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Free Music Notes for Red Hot Chili Peppers
Free Music Review: More luke warm at this point.
Hit: 3 Stars
Honestly this is really a good album. I think it just gets fewer stars when compared to their other albums. Truth be known I like their 80's material alot more than their 90's stuff, but of the first four albums, this is the weakest. Despite that, still some typical and killer tracks. "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes" is classic. "Get Up And Jump" is also aggressive and fun, as is "Green Heaven". The slower, maybe groovier moments come with "Why Don't You Love Me" and "Mommy Where's Daddy", both easy to like. The demos are decent, but the remastering is the bigger plus. Overall it's no "Uplift Mofo Party Plan", but it's a start.Free Music Review: Wizard of Oz
Hit: 3 Stars
After listening to this album, I have decided that the Flying Monkeys in The Wizard of Oz formed a band called The Red Hot Chili PeppersFree Music Review: A beginning.
Hit: 2 Stars
One of the most sucessful and influential bands of their generation, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are also one that would evolve over time more than anyone could have ever anticipated, alienating portions of their fanbase over and over again in their relentless pursuit of the future. This album shows a band very different from the act that sells out ampitheatres today.
Originally formed by friends in high school-- drummer Jack Irons and guitarist Hillel Slovak turned jazz trumpet prodigy Michael Balzary onto punk music, and Balzary picked up a bass and a nickname (Flea). The Chili Peppers were completed when friend Anthony Kiedis began singing some of his poetry over the top of the funky punk music the band was puting together. But after putting together several demos and gaining local acclaim as a live act (with a reputation for performing naked with a sock covering up choice portions...), Slovak and Irons decided to quit the band to focus on another act. Kiedis and Flea soldiered on, eventually recording their self-titled debut album in 1984 with gutiarist Jack Sherman and drummer Cliff Martinez (who had played with Captain Beefheart). The results are decidingly mixed.
The band's sound revolved around funky punk licks with Kiedis' rapped vocals over the top-- Sherman never quite sounds like he belongs with the band, and his playing lacks the energy that the rest of the group has (curiously, recruited drummer Martinez seems to fit in quite a bit better with the group-- but playing with Beefheart is good practice for virtually anything). Even in this situation, several pieces standout-- the explosive, driving "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes" and the powerful "Out in L.A." (featuring Sherman's finest moment as a Pepper with a fierce guitar solo). But in the midst of this, an irritating Hank Williams cover ("Why Don't You Love Me") , a thoroughly annoying self-referential piece ("Baby Appeal") and at least one truly ill-conceived number ("Mommy Where's Daddy") don't make for a good album.
This reissue is remastered, putting the album way in your face-- it sounds superb, loud, crisp and focused, and is augmented by a handful of demos (originally released on "Out in L.A.") featuring the original Peppers lineup. These pieces succeed a great deal better, but still are lackign in something (although bass-and-vocal duet "What It Is" is really superb). The liner notes feature an essay about the record from Flea.
Things would get better on the next album, "Freaky Styley", with Slovak returning to the fold, but the band had a long way to go before conceiving a real masterpiece. Nonetheless, those interested in their beginnings should check this out.
Free Music Review: Darn awful release
Hit: 1 Stars
This is their first release as a independent band in their early days and just like MOFO I won't be listening to again. I love the later RHCP's stuff the best, the rock sounds better than the rap/punk (or whatever you wanna call it). Maturity over time and as a band as aged the RHCP's gracefully and their music has improved 200%.
There are no great or standout tracks on this album. The demo's sound worse than the released tracks. All I can say darn awful and I will not torture myself listening to this ever again.