Behind The Sun: The Official RHCP Thread.

[PHATJ]

I completely lost all interest in RHCP after Californication. I don’t even know what albums were released after that. But for some reason when the last album was coming out I was aware of it. I listened to and liked Dark Necessities quite a bit. The title track was decent too. I was shocked. After the album came out and was all over YouTube, I gave the rest of it a once over. It was boring and terrible. I never listened to any of those songs again. I’ll still occasionally listen to those first two singles and I still shockingly enjoy them.

I think "By the Way" is easily their best album from front to back -- worth a listen if you've never given it a shot.

I might do that, KD. But I honestly don’t think I can handle listening to an entire RHCP album. It just gets super annoying and “same-y” after about 3 songs. Maybe “By the Way” would be different but I doubt it.

[daft twat]

I completely lost all interest in RHCP after Californication. I don’t even know what albums were released after that. But for some reason when the last album was coming out I was aware of it. I listened to and liked Dark Necessities quite a bit. The title track was decent too. I was shocked. After the album came out and was all over YouTube, I gave the rest of it a once over. It was boring and terrible. I never listened to any of those songs again. I’ll still occasionally listen to those first two singles and I still shockingly enjoy them.

I think "By the Way" is easily their best album from front to back -- worth a listen if you've never given it a shot.

I might do that, KD. But I honestly don’t think I can handle listening to an entire RHCP album. It just gets super annoying and “same-y” after about 3 songs. Maybe “By the Way” would be different but I doubt it.

KD is right, though, PJ. “Tear” and “Venice Queen” are my two favorite RHCP songs ever.

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Kevin Davis]

I think "One Hot Minute" is excellent -- lacking the cohesive vision of the next couple records, perhaps, but that step beyond their comfort zone led them to some heavy, psychedelic places that nonetheless seemed very natural and genuine (I can't imagine them ever having done a song like "Deep Kick" with John). That said, it was also the first RHCP album I really experienced, so my awareness of its outlier status and of the difficulty a lot of fans had accepting it really only came with hindsight. But I can still play it through with relish all these years later, where I find myself skipping more and more tracks on "BSSM."

I'm kind of of two minds about Frusciante. Specifically, I think he's an extraordinary rhythm player, but some of his lead playing really stinks (there's a lot of it on the "Californication"/"By the Way" stuff, but the one that always comes to mind is "Dosed" -- really clunky, like the guitarist equivalent of an old lady pecking out one letter at a time on a computer keyboard). I hear something like "Funky Monks" and wonder how it could be the same person. You're dead on about his harmony singing, though -- it's a secret weapon, and it's a shame it took til "By the Way" for them to really use it to its potential.

[chewm]

I consider One Hot Minute and By The Way probably their best albums.

[Freewheelin]

Tear
Blood sugar sex magik
Other side
Soul to squeeze
Don't forget me
Tearjerker
Gong Li


Not a huge fan, but I think that's about all I love theses days, I jumped off after by the way and havnt deliberately listened to anything since, unfirtunately I think they have way more bad songs than good, there is probably a few other good ones that I'm just sick of.

[Monkey_Driven]

This clip is a showcase for Frusciante's badassery.

[tragabigzanda]

[Ello Sailor]

I liked 'Strip My Mind' from Stadium Arcadium at least, if only for Frusciante's overwrought guitar solo.

[tragabigzanda]

[Kaius]

I am an unabashed fan of RHCP. Everything from BSSM through Stadium Arcadium I love in varying degrees and I also enjoyed a substantial amount of I’m With You and The Getaway. I don’t really care about Kiedis or his rep.

[Kaius]

and “Venice Queen” is goddamn brilliant.

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[gardenparty]

BSSM
By The Way
One Hot Minute

Californication
Stadium Arcadium

I'm With You
The Getaway

Mothers Milk and before are not for me

[Kaius]

I had to track this down from a post in the other RHCP thread. My one-disc version of SA.

OK, I present to you Stadium Arcadium Prime. The best 12 tracks from "Mars"/"Jupiter", and 2 tracks that didn't make the final cut for RHCP but should have, the "Venus" tracks. I even took some time to put them in a very enjoyable order.

Hump De Bump
Dani California
Readymade
21st Century
Million Miles of Water
Stadium Arcadium
Wet Sand
Strip My Mind
Torture Me
Storm in a Teacup
Mercy Mercy
Desecration Smile
Hard To Concentrate
Turn It Again

This is basically all of my 5-star songs from the album, to put it in some quantifiable terms. There's a lot of 4-star stuff left over, so I guess that tells you in more detail how I feel about SA. Though, I will concede to some degree that had the album been trimmed down to this, it would probably have been even more impacting than it was as the slightly watered down double-album.

[tragabigzanda]

[Ello Sailor]

Dani California sucks, Kaius.

[Kaius]

Suck this

[Birds in Hell]

I’ll try again soon but I find By the Way to be really limp and dreary; I think I’m more disposed to the funkier, aggressive aspects of their sound. BSSM remains the high point for me, with some excellent stuff on Californication too.

[philpritchard]

I had to track this down from a post in the other RHCP thread. My one-disc version of SA.

OK, I present to you Stadium Arcadium Prime. The best 12 tracks from "Mars"/"Jupiter", and 2 tracks that didn't make the final cut for RHCP but should have, the "Venus" tracks. I even took some time to put them in a very enjoyable order.

Hump De Bump
Dani California
Readymade
21st Century
Million Miles of Water
Stadium Arcadium
Wet Sand
Strip My Mind
Torture Me
Storm in a Teacup
Mercy Mercy
Desecration Smile
Hard To Concentrate
Turn It Again

This is basically all of my 5-star songs from the album, to put it in some quantifiable terms. There's a lot of 4-star stuff left over, so I guess that tells you in more detail how I feel about SA. Though, I will concede to some degree that had the album been trimmed down to this, it would probably have been even more impacting than it was as the slightly watered down double-album.

I might switch a couple out, but I agree it's underrated. Turn It Again is so damn good.