The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley
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Artist: The Red Hot Chili PeppersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1989-07-31
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Jungle Man
- Hollywood
- American Ghost Dance
- If You Want Me To Stay
- Nevermind
- Freaky Styley
- Blackeyed Blond
- The Brothers Cup
- Battle Ship
- Lovin' And Touchin'
- Catholic School Girls Rule
- Sex Rap
- Thirty Dirty Birds
- Yertle The Turtle
Free Music Notes for Freaky Styley
Free Music Review: Good, but not great.
Hit: 3 Stars
Freak Styley was RHCP's second album, and I feel it was the weakest of the original trilogy. A lot of the tracks here were throwaways that didn't make the cut for the first album (albeit freshly re-recorded for this record). It's like the saying goes-- "If they weren't good enough the first time, what makes them good enough now?" Luckily these "throwaways" aren't AWFUL or anything, they are just kind of mediocre & forgettable. At least most are only 1 minute long or thereabouts.
All that said, there is still some great stuff on Freaky Styley. The first four songs are without a doubt the highlight of the record and stand to this day along with some of the band's best work, most notably the incredible "American Ghost Dance" which forshadowed a sound the band would employ years later on BloodSugarSexMagik and even as recently as Stadium Arcadium. Flea made his trumpet debut on this album and this work is featured on a good number of tracks.
At the end of the day though, Freaky Styley suffers from the too-much-filler-not-enough-substance syndrome. As it stands Freaky Styley clocks in at 14 tracks. At least 5 of these are either not songs at all or one of the aforementioned throwaways. Another 2 of those are cover songs. If they had trimmed away some of the fat and recorded 2 more, hell even 1 more, full-length original song Freaky Styley could have been a whole lot better. These issues, despite a few great tracks, drag Styley down from being a great album to merely being a good album.
(Although it should be noted that even the worst, most ridiculous track here-- the 10-second "Thirty Dirty Birds" is better and more entertaining than anything on the snoozefest they called By The Way. Food for thought.)
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With their second album, Freaky Styley, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were still growing into their oversize funkdafied britches. The polished funk-punk-metal-rap hybrid of later albums was still in its seedling stage here, with the group yet to successfully merge those elements. Still, there's a consistent old-school garage feel. Flea's bass lines, normally in hyperdrive, are clipped and springy, like bare feet hopping on a hot Los Angeles blacktop. Lead singer Anthony Kiedis risks sounding like a parody of the vocal styles he's trying to emulate but commands the songs with every variation of bravado his voice can muster. And finally, the merit of this album could stand solely on the talents of the late guitarist Hillel Slovak, who infuses the tracks with resonating harmonics, psychedelic screeches, and righteous riffs. As disjointed and occasionally amateurish as this album was, it was also groundbreaking and captured the undivided attention of the rock world. --Beth MassaAlternative Rock Music CDs
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