Chili Peppers?

Hitch-Hiker

clairenordon wrote:

they were a great band, but now kieidis is an obstacle to their greatness, imo. he had something , but it certainly looks like hes lost it now.

i didnt mean shitty as in not good technically, i can accept that, frusciante isnt the best technical singer, but kiedis has stopped being good full stop, technical doesn't come into it. i know tons of people that say eddie vedder is technically a bad singer...like i give a fuck about technicalities...

Yeah, I agree. It sounds almost like he just doesn't care anymore. His voice was never really up to scratch live, but he was a good enough performer to cover that. Now his Studio recordings are really lacklustre too. Maybe the crack is finally catching up with him.

glasshouse

hendrix78 wrote:

People bash them because their last 2 albums didn't sound exactly like BloodSugarSexMagik.

this is far from the complete truth. i loved californication - that sounded nothing like BloodSugarSexMagik

hendrix78 wrote:

They have become stronger songwriters who have a true gift for melody and all the headbangers and alternative types are close minded when it comes to anything that could be described as poppy. Newsflash - it takes much more talent to write a good catchy pop hook than just create a wall of sound by banging your instruments around. These same people who claim they've "sold out" or "gone soft" also convienently ignore songs like Readymade, Torture me, and Turn It Again when they bash because these songs don't fit into the stereotype they want to make.

there are some truth in this but in my view you are missing the essence of the trial.
honest rock and roll does not facilitate a "mainstream" paradigm shift in order to become stronger songwriters. please refer to pearl jam in this matter. the peppers went soft - no point in denying it. fact of the matter - i agree with you that going soft does not equate to bad music - but in this case the hard core fans just won't let it be - and i'm one of them.

hendrix78 wrote:

The people who say all the songs on Stadium Arcadium all sound the same must seriously be on crack. Readymade sounds the same as Charlie, or Snow, or Warlocks? Seriously? There are a few songs on Stadium Arcadium I find a little boring, and the production is a little bland, but to say all the songs sound the same just removes a person's musical credibilty in my opinion.

in all honesty i've never even been able to listen through those 2 disks in one sitting - the music strikes me as monotonous - that doesn't necessarily mean everything sounds the same, it just means the album sounds void of artistic substance.

Oh, Jimmy

glasshouse wrote:

this is far from the complete truth. i loved californication - that sounded nothing like BloodSugarSexMagik


there are some truth in this but in my view you are missing the essence of the trial.
honest rock and roll does not facilitate a "mainstream" paradigm shift in order to become stronger songwriters. please refer to pearl jam in this matter. the peppers went soft - no point in denying it. fact of the matter - i agree with you that going soft does not equate to bad music - but in this case the hard core fans just won't let it be - and i'm one of them.


in all honesty i've never even been able to listen through those 2 disks in one sitting - the music strikes me as monotonous - that doesn't necessarily mean everything sounds the same, it just means the album sounds void of artistic substance.

Doesn't all music have artistic substance. The Chili put alotta work into their music. It's not like they're Nickelback. The Chilis music has some depth to it, no so much lyrically, but I dunno how many times new things have popped out of the background on BTW & SA