Stadium Arcadium [Import]

Red Hot Chili Peppers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 16, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
• ASIN: B000EZ831Y
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #811,802 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The biggest rock album of the year!, October 25, 2006

By 

S. Sarhan "matured reviewer" (Dearborn, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stadium Arcadium (Audio CD)

Green Day made their most important album, 2004's American Idiot, 15 years after forming their band. 2006 is the year for the Red Hot Chili Peppers to do the same thing.

Stadium Arcadium is a solid 2-disc 28-track album featuring the Peppers at a more focused and much more mellowed out form than their previous albums, while maintaining their funk along the way (just listen to Hump De Bump for proof). Lead vocalist Anthony Keidas's signature singing style, Chad's precise drumming, and Flea's funky bass playing can't quite keep up with the energy that guitarist John Frusciante brings to the California quartet's groovy sound formula (If you thought that John's ethereal guitar licks on Scar Tissue were out of this world like I did, then there's plenty to be mesmerized by and discovered on Arcadium). In a nutshell, Stadium Arcadium is extremely infectious, and is destined to be the biggest rock album of the year.

The album's first single, and album opener, Dani California is by far the best rock single released so far this year. The track follows up on Dani, a character referenced in 1999's Californication and mentioned in 2002's By The Way; the song also triggered a memorable music video featuring the band impersonating The Beatles and Nirvana amongst others. As a group, the Peppers deliver some of their best tunes to date using the same ingredients they've used before, mixing funk, punk, alternative rock, and Beatlesque harmonies: the groovy ballad Snow (Hey Oh) and C'mon Girl, the even groovier Charlie, the mellow future single Stadium Arcadium, the elusive Lenny Kravitz style rocker She's Only 18, the 70's style rocker Strip My Mind, the surreal Especially In Michigan, the acoustic Slow Cheetah, the bass driven Torture Me, the cool rockers Warlocks, Storm In A Teacup, She Looks To Me, Make You Feel Better, and Desecration Smile, the radio friendly Tell Me Baby, and, one of my personal favorites, what could possibly be the strongest ballad the Peppers have ever written Hard To Concentrate.

16 years have passed since the band made their first mark in the mainstream. With the release of Stadium Arcadium, it seems that the Chili Peppers are just now getting hotter!

Track Picks:

Dani California
Snow (Hey Oh)
Charlie
Stadium Arcadium
She's Only 18
Slow Cheetah
Strip My Mind
Especially In Michigan
Desecration Smile
Tell Me Baby
Hard To Concentrate
Make You Feel Better
Storm In A Teacup

4 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars red hot chili peppers..tribute to their c***** on socks, July 15, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Stadium Arcadium (Audio CD)

"red hot chili peppers" "stadium arcadium"
28 songs 2 cds..featuring dani calfornia and tell me baby
"most anticipated album" "must have album of 2006"
spin- -Q magazine

now on may the 9th after i had just spun to the first disc i would of agreed with them crictal reviews. that this was the best album of 2006.. but after nearly two months of my hands purchasing this double album.
i have sinced purchased "B.S.S.M" and "mothers milk"

now as i mentioned earlier i thought this album was the dogs b******* but after being submerged in their previous late 80's and ealy 90's album i must confess the chili's have gone from being red hot to luke warm. to appease the fans on radio 2 prime time daily tea break. where's the funk i'll tell you it has up and left the red hot chili peppers.. they need to get their spark back if they still want to mantain a healthy fan base.

where's flea funky bass lines.. where's kiedis rapping?
yeah john fruscante has his fingerprints over this album with the awesome guitar solo's..
but come on.. well they are in their forties..old age is seeping in on the chili's..
soon they'll be on classical fm has been and where the funk are they now.

it's a good album on the first twn spins then after that and aftert hearing to the aforementioned albums.. it becomes apparent that the chili's are creating music by numbers and their spunk in their socks has long become stagment.
they're still trying to clutch onto the hell raising attitude that has long sinced faded..