Apr 11, 2022·2 repliesJohn saying they saved their best stuff for the next album after this
- Apr 11, 2022
Wt7011. "Black Summer" on first listen the pirate vocals were jarring but ironically this is the catchiest song on the album, particularly when it comes to hooks 8/10
2. "Here Ever After" it's alright, the verses are adequate and the chorus is smoothly delivered but felt like something was missing that would put it over the top 7/10
3. "Aquatic Mouth Dance" tied with poster child for grooves song on the album. Song just screams smooth, whether vocally or instrumentally 9/10
4. "Not the One" melancholy If/porcelain type song with a pretty good hook but goes on too long and doesn't really build up as it goes 7/105. "Poster Child" tied for grooviest song, s*** slaps with funk groove not seen since one hot minute era, effortlessly catchy, love the part with the faith no more style synthetic towards the end 9/10
6. "The Great Apes" torn on this one cuz I like most of it but feel like keidis pretty much ruins it with that cringey "SUPERSTAR GO DO THE DISHES" part of the chorus, I'd have taken pretty much anything instead of thst trash lmao 6/107. "It's Only Natural" stadium Arcadian filler tier song, not bad but kinda dull and just there and has that annoying "steadyup" part at end of each verse. 6/10
8. "She's a Lover" the hump de bump/Ethiopia of the album, dunno why keidos thought anyone would be into jamming to or singing along to that hideous LOVE ME LOVE ME HUG ME NEED ME NEEDE ME PLEASE SQUEEZE ME trash with a straight face 4/10
9. "These Are the Ways" terrible chorus that would fit better on an Avril Lavigne or Paramore album, I do like the part at the end with "sail us through the open gate" too little too late still a skippable 5/10
10. "Whatchu Thinkin'" this one's kinda dope, like the urgency of the vocals, keidis goes off 8/10
11. "Bastards of Light" the dad rock of stadium and I'm with you is channeled hard here, but there's some good stuff in here 7/10
12. "White Braids & Pillow Chair" I see what they re going for but the melodies just aren't strong enough to stand out in the first half. Second half is cool and unique tho with the echoed vocals and drums 8/10
13. "One Way Traffic" it's OK I guess, not much to say about this one, feel like had he coke up with better or at least catchier or quotable lyrics it could have been a standout as of now it sounds like hes trying and struggling to make the hook stick with all the AYO AYO6/10
14. "Veronica" what it builds up to is cool, problem is the journey to get there isn't very compelling 7/10
15. "Let 'Em Cry" starts promising but then comes another hump de bump/Ethiopia level cringe skip when that awful chorus sets in BOBOBTHE LOVA WE GOT YHE OTHA. STFU Keidis 5/10
16. "The Heavy Wing" Only song where Frusciantes presence is really felt vocally and it's all the better for it, this one's a power house epic all the way through. The verse delivery sounds alot like black summer without the weird pirate accent, black summer woulda been a 9/10 with these vocals, this one's the albums onpy 10/10
17. "Tangelo" another if/porcelain type song, I kinda like the lyrics and background synths/organs. As an album closer its an 8 but on its own its a 7/10, nah f*** it it's an 8/10 s***s kinda beautiful
Flea gets a 9, did what he always does, crushes it on bass, will Ferrell was am 8 on drums, followed the rhythm well and had a few standout sections. John frusciante gets a 7 overall cuz while he did great things on the guitar it feels like he came in from a position of weakness and didn't really involve himself in the songwriting or vocals like he used to since he was prolly playing nice since they just let him back in since previously he would get bossy and they d almost break up
Keidis gets a 7 too cuz his good moments are among his best but there's alot of uninspired half baked melodies and cringey lyrics that ruin some of the lesser songs
Overall it averages out to a 7/10, I'll round it to 7.5, it has some good moments but doesn't come close to matching the infectious catchiness of The Getaway and you don't really feel Frusciantes presence as much as you should
solid track for track breakdown...while the weaker moments don't bother me as much as they seem to others they ARE the weaker moments that we can agree on lol it's a very good album IMO but probably 2-3 songs that could have been cut...however there's still parts of those songs that I liked which you kind of pointed out in our review as well
- Apr 11, 2022·2 repliesmentalcase420
John saying they saved their best stuff for the next album after this
Wouldn't surprise me
I'm B Side you>>>>>>> I'm With You
- Apr 11, 2022Wt701
Wouldn't surprise me
I'm B Side you>>>>>>> I'm With You
here's the article about it
In an interview that emerged on Friday (April 8), Frusciante raves, "I definitely feel like we saved a lot of some of the best stuff for the potential next album, so I'm excited about putting that into a shape."
He continues to Total Guitar, "We went into the studio with about 45 songs, and then a few songs got written while we were recording the basic tracks, or while we were in pre-production."
It seems the surplus of tunes lent itself to the idea of a second collection. Not that the returning RHCP guitarist necessarily had a say in the matter, he joked.
"You know, I was ready to stop when we had like 20 – I felt like that was good enough," Frusciante says. "And there were actually three points during the writing process where I thought, 'We've got enough songs; I'm gonna stop writing songs now.'" Laughs
The musician, who recently shared that he turned to the occult around when he quit the band in 2009, first revealed in February that Red Hot Chili Peppers had "recorded almost 50 pieces of music" with their longtime producer Rick Rubin ahead of Unlimited Love's April 1 release. He then said they had a "loose plan" to use them for an immediate follow-up.
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OPApr 20, 2022Anybody else coming see them at NOLA jazz fest May 1st?
ticket was only $80, s*** bout to be lit, last time they went in 2016 they had a 10 minute end jam with dumpstaphunk
- Apr 20, 2022·1 reply
got this on vinyl finally and whew what a listen
- OPApr 20, 2022·1 replymentalcase420
got this on vinyl finally and whew what a listen
apparently it's only natural is slightly different/a lil bit longer
aint checked it out yet tho
- OPApr 20, 2022Wt701
Wouldn't surprise me
I'm B Side you>>>>>>> I'm With You
a fellow im beside you loving king
- OPApr 20, 2022·1 reply
this still prolly my 3rd or 4th fav chili pepper album man, cant believe there's zero songs I don't like out a whopping 17
white braids a timeless masterpiece of a song and I hope it's the last single
- Apr 20, 2022·1 replySlingshot
apparently it's only natural is slightly different/a lil bit longer
aint checked it out yet tho
I'll need to listen to that one again vs the streaming version it sounded the same to me but idk maybe that's just on a certain version of the vinyl? Mine was a standard black vinyl not a red or blue one
- OPApr 20, 2022·1 replymentalcase420
I'll need to listen to that one again vs the streaming version it sounded the same to me but idk maybe that's just on a certain version of the vinyl? Mine was a standard black vinyl not a red or blue one
just peeped and the only difference is there's an extra "she caaaant go home tonight" in the first verse
- OPApr 20, 2022Slingshot
this still prolly my 3rd or 4th fav chili pepper album man, cant believe there's zero songs I don't like out a whopping 17
white braids a timeless masterpiece of a song and I hope it's the last single
also this is anthony's best album to me
vocal melody wise though. not energy wise or lyrically
- OPApr 20, 2022Slingshot
just peeped and the only difference is there's an extra "she caaaant go home tonight" in the first verse
@mentalcase402 might just be on this version
- OPApr 20, 2022
- OPApr 20, 2022
Anthony Kiedis:
I didn’t think that the music from “Poster Child” was going to survive, because Flea brought in two painfully funky basslines on the same day, and they weren’t similar, but the way I was hearing it was like, ‘I have to choose. My plate’s too full.’ And so I chose the other one, which ended up becoming a song called 'Peace and Love’ that didn’t make the record. The one that I thought was the superior funk was apparently not the superior funk. And then it just took me a long time of living with this music before I found my place. I can’t say that any of them were really a struggle or a battle, but it’s the one that I was surprised came to life.
–via Apple Music
NEED TO HEAR THIS S*** ASAP
Apr 20, 2022Nigga Aquatic Mouth Dance?!?!?!? OMG!!!!!
- Apr 20, 2022
Not The One?!?!?
- Apr 20, 2022
This pocket he hitting in poster child crazy!!!!
- Apr 20, 2022
It’s Only Natural!!!!
Apr 20, 2022Didn’t even know this came out lmao. Need to peep
Apr 23, 2022The second part of white braids is so good. I don't listen to the chilli peppers a lot, but that song will probably go down as my favourite chilli peppers song..
It's a tie with Brendan's death song..
Apr 26, 2022Wish I started taking them serious sooner. Blood S***Magic is my jam right now
Apr 28, 2022This is a good record. They have always been a singles band imo but I really feel like they came through with the deep cuts here instead
- OPJul 24, 2022·2 replies
“We went in search of ourselves as the band that we have somehow always been. Just for the fun of it we jammed and learned some old songs. Before long we started the mysterious process of building new songs. A beautiful bit of chemistry meddling that had befriended us hundreds of
times along the way. Once we found that slip stream of sound and vision, we just kept mining. With time turned into an elastic waist band of
oversized underwear, we had no reason to stop writing and rocking. It felt like a dream. When all was said and done, our moody love for each other and the magic of music had gifted us with more songs than we knew what to do with. Well we
figured it out. 2 double albums released back to back. The second of which is easily as meaningful as the first, or should that be reversed.‘Return of the Dream Canteen' is everything we are and ever dreamed of being. It's packed. Made with the blood of our hearts, yours truly,
the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”
