Does anyone really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

I think this should be the Chili Peppers album where Flea finally spits a verse and proves once and for all who the best vocalist in the band is.

― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Monday, March 7, 2022 12:33 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sgrJ5CeVVQ

"Under the Bridge" is a good song, I will fight about this

I prefer the Weird Al version of "Under the Bridge"/"Give It Away"

one hot minute is p good record

I think this should be the Chili Peppers album where Flea finally spits a verse and proves once and for all who the best vocalist in the band is.

From his memoir:

I started coming up with funny little songs. One was gritty and bluesy, a kind of a rap, “A mama and a papa and a baby Lu, all got something for me and you, so wrap it up quick and put it in the oven, it’s comin’ out quick so don’t forget the stuffin’.” Who knows what it meant. I was singing it one day alone in my bedroom, all earnest and feeling the funk, when my sister walked in, mimicking me and laughing. I was so embarrassed I wanted to crawl into a hole and be alone forever. I’d been found out. A few years later, I was singing along to the Beatles version of “Till There Was You,” when my mother heard me and said, “Michael, that sounds horrible, you are so out of tune!” I’ve always been insecure about my singing voice.

Thirty-five years after that, I was doing a recording session with my friend Jewel when she asked about some songs I’d written and recorded a couple of years previously. It was stuff where I played acoustic guitar and sang, and she’d generously warbled backgrounds on it. I replied that I’d stopped that project, because I just didn’t have a strong singing voice. She said, “Flea, I think your voice is charming.” Then the producer of the session, Daniel Lanois, chimed in, “It could be charmingly bad!” Ha, I think Daniel was onto something.

I will always be bored by post-BSSM Peppers Chi-Peps because they started writing music that forced Kiedis to actually sing and his voice sounds a young Mr Magoo on heroin

― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Monday, March 7, 2022 12:26 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

poll idea: who is more annoying, anthony kiedis or james murphy?

Nobody outside New York gives a shit about James Murphy. Kiedis is a national — nay, global — embarrassment.

“A mama and a papa and a baby Lu, all got something for me and you, so wrap it up quick and put it in the oven, it’s comin’ out quick so don’t forget the stuffin’.” Who knows what it meant.

ahh the mysteries of the poetic muse...

I'm impressed with how much mileage Murphy has gotten out of merging ESG with Talking Heads

Yeah, Whiney. Updated rap version coming soon, I hope. 8)

Man that Baby Lu rap isn't any worse than some of the stuff that actually ended up on the first RHCP album:

Jam Bob, Jim Bob, Slim Bob Boogie
To the tune of slima Billy
Lookin' like you're mighty silly
Say what, You got a pumpkin in your pants?
Say what, You got a pumpkin in your pants?
Mister Mexican jumpin' bean knows
His fun is squeaky clean
Christ, how'd ya think that he got so clean?
Not from sittin' on his goddamn spleen. Get up!

Candy store
Rock and roll
Corporation jellyroll
Play the singles it ain't me
It's programmed insanity
You ASCAP
If BMI
Could ever make a mountain fly
If Japanese can boil teas
Then where the fuck's my royalties

i'm listening to an amazing record called freaky styley today

Good album — produced by George Clinton!

The thing that makes Freaky Styley so great is that it is obviously a group of stoned white skaters doing their conception of a funk album; the fact that it actually ends up being a funk album is a bonus.

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, December 30, 2019 2:09 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

i'm not sure why i'm listening to the red hot chili peppers again but one hot minute underrated, big fan of when "deep kick" turns into a built to spill song

does anybody really like the Chili Peppers?
does anybody really care?
If so I can't imagine why
We'll all got time enough to cry

(lol soz that's a response to the thread title, not you Brad).

One Hot Minute has some really good tunes on it! the only one I recall not liking outright was uhh, "My Friends".

"Warped" also a forgotten single

I loved One Hot Minute when it dropped. Love the bridge of "Walkabout." Love the weird Anton Corbijn video for "My Friends" that they ended up pulling. Love Flea's little vocal turns on "Deep Kick" and "Pea." Love the insane structure of "Warped." Would revisit this over listening to any of the albums that followed

ride-out to Warped is pretty inspired

it's funny how much Navarro didn't like the album.

when he was interviewed during the build-up to the follow-up album (when Navarro was still in the band, before he bailed and John came back), Guitar Magazine asked him what the diff between the new album and One Hot Minute was, and Dave said "this one might actually be good"

"Warped" was so sick for a 15 year old me. Monster Chad Smith drum part that's super fun to play, totally weird song structure and off-time verses that turned RHCP into a wonky art band, the guitarist for Jane's Addiction plays for them now, Kiedis/Navarro kiss at the end of the video to freak out the squares

I hate One Hot Minute. It's really bad. Not much else to say. Glad you all can find something to enjoy in it though.

Never knew about this until right now. Golly, I wonder why it was never released!

The band decided they would have a talk with Navarro and attempt to convince him to enter rehab. The discussion escalated into a heated dispute. In April 2010, Navarro discussed this incident, stating that: "One was my drug use at the time. The other was musical differences. Anthony says it was because I tripped and fell over an amp while on drugs. I say that he was on more drugs than me at that point. We both had a loose relationship with reality. Who do you want to believe?"[52]

A few shows into the U.S. leg, Kiedis injured his leg badly while engaging in what he calls "eyes-closed robotic dancing."

At least he has a sense of humor?

I thought Keidis kicked when the Under the Bridge video was released

Well the third teaser song is out yesterday and it's easily my favorite of the bunch, and yet still not worth linking here.

Okay, fine. Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EuWBWxHs18

Listening again. I know it's not cool to critique the use of autotune, but it really is making things even worse here. I do love Frusciante's anti-shred solo. Almost gives the song a John Martyn-esque quality. But that can't save it. Very yawn.

I hate this band but spend an awful lot of time thinking about them.

This guy's piece was pretty entertaining

Dove deep into the catalog of one of the world's biggest rock bands, The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Explored the highs, the lows, de humps, de bumps, the psychos, the sexys. Helluva journey! Let's get born in the state of Mississippi! https://t.co/E8xvSwGee5

— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) March 25, 2022

Enjoyed that thanks

“By the way” too low

I feel like ranking chili peppers albums by which best capture the spirit of the chili peppers is demonstrably not the way to rank the best chili peppers albums

During the Californication sessions, there was a song called “Fat Dance” that Kiedis loved but the rest of the band vetoed. He was still smarting about it while promoting the album, telling Spin in 1999, “It was funky, it talked about the beauty of ass.”

I'm picturing a five year old kid with his arms crossed and all grouchy eyed.

Stomp of the foot on the words "funky", "beauty", and "ass."

This guy's piece was pretty entertaining

interesting way of spelling embarrassing

Though I love Danger Mouse's work on Modern Guilt, I had to laugh at "By 2016, he was the millennial Don Was, with a track record of overseeing the least interesting albums by long-running alt-rock and indie bands."

I was lollin at the Dave Navarro section, how he’s allergic to playing funk licks and tried to cram in every cool guitar part from ritual into the first song of one hot minute
Makes me want to hear the album but I know I wouldn’t even make it through the first chorus

Steven Hyden and the Red Hot Chili Peppers deserve each other.

BRAD what's ur current RHCP album ranking

one hot minute
blood sugar sex magik
by the way
freaky styley
mother’s milk
stadium arcadium
uplift mofo
californication
rhcp

still have to revisit the klinghoffer records. sorry to djp for ranking the debut last like a poser

Brad would love to hear your thoughts on navarros playing on ohm

it’s pretty much everything good about ‘90s alt rock

Brad, what’s the egregious fault that rates the Red Hot Chili Peppers album “Californication” so low for you?

Am also curious about that one.

it sounds like shit and there’s a feeling of whiplash between their funk stuff and their newfound pop-rock focus. just feels inconsistent and broken as a record though most of the songs are very good, even the deep cuts cf. this velvet glove, easily, porcelain, purple stain

i’m listening to the new one and “aquatic mouth dance” is amazing

i baseline like all of their stuff lol love to learn this about myself :(

the loudness war shit on californication is awful

klinghoffer records underrated, “brendan’s death song” is amazing