Monday, June 13th 2011
News: Red Hot Chili Peppers
RHCP’s ‘I’m With You’ 14-Song Tracklist Unveiled
The revitalized, re-stringed Red Hot Chili Peppers will return with their 10th studio album, I’m With You, on August 30th via Warner Bros. Records. The band has announced the full tracklist for the 14-song release, with lead single The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie set to premiere on July 18th.
The new album will also be the first to feature new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, who replaces the savant-like six-string wizardry and phenomenal harmonics of John Frusciante, who departed the band last year to sow his wild musical oats. Or some shit. He has enough money to not have to sing backup on Dani California anymore, essentially.
I’m With You was produced by Rick Rubin, who has produced the band’s previous five albums: 2006′s Stadium Arcadium, 2002′s By The Way, 1999′s Californication, 1995′s One Hot Minute and 1991′s Blood Sugar Sex Magik. The album was mixed by Andrew Scheps and Greg Fidelman.
I’m With You tracklist:
01. Monarchy Of Roses
02. Factory Of Faith
03. Brendan’s Death Song
04. Ethiopia
05. Annie Wants A Baby
06. Look Around
07. The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie
08. Did I Let You Know
09. Goodbye Hooray
10. Happiness Loves Company
11. Police Station
12. Even You Brutus?
13. Meet Me At The Corner
14. Dance, Dance, Dance
14 more songs about sex, California and sex in California, I’m sure. Which would be tolerable if the band wasn’t awful on every record sans Frusciante. Stadium Arcadium actually would have made a fine swan song for this band, and you never know if/when Frusciante will return from his latest flakery.
I’m with you on songs about California, but “every record sans Frusciante” means One Hot Minute, since the Hillel connection from a lifetime ago barely resembles modern day RHCP. And One Hot Minute was the fucking tits.
One Hot Minute definitely was the tits. Makes me wish they could’ve settled the bitching and got Navarro back now, especially watching old clips of them jam live in ’97, though I guess we’ll have to see how Klinghoffer fits in. Wanna call bullshit on Gurgle though; the “sex, California and sex in California” line is taken almost directly from Pitchfork’s review of Stadium. If you gave half a listen to The Empyrean you’d know where he’s going is far above a “flakery” too
FINALLY, a couple of people who aren’t afraid to say One Hot Minute was awesome. Everybody bashes the shit out of it because it didn’t have Froosh on there, it gets very old. Walkabout and Falling into Grace are classics, and I’ll always have a soft spot for My Friends.
I knew that line came from somewhere, Whyte, but I couldn’t remember. Thanks for the reminder.
I don’t know–I’ve tried with One Hot Minute and the Hillel albums, but they just don’t connect with me. OHM feels aimless aside from the singles and a couple other tracks. Listening to that record is the aural equivalent of watching a rudderless steam ship wreck into the docks. Frusciante is a fantastic guitarist, yet his solo albums are lacking RHCP’s rhythm section to fill them out. Flea notwithstanding, John was the real heart-and-soul of this band. He elevated them from frat boy douche-rock to ethereal and relevant. Plus, I will simply miss his multi-tracked backing vocals that gave RHCP’s songs the emotional heft that Keidas’s silly lyrics can’t do on their own.
one hot minute was great. by the way is underrated too (though less so), and stadium arcadium maybe didn’t need to be a double album.
Oh, By the Way is the tragically underrated RHCP album. That’s the closest RHCP will ever get to channeling the Beatles, strange as that sounds. (Stadium, on the other hand, is as close as they’ll get to channeling Pink Floyd.)
You are an idiot
is this band still relevant anyway??? seems like one hot minute was the end of the road for them.
Yes they are relevant.. and One Hot Minute was not the end of the road, even if you discount the great songs on By The Way and Stadium Arcadium, there still was that little album called Californication.
Maybe you forget.
Regardless of all this, I am still looking forward to the new RHCP album. And whatever John does will be well worth listening to.