RHCP - One Hot Minute

stateoflove79 wrote:

My least fave RHCP album...Dave Navarro did not fit right. This album needed Fruiscante...still a pretty decent album though.

I agree 100%. It was a solid effort....but Fruiscante's playing defines the Chili Peppers for me.

I'd rather they went out on stage and played One Hot Minute (awesome album) from cover to cover than play anything off Stadium Arcadium (terrible album)

Frusciante has done some excellent solo stuff in the last couple of years, why he persists with the Chili Peppers is a mystery to me. They are done as a creative force.

Was and still is my favorite album by the Chili Peppers. I nver get tired of listening to it. I´m glad that so many people don´t like it maybe that´s the reason why it´s still fresh to me.

yeah, everyone knows children are the sole age group incapable of liking albums after a band stops being good.

in fact i just read a study proving such a thing. i think it was done as a collective by Harvard and Yale.

reversedarwinism wrote:

because they've only got better with time. Not as hard, but definately better.

On topic: I recently picked up this album (used). I already had BSSM, Cal, BTW and SA and that early "greatest hits" of crap. I like a few songs, but its definately the worst RHCP album from BSSM to present. I always heard that Dave Navarro was the problem with this album, but I figured it couldn't be that bad. Well, that was exactly right. Navarro totally ruins this album. Glad I bought it used.

BSSM is great but is so different from the last three albums, its like on its own island. Same way that I feel about PJ's Ten. The last three are the best, for sure.

Open your ears and stop saying stupid things !
This album isn't bad at all. At least, Kiedis wrote/sang real melodies at this time...

Joe2TheRevenge wrote:

Those songs ARE the reason i call him boring.

Sometimes, when i am feeling rebelious, i listen to bands other than the RHCP. You should give it a whirl sometimes. You'd be amazed at the things other guitarists do.

If you find those songs boring, I just feel sorry for your undeveloped tastes. Let me guess, you define rebellious as loud and with vulgar lyrics - yeah, that's very rebllious - if you're 14.

I think One Hot Minute is a great album, but I vastly prefer RHCP with Frusciante on guitar. He plays with more soul than anyone else out there. To the guy that said all he does is bend a note for 5 minutes with a pained expression, that's just showing your own musical ignorance.

Those saying the Chili Peppers are done as a creative force need to look up "creative" in a dictionary, because they are more creative now than they have been since their inception. I can't think of too many other bands that combine the melodic style of the Beatles and Beach Boys with the guitar influence of Jimi Hendrix and classic funk sounds like Sly and the Family Stone, plus punk influences like Fugazi. By the way, all the influences I just mentioned are all over Stadium Arcadium, which I consider to be their best album since BSSM. I really dont see how people find songs like She's Only 18, Warlocks, 21st Century, Ready Made, or Turn It Again boring. Even a poppy song like Snow features an incredible guitar riff. Also, only musically ignorant people equate "pop" with boring or bad. Every vocal melody Joey Ramone ever sang was very poppy. It's much more difficult to write a truly memorable pop song than to just make loud noise for three minutes and call it rebellious.
But I guess being influenced by talented musicians and honing your melodic skills isn't "rebellious".

I also take issue with the guy saying Frusciante is not a great live guitarist. He may not be the cleanest player out there, but neither was Jimmy Page or Jimi Hendrix. I'll take Frusciante's raw emotional style over a clean technical player like Vai or Satriani, or any number of metal guitarists who just play scales at warp speed, any day.

My least favorite of their albums.

Peace

hendrix78 wrote:

If you find those songs boring, I just feel sorry for your undeveloped tastes. Let me guess, you define rebellious as loud and with vulgar lyrics - yeah, that's very rebllious - if you're 14.

Odd statement coming from a guy who has the name "hendrix" in his name.

You know jimi did nothing but play blues riffs through distortion right? Boring, boring, and more boring. no matter how you slice it.

1. don't question my knowledge of music
2. don't question my skill at sarcasm. the phrase "rebelious" was meant to poke fun at ANYONE who thinks the RHCP are anywhere near worth listening to.
3. once again, yes, children are the only ones who think the RHCP are awful. You must be SOOOOOOoooo mature to find "Snow, hey oh, snow, hey oh" to be world-changing.

Joe2TheRevenge wrote:

Odd statement coming from a guy who has the name "hendrix" in his name.

You know jimi did nothing but play blues riffs through distortion right? Boring, boring, and more boring. no matter how you slice it.

1. don't question my knowledge of music
2. don't question my skill at sarcasm. the phrase "rebelious" was meant to poke fun at ANYONE who thinks the RHCP are anywhere near worth listening to.
3. once again, yes, children are the only ones who think the RHCP are awful. You must be SOOOOOOoooo mature to find "Snow, hey oh, snow, hey oh" to be world-changing.

AAAaaaannnnnnd...you just lost all credibility with anyone who knows anything about music. Hendrix built on blues riffs and took them to a new place. You can hear eastern influences as well as folk influences (like Bob Dylan) as well as the influence of the soul music he played on the chitlin cicuit all over his music. Miles Davis was heavily influenced by Hendrix, and I think Miles knows a little bit more about music than you do. Once you've completely changed the face of jazz music at least 3 times in your career, you can say you know more than him. I absolutely question your knowledge of music, and I find your "skill at sarcasm" juvenile at best.