Music CD - Red Hot Chili Peppers: One Hot Minute

	Music CD: One Hot Minute Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers List Price: $18.98 Our Price: $4.89 Your Save: $ 14.09 ( 74% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Tracks: 1. Warped 2. Aeroplane 3. Deep Kick 4. My Friends 5. Coffee Shop 6. Pea 7. One Big Mob 8. Walkabout 9. Tearjerker 10. One Hot Minute 11. Falling Into Grace 12. Shallow Be Thy Game 13. Transcending
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0093624573326 Label: Warner Bros / Wea Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea Release Date: 1995-09-12 Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: The Best RHCP Album Comment: I really don't care much for the people behind the music, but the music itself. Looking at it that way, this is probably the best of the Chili Peppers catalog. It's a wonderful, fluid, albeit slightly chaotic mix of funk, metal, jazz, progressive, psychedelia, gothic, and punk, filled with thick grooves from Flea, textured guitar from Navarro, powerful drumming from Smith, and suave to aggressive vocals from Kiedis. A true, bold experimental record, and the epicenter of a mixed reaction amongst the Chili Peppers fan base, it is still a good album to listen to and worth the listen. It's nice detour from the typical, predictable songwriting pattern that they follow with Frusciante, and this album shows how creative the instrumentalist can be in how the utilize their knowledge and talent at their respective instruments, and how well Kiedis can write very thought-provoking, nostalgic, personal lyrics that are more than just verbal expressions of the sound. Customer Rating: Summary: i will give it 5 just for the fact it only has a 4 star rating. Comment: I think this is a great album.not there best but there most rocking!so i give it 4.5 out of 5 stars.the only song i cant stand is pea,why bother putting a song like that on an album?I say this album is half rock and half funk. Customer Rating: Summary: Painful struggle within the members in RHCP! Comment: One Hot Minute is a disc I really wanted to like. The collection is diverse and at times exciting. Also, I wanted to see how Dave Navarro would fit into the RHCP style. Unfortunately the whole package is uneven, sometimes underdone, and forced. There was obvious tension between Dave and the rest of the Chili Peppers. It took them over a year to record this mess of an album. One Hot Minute still has some very compelling material to make it at least worth owning. Warped kicks it off in a more Jane's Addiction style with old school metal riffs and Flea's funky bass. Anthony does a good enough job to keep the song from failing. Warped is a four minute assult until it slows down to it's conclusion, a very bold song to start. Then aeroplane gives us a hummable chorus which was why this was a hit song. Deep kick is less focused but I really like it since it has grown on me. This song deals with the past experiences on the band's regret of heroin addiction. They may regret doing the drugs, but they aren't apologizing for it. Then their best track My Friends is depressing but simply beautiful. Then things turn for the worse with the generic hard rock of Coffee Shop followed by filler like Pea and One Big Mob. Walk About starts off intersting enough but then it disappears completely from my memory. Tearjerker is a good song but rather sappy, and only can listen to it occasionally. Then the half-baked title track struggles for over six minutes. Falling from Grace somehow gives trancey wah wahs followed by nice playing from Dave during the chorus. Shallow be thy name is just as stale as a song gets, nothing redeeming about it. Then the album closes with the beautiful Transcending, one of my personal favorites. One Hot Minute is definitely not a very good release, nor is it a lost cause. Customer Rating: Summary: Underrated? Yes. Comment: One Hot Minute is a radically different CD form the preceding (Blood Sugar Sex Magik) and succeeding (Californication) Red Hot Chili Peppers CDs. It's just as incredible. I don't understand all the backlash. The Guitar work may not be as good as John Frusciante, but the CD as a whole works, and it works quite well actually. Songs like Warped, Aeroplane, My Friends, and Coffee Shop are legendary. But songs like Walkabout, Tearjerker, Shallow Be Thy Game, and Transcending shape this album up to be an excellent release. It did take me a few listens to find the excellence in this release. But it's definitely there. You WILL like this album, unless you're an RHCP purist or Frusciante fanboy, you definitely WILL like this album. Highly recommended. Customer Rating: Summary: "Pleasure spiked with pain..." Comment: The year was 1994, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were on their way to world domination. 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik had just catapulted the group into public attention, boasting four smash hits (Give it Away; Under the Bridge; Breaking the Girl; Suck My Kiss), and a wealth of solid album tracks (If You Have to Ask; Funky Monks; I Could Have Lied; Mellowship Slinky in B Major; My Lovely Man; the hilariously tasteless Sir Psycho Sexy). And John Frusciante was proving himself among the most talented guitar players of his generation. Then, just like that, he left to battle his drug addiction. And that's where our story begins. For reasons unbeknownst to me, Dave Narravo of the then-recently disbanded (soon to reform, disband, reform, and disband several times more) Jane's Addiction took over the guitar slot. I am a fan of JA - in several senses, I prefer them to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But the two groups are massively different, and Dave Narravo's massively eclectic style doesn't fit in well with the Red Hot Chili Peppers - psychedelia, metal, folk, funk, and jazz work their way into his playing, and RHCP has yet to seriously tackle four of the five mentioned genres (Rock? Yes, but not metal). Jane's Addiction is, to me, a far more artsy group than RHCP, not a knock against the Chilis - I just can't picture them recording something like Ritual de lo Habitual. Now, there are several strong singles on One Hot Minute, and if it weren't for the wealth of failed experiments here this would get three stars because of them. Warped is loud, in-your-face funk-rock; Aeroplane is a bit more mellow, has a great chorus, and has a cute part where kids start singing along (I used to sing with it myself when I was six, back before I knew what the term "M*****f*****" meant); My Friends is folk-rock-pop, kind of like Under the Bridge. That's why it gets criticized a lot, but I really like it. Either it or Aeroplane is the best song on this album. Flea is one of my favorite bassists, and I love his two bass solos on Coffee Shop. Finally, Tearjerker is a wonderful eulogy to (according to what I've heard) Kurt Cobain. The only track I like that wasn't released as a single was the quiet pacifist song Pea, sung by Flea. Cool song! Now, for the bad, which translates to "the rest of the album". Deep Kick is one of the worst songs I have ever heard in my life. For one, it's six-and-a-half minutes long, and almost two of those minutes are taken up by a stupid monolog. For another, it is void of any new ideas. For a third, the lyrics are stupid. Come on, the main hook is, "Oh s***", if you needed an idea of the intelligence level you're looking at here. The title track and One Big Mob aren't much better, either: particularly not the latter, which has a bunch of basso-profundo chanting uncomfortably close to the Slovak days. And Dave's psychedelic guitar sounds frustratingly out-of-place on the likes of Walkabout, Falling into Grace and Shallow Be Thy Game. Oh, and the album art's just weird. It's like a children's book that would be written by that creepy old guy who hangs out alone near playgrounds and offers little kids he doesn't know candy and a ride home without even bothering to ask where the little kid in question lives. Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, By the Way and Stadium Arcadium are all great records. Same with Nothing's Shocking and Ritual de lo Habitual. This cannot stand with them. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: At the time of its release, One Hot Minute was viewed as the beginning of a new direction for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Guitarist John Frusciante had departed and former Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro joined the ranks after some false starts with short-lived replacements. Band chemistry here isn't quite up to past standards. Navarro stretches out throughout the album, imbuing tunes with a heavy dose of hard rock and psychedelia and providing a stark contrast from Frusciante's dexterous noodling. Tracks such as "Warped" and "Aeroplane" display a band prone to exploring a less frenetic hard rock, while "Shallow Be Thy Game" sounds like the old band. Frusciante eventually returned to the fold, so this 1995 collection now stands as a curious intermission for the Peppers. --Rob O'Connor