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Red Hot Silly Peppers
Posted by Mr Fade on 7 June 2011 - 12:26am.
have announced a new album called I'm With You. Presumably named after the Avril Lavigne song. I would love to go to the bookies and stick a tenner on it sounding exactly the same as all their other stuff. Would I be wrong to do so? What odds should they give me?
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Nah I reckon it's going to be a 'Kid A'
style re-invention, heavily influenced by Tyler the Creator, Autechre, Throbbing Gristle , early 90s Drill'n Bass, Metal Machine Music and with elements of Musique concrète....with loads of slap bass.
I sat in a hotel room in santa monica
Today and listened to it then interviewed them (not for WORD). I'm not actually allowed to say anything at all about it until June 24 otherwise I would gladly answer your question. Sorry for being unhelpful.
You just want to make us jealous
by letting us know you've met them and heard the album. You know it's the most eagerly anticipated album (probably of the decade) among the Massive, you big tease. Go on, tell us if they cover "Pure Shores" as well as All Saints covered Under The Bridge.
How is the hotel?
Just like every other? Funky but slightly superficial? Trying to be different despite being part of a huge corporation? Reassuringly familiar but leaving you feeling a little bored with the lack of any real originality?
Perhaps
but it is in Santa Monica. And that'll make up for a lot.
Intrigued to read the piece.
Please let us know what publication it's in.
If you do pop down to the bookies...
make sure to wear a simple outfit of a sock over your man bits.
I quite like 'em
Anthony Kiedis is a toe-curlingly poor lyricist, an average singer, and his book is the worst I've read by any musician, but I do think they're unfairly hindered by the cocks on socks/slap bass/Hollywood bad boy reputation, which hasn't really been their thing for the best part of two decades. When John Frusciante (big influence: Vini Reilly) is in the band they're capable of making great records, and have done - Californication and By The Way are beautiful, subtle, extraordinarily musical albums - but without him they're near-hopeless. He's not on the new album, and it will almost certainly be hopeless too.
I am aware that this view is not shared by many adult humans.
I'm with you.
I think they're unfairly remembered by lots of people and there's more to like than people might imagine. Frusciante is an extraordinary guitarist - I can only see them being half the band without him.
If I was their producer, first thing I'd do is hide Kiedis' rhyming dictionary though.
Frusciante is to Kiedis what Graham Coxon
is to Damon Albarn.
Think Tank?
Not their best work by any stretch but enough to suggest Albarn capable of decent (if not outstanding) writing and composition without Graham?
I love Think Tank
It's my favourite Blur album but mainly because Albarn's vocals are treated so I barely recognise them as his. On all the other albums his voice annoys the hell out of me. Likewise, my favourite Gorillaz is the one Albarn sings the least on (the second one).
Here are the odds
Mention of "California" in the lyrics: 1-3
Song about a woman who's a bad influence in some way: evens
Slap bass solo: 5-2
Verse with over 200 words: 6-1
Rhyme of "ribby-dibby-dibby" with "hop-pop-hibby": 8-1
Double album: 11-1
Cover version of Aphex Twin's Windowlicker: 150-1
Ooh-ah ribby-dibby-dibby
Ha! I can't believe it took me this long to notice how the RHCP's entire career has been one long rehash of I Don't Want to Live With Monkeys…
By The Way
Surprised me. There, I said it.
The thing about the Red Hot Chilli Peppers is, when you live in a crap suburb and you are about 14, they are quite the ray of light. At least they were to me, so while I know they aren't good, they did mean a lot to me before I became the brilliantly erudite paragon of good taste which I am today.
Horrible band
that make an ugly noise.
And indeed vice versa, James.
(Though I agree with opinion above that Frusciante's a fine guitarist...)
Walked out of their gig at Earl's Court last time round...
...one of only two concerts I've ever walked away from. No small sacrifice given the tickets were £55 each. Think we gave them five numbers to improve. Didn't happen.
Horrible tinny sound from a PA system designed to work in the stadiums the rest of the tour was resident in. Clearly never soundchecked properly and I was told later that the sound and stage light rigs were just lifted and shifted from the last stadium show. No interaction with crowd, boring songs seemingly content to play the entire Stadium Arcadium horror show.
Truly appalling.
rider....Other users experiences may differ!
thirty years
in the biz and they still can't clobber together enough dollars for a shirt..