Red Hot Chili Peppers - Essential Red Hot Chili Peppers: Under The Covers
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Free Music Review: cover me!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
the peppers have been known to cover many bands through out their time(their first big hit was a cover)so it is fiting for them to finally release a cover album.most of this stuff can be found on either their studio albums or imports but it is still cool cause of the book of rare photo that comes with it.not a place for new fans to start out but it's a good cd for a fan of cover songs(i really wish they included their cover of the ramones blitzkerg bop on their...oh well)-jason harshmanFree Music Review: the Red Hot Chili Peppers higher grounds
Hit: 5 Stars
"There are only two kinds of music...good and bad or soulful and non-soulful..." You'll find good and soulful music through the whole album. You won't believe it till you listen. (From a RHCP fan, but more a MUSIC fan)Free Music Review: You just can't top them!
Hit: 5 Stars
Their energy permeates every song, especially the covers! Once you hear them you can never go back. I love Stevie, but higher ground is just that.Free Music Review: they rock
Hit: 5 Stars
they absolutely rockFree Music Review: Fun CD of covers
Hit: 4 Stars
WARNING: Half of the tracks are available on other albums and EP's.
Released in 1998, this was part of series of "Essential" CD's to celebrate Capital records 100 year anniversary. It must not have been that great of a proomotion, I didn't hear about it after the fact, when I picked up some of these Essential CD's in the cutout bins. Capital used to be one of the major forces in the recording industry. They were the ones with the building in Hollywood that looks like a stack of LP's piled up on a record changer. Capital Records was bought out by EMI.
The Essential CD's were nicely packaged. They has a slick cardboard jewel case and came in a cardboard slipcover. They had some extensive liner notes. Other groups had "Essential" releases. A very good one came from Blondie, featuring two live shows.
This is a CD of cover tunes. They come from periods throughout the Chili Peppers Career. They do songs by Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Elton John, Hank Williams and George Clinton. It is 43 minutes long and the sound quality is variable, depending on the song. None of it is excellent. It is a little rough on a few songs, but none of it is really bad.
The perfomances of the songs range from great to why bother. Some of the songs have already been on other albums or EP's. Some of the songs are live concerts, where they were just fooling around.
Red Hot Chili Peppers had a huge hit with Stevie Wonder's Higher Ground. That original version is included here. Also, included is a dance remix of the song which might even be better than the original (and I usually don't like dance remixes).
They do a good version of Jimi Hendrix's Fire, but a rather bland version of Hendrix's Castles Made of Sand. There is no way the group comes anywhere close to matching the guitar on the Hendrix originals. But, what makes Fire good is that they sing it with fire and passion. There isn't any kind of that emotion on Castles.
Other songs that aren't that great are Elton John's Tiny Dancer, except how they joke about it being a punk influence on them and Clinton's Dr. Funkenstein, which is only a minute long.
But, along with Higher Ground, there are other winners on this CD and there is nothing that is really bad. All in all, it is a fun CD and you can listen to it a number of times without being bored.
one other note: My daughter's soccer team voted to call themselves the Red Hot Chili Chicks. The coach was too embarrassed to turn the name into the league, so the team showed up in the standings as having no name.
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