Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

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maybe it's just sow thefrican slang then. and brooke is one of my countrypersons. it's very possible. a lotta kids here love 'em. (i don't.)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 14 June 2003 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw the Chili Peppers last night. Had to go for work, not my first choice, never been a huge fan, but it was not a terrible show. A couple of things:

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-three years ago)

BIG HAIRY BOLLOCKS to all o' you who been dissin'. HATAZ! *does the Tupac dance* BSSM is easily one of the best albums of the 90's regardless of genre constraints or any of your stupid prejudices.

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-three years ago)

For music (lova) lovaz, you people gots too many hangups! 'N' ay! This ain't no nunnery!

― Fran Watling, Sunday, 15 June 2003 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Brooke you missed one

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 15 June 2003 03:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Note she said "shot" and not "shot dead". Francis are you OK?

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 15 June 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

(an entire dorm at Boston University falls silent)

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 15 June 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Holy crap, I was pretty stoned!
Blood Sugar Sex Magick is still prime choice, along with Sublime's s/t, which will forever be tainted with the burden of massive frat-boy appeal.

― Francis Watlington, Sunday, 15 June 2003 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
No.

RHCP seriously don't deserve all this hatin'
Yes they do.

― woo woo, Monday, 16 June 2003 08:48 (twenty-three years ago)

It is THE teenage prankster's funk record, HANDS DOWN

No further questions, m'lud.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 16 June 2003 09:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Think of the kids, man!!!
You can't discount it for being hopelessly juvenile. It still manages to be emotionally accomplished within that context, as much of an oxymoron as that may seem. It takes you into their world for upwards of an hour. There are no gaps in that vision. And all I can say is that if you can't enjoy it, not even a little bit, then you were probably a very bitter young man/woman, and a lousy teenager to hang out with.

― Francis Watlington, Monday, 16 June 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

rhcp are the best band and every album is of different variety and think..... havent u lot got anything better than bitch all day fucking long??

― sam marshall, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a rhetorical question, right?

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

was sam a googler?

― Jole (Jole), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm w/ the googler. if you hate RHCP, you obviously hate your fellow man, and if you spend time thinking up reasons to hate them, then you need to think about how you spend your time. Obviously I would never buy one of their records; but, you know, there are worse things I could do.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Hating them should be taught in schools. They are even worse than the La's.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Rollocks. Honestly I don't like them, and never did -- I have no naff US rock music fandom guilt, which is probably why I don't feel too violently abt these guys. If you're gonna hate stoopid yank rawkers, hate Nirvana.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Red Hot Chili Peppers have the worst singer of any band to ever have a hit.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Except maybe Pearl Jam. But yeah, you're probably right.

(However, if Tom Waits ever joins a band and has a hit....)

― chuck, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I absolutely despise these, man I hate them so much. They are the essence of the phrase "bloated multinational", people make crap McDonalds analogies with pop music that should be reserved for RHCP, awful awful awful awful, tattoos and motorbikes and um......here's a guitar solo, why not have a long haircut and some skateboards, oh some vague drug references, a song about road trippin, kinda kerouac, yeah leather trousers, FUCK OFF.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

rhcp are the best band and every album is of different variety and think..... havent u lot got anything better than bitch all day fucking long?

Hooray for Google!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

hey if you can get me enjoying a song with a bridge lyric that goes "ooh! ah! kissin' and a moo-check" I just have to tip my hat.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i like rhcp

― Emma williams (Emma williams), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

People telling you they're into "funk" and then listing RHCP as an example of said genre: duddest thing ever.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the band is no longer about a plan, and there is no longer a plan about the band.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Along with, I imagine, a lot of other people on here, I'll no doubt be seeing them this summer if the Pixies turn out to be supporting (not banking on it you understand).

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I have no idea why I chose to pull out By the Way tonight. I probably listened to it for 2 weeks in 2002 and haven't given it a thought since.

Maybe it's the insomnia talking, but something about it is clicking tonight. I wonder if Miccio still thinks there's a good 10-track album (out of 16) here. Anyway, it in no way resembles the RHCP of old, but it could be the best of the WB-era material.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 26 June 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

the song "by the way" is awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 June 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

we listened to blood sugar sex magik on the drive out here and it was three times as good as i'd remembered it being.

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 June 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

I really like "Give It Away".

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

I fucking love that the "tears I cried a' blah blah blah to be part of the wave - can't stop" song....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I think 'Scar Tissue" and "Under the Bridge" are great songs. I can do without the rest of it, though.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I used to bop around like a madman to "Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky" when I was about three.

― Ian Riese-Moraine eats nation-states for breakfast! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

i like some of the songs off of Freaky Styley, which I bought by mistake after hearing their version of Higher Ground on the radio, but i don't like RHCP. by the way, what the hell is the meaning of the song The Brother's Cup?? I remember when I was a somewhat homophobic teenager, that song made me feel strange even though it was one of my favorite songs on the album.

also, It's So Lonely off of Mother's Milk brings back good memories of the late 80's, especially the video with alex winter in fetal position and wearing a hat.

― ugly and mean, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

oops, i meant Taste the Pain.

― ugly and stupid and mean, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if Miccio still thinks there's a good 10-track album (out of 16) here.

really depends on my mood. I think its got a nice mood, good harmonies and if I'm feeling pleasant I can enjoy Kiedis' dippy new age sex king deal. That said, one of the few tracks that MAKES me enjoy the inanity is "The Zephyr Song."

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

"It's So Lonely" = "Knock Me Down"?

I think I pretty well dug 'em through BSSM (dude, it's their Joshua Tree!!). After that, they just seemed to fade into MORscurity.

Now when I hear Kiedis' voice on the radio, it secretly whispers to me "don't you wonder what's on that other station...? don't you wonder what's on that other station...?"

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

that last "hit" of theirs off their last album is easily one of the worst songs I've ever heard by anyone

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Mommy Where's Daddy, Pretty Little Ditty, Blood Sugar Sex Magic... thems are good songs.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

I still dig them and I make no apologies for it. Hmph.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

There's a hilarious interview w/ Nick Cave in a recentish Q or Mojo or somesuch where he goes on and on abt how BAD the RHCP are, how really fucking TERRIBLE they are, much to the discomfort of the Emap int. who mumbles a feeble "there are worse things out there" as rebuttal - really restored my faith in Cave!

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

ok the idea of Cave watching an RHCP video in disgust is rofflicious.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

oh christ, he's rapping in his underwear..."what a way to finally smell her" damn I wish I'd thought that one up...

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― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

"Soul To Squeeze" is their best non-album track

"Sikamakaneko" and "Show Me Your Soul" are both outstanding. "Soul To Squeeze" may be third place.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

Ever since Frusciante has become more of an "influence" on the band, they've become less of the mug-face short pants rock and started doing fantastic tunes more melodic and hookfilled than anything their early countertops have every come up with. Most of you hating them for being frat rock figureheads now is like hating Radiohead for that I'm a creep song.

And Frusciante's solo stuff is excellent. Fractured lo-fi songs that go everywhere melodically but always find their way home.

― Viz (Viz), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

A fun greatest hits band. Nothing more.

― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

I used to bop around like a madman to "Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky" when I was about three.

True story: While listening to that album, I accidentally kicked a hole in the wall.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Most of you hating them for being frat rock figureheads now is like hating Radiohead for that I'm a creep song.

A more than fair point. Now, since I hate Kiedis's voice, the rest follows.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

I actually really like BSSM/Mother's Milk/Freaky Styley as they were sort of formative records for me, but listening now I'm mostly embarrassed by the lyrics. The new stuff does little for me, and the lyrics are still awful. I do kinda like the song "Standing in line for the show tonight /I got the light on /heavy load" or wtf he says.

Also, the thing about RHCP in the late '80s was they turned me on to about 500 other bands. There was a thing on MTV that I taped that Anthony and Flea were on and in the span of 5 minutes they mentioned the Meters, the JBs, Parliament, the Germs, X, Descendents, Adolescents, Big Boys, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Husker Du, Curtis Mayfield, Fela Kuti, etc etc etc. As a 14 year old with a burgeoning interest in funk and punk rock and whatever else, it had a huge impact on me.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

First three albums are STILL genius.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

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