Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

ffs guys, their last single was called 'hump de bump' and was possibly evem worse than that title sounds. music doesn't get any more wretched.

'HUMP DE BUMP', people. i want to PUKE.

"Freaky/Styley" is undeniable. Also "Get Up And Jump" and "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes".

i have a guilty pleasure for The Mars Volta, however, RHCP-involvement and all.

if anthony keidis wasn't in the band i might potentially have a positive take on them. but then perhaps not...

Funny you should mention that as one of my favorite concerts was when RHCP played UC Irvine in 1986 or so and Keidis didn't show up for the gig. They played anyway - grabbing people out of the audience to sing anything if they knew the lyrics. About half the songs that night were covers - the best being their version of the Circle Jerks' "Wild In The Streets."

Few words fucking rolling stones kick the crap of anything the peppers put on the table.

About half the songs that night were covers - the best being their version of the Circle Jerks' "Wild In The Streets."

Itself a cover, if I'm not mistaken.

Few words fucking rolling stones kick the crap of anything the peppers put on the table.

Settle down, Grandpa.

AVC: Did you see any Anthony Kiedis hairs in the shower drain or anything?
JM: No, there were a lot of System Of A Down stickers around the place, but that’s about it. No Chi-Peps stickers.

AVC: Did you just say “Chi-Peps”?
JM: Yeah, man. Jane’s, Chains, Peppers, and Rage, dog. Chi-Peps!

I post this here because, simply, their new album, I'm With You is not deserving of its own individual thread. Stupidly, i thought the long hiatus from their last appreciable album, (Blood Sugar Sex Magic), coupled with Fleas musical studies, would result in something more inspired. Of course, Mr. Balzary shines as always on bass and trumpet, and Chad makes some strong "up's" here, but is Frusciante even still in this band? Their stoccato'd hubris is sadly absent; instead, easy-breezy grooves. What the hell. Hell - it'll sell 8 million copies so what the hell do i know?

is Frusciante even still in this band?

No. He's not.

this is no surprise. they have been shit for years. roughly 28 years.

C'mon, The Abbey Road E.P. has a certain appeal, and BSSM rocks to the 'n'th. Save a couple tracks, this album stinks.

I saw someone on tv once, i didn't like it much

― Filey Camp, Saturday, July 14, 2007 3:25 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark

^ underrated post

I couldn't stop thinking that last time I saw them. Ferrell is a lock to play Chad Smith if they ever make a RHCP biopic.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:21 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uBOtQOO70Y#t=92

god i hate chad smith

man, based on the above and the Superbowl performance, young master Klinghoffer seems to be trying much much too hard. so amused that he was in the band for 6 months and waltzed right into the RRHoF.

He has some kind of mandated role to perform as an ersatz Frusciante. It's really weird.

Like, I'm pretty sure that it's not a personal artistic choice.

you think AK and Flea say "look man, you gotta act like Frusciante." the kid is Frusciante's protege; he played with him on a number of JF's projects.

I think I'm the only person on ILM who thinks Californication is a decent album (though can't stand the title track).

ILM was just a different read in the days before you had to register to post. I don't think I ever read this one before and I had to track down Nick Cave's diss on the Chili Peppers and I got to say it is a pretty good and bitchy slur.

Nick Cave on Red Hot Chili Peppers
“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the **** is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.” (Reported in the Guardian)

I had some of their records on tape back in the 80s early 90s, but really hadn't heard anything after Blood Sugar Sex Magik except on the radio. Saw them live in Chicago around 1990 and thought they were really fun, they had ton of energy. Fruciante was a f-ing mess on Saturday Night live a few years later. I played the heck out of that Abbey Road EP tape delivering pizza's when I was like 18-19. In hind sight, I'd say their Meters cover was probably the first time I came across a song by them.

Shopping cart escalator!

I'll still rep for them through Mother's Milk. Blood Sugar Sex Magic is a mess, and you can really see the wheels coming off. But those records with Slovak and the first with Frusciante are all good to great.

I saw them a couple of times in that 89-90 era and they were great fun.

jeez, has anybody told Kiedis he can't sing yet?

Was never a big fan, but became quite (perhaps too) familiar with the first few albums through friends & parties. The self-titled debut and Freakey Styley were big hits on the campus & weed-sotted demenses of The Evergreen State College back in the day. Tracks that linger in my mind include "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes" (which I hated), "Yertle the Turtle" (which bugged me something fierce), "Why Don't You Love Me" & "Catholic School Girls Rule" (which I liked in spite of myself).

In the summer of '87, I stole a transparent green promo cassette of The Uplift Mofo Party Plan from a house party up in Seattle, a drunken decision I still regret. Consequently, I know it better than the previous two. It's not at all bad, with the best production and songwriting they'd had up to that point. Ironic, cuz the debut and Freakey were hyped almost as much for their scene-celeb producers (Andy Gill and George Clinton) as the band's music.

From there, I bought record club copies of Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik w/ my own hard earned, got good use out of both. Still no regrets LOVE "Give it Away" and the Stevie cover, enjoy a bunch of other tracks. Then again, I haven't felt the need to seek out and listen to either album in decades.

Finally, I completely stopped caring @ One Hot Minute. Was disinterested to begin with, then a girl I liked asked me over to her house to listen together. Hated it, which I tried to half admit without saying as much. Plus her roommates didn't like me. It didn't work out. Since then, nothing I've heard has inclined me to investigate further.

In summary, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are okay.

That's their main problem... the group was better when Kiedis was just rapping.

The Nick Cave quote is great, even though the RHCP have made 3 or 4 more great albums than Nick Cave has ever made.

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Freakey Styley soooo much better than Uplift Mofo Party Plan, contendo! Once in 7th grade I defaced a pair of Levis in the manner that Hillel did in the Uplift Mofo party plan CD booklet, but I never had the gumption to wear them out of my room.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/RedHotChiliPeppers-TheUpliftMofoPartyPlan-Booklet1-3_zps94e3a9d1.jpg

Also, my 7th grade self knew that the Peppers had struggled with heroin (R.I.P. Hillel), but really had not idea about what that meant or that they were doing so much cocaine as well. So when me and my middle school friends tried to emulate their manic energy and weird intensity, a common refrain from those around us was "are you on drugs?" which of course we weren't, we were just Uplift Mofos like the Chilis, man. Who were of course, completely on drugs.

Also, totally disagree that Blood Sugar Sex Magik is a mess. To my ears, that's the album that sounds most coherent and consistent.

Irrc Blood Sugar was pretty much the first album of the CD era that was unanimously branded "too long."

For me, BSSM was their "new jersey".

I tried to sell my cassettes of Freaky Styley and Uplift Mofo in the mid-90s for beer money and dude at the record store was like "no way, these guys are so over." It's weird to me that "Under the Bridge" was on BSSM; I remember hearing it way more in the late 90s after their, uh, comeback I guess, than I ever did when it was a hit. But I spent most of the early-mid-90s in a weird bubble, so...

When Faith No More started to get attention, many people declared the Chili Peppers over, because they thought FNM was doing what the Chili Peppers were doing, but better. I knew those people were wrong at the time and I'm glad they were proven wrong in a huge way.

Yeah because FNM were so much more than a shitty funk-rock group and made some excellent albums which is more than you can say for RHCP

Nothing against FNM, they had their own thing, but I saw the two bands back to back at the same show in the 1980s and there was no question who was the more exciting band.

Meh. I don't really see FNM and RHCP as being the same thing.

is this racist?

wait, are you saying that his horrible scatting is on some "ching chong bing bong" ish?

I mean, I'd never thought about it that way, but could be!

I've always heard it that way because of the theme of the song, the video, and the notes he is 'scatting'.

it's 100% irritating and obnoxious, but i don't know if it's strictly racist

He is 100% addicted to the shindig

100% awful lyricist

100% terrible band for at least for the past 20 years. probably longer.

Wiki for this band is kind of amazing in its self-serious minutiae

http://rhcp2014.com/

^^^Jon Daly's fake RHCP thing, texted it to a friend and he was like "Kiedis ONLY records dry vocals," all umbraged out – it was a good moment

I hate to mean to anyone but RHCP seem to be made of people who really want to be in a band, talent aside.

they had the best promo photos in the 80s, breath of freshness from the usual 'stand around' rock poses.

https://thegrayishcarpet.com/2016/04/20/blood-sugar-sex-dickheads/

Most of the women I know who worked in the music business in the late 80s and early 90s put up with sexual harrassment. We didn’t talk about it to our friends, for the most part, and not many of us took any action. We were ashamed or afraid or didn’t think we’d be believed. We thought we’d be blamed, or worse, we blamed ourselves. We didn’t want to be perceived as weak, and we thought that in order to succeed, we just had to put up with it. Sexual harrassment came along with working in the music industry — it was an everyday reality — and a lot of us didn’t even realize that anything was wrong. Most of the reasons we kept quiet may never stop being reasons — shame and fear aren’t going to go away — but at least we know now when we’re being harrassed.

I still love the first 3 RHCP albums and like BSSM.

It was unlikely I would purchase any other piece of music featuring these guys regardless of this story, which just gives me a moral reason to avoid them on top of my aesthetic reason.

Answering the original question, I suspect Flea is the only one who really, really likes the RHCP.