Love it Review ofCalifornication - Red Hot Chili Peppersby
peterbenfield
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I love this album. Most of the tracks are good with 3 chart hits on the album. The album has alot of funky stuff such as around the world aswell as slower stuff such as the otherside and scar tissue. My favorite track has to be easily and it has the best guitar duet that I have ever heard. I listen to this album the whole time, I just love it and I recommend that you buy as soon as possible. The singing is good and clear and the instrument playing ...
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Advantages: Great value for money Disadvantages: None
I think that this is the best album of the year. It proves that the Peppers are still putting in the maximum effort needed to produce such a cracking album. Their other albums are hard to follow but they have succeeded with Californication. I feel that this album is hard to put down and it is impossible to get bored of. I had heard my friends raving about this CD and borrowed it for a couple of days. When I had to part with it I had no choice but ...
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Advantages: more relaxing!! Disadvantages: not as witty
...to be honest I liked Californication ... I REALLY did. This despite wanting to hate it. But Best yet?? No this ain't even close. Ok so its gonna be a huge success with newbie fans but if you want a definitive Chillies you gotta get Blood, Sugar..... The tracks were much wittier and infinitely more listenable to ... the nice Funk it up style beat gets you going too.
Whoever buys this PLEASE at the same time buy one of the earlier albums just to ...
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10.08.2000
Great Summer Rock Review ofCalifornication - Red Hot Chili Peppersby
cobbler
Advantages: top summer driving music Disadvantages: not exactly normal RHCP style
The latest offering from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Californication", is a perfect example of what I call "summer rock". Imagine the scene, you're cruising along on a warm summer's day with the windows down, music playing in the background. Well that music would be this album!
"Scar Tissue", "Californication" and "Around The World" are particular favourites of mine, to be honest I didn't think the Chili's had an album like this in them. It's even ...
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06.08.2000
hot in the sun Review ofCalifornication - Red Hot Chili Peppersby
lougiles
Until buying this album the only two red hot songs I had heard were otherside and scar tissue, so I wouldn't of classed myself a fan, however after listening to this compilation of smooth sounds coupled with bass, drums and guitar to create a unique sound which is the red hot chili peppers trademark I had to re evalute my whole stand on music in general, with this album converting me from my R&B roots. On this album the tracks which stand out are ...
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16.07.2000
Californication Review ofCalifornication - Red Hot Chili Peppersby
DaveRobinson
Advantages: Great tracks Disadvantages: none
This was the album that converted me to a full scale Chilis fan and sent me back to previous work. All in all Blood Sugar Sex Magik remains their best work for funky rhythms, but this tops it for the mature reflection hidden behind the tightest grooves. 'Scar Tissue' is the ultimate in summertime chillin'-cruisin' and 'Otherside' could become a modern classic. The raw energy of the Peppers is carried over from One Hot Minute and it is refreshing to ...
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Advantages: nice guitar riffs Disadvantages: the songs are a little to similar to each other
The red hot chili peppers are one of the biggest names in rock music and this album shows why. It is filled with sumptuous guitar riffs such as those in "scar tissue" and the brilliant "californication" and thought provoking lyrics. Previously i was not a huge fan of the bands work or rather had not heard much of it apart from the wonderfull, "under the bridge". I bought this album on the basis of one single "scar tissue" which i particularly liked. ...
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Advantages: some new sounds and something new as we havnt heard from them in a while Disadvantages: a bit too simaler to thier other albums
...band's songwriting style has become. Californication doesn't necessarily mark a redefinition of the band's sound, but it is defiantly worth listening to for any log-term peppers fans! ...
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02.08.2000
Get on Top Review ofCalifornication - Red Hot Chili Peppersby
nicolap
Advantages: Lots of songs Disadvantages: Perhaps a little too much quietness
Californication is yet another marvellous creation by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, containing all the expected elements of one of their albums. There is variety throughout, with rock, indie, a bit of funk, and some slow, simple ballads. This in itself should make you want to listen, as there is guaranteed to be at least one song you'll like.
The album itself is quite lengthy, with 15 songs, each, in my opinion, standing out from the rest in their ...
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Advantages: most of the songs Disadvantages: road trippin
In 1998, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' future looked bleak. The band was recovering from the commercial disappointment of 1995's "One Hot Minute" which featured former Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro; separate motorcycle accidents from drummer Chad Smith and singer Anthony Kiedis; the heroin relapse for Navarro and Kiedis; and the near-death heroin addiction of former guitarist John Frusciante. In early spring of '98, Navarro decided to leave ...
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...favourites are The Otherside and Californication purely for the subtle approach to song writing and understating that makes the music lift above being a mere song.
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Track Listing:
1. Around The World
2. Parallel Universe
3. Scar Tissue
4. Otherside
5. Get On Top
6. Californication
7. Easily
8. Porcelain
9. Emit Remmus
10. I Like Dirt
11. This Velvet Glove
12. Savior
13. ...
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Still hot... Review ofCalifornication - Red Hot Chili Peppersby
OwenP
Advantages: Mostly beautiful songs, quality at their respective instruments Disadvantages: A few weak tracks
The thing that I find frustrating about the 'Red Hot Chili Peppers' is the fact that many of their albums are too inconsistant. That is not to say that this album is not rated by me at all but there does happen to be a trend in their album-making ability that says "Now let's make a shite song". Don't get me wrong - I am a big fan of this group, but yet again with 'Californication' there are too many weak songs. For example, the first four song are ...
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Advantages: Still not as good as their earliest stuff. Disadvantages: Californication and Scar Tissue are pretty damn fantastic songs!
...perfect song!
4. Otherside- Among with Californication and Easily, the standout track on the album.
5. Get on Top- Bizarrely titled funk-rock track. Hated it the first time I heard it, but it grows on you.
6. Californication- Impossibly catchy but still vey intelligent and thoughtful.
7. Easily- Three word- Fantastic guitar solo!
8. Porcelain- A ballad, and not the best one at that. Slightly dull and definitely melodramatic.
9. Emitremmus- Definitely ...
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Advantages: well thought out and complex Disadvantages: length means 1 or 2 poor tracks are inevitible
After just a few months into my new found addiction to rock, I heard the song 'Otherside' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the radio. I was hooked by the moment that song first played out and it was to become one of my all time favorites (and no, I do not think that this is an exaggerated statement).
Of course,I knew OF the Chili Peppers by that point, such tracks as 'Under the Bbridge' being unmissable. But no song, even Scar Tissue, made me stand ...
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Advantages: Perfect for any occasion Disadvantages: None whatsoever
The Chili's are an easy band to like as it is, but 1999 was the year in which they truly became accessible to all, thanks to the brilliance of Californication. As a band, the Chili's have been through a lot, from drugs and deaths throught to the problems of fatherhood. With this album they left behind the Californian idiosyncracies that had once highlighted but more recently dogged their appeal and turned on the excesses of Americana in all its forms ...
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Californication
Following a string of unsatisfactory replacements (including former Jane's Addiction alum
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Dave Navarro), Californication--the band's seventh album--saw them reunited with both errant guitarist John Frusciante (hauled out of a long and debilitating hero...
CALIFORNICATION
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Anthony Kiedis (vocals); John Frusciante (guitar); Flea (bass);
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Chad Smith (drums).Additional personnel: Patrick Warren (Chamberlin organ); Greg Kurstin (keyboards).Engineers include: Jim Scott, John Sorenson, Greg Fidelman.Scar ...
Dave Navarro), Californication--the band's seventh album--saw them reunited with both errant guitarist John Frusciante (hauled out of a long and debilitating hero...