Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Red Hot Chili Peppers discography, part 2

Fourth, their 1989 album Mother's Milk:
  • Subway to Venus...great rhythm...and horns! Again with the reminders of Oingo Boingo
  • "Nobody Weird Like Me"...flaming bass
  • The last EMI album and the first with John Frusciante and Chad Smith.
  • Liking the bonus tracks on the 2003 remastered album
  • Much better on headphones than my crappy laptop speakers....
  • "Salute to Kareem"...great bass line
Fifth, their 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik:
  • "Funky Monks"...really liking the funk : o )
  • "The Righteous & the Wicked"...nice
  • Watched the SNL 1992 version of Under the Bridge a few times and can see the tension...John had checked out in more ways than one at that performance....
  • Magik from the Houdini mansion?
  • Frusciante looked way different with short hair and then the mohawk during the Houdini mansion recordings of the album...the beard growth in a few videos shows what he would end up looking like later 
  • My high school administration allowed the student council to play "Under the Bridge" over the loudspeakers the last hour of the last day of class of my junior year, I think
  • "Naked in the Rain" ... great bass solo
  • "Apache Rose Peacock"...love the funk
  • "Sir Psycho Sexy"...too fun...would be a great karaoke song
  • "Little Miss Lover" great bass kick
  • Learned something new: Soul to Squeeze appeared as a b-side and not on the album
  • "Sikamikanico"...yes! : o ) 
  • "Fela's Cock"...Intentional typo's and great rhythm
  • Frusciante quit in April of 1992...
Sixth, their 1995 album One Hot Minute:
  • Enter Dave Navarro
  • "My Friends" : had no idea the song talked about Flea's life...assumed it referred to Anthony's
  • "Coffee Shop"...darker driving mood : o )
  • "One Big Mob"...back to the funk! : o ) Then chills out for a while, then back....
  • "Walkabout" has lots to like: a nice funk and guitar riff throughout ...very nice--they used a cuĂ­ca to get that squeaky sound : o )
  • "Tearjerker" -- lots of vulnerabilities in the lyrics...a bit of a bluesy guitar for a few seconds
  • "Shallow Be Thy Game": picks up the pace again...slap bass
  • "Transcending": smoothness, a triangle, then distortion
  • "Bob" sort of reminds me of a Jimi Hendrix guitar riff...apparently Navarro lists Hendrix as an influence, which makes sense
  • Exit Dave Navarro
Seventh, their 1999 album Californication:
  • John Frusciante returns
  • "All Around the World": hard to top that opening. Epic.
  • "Get on Top" : great bass groove
  • "I Like Dirt" : funky
  • "The Velvet Glove" : great opening riffs and melody
  • "Purple Stain" has a really catchy bass hook
  • "Right On Time" shows a bit of a preview of where Anthony goes "Can't Stop"
  • "Gong Li" : wow, an mbira! : o )
  • "Over Funk": hurray for more funk
  • "How Strong" sounds like country-western funk in the beginning
  • "Instrumental #1"...great bass line...melancholy 
  • "Instrumental #2" ...liking these instrumental jams
  • "Teatro Jam" distortion fun




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