Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
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Artist: Red Hot Chili PeppersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-09-12
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Warped
- Aeroplane
- Deep Kick
- My Friends
- Coffee Shop
- Pea
- One Big Mob
- Walkabout
- Tearjerker
- One Hot Minute
- Falling into Grace
- Shallow Be Thy Game
- Transcending
Music reviews of One Hot Minute
Music Review: A lull artistically, commercially and critically. But it wasn't fatal.
Rating: 3 Stars
OK I have a confession to make. I pre ordered this and still have the free sticker they gave you for doing so. So keep that in mind Pepperites later on in the review when I am less than sold on this disc. OK?
Released in 1995 this album was the follow up to the ridiculously successful Blood Sugar Sex Magik opus and the Chilis are to be soundly praised for not just trying to repeat the formula. Used as a single, Warped opens up the albums account with pretty much the closest thing to heavy metal on the album, swirling sounds devolving into a vortex of circular sounds, a feeling used as inspiration for the video. However things move into more familiar quirky rock with track two, Aeroplane.
Taken as a whole this was a brave move in some ways as the band take their predilections to their logical conclusion and the results - such as the rockin' paeon to thinking for yourself Shallow Be Thy Name - are sometimes pretty good. However overly simplistic stuff like Pea doesn't really 'do it'. Funk rock structures abound and for an example of this sample yourself One Big Mob or Deep Kick or ... well most of the album actually is still replete with this bouncy vibe this band pretty much owned on BSSM.
It's also nice to see the band try a few different studio tricks and experiment with new things such as the childrens choir on the aforementioned Aeroplane. As per my earlier statement, the band didn't just try to do BSSM pt2.
But there are problems. Last album, all this was fresh to many in the mainstream and had the element of surprise. Here many of these tricks we've seen before, the overly self conscious 'wacky' musical behaviour. And the problems arise when this descends from wacky to stupid. Like the silly romper room choral inflections on Deep Kick.
Critically this was a bust. It seemed to me at the time to mark the beginning of the end as sales were down, excitement and hype trailed off and even though I thought parts of this were brave it seems the mass public only had the patience/indulgence levels required to accept one album of funk-o-matic hard rock from these guys. And the band took the lesson to heart, morphing into something else entirely and have a second bite at the cherry, producing great music of a different hue.
But all up this isn't their best by far and really only rates three stars.
Description of One Hot Minute
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'ConnorGeneral CDs
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