out Mothers Milk going forward.

― Brian W, Friday, 11 October 2002 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

also: sex appeal. They made sexy thrash! Kiedis and the rest were very cute to early teen me and the way Anthony sang about sex made me think maybe this is something I would like (not always the case for a young girl when men are singing about sex).

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 11 October 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

They are fucking shit. So terrible, I hate the way over in Ireland they're a symbol of a type of Americanism which probably doesn't even exist, tattoos and fucking extreme sports and obviously dancing around in underwear. Also for their fans saying Flea is the best bassist in the world, I DON'T CARE!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 11 October 2002 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

James Surowiecki (sic, probably) had a good thing in Slate a couple of weeks back about how he loves the new album and raving about John Frusciante (lot of technical musico speak too, to be expected from The New Yorkers' house economist I guess) and how he can only listen to the first ten to thirty seconds of each song because after that you have to listen to Anthony Kiedis sing. Dave Q's comment regarding Chili Peppers = Eagles seems especially deadon, they're everything that makes me suspect I'd hate L.A.

"tattoos and fucking extreme sports and obviously dancing around in underwear" - this America most definitely does exist (turn on ESPN2 next time you're stateside).

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 October 2002 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Flea is the best bassist in the world...

― insectifly (insectifly), Friday, 11 October 2002 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

...is one of the funnier 'truths of the nineties'.

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 October 2002 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

RHCP as banner boys for X-Treme America - oh, that's some funny stuff, especially since they're dropping ornate instrumentation & three-part harmonies all over their newest album. CS&N fandom is XTREME! (I think that lifestyle Ronan & James describe / dispute exists nowadays only in shitty Coors beer commercials - that is, the commercials w/out the Andrew WK songs.)

_By The Way_ is damn good, by the way. (Oh, ha.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 October 2002 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

You know how in surfing movies there's the grizzled old (ie. 30) surfer who looks kinda like Gary Busey with a touch of Montgomery Clift that the surfer kids look to as the elder/shamen of their tribe*? That's the role the Chili Peppers (and perhaps the guys in the Mountain Dew commercials) play in X-Treme America. Three-part harmonies = emotional maturation = one day I'll be nicer to my girlfriend.

* this may not be true

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 October 2002 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Three-part harmonies = emotional maturation

Mr. Blount clearly hasn't had the pleasure of listening to Phish.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 October 2002 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

BUT their cameo in The Simpsons is probably the best of any band

and if you dont think stuff like that is important then you can fuck right off

― blueski, Friday, 11 October 2002 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"everyone can enjoy that"

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 11 October 2002 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"what I'd like is I'd like to hug and kiss you"

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 11 October 2002 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

flea is great in back to the future two and the big lebowski!!

― s trife (simon_tr), Friday, 11 October 2002 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

No singer has benefited more from auto-tune technology than Mr. Keidis.

RHCP write good singles though, "Road Trippin'" especially.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Friday, 11 October 2002 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Best Flea moive = Dudes. Best Anthony Movie = Point Break.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 11 October 2002 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Trivia time: RHCP's cover of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is playing on the boombox near the begining of the 1988 Sam Elliot/Paul Weller film Shakedown. A white guy approaches Richard Brooks (later of Law and Order) and complains, "I hate rap!"

Bonus: Movie climaxes with Elliot deliberately crashing a jet, just barely missing the Twin Towers.

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 11 October 2002 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?"

A lot of people, seemingly. Not me, mind. Flea maybe a technically great musician, but his plinking-plonking-twanging bass sound is one of my least favourite sounds, not even just in the musical field. It's worse than the sound of belching. Ugh. "Californication" was in my top 5 least favourite albums of all time, it's an absolute dog of an album.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 11 October 2002 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Wrong. Best Flea movie = Penelope Spheeris' "Suburbia."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 October 2002 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

'bloodsugarsexmagik' actually meant something to me at the time, even if it is just a watered-down version of a lot of other things done better by other people. "Give It Away" is a good single. also the dirty bits in the other songs were much-valued contraband to a twelve-year-old. and they do have their moments in their post-MothMilk stuff - "Soul To Squeeze" is their best non-album track, and "Warped" and "Scar Tissue" are also worth it. i would buy a singles comp from their later years, but that's all.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 11 October 2002 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

how can you like Jane's Addiction and not like RHCP even a little bit?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 11 October 2002 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Avoiding your point, but: I hate Jane's Addiction completely and like RHCP a little bit.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Friday, 11 October 2002 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I like "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes" but that's about it. Jane's Addiction (their direct L.A. peers) were light years better. Although the Chili Peppers are far better (i.e. less irritating) than any of the nu-metal stuff

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 11 October 2002 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Fishbone stalled but I would mention them, too. And everybody knows about the Minutemen, RHCP models. "Under the Bridge" is Flea's Watt immitation set to Journey.

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 11 October 2002 23:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Every once in a while they do something that doesn't make me want to immediately vomit, and that one video - think the song's called 'Otherside' is really a great video. My primary problem with them is that they seem like such half-baked assholes. Which is, you know, FINE. If only if their collective personalities were easily separable from the music. Instead, virtually everything they do reeks of it.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 12 October 2002 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Jane's Addiction (their direct L.A. peers) were light years better

maybe, but i would argue that the self-indulgent/dull/irritating moments in JA are at least as bad as anything RHCP did. i think the fact that JA broke up before most of their fans outgrew their stuff is their critical shining armor.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 12 October 2002 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I really don;t like when the RHCP try to be serious. Some of their funk-ish tracks are better.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 12 October 2002 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

The solo in "Scar Tissue" reminds me of the solo in "Torn".

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 12 October 2002 05:23 (twenty-three years ago)

They're the new generation's Rolling Stones...i.e. decrepit, washed-up, greedy, ruthless, millionaire drug addicts still hawking themselves as beacons of youth rebellion. Though at least Mick didn't need to have his vocals recorded one word at a time and painstakingly pieced together in the studio over months as Anthony does.

― G. Turkington, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

If that really is Mr. Turkington, welcome. Neil Hamburger's entries in the premiere issue of Arthur make me smile.

the 1988 Sam Elliot/Paul Weller film

I would pay money to see Sam Elliot kill Paul Weller on film. Or at least abuse him.

As for the question at hand...I'll grant 'em "Give It Away" and Frusciante really is a fantastic musician on his own. But that's it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

“Yeah, That’s much better”

“Hey, why didn’t we think of that?”

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 17 October 2002 03:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned -- is Arthur on the newstand?

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 17 October 2002 03:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I forgot about Fishbone.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 17 October 2002 03:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned -- is Arthur on the newstand?

Copies were at Terrastock.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 October 2002 03:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Their cover of Love Rollercoaster is about the worst thing anyone ever did. ssssSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUUCKS!

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 17 October 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i always kinda hated them. i mean, *funk metal*, come on. but every song i've heard by them over the last couple of years (their mature period i suppose) has been pretty good in a kind of world weary cali-druggy sort of way.

it pained me to say that.

― adam b (adam b), Thursday, 17 October 2002 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you, Ned! I still haven't seen Arthur yet myself.

― G. Turkington, Friday, 18 October 2002 23:08 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

u can all go **** urselves, rhcp rock. if u can't appreciate them for their musical ability then ur nuts. u need a serious head check!!

― t, Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

oooh 'by the way' john frusciante is sooooooo cute! (that coming from a teenage girl)

― t, Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't appreciate bands solely on their "musical ability", t. i like to hear more than just technically great bass-work, especially when all it's doing is creating such ugly, ugly music.

frusciante's cuteness is another matter entirely.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Chili peppers' career path is similar to Aerosmith's to an alarming degree.

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked that last single.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I forgot about Fishbone.

EVERYONE DOES. (except for me & maybe chaki)

Honestly, I loved their first 3 albums, was kinda "meh" about most of Mother's Milk (even though "Magic Johnson" & "Knock Me Down" are grebt songs, and "Pretty Little Ditty" was a thing of beauty until Crazytown raped it raw), ABSOLUTELY LOVED AND STILL DO Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and everything since then has been touched with rare moments of greatness ("Kill Your Television" fr'instance), but mostly frustrating in-that they've got great melodic/harmonic ideas (thank you John Frusciate!), but a lead singer with a rather limited range and a voice that can be k-annoying. This is a band I once loved, now a band I k-like that has some songs I love that my own band is (painfully often) compared to.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

And I want to mention that, although they're VERY challenging and rather harsh listens, Frusciante's solo albums are dirty gorgeous cracked-out raw soul.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

And Flea's not a great bassist 'cause of technical-shmecnical mumbo jumbo, he's a great bassist because his basslines are very clear and strong and catchy and just so damned funky. Young MC agrees.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Young MC agrees.

Well, I'm sold!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I think "By the Way" was one of the great radio singles of last year -- even though I'm not otherwise invested in RHCP. In fact, a lot of their newer (Frusciante comeback) material strikes me as "modal" somehow. Or maybe I'm using that word wrong, but Radiohead uses a similar compositional technique. Does anyone know what I mean?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

That first Frusciante solo alb is nice and cracked-up.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

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I really hate the out of tune “guitar solo” in the song “californication”, a pun I literally only just got that makes me like this and even less!!!!

― brimstead, Sunday, 9 June 2024 14:05 (two years ago)

Is that the one that’s just the riff to purple haze

― calstars, Sunday, 9 June 2024 16:20 (two years ago)

No, that's "Dani California"

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 9 June 2024 17:05 (two years ago)

one month passes...

sad story

Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer was sued for wrongful death Wednesday for allegedly running over and killing a pedestrian in Alhambra, Calif., near Los Angeles.
According to the lawsuit, which was accompanied by video and still photography of the accident from the suing attorneys, on March 18 of this year Klinghoffer was allegedly on his phone while making a left turn and striking Israel Sanchez, 47, causing blunt-force trauma to the head. A photograph taken from the video seems to show that the driver is holding a cell phone, although it is unclear; Sanchez died of his injuries hours later.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 July 2024 19:53 (one year ago)

Lock him up
People who use phones while driving should have their licenses revoked

― calstars, Wednesday, 10 July 2024 20:47 (one year ago)

oof

rip israel

― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 10 July 2024 21:07 (one year ago)

jesus

― ivy., Wednesday, 10 July 2024 21:10 (one year ago)

four weeks pass...

Can't find very much info on this band at all, the video popped up on my YT feed today but the similarities to '84 era RHCP are interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WowDVNoMpwo

― Maresn3st, Friday, 9 August 2024 21:33 (one year ago)

Mojo Uplift Party People Plan

― calstars, Friday, 9 August 2024 21:36 (one year ago)

Scar Tissue is the worst song with the best guitar tone

― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 10 August 2024 04:32 (one year ago)

Subtract Anthony and you’ve got a pretty great band!

― calstars, Saturday, 10 August 2024 12:33 (one year ago)

Scar Tissue is the worst song with the best guitar tone
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, August 9, 2024 9:32 PM

that's most of the next two albums, as well.

― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Saturday, 10 August 2024 18:06 (one year ago)

They were annoying at Olympics closing ceremony/ welcome to LA 2028

― curmudgeon, Monday, 12 August 2024 07:04 (one year ago)

Tried to watch it on my old CRT TV but the picture was fuzzy

― Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Monday, 12 August 2024 07:44 (one year ago)

Scart issue, but I wish I saw

― Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Monday, 12 August 2024 07:45 (one year ago)

lol

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 August 2024 08:35 (one year ago)

a+ dl :)

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 12 August 2024 10:09 (one year ago)

one month passes...

The Internet Killed Flea today... because this other guy actually died: https://m.riverbender.com/news/details.cfm?id=76300&

― Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 7 October 2024 01:34 (one year ago)

Wow, I actually have a track from them on this old Mud Records comp that was a mainstay in Central Illinois record stores back in the mid-90s.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 October 2024 17:30 (one year ago)

This confused the shit out of me earlier this afternoon

― chap, Monday, 7 October 2024 17:47 (one year ago)

Very informative x grueling thread, thanks yall. My gateway to Frusciante-beyond-Peppers was s/t w Omar:
https://orlprojects.bandcamp.com/album/omar-rodr-guez-l-pez-john-frusciante

― dow, Monday, 7 October 2024 18:43 (one year ago)

eleven months pass...

Chad Smith is the least-funky entity of any kind (sentient being, solid matter, gas) that has ever existed.

I don't know much about the RHCP but this is excellent.

― JifMoose, Tuesday, 9 September 2025 16:47 (nine months ago)

I mean, why limit ourselves to the material world? What about concepts, values and ideas? There's our whole ontology to explore. Who knows - maybe there are unmoved-movers, transfinite numbers, natural moral properties, universal Platonic forms, immortal men who are also Socrates, or sets of all sets that are not members of themselves - that are less funky that Chad S.
Maybe Modus ponens itself is less funky than Chad Smith.
But I doubt it.

― JifMoose, Tuesday, 9 September 2025 16:51 (nine months ago)

two months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmyjzvQv5bA

― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 3 December 2025 19:55 (six months ago)

Does that mean he is finally releasing his lost solo album? When I read his memoir I was shocked to learn he recorded one with Daniel Lanois, but I thought everybody involved agreed it sucked.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 December 2025 20:19 (six months ago)

I really like this song (I suppose mostly becuz I like Parker's ETA IV three quarters of which are here) until he starts singing, at which point I like the song much, much less.

― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 3 December 2025 20:30 (six months ago)

The Beato interview with Flea is inspiring and kinda sweet, even touching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmA49M9HwYA

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 December 2025 19:25 (six months ago)

Honestly the more I think about it the whole "fuck your politics/I don't care about politics" message of the song is really annoying, esp becuz I really like all the stuff that is basically just the Jeff Parker band with Flea doing something I guess

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 5 December 2025 19:35 (six months ago)

three months pass...

there is a lot of good stuff on the album so far

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 March 2026 17:00 (two months ago)

So this one seems to be the "talented 7th grade trumpeter with a producer dad who lends him studio time and some session killers" to Andre's "doomed jam session with the guy who absolutely can't hang but has great drugs."

Surely destined to be remembered as a trivia answer to where the Nick Cave version of Wichita Lineman comes from

― Deverly (Bangelo), Friday, 27 March 2026 21:25 (two months ago)

what I want to know is what happened between "I"m forever next to a stereo, hearing the worst shit imaginable, asking who it is, and the answer is always RHCP," and "yes I'll do this."

― veronica moser, Friday, 27 March 2026 23:04 (two months ago)

Flea’s the cover star of the current issue of Downbeat.

― Mollusk, Virginia (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 28 March 2026 01:58 (two months ago)

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