Stadium Arcadium

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A double album? Good lord no. This thing has maybe 40 minutes of material but at over 2 hours? It's the same song repeated over and over again. Why did they think this was a good idea? My personal rating: 2/5 My rating relative to the list: 1.5/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

Stadium Arcadium is the ninth album by Red Hot Chili Peppers. The band has (at the moment) two albums on the user list and two on the original one. The two from the books are solid picks, but the other two are a mystery to me. RHCP has made other good albums like By The Way, Mother's Milk and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. And don't forget a decent one like Freaky Styley, full of energy and giving an impression of all good things to come. Stadium Arcadium is a Titanic of an album; full of false grandeur, enormous and pretentious. The product of a band that acts like it's on their peak, but in reality that peak is far far behind it. This is the sort of album that makes me kind of sad as some last convulsions of the band that once was, can be found. "Snow" is a good song and "Dani California", Hump de Bump" and "Tell Me Baby" are the kind of earworms that do no harm. The rest of this 28 song, over two hours long, album is a disaster.

I think this is the fourth of their albums that's come up on this, and it's the first one that I can't give a good rating to. It's very easy and very low-hanging fruit to take the piss out of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and in the case of a lot of their nineties output, it's also wrong. It goes hard. Flea and Chad Smith are one of the best rhythm sections of all time, and they have tunes on those albums. Unfortunately, this is the point where they stop having them. It's much weaker than any of the other ones that have come up, and unfortunately, it's also a double album. It has this long thing, two sides of, I think, far less interesting music. I think it's correct if a little cruel, to say of this album that it sounds like a tribute band trying to make songs that sound like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, even down to the point where there's an overuse of state names, particularly California. There's the generic slow emotional song that falls far under the bridge, and it's got some very cool basslines on it, but ultimately it just does not have the songs.

This is the poster child of double albums that didn't need to be double albums. It's a shame because there are a lot of really cool tracks here! But they get slowed down by so much bloat that it really does feel like going through two whole planets' worth of songs. Please, artists, trim the fat.

You can’t have that much to say, can you?

Is this the RHCP White Album? Just pumped out every song they had? Which one is Wild Honey Pie? Couple of classics on here but I get lost after the first few tracks

First few tracks: oh I remember all these singles when this came out Next few tracks: wow these are pretty good too. Is this their best album? Next few tracks: wow okay done and bored now. THEN THERES MORE THAN AN HOUR LEFT

Stadium Arcadium opens with two big singles which are annoyingly catchy even if they're not good, then a double album of absolute rubbish. I've given the four other albums of theirs we've had - way too many btw - 2 or 3 but this is a 1 because there's so much crap.

Here’s the frustrating thing about this band: a song will start and it will sound great. The bass, the drums, the guitar - all fantastic. It’s expertly played and they each play with a high level of talent. Then Anthony Kiedis opens his yap and ruins it with the dumbest lyrics or the most awful vocal delivery you’ve ever heard. Often, he does both simultaneously. 3/4 of this band are amazing musicians and they are without a doubt a great rock band. If they sold Kiedis-less versions of their albums, they would probably sell a ton of ‘em. Those are the best parts of this record: when Anthony Kiedis is not involved. This record is clearly an attempt in some way to show that there is more to Red Hot Chili Peppers than just being the soundtrack to the worst frat party you’ve ever been to. Instrumentally, there is depth to a lot of the songs; they experiment with sounds, different styles and genres. They get ethereal, they get psychedelic and they can melt face when they want to. Then Anthony Kiedis comes along drops something like “She’s Only 18” on you and any goodwill the band had built up with their music is wiped away. It’s a shame and I don’t care if it’s low hanging fruit. It’s the truth.

Well, not sure if we need this much more Red Hot Chili Peppers but this is a great album… I can see why it was so popular. I forgot about the song “Snow (Hey Oh)”. One of my favorites from them.

Rating: 9/10 Best songs: Dani california, Snow, Charlie, Stadium arcadium, Slow cheetah, Wet sand, Tell me baby, 21st Century, Make you feel better, Animal bar

Funk rock, alternative rock. Venga, vinilo, aunque sea bastante largo.

Very long, especially with a weird half hour commentary track at the end (which i didn't listen to fully, since it wasn't actually on the album). As is often the case with the Chilis, the good songs are great, but there's a lot of filler.

Banger 4 But not perfect all around like Californication

Pretty great, but too much! Two hours is too much RHCP! 4/5

This is an awful lot of Red Hot Chili Peppers to assign to your fellow list completers. For being what should more properly be called a triple album this actually holds up well, and represents a genuine move forward in lyrical sophistication. Other than that, you know, its a Chili Peppers album, if you like that you'll like this. I do think they could have cut it back to more around 90 minutes.

This is the first RHCP album that came out after I started acquiring my own music preferences. "Snow (hey oh)" and "Dani California" were played a lot on the radio. I still love those songs. I did not know this album was a double album, and it was this long (maybe a bit too long). It's quite a mix of their several styles, which I like

A little bit of these guys goes a long way, and this was a lot of these guys. I did think it was pretty interesting that this was all original material (well, "original" as long as we're not counting things like Dani California blatantly ripping off Tom Petty), but had the vibe of a best-of compilation. Wore me down slower than their other albums because of how much they were drifting around.

It's too long, but there's some good songs

Is this really as late as 2006? Blimey. While it's difficult to deny that this is a very well performing group doing stuff very well together, and having some pretty good music come out of it, it is A LOT of RHCP. If it were 45 minutes of the good stuff, it'd get higher marks than I'm going to give it.

Cartoon music, and lots of it.

A good Red Hot Chili Peppers album in its own right, with plenty of great songs, but the double-album format makes it feel far too long. There’s enough here that I enjoy, but I rarely find myself wanting to come back to it, especially when I already have Californication, Blood Sugar Sex Magik and By the Way ahead of it. Definitely not a bad album, but I don’t think I need a fourth RHCP album on the list.

Stadium Arcadium is a double album that simply didn't need to be a double album. Even some of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' older records, including Blood Sugar Sex Magik and One Hot Minute, were longer than they needed to be. Doubling the running time makes the problem considerably worse. There are so many songs here that aren't even mediocre. They're just bad, and as a whole, it doesn't work. I get the feeling the band saw this as their magnum opus, but to me it really isn't. They seem to have lost both the ability to write consistently good songs and the sense of fun that used to make even their lesser material enjoyable. Some tracks are catchy enough, but none come close to what this band was capable of at their best. Kiedis's lyrics are frequently baffling, the songs often feel like attempts to recreate earlier successes, and Flea's characteristic funkiness seems to have largely disappeared. The one major positive is John Frusciante, who is absolutely godlike on guitar throughout this album. His playing is among the best I've ever heard, and it's a shame the material around him so rarely matches it. Someone here described this as a tribute band trying to sound like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I can see where they're coming from. This doesn't belong on a list of albums you need to hear before you die. I'm not even convinced it belongs in the top ten Red Hot Chili Peppers albums you need to hear.

God damn this sucks. Fuck this whole band. And fuck everything they have ever made. TWO AND A HALF HOURS?! It's the same fucking lame bullshit for 30 fucking years. I am actively angry at the person who did this to me.