Smells Like Teen Spirit was the perfect debut single, right? Wrong! It was missing a trumpet solo as Flea proves conclusively here:
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My friend Keith called Smashing Pumpkins The Emo Red Hot Chili Peppers and I think that’s fair
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I love the Chili Peppers but I think you need to have words with this Keith.
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Anthony Kiedis is one of the inspirations behind the Lush song Ladykillers, written after Lush were part of the Lollapalooza tour in the early 90’s.
I own this album and still to this day don’t understand what it is.
Songs by RHCP I absolutely dig (aside from the obvious like UTB and Aeroplane):
The Greeting Song
Minor Thing
Cabron
One Big Mob
Fortune Faded
Torture Me
Plus, I can still listen to Californication without skipping a track.
Quite like the artwork of their 1st and 3rd albums
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RHCP were my teenage gateway to some amazing music and for that i’ll always retain high regard for them.
Love this clip.
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Absolutely this ^
Now that I don’t listen to the radio anymore I don’t hear them - is that positive? Well it kind of is cause I like the odd song here and there but for a while they were on the radio constantly and it spoiled any mild affection I had for them. These days I wouldn’t ever choose to listen to them but a wee song coming on in the bar and I’ll not groan so that’s progress.
I read that as Positive Reptiles and just assumed that was the name of their new record.
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It should be now.
It seems they’re not even a bagpipe based RHCP tribute band. Here’s a bagpiped up version of Insomnia:
bass guitar isn’t even being slapped
I’m not a huge fan of theirs, but I’m always surprised at how much vitriol they provoke, considering I like a fair few of the songs you hear played on the radio or whatnot (moreso now they aren’t absolutely rinsed by every station) and they’re certainly less boring than a lot of rock bands at that level of fame / placement within the wider public consciousness
Also didn’t they take Deerhoof on tour with them round big venues? Anyone who introduces stadium rock audiences to Deerhoof is a good egg at least to that extent
This might be my favourite song of theirs, certainly my favourite from By The Way
They were the first festival headliners I ever saw, and have the record of being the band it’s been longest time since I have seen, that are still a band. Also, I’m listening to Blood Sugar Sex Magik at this very moment.