RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - stub review added 2nd December 2008
Album Review: Stadium Arcadium (2006)
For fans of: alternative rock... and unnecessarily long albums
The first song from double album Stadium Arcadium, 'Dani California', is good if tame. It sets the tone for the remainder of the release. The Chili sound is now so refined it often submerges itself in a flood of banality.
Occasionally the band rear their heads for breath. 'Hump De Bump' is a good example, as is 'Desecration Smile'. More often than not the band seem happy to pump out dreary if likeable sub-pop chill out music. It's not to say the album doesn't have high points, but there are considerably more valleys than mountain tops.
If Stadium Arcadium had been cut down to around 10 songs it could have been good. 28 tracks really is pushing matters. This is a classic example of quantity instead of quality. Shame.
Check out... Your MP3 player. Copy the best songs and forget the rest.
Track List:
Disc: 1
1. Dani California
2. Snow (Hey Oh)
3. Charlie
4. Stadium Arcadium
5. Hump de Bump
6. She's Only 18
7. Slow Cheetah
8. Torture Me
9. Strip My Mind
10. Especially in Michigan
11. Warlocks
12. C'mon Girl
13. Wet Sand
14. Hey
Disc: 2
1. Desecration Smile
2. Tell Me Baby
3. Hard to Concentrate
4. 21st Century
5. She Looks to Me
6. Readymade
7. If
8. Make You Feel Better
9. Animal Bar
10. So Much I
11. Storm in a Teacup
12. We Believe
13. Turn It Again
14. Death of a Martian
Artist's websites: Red Hot Chilli Peppers
