Red Hot Chili Peppers~ Stadium Arcadium

[Dreaming Pepper]

I bought the regular album and the "black box." Still very happy that these guys got over their drug addictions and continue to create such lush music. For four years I waited for this double album after By The Way. It's a great album, though many detractors may continue to ask, "where is the funk?" It is still there.

Of all the songs, all 28 of them, I love "Hey" the most. I really like all the songs on the album, but this song is really a great chill song and has one of the best guitar solos I have heard. Keeps motivating me to change and drop my bad habits.

[legio_ix]

gotta say that some of the songs are their greatest, wet sand off the first disc for instance, but the rest of the album falls a little flat. And didnt they cancel some of the UK appearances? i think they were meant to be at leeds but never made it. kiedis back on something?

[Dreaming Pepper]

gotta say that some of the songs are their greatest, wet sand off the first disc for instance, but the rest of the album falls a little flat. And didnt they cancel some of the UK appearances? i think they were meant to be at leeds but never made it. kiedis back on something?

There are some songs off the album that I sorta like, but not as much as Hey or Wet Sand. But I still enjoy them regardless.

I don't think Kiedis is back on drugs. But I don't know. ha!

[Dreaming Pepper]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JjUsufmJhEA


This is actually a great piano renditions of The Zephyr song. Check it out. It is great.

[Klaorman]

I'm just now getting into Stadium Arcadium and I must say that Wet Sand is such an incredible work of art! I love the guitar wail/slide that enters in the 2nd verse and the closing chorus and guitar solo. It's such a perfect song! Hey is pretty good, too.

I've been reading some negative opinions about the album, calling it pop slop and crying out for the funk, but all I know of RHCP is a couple of their biggest poppish hits (don't remember their names); I like the pop stuff!

Klaorman

[Dreaming Pepper]

Yeah. We all miss their who gives a sh!t FUNK out of their "socks" [if you can recall that they were once known to just wear socks on their ... ]songs. But, every musician changes their sound as they age.

I like to think of this album as a celebration of their constant movement towards exploration of different genres and ideas. I sure do miss their raw funk songs from Uplift Mofo Party Plan and Freaky Styley, but I really like the more thoughtful sounds and lyrics of Californication and By The Way.


Wet Sand is a great song.