Shadows Collide With People [Extra tracks, Import]

John Frusciante | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 22, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Wea Japan
• ASIN: B0001BUFHQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (89 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #532,281 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Carvel

2. Omission

3. Regret

4. Ricky

5. Second Walk

6. Every Person

7. -00Ghost27

8. Wednesday's Song

9. This Cold

10. Failure33 Object

11. Song to Sing When I'm Lonely

12. Time Goes Back

13. In Relief

14. Water

15. Cut-Out

16. Chances

17. 23 Go In to End

18. The Slaughter

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars John is Back, March 17, 2004

By 

Mike Chadwick (Gdynia,Poland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shadows Collide With People (Audio CD)

After gorgeous "to record wateer for ten days only" and two avantgarde previous releases Frusciante was touring with RHCP,he released another minimal music album through the internet. while first news about new studio release appeared i thouhgt that it will be another acoustic and drum machine based collection of introspective melancholic songs. i was wrong. i was truly shocked when i bought it and switched on my cd player. i also didin't knew any songs from it before.

"carvel" starts with ambient bubling but around 1.30 it grows into powerfull rocker.we have Bass,real drums,keyboards,guitars,clean good production - almost everything that was missing on his previous efforts.even John's vocals sound more powerfull.
other songs including highlights like "in relief","cut-out","the slaughter" and "every person" are amazing melodic guitar based songs with very personal lyrics.some cuts sound like some red hot's "by hte way" b sides ("water","this cold"). Frusciante's best friend,Josh Kilinghoffer plays amazingly on drum set and bass guitar,he even gets lead vocals on haunting "Ommision". My favourite songs is powerfull "Time goes back" were vocals,guitars and heavy bass sound just perfect.i bnet that it would be a hit if promoted by video and released as a single. There are three experimental ambient songs like creepy "000ghost7" that sound much different and wierd but they grow on you with every listening.

Overall,it is amazing piece of true rock genius,Fru is Ten years younger than all RHCP crew and he is still their most talented member. A stunning piece of music,get it now!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ----------------==--------------------=, February 25, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Shadows Collide With People (Audio CD)

most people i know who hear johns first two albums are appalled and offended, usually refering in some way to a dying cat. or a man with his weiner slammed in a car door... i dont understand where theyre coming from those two records have remained two of my favorites, niandra for almost ten years, and smile for atleast six.. as a guitar player AND a singer there really isnt anyone in the same room with him. Smile From the streets you hold was a document from the bowels of heroin addiction with similar depth and bile as william burroughs' naked lunch.... and now john is clean his two albums since getting sober glow with the same elusive peace and gratitude that his first two could only shiver in the corner and dream about so few of us are pulled from those gates of insanity and death im so glad that today john is among them....

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NDE report on record, March 5, 2004

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M. Wells - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shadows Collide With People (Audio CD)

What can I say about John Frusciante that hasn't already been said? The man is a walking miracle, overcoming a near-death battle with heroin and parlaying the sanity he almost lost into one of the most successful comeback stories in rock history. While the first of his two comeback albums with the Chili Peppers, Californication, was a little too RHCP by-the-numbers for my taste, By the Way, the second, was the most musically mature pop album the Chili Peppers have released in their two decades as a group. I'm convinced that it's success stems not from the stereo-typical, fan-favorite tandem of Keidis and Flea but from the creative wellspring and innate guitar prowess Frusciante channels from the spirits and demons he has admitted he uses as inspiration. Following up on his wonderful, but inconsistent, To Record Only Water for Ten Days, SCWP offers overwhelming support for the above hypothesis. The opener Carvel, with a NES Metroid-like blipping, effervescent interlude, soars with the triumph of a man who has momentarily overcome that which none of us can escape, death. Carvel feels almost like a spiritual catharsis, a song that is on the precipice of translating a mystical experience into music. Omission, with the dichotomy of it's somber verse and upbeat sweeping chorus and solo could have easily fit in on By the Way. The song ends with a primal scream that sounds like it could have been delivered from the mouth of Kurt Cobain or Plastic Ono Band-era Lennon. Regret, when taken in context with John's first solo, Niandra Des Ledes, is poignant and beautiful, even if it is a little redundant. Water, the funkiest and perhaps most catchy and poppy track on the album, is another listening pleasure that could have been recorded for a Chili Peppers release. Perhaps my favorite track, Chances, is a collaboration with sonic wizard Omar Rodriguez of Mars Volta fame, on whose album De-Loused in the Comatorium, John provided lead guiatr work for the 13 minute jam-session that comprised the track Inertiatic ESP. Chances, which clocks in at barely two minutes, is a druggy track with a Revolver-era Beatles feel. It seems to be a retrospective look at John's life by the artist himself, with an assurance to himself and potentially despondent listeners that they still have a part to play in their lives even if it feels as though they have destroyed a much of it. Frusciante sings that "in the multi-dimensional scheme, you'll know what I mean." The song leads into another spacey instrumental, ambient-noise track, reminiscent of Meddle-era Pink Floyd that I appreciate but normally skip over because I've heard enough of the real the thing to last a lifetime. The final track, the Slaughter, a collaboration with bandmate Flea, is a great love ballad, an ode to loss that like most of Frusciante's songs has an undercurrent of hope beneath the exterior. SCWP is the most listenable, and accessible of John's albums, but not the best; that honor goes to the painful to listen to Niandra des Ledes & Usually Just a T-Shirt. It does however surpasse almost every other piece of work the man has created, and that even includes his famed recordings with the Chili Peppers from his teenage years and his last brilliant solo album. This, combined with the Frusciante-fueled progressive direction the RHCP took on By the Way, means we, as music fans, have much to look forward to from this artistically gifted phoenix.