Stadium Arcadium is the first post-Blood Sugar Chili Peppers album that actually sounds like it was reasonably fun to make; a source of mindless summer entertainment that people really shouldn’t feel ashamed to enjoy.
If you condensed ‘Stadium Arcadium’ down to 10 tracks, you’d be left with something special – that’s what MP3 players were made for.
Stadium Arcadium can't help but grow as distended as the name suggests, revealing a band too proud to merely play the game they've already solved or use the added space to risk a less worn path.
Where in the past, Kiedis' vocals have given the band's sound its forward momentum, on Stadium Arcadium, they're the least relevant part of the equation.
After an album where at least half the songs sounded retread'y or below average in quality the last thing you'd expect/hope for would be an unwieldy double album to follow next - but with 'Stadium Arcadium' (yup, that's the title they settled on) this is what we're confronted with.
'Dani California' is exactly the opener you'd have anticipated, continuing the lineage of 'Around the World' and 'By the Way', so it's only with the arrival of track two that alarm bells start to ring - in ... read more
Amazing double album with barely any filler, probably my favorite RHCP record next to One Hot Minute and Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Highlights were Dani California, Snow, Stadium Arcadium, Hump de Bump, She's Only 18, Strip My Mind, Wet Sand, Tell Me Baby, 21st Century, Readymade, If, Make You Feel Better, So Much I and Storm In a Teacup
I think this album is the peak of the Chili Peppers. It has the best mix of slow songs and their more funk sound. I love every song on the album. The best songs are Dani California, Snow, Slow Cheetah, and Hump de Bump. While this is quite a long project I would highly recommend giving it a listen.
1 | Dani California 4:42 | 90 |
2 | Snow (Hey Oh) 5:34 | 93 |
3 | Charlie 4:37 | 83 |
4 | Stadium Arcadium 5:15 | 83 |
5 | Hump de Bump 3:33 | 78 |
6 | She's Only 18 3:25 | 77 |
7 | Slow Cheetah 5:19 | 85 |
8 | Torture Me 3:44 | 83 |
9 | Strip My Mind 4:19 | 81 |
10 | Especially In Michigan 4:00 | 78 |
11 | Warlocks 3:25 | 76 |
12 | C'mon Girl 3:48 | 75 |
13 | Wet Sand 5:09 | 92 |
14 | Hey 5:39 | 83 |
1 | Desecration Smile 5:01 | 86 |
2 | Tell Me Baby 4:07 | 89 |
3 | Hard to Concentrate 4:01 | 78 |
4 | 21st Century 4:22 | 77 |
5 | She Looks to Me 4:06 | 77 |
6 | Readymade 4:30 | 77 |
7 | If 2:52 | 67 |
8 | Make You Feel Better 3:52 | 75 |
9 | Animal Bar 5:24 | 76 |
10 | So Much I 3:44 | 74 |
11 | Storm In a Teacup 3:45 | 75 |
12 | We Believe 3:36 | 73 |
13 | Turn It Again 6:06 | 79 |
14 | Death of a Martian 4:24 | 83 |
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