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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Jan 5, 2010 23:40:21 GMT -5
Josh Klinghoffer has confirmed that he has replaced John Frusciante as the new guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Sounds like he was the obvious choice. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Klinghoffer
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Post by Devin on Jan 16, 2011 15:06:01 GMT -5
Yeah with Frusciante gone I dunno how this will sound. At least Flea's still there :)
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Post by The Party Captain on Jan 17, 2011 2:05:06 GMT -5
I dunno. For me, Frusciante was the integral part. His riffs and backing vocals mean just as much to me as Kaedis.
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Post by Devin on Jan 17, 2011 9:23:08 GMT -5
How about Frusciante, Flea, Kiedis, and Smith are Red Hot Chili Peppers, and that's the way they should be.
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Post by pen on Jan 17, 2011 19:43:57 GMT -5
I still don't think there's anything wrong with One Hot Minute, and no one can convince me otherwise.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Jan 17, 2011 20:38:08 GMT -5
Not to mention the new guitar player is pretty killer. It could freshen things up. Plus it'll make things all the more fresh-sounding when John returns again. *wishful thinking*
I agree that One Hot Minute is pretty good. I'm also generally a Dave Navarro supporter. I really dug his solo song "Hungry", maybe even more than anything by Jane's Addiction.
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Post by pen on Jan 17, 2011 21:13:27 GMT -5
RHCP doesn't even really like One Hot Minute, which is why they ignored it on the Greatest Hits.
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Post by pen on Jan 17, 2011 21:20:55 GMT -5
I meant fans. I'm sure there a few albums they regret making. And I have the greatest hits, with at least 2 songs appearing on there. Aeroplane for sure, and I assume Warped. No, the only song on the GH from OHM is "My Friends", and the only videos included are "My Friends" and "Aeroplane". Whereas all other albums have a fair cut.
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Post by pen on Jan 17, 2011 21:21:51 GMT -5
Correction, I just grabbed the package (huh huh, hmmmm, uh huh), My Friends and Aeroplane made the set. I think they appreciate a little from One Hot Minute anyway. Maybe if you ever did some research on the bands you love to "talk about", you'd know that they don't like OHM.
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Post by pen on Jan 17, 2011 21:31:24 GMT -5
Considering it only charted 3 singles, putting two on there pretty much makes One Hot Minute have the same ratio of representatives as the other albums. Just by estimating anyway. Really? Only one track out of 16 is a fair representation? Especially since there were only four albums represented? I mean, I recognize something had to get the short end of the stick, but that's cold. I mean, they put on "Soul To Squeeze" from Coneheads and "Higher Ground", they could've easily nixed those for "Aeroplane" and "Warped". And they omitted the videos for "Warped" and "Coffee Shop". Granted they also omitted "Breaking The Girl". Pretty questionable choice IMO. I mean, they didn't even include "Can't Stop" on the disc, so I'm not saying that GH on the whole didn't have problems. Even still, cold.
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Post by The Party Captain on Jan 17, 2011 23:01:40 GMT -5
I always wondered why "Can't Stop" wasn't on there. That's probably my favorite RHCP song of all time.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Jan 17, 2011 23:09:39 GMT -5
Can't Stop is on the second disc. I barely remember the two new tracks on the CD.
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Post by pen on Jan 17, 2011 23:17:12 GMT -5
Can't Stop is on the second disc. I barely remember the two new tracks on the CD. The "second disc" is of the videos. But the main disc, the actual music that is incorporating the part that is considered the album, that is what we're talking about. And the two tracks were "Fortune Faded" (which was great) and "Save The Population" (which I never heard).
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Post by jvandyck87 on Jan 17, 2011 23:42:55 GMT -5
Considering it only charted 3 singles, putting two on there pretty much makes One Hot Minute have the same ratio of representatives as the other albums. Just by estimating anyway. Really? Only one track out of 16 is a fair representation? Especially since there were only four albums represented? I mean, I recognize something had to get the short end of the stick, but that's cold. I mean, they put on "Soul To Squeeze" from Coneheads and "Higher Ground", they could've easily nixed those for "Aeroplane" and "Warped". And they omitted the videos for "Warped" and "Coffee Shop". Granted they also omitted "Breaking The Girl". Pretty questionable choice IMO. I mean, they didn't even include "Can't Stop" on the disc, so I'm not saying that GH on the whole didn't have problems. Even still, cold. Dude, as much as there's history with Artie, I think I gotta side with him on this one. I mean he is right. Plus you're really going to use "Soul To Squeeze" and "Higher Ground" as your expamples of the songs that should have been cut? Really? Nuh uh...not gonna happen. The album wasn't as well-liked by their fans as the others, and I'm sure John had some say as to what made the collection. And if the album only had 3 singles, then Artie is right...that's a much more fair metric of whether an album is underrepresented or not than how many tracks were on it. And as you said, "Breaking The Girl" also missed, so obviously they had to leave out some big hits to arrive at the collection that they felt would ultimately represent their body of work the best. Compared to Incubus neglecting 'S.C.I.E.N.C.E.' altogether on their Greatest Hits disc, I think think RHCP did the right thing. That said, OHM is still a solid album.
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Post by pen on Jan 18, 2011 0:48:20 GMT -5
Why not? "Higher Ground" was already present on their first Greatest Hits comp, What Hits. It didn't need to be present on this one. As for "Soul To Squeeze", I personally have never heard it, but I do see it did very well on the charts. I can only comment on the fact that if it's a necessary inclusion, it still shouldn't be as necessary as actual album cuts in my opinion. Something could have been done, and that's all I'm sayin.
Then all three singles should have been represented. And I say this only because so many singles were included from Blood Sugar and Californication, and I know that was for good reason, but for example, "Road Trippin'" is on the album. Huh? That was an international single only. "Parallel Universe" was a great song, but not a single. I just think there are pretty glaring omissions from that album and some questionable choices in their place, and again I must point out "Can't Stop", "The Zephyr Song", and "Around The World" as other big songs omitted from the album portion of the disc. All I'm saying is that if I were constructing the list, I would've done it differently.
That's different. First off, there were no hits from SCIENCE. Also, it completely contrasts by and large with the rest of their output. That was an understandable omission. And I wouldn't say it was neglected altogether, since they did include an acoustic rendition of "A Certain Shade Of Green" on the b-sides portion.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Jan 18, 2011 13:31:58 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure "Parallel Universe" was at the very least a radio single. Wikipedia doesn't have it listed, but I'm pretty sure that it charted on alternative. Both my local alternative station and WXRK (K-Rock New York) had it in rotation after "Californication" as the 5th single from the album.
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Post by pen on Jan 18, 2011 13:54:02 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure "Parallel Universe" was at the very least a radio single. Wikipedia doesn't have it listed, but I'm pretty sure that it charted on alternative. Both my local alternative station and WXRK (K-Rock New York) had it in rotation after "Californication" as the 5th single from the album. Upon further investigation, it was played on radio as a promotional single, although it was never officially released as a single. Didn't chart very well either.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Jan 18, 2011 14:31:08 GMT -5
Man, CT rock stations play "Soul To Squeeze" like it's "Under The Bridge". I could never see that song being omitted. Around here it's in the hunt for the biggest song of their career. Weird.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Jan 18, 2011 14:34:21 GMT -5
That is weird. It's probably my least favorite single from the band, except for most of the By The Way releases.
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Post by pen on Jan 18, 2011 14:45:49 GMT -5
"Don't Forget Me" deserved to be a single.
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Post by American Idiot on Jan 18, 2011 21:40:46 GMT -5
Man, CT rock stations play "Soul To Squeeze" like it's "Under The Bridge". I could never see that song being omitted. Around here it's in the hunt for the biggest song of their career. Weird. Yeah, same with all the stations I've ever heard down here. Really, the songs sound so similar in my opinion and I've heard them so many times over the years that I rarely even realize which song is playing unless I'm really paying attention.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Jan 18, 2011 21:43:59 GMT -5
Haha that's true. The verses are freakishly similar.
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Jan 18, 2011 22:15:07 GMT -5
Album's due out in June.
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Post by pen on Jan 18, 2011 23:43:52 GMT -5
Just in time for summer.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Jan 21, 2011 2:24:12 GMT -5
Really, the songs sound so similar in my opinion and I've heard them so many times over the years that I rarely even realize which song is playing unless I'm really paying attention. Are you serious? :o And to Jamie, I've never ever ever noticed similarities in the "STS" and "UTB" verses and I still don't really hear them now, thinking about the songs in my head. And for Matthew, do yourself a favor: And just for completion's sake:
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Post by jvandyck87 on Jan 21, 2011 5:44:31 GMT -5
Good suggestion on "Save The Population". Why they didn't release it as a follow-up single behind "Fortune Faded" always confused me. "Save The Population" could have been just as big as "Fortune Faded" I think.
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Post by pen on Jan 21, 2011 8:23:43 GMT -5
And for Matthew, do yourself a favor: Thank you much good sir. Upon hearing Soul To Squeeze I remembered that I actually have heard that song before but I guess it's been so long I didn't remember it until I heard it again and it got to the chorus. Good song. Same with Save The Population.
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Post by American Idiot on Jan 21, 2011 13:44:02 GMT -5
Really, the songs sound so similar in my opinion and I've heard them so many times over the years that I rarely even realize which song is playing unless I'm really paying attention. Are you serious? :o Extremely serious. Too bad they don't have an emoticon for that ;) Also pen, if you've ever seen Coneheads, "Soul To Squeeze" is playing on the radio when they're in the car getting busy and Beldar rips the roof off of the car.
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Post by pen on Jan 21, 2011 15:39:08 GMT -5
I haven't seen Coneheads. Also, you don't have to keep calling me pen here. Nick's been calling me Matthew and you're the one who knows me.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Jan 23, 2011 13:12:18 GMT -5
Good suggestion on "Save The Population". Why they didn't release it as a follow-up single behind "Fortune Faded" always confused me. "Save The Population" could have been just as big as "Fortune Faded" I think. Yeah, if I wasn't biased by the single release of "Fortune Faded," I wouldn't be sure which song I prefer. It's pretty strong. I'm guessing though that "Fortune Faded" didn't do quite well enough for Warner Bros. to justify releasing another new single to promote a greatest-hits album. Off the top of my head I'm not coming up with any follow-up singles from greatest-hits albums (in any genre) that have done particularly well. Thank you much good sir. Upon hearing Soul To Squeeze I remembered that I actually have heard that song before but I guess it's been so long I didn't remember it until I heard it again and it got to the chorus. Good song. Same with Save The Population. I had a hard time believing you'd never heard that song before in your life. It's one of my all-time favorite Chili Peppers songs.
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