Behind The Sun: The Official RHCP Thread.

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[Birds in Hell]

Their best song is Soul to Squeeze.

Just an idle thought, but who’s playing the organ/keys on that song?

Brendan O’Brien?

[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

[Rob]

the main thing I can't get behind with this band is the lack of emotional weight to their songs; if all your lyrics are nonsense, what's the point of writing one after another for decades? I know this is my hangup and totally personal though

I understand the sentiment. Have you listened to Power of Equality? Cool music and lyrics from before there was “wokeness”.

[Ms Harmless]

the main thing I can't get behind with this band is the lack of emotional weight to their songs; if all your lyrics are nonsense, what's the point of writing one after another for decades? I know this is my hangup and totally personal though

wrong.

They have many emotional lyrics. To name a few from different eras:

Taste The Pain
Knock Me Down
I Could Have Lied
Transcending
My Friends
Brendan´s Death Song
Porcelain

I'm sure they have exceptions, but this record like most of them is covered with lyrical silliness; they're like if Pearl Jam constantly wrote "Supersonic", which is frustrating because of the calibre of musicianship involved

[Ms Harmless]

the main thing I can't get behind with this band is the lack of emotional weight to their songs; if all your lyrics are nonsense, what's the point of writing one after another for decades? I know this is my hangup and totally personal though

I understand the sentiment. Have you listened to Power of Equality? Cool music and lyrics from before there was “wokeness”.

I'll listen to that

"woke" at this point is like "cancel culture", it doesn't exist

[Ello Sailor]

Oh no it's happening again. Addicted to the shindig.

[Birds in Hell]

John's melodic parts in Not the One owing heavy (and likely intentional) debt to Adrian Belew's playing on King Crimson's Matte Kudasai:

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[VinylGuy]

the main thing I can't get behind with this band is the lack of emotional weight to their songs; if all your lyrics are nonsense, what's the point of writing one after another for decades? I know this is my hangup and totally personal though

wrong.

They have many emotional lyrics. To name a few from different eras:

Taste The Pain
Knock Me Down
I Could Have Lied
Transcending
My Friends
Brendan´s Death Song
Porcelain

I'm sure they have exceptions, but this record like most of them is covered with lyrical silliness; they're like if Pearl Jam constantly wrote "Supersonic", which is frustrating because of the calibre of musicianship involved

they are not just exceptions, there are always this type of songs, specially in the latter albums

[VinylGuy]

Oh damn, nice pull! John talked about his love of Belew on the Rubin podcast

i need to hear that one. I would love to hear the whole Stern too. Seems it was amazing for the bits i saw.

And the live performances were top notch.

[Farmer John]

I liked it to begin with, but Watchu Thinkin' keeps getting better and better. That might be my current favorite. Although Here Ever After keeps holding strong.

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[Farmer John]

I liked it to begin with, but Watchu Thinkin' keeps getting better and better. That might be my current favorite. Although Here Ever After keeps holding strong.

Yeah, the nuances of john’s playing on Watchu Thinkin’ keep revealing themselves to be really special

This seems to be a theme for much of the record the more I listen.

[verb_to_trust]

I liked it to begin with, but Watchu Thinkin' keeps getting better and better. That might be my current favorite. Although Here Ever After keeps holding strong.

Hey o, this is what I say o

[VinylGuy]

the vinyl sounds awesome.

Super clear, its very well mixed and the drums sound fucking good.

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[VinylGuy]

Also, Flea sounds great

but overall you can really enjoy how melodic this album is

[Rangi Guy]

Aside from the singles - I've not listened to RHCP since possibly By The Way, which I loved. Wasn't expecting much, but this was an enjoyable listen

[Birds in Hell]

They should've used this limited cover variant (the "LA Version") as the main artwork: