Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

Never really was a RHCP fan, but this interview was really touching and interesting:

https://brokenrecordpodcast.com/episode-10-flea-acid-for-the-children

I didn't even know about those Ataxia records, giving them a listen now, yeah, those are amazing

Gave Dosed and Minor Thing a try but I’m with DJP: It’s all good except for Kiedis. I just can’t get into his lyrical and vocal style. I can stand one or two RHCP songs in a row but that’s it. And the older I get the harder it is for me to enjoy it.

I like the rest of the band though. Frusciante is like a wizard on the guitar. Even with the lo-fi production and not-so-good singing I’d rather listen to any Frusciante solo album over a RHCP full album.

I’m not that well versed on side projects of his. Does he have some album or songs with a vocalist other than Kiedis or himself?

Those two Ataxia albums have vocals by all three members (Frisciante/Lally/Klinghoffer)

I heard an RHCP cover of "I Want You Back" once and it sounded good until Kiedis came in so off key I was convinced he was in another location from the rest of the band

Listening to Dosed, I kinda feel the same ways as previous posters. It sounds good, until Kiedis steps in. His singing is not bad per se, but it just sounds so phoney and put on. I dunno, I suspect I would be OK with it if I had no idea who these guys were.

xp: looooooool this is so shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2VJp0WXD-I

hahahahahahahahaha

I really do like a lot of RHCP stuff but they've never bettered the first three albums, largely because they didn't try to make Kiedis sing as much back then

I actively like keidis on “dosed”

A great melody and lyric can sell a goofball persona

He sounds a little like he's trying to imitate Balki's accent to me

I'm listening to the first album again and man this is just superlative and exactly what I want them to be

i think kiedis and frusciante sound beautiful in counterpoint but i'm not gonna argue with someone who knows from singing

It's all subjective

that said, do not want

He sounds a little like he's trying to imitate Balki's accent to me

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, January 10, 2020 9:27 AM bookmarkflaglink

Lol

So Frusciante is back in, huh? It's funny, I don't care about RHCP nor have I ever especially enjoyed his music, but I do find him to be a very interesting figure.

Other related trivia I just learned on wikipedia:
-That Klinghoffer guy who had been playing guitar in RHCP used to play drums in Warpaint, who have been a band for 15 years
-Dave Krusen (who played drums on Pearl Jam 'Ten', but has been kind of forgotten) is now the drummer for Candlebox

Xpost As a funk vocalist he had good staccato charisma. Making the dude actually sing was the end for me

Ok, did Calif yesterday, now onto By the Way…I guess it sounds OK, three songs in…

I have never heard this "universally Speaking" song, which was a single? The only songs I remember hearing from this in 2002 was the title cut and "Can't Stop" which I despise…I wonder if I'm going to have the stomach to go through all of Stadium…

I was a big Q reader from '89 to '03, and that mag rode hard for RHCP. For the feature pegged to this record, Frusciante was quoted something along the lines of "this album comes out at a time of high anxiety; nothing has been the same since those planes hit the Empire State Building."

apparently for this album, Frusciante was really into the Durrutti Column, but by the time of Stadium, he was all about EVH…does that sound right to you, Brad?

i don't know for sure but that sounds like him

“Venice Queen” is also an awesome song

I agree w brad’s criticism of keidis occasionally goofy word choice but I don’t actually have a problem w his persona or singing or any of the other stuff really

I like the orchestral accompaniment on "Midnight" (a first for the band, right?) and what sounds like a modular synth of some sort ping-ponging around in "Throw away TV"…

"That Klinghoffer guy who had been playing guitar in RHCP used to play drums in Warpaint," holy crap I didn't realize that.

I gotta hand it to you, brad: this thing does indeed pick up towards the end (this is the tale end of the often ill-advised Metallica/RHCP "we are going to cram 80 mins of music into this CD) , and makes something worthwhile out of the "we are going to sound solemn and chastened" thing that I disliked about them in 1999… "A Minor Thing" is really quite remarkable…I can't quite believe that I'm impressed with this record, yet this absolutely is because its JF's thing…

"this is the tale end of the often ill-advised Metallica/RHCP "we are going to cram 80 mins of music into this CD" era

I really like “soul to squeeze”. Might be my favorite song by them in retrospective and it’s sort of a template of the RHCP sound. Would be the song I recommend to hear to a newcomer. Also Kiedis is good in it, he’s oddly relaxed instead of annoyingly spastic.

It's a pretty good barometer for this band that the singer is relaxed instead of annoyingly spastic on the song where he says "Doo doo doo doo ding le zing a dong bone ba-di ba-da ba-zumba crunga cong gone bad".

hahaha yeah I guess he can't avoid it but still, he keeps it down to a bare minimum. That's why I think it's some sort of RHCP sound template, it has them both on ballad mode (that bass is the highlight) and doing that spastic thing but only for a brief moment, it ends before it gets too annoying.

If he'd take a sudafed now and then

RHCP are outsider music

i will begrudgingly admit to loving by the way across the board. it's very much a frusciante record. the overall tunefulness it possesses and the harmonics on some of the tracks (mostly thinking of 'tear' here) are really just beautiful. very consonant music. never did hear those extra tracks from the sessions, but would very much like to.

also this:

what sounds like a modular synth of some sort ping-ponging around in "Throw away TV"…
― veronica moser, Friday, January 10, 2020 12:40 PM

is actually a guitar pedal! it's called the seek wah and it's made by sonic mad scientist zachary vex! very cool stuff.

also, for anyone interested in a good, quick shot of super legit solo frusciante, check out the ian mackaye-produced (no, honestly) dc ep.

In the Red Hot Chili Peppers song Funky Monks, there's a line "Can I get a little lovin' from you?/Can I get a little bit of that done did do?" Later on the record, in the song Naked in the Rain, Kiedis sings "Doctor Dolittle, what's your secret?" But for the longest time I thought the lyric was "Done did do, baby what's your secret?" Like it was a callback to the earlier nonsense.

Having just heard Walk This Way on the radio, I maintain that Aerosmith sets the Chili Peppers template. Not just a song like Last Child, which is totally proto Chili Peppers, but in other regards, too. You've got a gibberish jive spouting lead singer, you've got a singer and guitarist who struggled with heroin, the bassist is probably the most talented member ... Against all odds you've also got popular peaks in the 90s. They should tour together.

Does anyone in RHCP have their own signature hot sauce though?

Probably.

Just put them on when you are cooking and everything will come out funky.

Chad Smith seems like the most likely to have a hot sauce because he played in Chickenfoot with Michael Anthony (who has a line of hot sauces) and Sammy Hagar (who has tequilas).

a band named the Red Hot Chili Peppers probably has a hot sauce

Their streaming stats are insane, they’re over the stones and Zep but below the Beatles

Sammy Hagar (who has tequilas)

...and is a full-blown restaurateur.

I Can't Chive 55

New Chi-Peps song sounds AN AWFUL LOT like the McDonald's Menu Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioojKFSH6hM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfH3yf-vf3A

which itself sounds like Life Is A Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) by Reunion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcRe6DO-sE8

Which influence is cooler?

This band really sucks, I hate hearing their music

looooooooooooooooooooool

omg

that is fucking HORRIBLE

excellent work peace, man

If you change the playback speed on the RHCP video to 1.25, it's almost a perfect match.

kill me now lord

Oof, that's what they came up with *after* John Frusciante came back?!