Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

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"Dani California" sucks, and I really liked the last two albums' first singles. I like how the video has them make fun of two eras they co-existed with. Kiedis MOCKING Cobain!
-- Zwan (anthonyisrigh...), May 7th, 2006 12:05 PM.

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.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Monday, 8 May 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

"Dani California" sounds like "Mary Jane's Last Dance" by Tom Petty. RHCP are the Tom Petty of alt-rock. Or maybe that's just Rubin's doing.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 8 May 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)

OMG you're right. No way do they deserve to be compared to Tom Petty, though (nor does "Dani" deserve to be compared to "Mary Jane's").

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Monday, 8 May 2006 00:39 (twenty years ago)

They are OK, but they have a long way to go to be as good as Tom Petty.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 8 May 2006 11:04 (twenty years ago)

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.

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.

― Zwan (miccio), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:26 (twenty years ago)

x-post I was thinking of current Tom Petty, not classic Tom Petty.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

They might have become repugnant but the band's early output - alongside that of Fishbone - were quite important to my musical education as a teen in the mid '80s. I still like "Fight Like A Brave" just fine.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Monday, 8 May 2006 21:56 (twenty years ago)

"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."

NO MORE FM RADIO AIRPLAY FOR YOU THEN YOU TOOL

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:00 (twenty years ago)

From Derogatis' review of Stadium Arcadium,

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

http://jimdero.com/News%202006/May7SpinControl.htm

― Harrison Barr (Petar), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

who was the blonde guy with candles they're pretending to be in the video?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

i gues i'm in the same boat as grey, ian. Never done a THING for me but they never annoyed much either. Maybe because they are inextricably linked with Jane's Addiction, and relative to them, RHCP seem less annoying. What's gonna be funny is when RHCP are inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame. They do fit the profile you know. My favorite sort of recent thought of them was when Bono rhetorically asked at the Grammys if U2 was really the best group in the world, or is it the Red How Chili Peppers?

― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

they're a pretty terrible band!

― gear (gear), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

i really really like "under the bridge" as sappy as it is. its strangely moving and heartfelt.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

It was kinda weird that they played "Give It Away" as their second song on SNL last night. I was looking forward to hearing another song off the new one.

I dunno. I liked it that they didn't do the "we're only here to hawk our new album" that everyone on SNL does.

After all these years, I still kinda like RHCP... One of my fave shows ever was back in '84 or '85 when they played UCI and Anthony didn't show up - so Hillel and Flea grabbed people out of the audience to sing.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

they played that big auditorium at UCI? i too saw them around '85 and i think it was at Fender's in Long Beach (fairly small club).

― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Thursday, 11 May 2006 22:00 (twenty years ago)

I have spent 2 hours reading all this, to see what other people think about my favorite band. I've heard that their first two albums are great, and that the other ones suck, well, you know what, like few bands, the red hot chili peppers' music has evolved with the time but it always have something in common, GREATNESS, they are really the best of the best, they love their job they really have passion for music. This week I bought Stadium Arcadium and its pretty cool, it will have a lot of hits, lets see, until now, the best albums are Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication and By the Way. (Not the first cd, those cd didnt make them famous the cd that make them famous was Blood Sugar Sex Magik)...oh and By the way Id try to say i'll be there, waiting for.....

― Steve Rodriguez, Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:11 (twenty years ago)

They're better than you'd think considering their drummer is Will Ferrell.

Jackpot!!!!!! Somebody thought the same as I did

― Pedro J., Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

gotta say, i am really liking 'stadium arcadium'. it's like the half of 'californication' which was great, sustained over 2 discs.

― swvl (vozick), Monday, 22 May 2006 02:45 (twenty years ago)

still maintain that Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic is an incredible album ... you'd probably haev to pay me to listen to the new one but for the first time in about two years I kinda psyched to pull out BSSM as I grill my pork chop. It's definitely due for its bi-annual listen.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 22 May 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

I always feel a little sad when I hear them on the radio - hearing "Scar Tissue" on the radio before the rest of that awful album was the last time they seemed capable of doing anything worth listening to. Now it's all ballads and going through the motions.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 22 May 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

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― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 22 May 2006 07:25 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

I'm having a hard time with Stadium Arcadium. I'm currently fighting the temptation to shut it off halfway through the first disc like I did the first time I tried listening to it. At least the guitar playing is good.

BSSM is the only album of theirs I've liked all the way through, and I've heard all of them but Mother's Milk and the debut.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 02:44 (twenty years ago)

Despite the lukewarm songwriting on Stadium Arcadium, it's totally Frusciante's showcase guitar-wise. I'm tempted to say he's never sounded better.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 02:53 (twenty years ago)

Agreed, the solos are just killer.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 02:55 (twenty years ago)

'give it away' is a pretty good tune when overheard loud in a bar...but apart from that never dug em . but am currently a bit obsessed with with 'desecration smile' - first song on disc 2 of new album . frusciate has some beautiful licks and b. vocals ( very CSNY) going on

― grapple (grapple), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 02:59 (twenty years ago)

x-post -- That will NEVER surprise me. He's like Dom Perignon, regrettably paired with horsemeat hash.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:00 (twenty years ago)

Is there a "great guitarist, shit band" thread? There should be.
grapple: I'll listen for that one, I'm currently on track 12 of Jupiter.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm having a hard time with Stadium Arcadium.

Hell, I'm having a hard time with the title alone!

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:11 (twenty years ago)

Mars went in one ear and out the other.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:45 (twenty years ago)

john f is in the marx volta now!

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:23 (twenty years ago)

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more info plz

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:31 (twenty years ago)

Re Frusciante solo work:

A couple of albums recorded in the depth of his heroin/cocaine/cheap motel/no teeth period - painful to listen to, not even amusing in a "Syd Barret/ evesdropping on someone's insanity" kind of way.

"To record only water for ten days" (Pretentious title, granted) is just guitar, vocals and cheap sounding keyboard/ drummachine and it is a totally and utterly classic record.

"Shadows collide with people" is hit and miss but generally hilarious fun, and gets extra points for a a couple of tracks which are basically just beatless electronic droning

Since then (2003) he has released, without exaggerating, about 10 albums and EPs, pretty much all of which is pish.

He's also always namechecking good music in interviews (Joy Division, Gang of Four etc). Seems like a nice fellow, if slightly deranged in a California post drug sort of a way.

― iain macdonald (the_article_don), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:08 (twenty years ago)

found this on wiki re: Mars Volta:

Frusciante has also been working with The Mars Volta in the studio on their new album Amputechture. Band leaders Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala have been quoted saying that Frusciante will have a much larger role in The Mars Volta in the next CD. He also tracked all of the guitar work for the next record by The Mars Volta during the creative process, which allowed Omar to work more as a producer for the album.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:37 (twenty years ago)

cheers iain.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:56 (twenty years ago)

John Frusciante's recent albums are anyfuckingthing but "pish". Curtains is a very pleasant, organic, folky, rainy day affair (not to mention a monstrous dueling solo bit between Frusciante and Omar Rodriguez). Sphere In The Heart of Silence is like a Kid A where the robots are all rusty and broken instead of all-powerful and shiny, with one of the most awe-inspiringly raw vocal takes of any performance by any rock vocalist ever ("Walls"). Inside of Emptiness is the ill, raunchy rock record most modern rock bands keep trying and failing to make. Each of those 7+ LPs/EPs have a very distinct tone & character from one another.

Shadows Collide With People is still the most magnificent though, most likely.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

I've always thought of TRWF10D as being his "goth" record.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

I wish the Chilis would just kick Anthony Keidis out.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

And there are some really gorgeous haunting ballady moments on To Niandra Lades (the first one), mixed in with the utter brainmelting insanity, which is exactly how I like my records.

Okay, I'll shut up now.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Ned is an incorrigible Chili Pepper groupie. It's true.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Ok, the "pish" comment is a wee bit harsh, but no one can sustain a high level of quality over such a number of releases in such a short time. If you took the best 10 tracks from all of "Curtains", "Sphere" "DC EP" etc then you might have a half decent album.

"Shadows.." and "TRWF10D" (as it is called above) still piss all over the other solo stuff, however.

Finally, I'm all for "brain melting insanity" as well, but "Niandra..." is more like a voyeuristic delve into one man's emotional collapse. And not in a good way.

― iain macdonald (the_article_don), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:27 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm listening to Stadium Arcadium right now and just want to say how great you guys really are and how much all of your work is appreciated!luv all ur cd's ~~~keep em comin!!! peppers are hot!!!
/your #1 fan

― Anna Loumis (peppersfan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

im so fuckin drunk

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

that's cool

― Anna Loumis (peppersfan), Friday, 7 July 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

Please guys, time to leave the shirts ON.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Friday, 7 July 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.listen.com/img/356x237/2/8/1/7/737182_356x237.jpg
"What's the deal with all the googlers who think they are talking directly to the band when they post to ILM?"

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Friday, 7 July 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

hey, they could be reading this and if they are, will you marry me anthony???

― Anna Loumis (peppersfan), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

WE LOCKED UNREGS FOR THIS

― Toad Roundgrin (noodle vague), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

You could try "Ask The Chili Peppers" on the official site!
http://www.redhotchilipeppers.com/members/community/index.php

I'm sure Anthony would be willing to "pretend" you're married - wink, wink!

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Friday, 7 July 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

anthonly is with this 20 yr old chick named heather i knew in simi shes shit hot!

― Cor-Ray (chaki), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but I bet Anna is younger than that!

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Friday, 7 July 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

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