Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

posts like that make me happy i don't even know what a guitar is

other "cool" things frusc likely smuggled into the record but idk flea's taste is equally if not more cool so ymmv: the breakdowns in "these are the ways" are kinda post-hardcore

chad smith also kills it on that song, go chad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hSH4XLxMJM

i think now that it's been ten years i can say that frusciante's glitchfuck records from the early 2010s are good

klinghoffer played like a radio dial stuck between two very different classic rock stations

thought about this more and it's more like a radio dial stuck between a classic rock and a new wave station. i like klinghoffer a lot, that he's hard to pin down is good

It’s interesting how, this time around, critics are like “if I gotta review this thing, what if I just focus on the guitarist?”

(Maybe that’s happened in the past though I and I’m not remembering.)

Well, tbf, the guitarist position has been a revolving door for 30 years.

i spent like zero time with enclosure when it came out, just found something hostile about the sounds he was mixing, but i adore it now, jesus

frusciante drill n bass-destroyed songs era: a+ unlike any music ever

there's a tribute band that's come around here a few times called "Red Hot Chili Pipers"...feel like that should be off-limits as a band name right? I do a double take every time I see it on the marquee

Agreed, it’s too close. They’re supposed to use a name like “Funky Monks” or something.

not if they’re pipers

Haven’t listened to the record, but Whatchu Thinkin’ is pretty good

im too old for this shit, youre all grounded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFje8tNaXcc

The only time I talk irl about RHCP it’s to talk about how much I like the album One Hot Minute and the single “Aeroplane”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSfTsgR2cH4

another excellent interview. obvious i guess but rubin really gets this band

Some excellent instrumentals on the new record but Kiedis is even more of a dork than usual

At this point they should just become the John Frusciante Experience and let Kiedis retire to his yoga room. Or turn him over to the LAPD’s sex crimes unit.

wufs on the mark. This album sucks and I'm tired of hearing about this group of creepy, habitual underachievers. Bring back Atoms for Peace and let Fruscinate sit in.

Ouch: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/album-reviews/red-hot-chili-peppers-unlimited-love-formulaic-bland-appalling-1.4838008

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I mean I’m actually a fan of their work through By the Way - usually I can just tune out Kiedis’s inanities. And as bad a singer and person Kiedis is, he does have the capacity to turn out a good lyric on the rare occasion when he’s honest about himself (“Warped”).

"Not the One" is truly embarrassing.

https://i.imgur.com/JfnIXOl.png

Uncle Frusciante

i saw the first appearance of JF after he left the chi peps and got super burned up in a speedball fire. it was one of the most unnerving performances i've ever seen. i'm glad he's still alive.

Shocked by how much I don't actually hate this. The lyrics are almost uniformly terrible and Kiedis remains the weak link and a huge sleazy dork, but instrumentally there is a lot to like.

New album is pretty bad. Too new to properly assess, but I haven't disliked anything of theirs this much since One Hot Minute.

Fwiw, One Hot Minute is one of my favorite RHCP albums, so makes sense.

https://i.imgur.com/wcgB1Sv.png

(okay okay . . . i don't actually hate him. "huge sleazy dork" otm though.)

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXMEXCT5ohY

really fantastic new song imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxdigd6z7_Y

i remain blown away that i actually enjoyed the two new rhcp records that came out this year

I have so much respect for your stance Brad and think you should be praised more for it. liking RHCP isn't quite as outré as repping for Theory of a Deadman but it's close

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI8Xw4j_3W0

In every Guitar Center ever

the answer is yes. their lawyers; wifes-groupies-mistresses, drug dealers; accountants and the like

is your version of this thread from 1991

no worse new user bit than constantly trying to answer the thread title

"Scar Tissue" would be a pretty good instrumental, too bad about Kiedis's existence

The last five words of that sentence stand perfectly well on their own.

i think i was hating on rhcp on here a few years ago because i was living with my sister at the time and she likes them lol. anyway i like a few songs tbh. but one thing i don't really get is anthony kiedis hate? like he's just inoffensively druggy-white-guy funky to me, not even close to the worst example of that in socal bands that made it big afaic.

I just hate his voice. and mostly on newer RHCP, his staccato vox from early RHCP (which I'm still kinda into) were fine.

I make fun of them constantly, though it truly is just the vocals and lyrics that I can't stand.

guitar playing on one hot minute very sus iirc

Was kind of hoping this revive would be about the yabba dabba doo.

barney rubble, what a little weiner

Everything they've done since Blood Sugar has been garbage, Kiedis is just the easiest piece to make fun of in their slow jam/ballad era.

good for Flea, tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip61tzxpSQQ

inexplicable that these goofs are still huge while nobody under 30 has any idea who R.E.M. are.

I was at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta last month, with the Georgia Bulldogs from Athens one of the two teams. they played like three RHCP songs in the stadium that night and nothing by R.E.M. or the B-52's. a travesty.

John Frusciante, Flea “Fine” With Anthony Kiedis Naming Harmonious, Beautifully Intricate Song “Clappa Dap Funk Suckin’ Mama”

wait though, what would be the rem jam to play to a stadium of football fans?

"It's the End of the World as We Know It," obviously. Maybe "What's the Frequency." I dunno, just saying it felt all kindsa messed up.

It was UGA vs. Ohio State, should've played nothing but Elephant 6 and Ron House.

maybe The One I Love, too? stadium jams are such a strange genre