it pained me to say that.
― adam b (adam b), Thursday, 17 October 2002 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― G. Turkington, Friday, 18 October 2002 23:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― t, Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― t, Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
frusciante's cuteness is another matter entirely.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Well, I'm sold!
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
By The WayUniversally SpeakingThis Is The PlaceDosedThe Zephyr SongCan't StopCabronOn MercuryMinor ThingVenice Queen
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
See, the problem is how we're defining 'pleasant.' ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
MAYBE? man i never miss a show. wait till you hear what Angelo Moore/Chaki are workin on in the studio together!
― chaki (chaki), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
Unyielding ConditioningLemon MerangueRock StarWhen Problems AriseHousework
― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 12 April 2003 01:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm wondering how Gill's production technique has changed over the years. There's a sort've crackly, blistering quality to the sound on this album, but the players seem very sonicly tucked behind the vocals, which -- unfortunately -- highlights Anthony Kiedis' limitations as a singer (not Andy Gill's fault). At the very least -- it's got a cleaner sound, quite unlike, say, the last Killing Joke album, Democracy, so here's hoping Gill's input solves that dilemna.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Brooke Hardy, Saturday, 14 June 2003 10:20 (twenty years ago) link
AL B SURE TO THREAD
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 14 June 2003 12:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 June 2003 12:28 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 June 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link
Jesus Christ, this is one of the harshest damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don't set-ups I've ever heard of
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 14 June 2003 18:14 (twenty years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 14 June 2003 21:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 14 June 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
this is the single most triumphantly cynical act I have ever heard recounted and my hat is off to Brooke
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 14 June 2003 21:45 (twenty years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 14 June 2003 21:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Sommermute (Wintermute), Saturday, 14 June 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 14 June 2003 22:38 (twenty years ago) link
a. Outdoor amphitheater shows suck when there's a cold, driving rain involved.
b. John Fruciante is a much more interesting dude than I ever, ever, EVER gave him credit for. I never heard his avant-gardeish solo albums, I certainly respect his exceptionally fluid guitar playing (I have never believed, for example, he was faking the funk) and God knows he's one hell of a cautionary tale about what drugs can do to your looks and body. So he was fun to watch play (and I had completely forgotten what an astonishing drummer Chad Smith is; it's that Kiedis dude I could never stand....)
So it's the middle of the set and Fruciante has been singing random bits of songs between actual songs. "I Feel Love" was one, there were a few more. At one point, he starts playing this flickering guitar figure and I'm standing there, freezing cold, soaking wet, thinking, "jeez, that sounds familiar...."
And Fruciante sings the first couple of lines of Fugazi's "Latest Disgrace." (Not "Waiting Room," which I know they used to cover, not "Repeater," not another famous Fugazi one. "Latest Disgrace," from "Red Medicine.") Just the first few lines, then he stops just as abruptly as he started, then they go into one of their own tunes.
My jaw has an appointment to meet up with the rest of my face sometime next week.
― Joe Gross, Saturday, 14 June 2003 22:48 (twenty years ago) link
It is THE teenage prankster's funk record, HANDS DOWN. It is very punky in its attudinal approach. It is naively retarded, and therefore all that rock and roll should aspire to be. It was my first rock album and the first record I bought with my own money, so I'm obviously going to be attached to it, as it opened the floodgates for all the music I listen to and what I've chosen to pursue in life. BUT I still listen to it regularly after all these years and it is the ONLY RHCP I still listen to, for that matter. CLASSIC. Bite me.
― Francis Watlington, Sunday, 15 June 2003 03:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Fran Watling, Sunday, 15 June 2003 03:29 (twenty years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 15 June 2003 03:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Sommermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 15 June 2003 10:56 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 15 June 2003 11:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington, Sunday, 15 June 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link
RHCP seriously don't deserve all this hatin'Yes they do.
― woo woo, Monday, 16 June 2003 08:48 (twenty years ago) link
No further questions, m'lud.
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 16 June 2003 09:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington, Monday, 16 June 2003 18:05 (twenty years ago) link
― sam marshall, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:39 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 12:32 (twenty years ago) link