One Hot Minute

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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'Connor --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

One Hot Minute
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#1 on my list of Most Underrated Guitar (Rock) Albums of the Last 25 Years

Not the same band

A Weird Detour from RHCP

Pretty dope actually

awesome and beautiful

One Hot Minute
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002MTR
Release Date: 1995-09-12

Tracks:

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

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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'Connor

Customer Reviews:

#1 on my list of Most Underrated Guitar (Rock) Albums of the Last 25 Years.......2007-06-04

I must admit, I have never been a Chili Peppers fan. With the exception of their brilliant cover of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" (from their 1989 album Mother's Milk), I'd always found something lacking in their music. The guitar playing seemed minimalistic and vague, although I have the same problem with U2 guitarist Edge's playing on every album after The Joshua Tree, so I'm certain this is just a matter of taste. When Peppers guitarist John Frusciante took a hiatus from the band in 1992, the addition of former Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro (who can be heard with that band in the recent film Anger Management), created a marriage that produced a once in a lifetime, sonically amazing roller coaster ride of an album; one which is rivaled in terms of technical skill only by Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. The comparison of these two offerings is not pretentious; the scope of One Hot Minute is absolutely amazing. The Peppers shift easily between Funk, Hip Hop, Metal, Pop and Jazz (sometimes within the same song) while making all 13 tracks sound like a cohesive whole. Undertones of Middle Eastern and Classical music carry the listener from one song to the next, while a cacophony of seemingly random sounds and uniquely voiced instrumentation pushes and pulls beneath it all, like an undertow that you can feel but can't quite see. Somehow, sometimes in spite of itself, it all works.

This is obviously not an easy album to like; many people will find that, stylistically, the album's scope is just too broad. Familiarity with the material is key to liking it; it's simply too overwhelming to take in all at once. "Transcending", the album's closer, floats on air for the first half, then suddenly turns assaultive and angry. This is not radio friendly material for the most part, and it most certainly is not safe. It is, however, exciting and a refreshing change from the usual stale AB/AB/C type of songwriting. Of course, there are hits here; "My Friends" and "Tearjerker" (a song rumored to be about Kurt Cobain) received airplay, but they don't represent the album as a whole. No one or two songs could.

In terms of technical ability, the Peppers have never been better. They seamlessly utilize odd time signatures as well as any progressive band, and production by mainstay Rick Rubin is crisp and clear. Navarro, who has always been fond of experimenting with different guitar sounds, shows surprising reserve here. Seldom does he stray from more than a simple Wah and Chorus pedal setup. Occasionally there is a bit of delay added but, for the most part, the odd sounds you think you're hearing turn out to be the style of the music rather than any added effects. Flea, too, shines, popping and slapping bass notes one minute, hammering and pulling off the next, but always serving as a solid foundation and backing off where needed. Now if we could only get the man to stop singing, although I suspect the addition of his warbling, off-key vocal "Pea" was done to make regular vocalist Anthony Kiedis sound better by comparison. As for Kiedis, his lyrics have matured as well, while still retaining his unusual wit. "Coffee Shop" boasts the terrific couplet "Meet me at the coffee shop / We can dance like Iggy Pop" while, on a more serious note, the Agnostic "Shallow Be Thy Game" announces "Your Hell is something scary / I prefer a loving god", then continues "And what is worse / I do not serve in fear of such a curse". Personal and spiritual exploration are the intertwining themes on the album. The only true problem I have with the lyrics is the continuous stream of vulgarities. While I'm not a Puritan by any means, I do love to share great music with people, and this limits my ability to do so in this case. Nevertheless, the listener should be warned: this one is raunchy even by the Peppers' standards.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers go through guitar players like Spinal Tap went through drummers. Some, like current axeman John Frusciante, have been in and out of the band for years while others, like pre-One Hot Minute guitarist Jesse Tobias, were only around for a few months. If you have always found yourself on the verge of liking the band, Dave Navarro has given them the edge you just may be looking for on an album that ranks as #1 on my list of Most Underrated Guitar (Rock) Albums of the Last 25 Years.

One Hot Minute ~ Red Hot Chili Peppers
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The Good - Amazing stylistic depth and replayability; technical skill has never been better

The Bad - Flea sings; too vulgar to share with my kids

The Final Word - This is a sonically exciting album that needs to be heard several times in order to learn, then love, the music.

Not the same band.......2007-03-18

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are without a doubt my favorite band, and as such, it is hard to admit that I don't recommend this album to fans. Whether due to the absence of pivotal guitarist John Frusciante, the addition of intermedial replacement Dave Navarro, or just a lack of band chemistry, this record has little unity and even less harmony. The Peppers' sound tends to change with each cd they produce, but in my opinion, this is the only one that is not an improvement. Though numbers like "Aeroplane," "Shallow Be Thy Game," and "My Friends" are nice, catchy songs, they are not up to the band's level of play. This album is worth a listen and maybe even a purchase just for the sake of owning it, but for a sample of the real Chili Peppers, I would turn to Mother's Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, By The Way, or Stadium Arcadium, because this record just doesn't show the band in the light they deserve.

A Weird Detour from RHCP.......2006-11-16

Ragging on this album just because of Dave Navarro's presence is unwarranted. Face it: The Chili Peppers have seen various different guitarists in their albums, and each compliments Flea's bass and Kiedis' vocals in a suitable manner. Navarro just happened to be heavier.

This album IS, in my a opinion, a strange detour from the line of continuity that the Chili Peppers had been following. The first album was patchy funk affair nurtured under the hollow production imposed by GoF's Andy Gill. The second album saw a lazy, fun sort of funk come to the fore under the auspices of George Clinton. With "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan," there was a move towards trebly funk rock. 1989's "Mother's Milk" was a great blend of powerful funk rhythms and massive guitar overdubs. The sound was rather balanced by the sheer intensity of it all, and the production made it all enjoyable. The next album, "Blood Sugar Sex Magik," brough the production back to a more stable level. It was here where the care-free funk and the unique guitar work were allowed to flourish in their own manner. And the results were great.

But "One Hot Minute" sees the production values take an abrupt dark shift. The general atmosphere of the album is one of hazy psychedelia meshed with overly dark sensibilities. Songs like Warped, Deep Kick and the title track best exhibit this foray into the dark side. The psychedelia comes to the fore on both the funky numbers (Walkabout, Falling into Grace) and poppier tracks like Airplane. Both of these types of songs inhabit a barely lucid realm that's totally different from the band-in-a-room sound on the previous album. Sometimes, the darkness and the psych can both manifest themselves within the confines of a particular song. All of this can be rather unsettling for those accustomed to a funky, happy-go-lucky sort of juvenile sound.

The songs themselves are much more difficult to swallow than the tracks on previous albums. Those albums had a lot of filler and throwaway tracks, while all of BSSM could be enjoyably absorbed in a single sitting. With "One Hot Minute," however, the overbearing heavyness makes it hard to listen to the album over and over. Navarro's guitar sound is just too heavy in many ways, and it drowns our Flea's characteristic bass in many instances. The vocals on the tracks rely more on attitude than content (as always with Kiedis), but there's a certain straightforward approach here that stands in contrast with the more playful mannerisms of previous album. The various songs can be instantly catchy or tough to assimiliate, but very few are actually terrible. For instance, the title track descents into unnecessary repetition which just hurts its value in the end. But, for the most part, the tracks are all quite solid in their own right.

This album seems to head down a direction that defies the route that the Chili Peppers seemed to have been following. The production and the songs, coupled with the heavier guitar sound and vocal approach, made it tough to stomach this piece of work. In retrospect, however, it manages to stand on its own quite well. It's not a dud; it's just an odd digression that will take some time to reconcile and appreciate.

Pretty dope actually.......2006-10-29

People always say this album was weird as a result of it having Dave Navarro on guitar, I've heard this said before and it's reflected in the amazon review for the album above as well. However, on this album which came out in 1995 the Chili Peppers still have that energetic spark & creativity, just with a different guitarist. In my opinion though the Chili Peppers continued to evolve and experiment with different sounds from BSSM to this album to Californication, they never really started to fall off until 2002's By The Way. That's when they took some of the poppy top 40 radio-friendliness of Californication too far to an unbalanced level, they watered down their sound too much. But they've been around for so long & released so many great albums, every single one up to that point so one can't really complain.

awesome and beautiful.......2006-10-22

I would say that this is my favorite rhcp album
i would say that this dave is the best guitarist rhcp ever had
however, frusciante is my favorite musician of all time, so his stuff remains my favorite.
the one great thing this album has is that it flows beautifully, not like a collection of songs but as a collection of art. music, poetry, attitude, meaning, all of that into one album something that so far rhcp has been unable to recreate. I also enjoyed the lack of sex driven masculine songs on here replaced by more sensitive songs (not that i dislike sir psycho sexy, or the like). One hot minute is beautiful and only surpassed by bssm, rhcps masterpiece.
warped-kind of scary, atmospheric song about keidises addiction to drugs
aeroplane-a song with references about keidises drug addiction, but more importantly, a song about music providing a high instead of drugs
deep kick- a song about the crazy times keidis flea and hillel had as kids, including using drugs
my friends- a sad ballad about keidises friends depression)maybe after hillels death)
coffee shop-quick song about nothing with the sickest bass solo ever
pea-sung and played soley by flea(the bassist) good song about how stupid rednecks and homophobes are
one big mob- odd song with lots of variety, and a crying baby solo, its awesome
walkabout-is this a song about walking? i think maybe reguardless its awesome and one of my favorites on here
tearjerker-sad song about the death of kurt cobain
one hot minute - about keidises first kiss i think its so cool
falling into grace-the most beautiful song on the album, with almost billy corgan-esque lyrics (she moves in a rapture that her capsule might land on your star)
shallow be thy game-good song about the banality and closed mindedness of religion, some of the greatest lyrics , no truer words were ever spoken
transcending- never heard anthony scream like this such a great closer, very angry and dark, leaves you with the sad and dark feeling that "warped" brang you into originally

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One Hot Minute
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Manufacturer: Warner Bros.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EZ88FU
Release Date: 2007-05-21

Tracks:

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

Album Description

Exclusive limited edition Japanese pressing of the 1995 album comes packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Their only album to feature former Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro (who replaced John Frusciente) and features the hit 'My Friends'. WB. 2006.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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The essence of a great entertainer catpured.

At The Hollywood Bowl + Encore

Manufacturer: Collectables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005Y8VW
Release Date: 2001-01-30

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I'll Be Right Back
Alouette - Liberace, George Liberace, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Theme and Welcome Back
Gershwin Medley: Rhapsody in Blue/Embraceable You/Love Walked ...
Hillbilly Music
Hey Liberace
Intro
Liberace Boogie
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Rosary
George and His Hot Fiddle
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2 CD set includes-At The Hollywood Bowl & Hollywood Bowl Encore. These two albums comprise a memorable 1954 performance including, for the first time, the entire concert, complete with Liberace's colorful monologues. Highlights include 'Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out The Barrel)', 'Bumble Boogie' and 'Twelfth Street Rag'. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

The essence of a great entertainer catpured........2004-05-03

Liberace was a great showman and entertainer. This double CD is the best record of his classic act and demonstrates what Liberace was all about. Although recorded in 1954 the sound quality is fine and many of the elements from that period remained part of Liberace's act over more than 30 years. Interestingly - he was not yet using "I'll Be Seeing You" as his exit music. If there is anything you like about Liberace - get this CD.
NB Amazon (on 2/5/04) was only listing the tracks on the second CD.

One Hot Minute: North Carolina Hip-Hop Compilation

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North Carolina on the Rise

One Hot Minute: North Carolina Hip-Hop Compilation
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Hazardous Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008L3Z3
Release Date: 2003-03-04

Tracks:

Intro - Sean Ingram
T.R.O.Y. - Mark Twain
Rowdy - Boog Brown
Ya'll Don't Know - Lock N Load
Dem Boyz - Smokwun
Jealousy - Mashanda Favors
Hood Is Wit Me - Ike-N-Shyst
Who It Be? - Dirty Red, DJ Kysheem
Interview - Larry Pickett
Young O.G. - Guido
Who Is Dem? - Mr. Dev'Yon
Respect Me (Knock Out) - Fran D.
Bounce on In - Armed Souljahs
On Top - Felony Shine

Tracks:

Wild Out - Ill Beingz
Wire - 200, P. Batters, Boog, Guido, Shyster
Commin for Ya' - Lil' Real
Disco Lady - Ike-N-Shyst
I Love You Haters - The Kaze, Kaze
Alumni - Mr. Dev'Yon
Listen to Me - Sniper
What's a Girl to Do? - Mashanda Favors
Hay Papi - Lock N Load
Down Dirdy - Boog Brown
Dirty Scratch - Dirty Red, DJ Kysheem
What It Look Like? - Nay Nay
Tearz - Lodine, Thug Vegas
Tap Water - Knotty Brovas
Do What You Do - Laidback Syndicate
What's My Name? - Locks
Give It Up - Rayted-R

Customer Reviews:

North Carolina on the Rise.......2004-01-22

"One Hot Minute" is a unique cd largely because there aren't a lot of samplers of NC hip hop artists available. Plus it's a double cd. The overall effect is a little uneven but I gave it 4 stars because where else could you hear such a range of artists including:

Armed Soulijahs, Boog Brown, Mr. Dev'Yon, Felony Shine, Fran D., Ike-n-Shyst, ill Beingz, Iodine & Thug Vegas, Kaze, Knotty Brovas, Laidback Synicate, Lil' Real, Mashanda Favors, Rayted-R, Smokwun, Sniper and Larry Pickett

You know? And that's just part of the list. It does tend to focus on the Triangle, that's Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill. Apparently they're doing a follow up at some point and maybe that will expand the geographic range cause hip hop's happening all over NC.

Actually my biggest complaint is that these guys put out a cd to represent NC but apparently didn't bother to give Amazon any real information. I know that's not an aesthetic issue but WHAT?!?!

Peace
An NC Hip Hop Head living elswhere for the moment.

One Hot Minute
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One Hot Minute
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
Manufacturer: WARNER BROS.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000N40EIG