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Whistle Stopper - Stadium Arcadium
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List Price: $21.98
Our Price: $9.39
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624999621
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: 2006-05-09
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
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Summary: Amazing album.
Comment: The Peppers did it. They created their best album yet. This is the first album in three years that I have been able to continusely listen to. The music is definitely mellower than past RHCP, but in my opinion, suits them better than anything they've ever done. All four of these guys are in their elements on this album. Frusciante's guitar playing is, while no Hendrix, definitely well-suited to the album, and he keeps up beautifully with anything handed to him. Flea is, as always, amazing. Chad Smith, while not a standout, fits into his rythyms and intracacies fine. Kiedis' voice, while not stunning, is the only voice that could work for these guys--I personally like his voice quite a bit. There are both standout gems on the album, and a few that could have been left out. To give you a taste of the music, I'll review a few select songs.
DANI CALIFORNIA--more mainstream than anything else on the album, except for maybe Snow. Definitely a good song. Number one most played on my iTunes. 9.5/10.
SNOW (HEY OH)--love, love, love the guitar riff at beginning. Overall, a great song with good lyrics, fantastic guitar (John shines on this one,) and Anthony's voice is VERY well suited to this one. 9.9/10.
HARD TO CONCENTRATE--melodic, beautiful. best lyrics on the album. This song isn't given enough credit. 9.2/10.
CHARLIE--Seriously, what on EARTH is this song about? I know Anthony said it was about someone's imagination or something, but come on. Sounds like drugs to me. Not a particularly good track. I still like it, but it was definitely skippable. 7.5/10.
IF--This song is...not a standout. The lyrics are very cute, and the music is alright...but nothing special. 6.9/10.
BUY THIS ALBUM.
It's seriously one of the best things I've heard in quite a while.
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Summary: RHCP fans everywhere are insulted!!
Comment: In the time it's taken for the Chili Peppers to release thier last two albums they've turned from one of the best bands of the past 20 years to a complete joke! Anthony Kiedis sounds like a complete tool (your new singing style sucks!) and Flea's bass lines have about as much balls as the last James Taylor album.
Flea was quoted saying "If you don't like this album, you don't like the Chili Peppers." Well I loved the Chili Peppers and "Heyyooo this is what I sayyooo, THIS ALBUM SUCKS!!!! PEACE!!"
Stick with the first 6 albums!
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Summary: It's that Good
Comment: You know an album is good, when after a few years you go back to it and find it that exciting or maybe even a little more thatn when you first picked it up.
I honestly don't understand, or see how any RHCP loyalist or tradistionalist can call this album soft and weak. I mean even the weaker songs usually have a nugget of something that hooks you in. (i.e. Charlie)
there are so many good songs and it so big, and sounds so splendid that, it just makes you want to start it over right when you get to the end.
And the people that say "Dani california" is a rip off Tom Petty's "Last Dance With Mary Jane", you are retarded. It's a standard beat, with a somewhat standard melody. I think rubin would have pointed that out to them seeing as how he produced both songs. I didn't even think of that when I first heard it, i thought that the repeated guitar lick in the solo sounded alot like "Purple Haze".
so there you go... I love exploring this album and I think you should too.
Oh and by the way, I have been listening to them since the mid 80's. So it is nice to see a group of guys grow up into actual muscians of merit after just being novelty joke band.
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Summary: Awesome
Comment: Just when you think they've hit the top, they do it again. This double CD is just incredible. EVERY song is catchy. Even the couple that I didn't care for, on the second CD, have grown on me. They are so versatile that they go from ballads to blues to pure rock and roll all in one album and not one song sounds the same. Vocals are great in that they harmonize most chorus parts and although some of the guitar rythyms and leads are simple, they are catchy and the music is FUN. I haven't stopped listening to these two CD's for a month now since my purchase. These are two of the best CD's that I own. Can't wait to have the top down in my convertible blasting this music on a warm summer day or night. It's FUN and that's what music is SUPPOSE to BE! Awesome!
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Summary: Amazing!
Comment: I just got really into the RHCP's and all i have to say is awesome!This disc is 2 cds,28 songs and most of them are great.of course there are a few songs that are not great but come on out of 28 songs.most bands cant get 2 good songs out of 10 songs.Cant wait for the next one!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Four-year career hiatuses followed by sprawling double-albums could spell trouble for a band of the Chili Peppers' stature: consider they'd originally recorded enough for three discs. The restless, trouble-plagued outfit that helped break alternative rock into the mainstream with a potent fusion of punk 'n' funk in the '80s finds itself two decades on almost completely devoid of the former's energetic abandon, while the latter's effusive rhythms are considerably subdued over the course of this two-hour, 28-track collection. It's not so much that the Peppers have lost their muscular, often uber-macho edge as they have willfully tamed it in service of mature reinvention here. The mellower, often introspective, if no less potent pop ethos that characterized the crossover hit "Under the Bridge" blossoms fully here on tracks like disc one's "Snow," "Wet Sand," and the jazz-cool of "Hey." The title track, "Desecration Smile," and "She Looks To Me" finds them venturing further into laid back pop ballad territory, while the tricky rhythms of "Dani California," "Charlie," and "So Much I" eventually kick into familiar top gear on the pop-savvy "Tell Me Baby" and hip-hop seasoned "Storm in a Teacup." It's not that there's a paucity of musical adventure here ("If" and "Animal Bar" finds them wafting into Floydish neo-psychedelia while "Make You Feel Better" seems to channel no less than Joe Jackson) but that it's delivered with a subtlety--and dare we say it?--tasteful musical restraint that's a stark contrast to the band's early, overly overt nature. There's perhaps too much mid-tempo simmering and reflection going on; like most double-albums it could be focused into a much more compelling single disc. But that seems largely beside the Peppers' hooks-over-histrionics point here: an unlikely record to kick back to, and one that both challenges assumptions and eases the band into middle age with an oft languorous, if undeniably savory groove. --Jerry McCulley
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