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Music : Stadium Arcadium
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Rating: 
- Stadiumlike mentality translates to musically diverse effort
The RHCP put on a free-flowing live show these days, perhaps to keep themselves interested in the process of touring, which, after all these years of hitting the road, can probably be a drag at times. Live, each Chili Peppers member gets his chance to shine: guitarist John Frusciante plays a few of his own solo tracks, under the glare of a white-hot spotlight; drummer Chad Smith, a tall ball of superhuman energy, gets his own percussion solo three-fourths of the way through the concert; and all three rugged and talented musicians, bassist Flea included, partake in an extended jam session that has little to do with what's on "Stadium Arcadium," a tremendous double-disc effort that might be the band's best to date.
As his band mates create musical bliss on stage, Scar Tissue-ridden singer Anthony Kiedis stands back to soak it all in, swaying, dancing and encouraging. I think that, even after all these years in the band and despite everything he's been through, Kiedis is enjoying himself as much as ever: It shows on "Stadium Arcadium." His voice is clear, hearty, bold and confident throughout. Kiedis' rapid-fire vocal delivery is as sharp and biting as when he started in the early 1980s (on CD and live), and on such powerful songs as "Especially in Michigan" and "Tell Me Baby," he adeptly, like a vocal chameleon, changes his sound completely. Musically, "Stadium Arcadium" has a bit of everything. Next to great mid-tempo rockers like "Dani California," "Torture Me" and "She Looks to Me" are danceable, funky rock and roll tracks like "Charlie," "Hump de Bump," "Warlocks" and "Storm in a Teacup." These two CDs are instantly likable because there truly is something for everyone's taste. Even the songs that aren't as immediate have a lasting, tuneful effect in your head, such as the title track on disc one and "21st Century" on disc two.
Some of the cooler tracks on each CD are the soft, poetic, tender-sounding ones: "Strip My Mind" contains a retro, 1970s-sounding vocal throughout that gives it true soul; "Desecration Smile" leads off disc two, and though it's not entirely soft, the opening moments of quiet guitar carry a lot of poignant weight; "Hard to Concentrate," a song dedicated to Flea's new marriage, has both a pretty and haunting sound, perfectly capturing the uncertainties of a new life with a new spouse; "If" has a beautiful folkish sound that is also a bit haunting; finally, "Animal Bar" has spaced-out elements that remind me of the Smashing Pumpkins' sound in the mid 1990s on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
My favorite track overall is "Wet Sand." It's a deceiving song because it starts off so quiet and unassuming with gentle guitar strums and easy crooning by Kiedis. Slowly, though, the song builds itself up; drums kick in by Smith, the sound gets louder, and Kiedis' tone takes on more intensity. Pretty soon, he's passionately singing, "I thought about it/And I brought it out/I'm motivated by the lack of doubt/I'm consecrated but I'm not devout/The mother, the father, the daughter." Great stuff, and it gets more interesting on the end of the track as Kiedis' "You don't form in the wet sand" refrain melds with a beautiful keyboard and Frusciante's wailing guitar.
Producer Rick Rubin kept the Peppers in their natural element, but produced the album in a vibrant, concise way; the varied sounds on "Stadium" are crystal clear and undiffused with reverb or excessive guitar. However, when Frusciante's guitar does kick in, it's unstoppable. His solos have never sounded meatier, more fluent, or more prominent than on this effort. Chad on drums is just Chad: simply awesome. Same thing goes for Flea on bass. Like any bloated double album by famous rock stars, "Stadium Arcadium" could have been pared down to its 12 best songs and released as one disc, but where is the fun in that? The truth is, there are few duds on either disc, if any at all, and the Peppers deserved their chance to try a freewheeling set of CDs that would set the world on fire and perhaps sell out stadiums when out on the brutal road.
Rating:
- Enough Great Songs For A Strong Regular-Length Album
This is what I did, and strongly recommend;
1. Burn the following songs from the Chili Pepper's double-album, "Stadium Arcadium," onto a single CD in the order given -
1) Make you feel better
2) Dani California
3) Torture Me
4) Charlie
5) Strip My Mind
6) Hey
7) Animal Bar
8) Tell Me Baby
9) Turn It Again
10) If
11) Death Of A Martian
12) Hard To Concentrate
2. Label the disc "Red Hot Chili Peppers- STARCADIUM," & enjoy. Now you've got an album that rocks.
3. Sell or trade your double album "Stadium Arcadium," which consists of many too-long, tired melodies & boring-after-the-second-listen filler songs that interrupt & break up the flow of the good stuff.
To my knowledge, since the music industry began, bands have, for the most part, understood that not every single thing they write is brilliant & the-world's-gotta-hear-it! This is why, when you read interviews with Name Your Band, they generally say something along the lines of "Well, we had twenty eight songs, but during the recording & mixing process we decided these ten songs were the strongest so we dropped the others." That's how classic albums have come to be throughout the decades. I agree, there are a few exceptions, double albums that are impressive through & through, but they're rare and this is not one of them.
Nor was Guns & Roses' "Use Your Illusions I & II" or System Of A Downs' "Mezmerize" & "Hypnotize" records. But again, in both those cases also, take away the weaker material, the 'Everything We Do Is Brilliant Now!' (or is it 'We could make twice as much money this time') and you've got solid single albums.
My System Of A Down mix, combining tracks from "Mezmerize" & "Hypnotize" is: 1.)Attack 2.)Tentative 3.)This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song 4.)U-Fig 5.)Revenga 6.)Vicinity Of Obscenity 7.)Kill Rock Roll 8.)Question! 9.) Stealing Society 10.)Soldier Side-Intro 11.)B.Y.O.B 12.) Lost In Hollywood
Guarantee you'll find it soo much better than either of those records on their own. My belief is you should walk away wanting more not stopping it halfway through going "I've had enough." By the way, you should burn cds at slower speeds to ensure that your player can read them & quality is up to snuff.
Rating:
- fun album
i like the album a lot - especially cd 1. i didnt have any red hot chili peppers cd before, just a bunch of mp3s, so i got this one expecting a variety of songs. and i'm really enjoying it.
Rating: - Hot Peppers
The cd set was awesome. Well worth the money!! Both cd's are great!
Rating: - excellent CD
I am always skeptical about a double CD being good but this was excellent!!
- Stadiumlike mentality translates to musically diverse effort The RHCP put on a free-flowing live show these days, perhaps to keep themselves interested in the process of touring, which, after all these years of hitting the road, can probably be a drag at times. Live, each Chili Peppers member gets his chance to shine: guitarist John Frusciante plays a few of his own solo tracks, under the glare of a white-hot spotlight; drummer Chad Smith, a tall ball of superhuman energy, gets his own percussion solo three-fourths of the way through the concert; and all three rugged and talented musicians, bassist Flea included, partake in an extended jam session that has little to do with what's on "Stadium Arcadium," a tremendous double-disc effort that might be the band's best to date.
As his band mates create musical bliss on stage, Scar Tissue-ridden singer Anthony Kiedis stands back to soak it all in, swaying, dancing and encouraging. I think that, even after all these years in the band and despite everything he's been through, Kiedis is enjoying himself as much as ever: It shows on "Stadium Arcadium." His voice is clear, hearty, bold and confident throughout. Kiedis' rapid-fire vocal delivery is as sharp and biting as when he started in the early 1980s (on CD and live), and on such powerful songs as "Especially in Michigan" and "Tell Me Baby," he adeptly, like a vocal chameleon, changes his sound completely. Musically, "Stadium Arcadium" has a bit of everything. Next to great mid-tempo rockers like "Dani California," "Torture Me" and "She Looks to Me" are danceable, funky rock and roll tracks like "Charlie," "Hump de Bump," "Warlocks" and "Storm in a Teacup." These two CDs are instantly likable because there truly is something for everyone's taste. Even the songs that aren't as immediate have a lasting, tuneful effect in your head, such as the title track on disc one and "21st Century" on disc two.
Some of the cooler tracks on each CD are the soft, poetic, tender-sounding ones: "Strip My Mind" contains a retro, 1970s-sounding vocal throughout that gives it true soul; "Desecration Smile" leads off disc two, and though it's not entirely soft, the opening moments of quiet guitar carry a lot of poignant weight; "Hard to Concentrate," a song dedicated to Flea's new marriage, has both a pretty and haunting sound, perfectly capturing the uncertainties of a new life with a new spouse; "If" has a beautiful folkish sound that is also a bit haunting; finally, "Animal Bar" has spaced-out elements that remind me of the Smashing Pumpkins' sound in the mid 1990s on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
My favorite track overall is "Wet Sand." It's a deceiving song because it starts off so quiet and unassuming with gentle guitar strums and easy crooning by Kiedis. Slowly, though, the song builds itself up; drums kick in by Smith, the sound gets louder, and Kiedis' tone takes on more intensity. Pretty soon, he's passionately singing, "I thought about it/And I brought it out/I'm motivated by the lack of doubt/I'm consecrated but I'm not devout/The mother, the father, the daughter." Great stuff, and it gets more interesting on the end of the track as Kiedis' "You don't form in the wet sand" refrain melds with a beautiful keyboard and Frusciante's wailing guitar.
Producer Rick Rubin kept the Peppers in their natural element, but produced the album in a vibrant, concise way; the varied sounds on "Stadium" are crystal clear and undiffused with reverb or excessive guitar. However, when Frusciante's guitar does kick in, it's unstoppable. His solos have never sounded meatier, more fluent, or more prominent than on this effort. Chad on drums is just Chad: simply awesome. Same thing goes for Flea on bass. Like any bloated double album by famous rock stars, "Stadium Arcadium" could have been pared down to its 12 best songs and released as one disc, but where is the fun in that? The truth is, there are few duds on either disc, if any at all, and the Peppers deserved their chance to try a freewheeling set of CDs that would set the world on fire and perhaps sell out stadiums when out on the brutal road.
Rating:
- Enough Great Songs For A Strong Regular-Length AlbumThis is what I did, and strongly recommend;
1. Burn the following songs from the Chili Pepper's double-album, "Stadium Arcadium," onto a single CD in the order given -
1) Make you feel better
2) Dani California
3) Torture Me
4) Charlie
5) Strip My Mind
6) Hey
7) Animal Bar
8) Tell Me Baby
9) Turn It Again
10) If
11) Death Of A Martian
12) Hard To Concentrate
2. Label the disc "Red Hot Chili Peppers- STARCADIUM," & enjoy. Now you've got an album that rocks.
3. Sell or trade your double album "Stadium Arcadium," which consists of many too-long, tired melodies & boring-after-the-second-listen filler songs that interrupt & break up the flow of the good stuff.
To my knowledge, since the music industry began, bands have, for the most part, understood that not every single thing they write is brilliant & the-world's-gotta-hear-it! This is why, when you read interviews with Name Your Band, they generally say something along the lines of "Well, we had twenty eight songs, but during the recording & mixing process we decided these ten songs were the strongest so we dropped the others." That's how classic albums have come to be throughout the decades. I agree, there are a few exceptions, double albums that are impressive through & through, but they're rare and this is not one of them.
Nor was Guns & Roses' "Use Your Illusions I & II" or System Of A Downs' "Mezmerize" & "Hypnotize" records. But again, in both those cases also, take away the weaker material, the 'Everything We Do Is Brilliant Now!' (or is it 'We could make twice as much money this time') and you've got solid single albums.
My System Of A Down mix, combining tracks from "Mezmerize" & "Hypnotize" is: 1.)Attack 2.)Tentative 3.)This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song 4.)U-Fig 5.)Revenga 6.)Vicinity Of Obscenity 7.)Kill Rock Roll 8.)Question! 9.) Stealing Society 10.)Soldier Side-Intro 11.)B.Y.O.B 12.) Lost In Hollywood
Guarantee you'll find it soo much better than either of those records on their own. My belief is you should walk away wanting more not stopping it halfway through going "I've had enough." By the way, you should burn cds at slower speeds to ensure that your player can read them & quality is up to snuff.
Rating:
- fun albumi like the album a lot - especially cd 1. i didnt have any red hot chili peppers cd before, just a bunch of mp3s, so i got this one expecting a variety of songs. and i'm really enjoying it.
Rating:
- Hot PeppersThe cd set was awesome. Well worth the money!! Both cd's are great!
Rating:
- excellent CDI am always skeptical about a double CD being good but this was excellent!!