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Whatchu Thinkin is probably my favorite song on the album, albeit with a dissapointing guitar solo. Anthonys vocal melody sounds fantastic all over.

 

The verse melody on The Heavy Wing is great as well. Chorus is great

 

The album definitely picks up after the first 5 songs. The first 5 songs seemed like they were just kinda jamming for the sake of jamming. 

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16 hours ago, Mendez said:

Whatchu Thinkin is probably my favorite song on the album, albeit with a dissapointing guitar solo. Anthonys vocal melody sounds fantastic all over.

 

The verse melody on The Heavy Wing is great as well. Chorus is great

 

The album definitely picks up after the first 5 songs. The first 5 songs seemed like they were just kinda jamming for the sake of jamming. 

Whatchu thinkin is my favourite too. The guitar line line in the chorus is beautiful.

I also agree the best songs are in the middle of the album - although i am a big fan of here everafter.

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On 4/11/2022 at 10:51 AM, EvanG said:

In Total Guitar John says that he's playing more minimalistic on the record to let the others guys shine more.
He also said that they left some of the best songs off and might release them on the next record.

Great that he is talking about the next record,always the fear he might quit again!

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After living with the album for a while, this is my list best to worst:

1. White Braids & Pillow Chair

2. Here Ever After

3. Black Summer

4. Poster Child

5. She's a Lover

6. Aquatic Mouth Dance

7. Tangelo

8. The Great Apes

9. Bastards of Light

10. The Heavy Wing

11. Veronica

12. These Are The Ways

13.  Not The One 

14. Let Em Cry

15. Whatcha Thinkin

16. It's Only Natural

17. One Way Traffic


 

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On 4/17/2022 at 9:09 AM, Towelie said:

After living with the album for a while, this is my list best to worst:

1. White Braids & Pillow Chair

2. Here Ever After

3. Black Summer

4. Poster Child

5. She's a Lover

6. Aquatic Mouth Dance

7. Tangelo

8. The Great Apes

9. Bastards of Light

10. The Heavy Wing

11. Veronica

12. These Are The Ways

13.  Not The One 

14. Let Em Cry

15. Whatcha Thinkin

16. It's Only Natural

17. One Way Traffic


 

I think mine would be:

GREAT SONGS

1.Here Ever After

2.Shes A Lover

3.Bastards of Light

4.Veronica

5.White Braids & Pillow Chair

6.Watchu Thinkin

7.The Heavy Wing

8.Its Only Natural

GOOD SONGS

9.Black Summer

10.The Great Apes

11.Aquatic Mouth Dance

12.Poster Child

OKAY SONGS

13.Tangelo

14.Let ‘Em Cry

15.Not the One

16.These Are the Ways

17.One Way Traffic

Something like that…

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On 4/11/2022 at 11:51 AM, EvanG said:

He also said that they left some of the best songs off and might release them on the next record.

Total Chinese Democracy move. And we all know how that worked out. 

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RHCP always records a shitton for their albums. Just for from the Stadium Arcadium sessions we got 37 and we know some more exist. I'm With You sessions also had 30 songs released and there are also some named songs that didn't get out. They had a scrapped album between BTW and SA that we got bits and pieces several years ago...

All in all, RHCP doesn't release albums often but when they start recording they record a lot. I think somebody from the band said (maybe Anthony in Scar Tissue? don't know) that they stop recording when the songs start to sound bad, not when they have enough for an album

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Great songs: Songs I will intentionally listen to for a long time
1) White Braids & Pillow Chair
2) Shes a Lover
3) The Heavy Wing
4) Its only Natural
5) Bastards of Light

Pretty Good Songs: Will throw on for some time

6) Veronica (anyone peep that She's So Heavy chord progression in the outro?)
7) Here Ever After - This song doesn't hit hard for me, but the band sounds so at ease in this song that it makes me feel good
8) Not the One - I actually love the instrumentation of this song, especially Flea's bassline at the end, which fun fact was supposed to be the vocal melody
9) One Way Traffic - yeah yeah it's a dumb song. This might not last.

Alright Songs: Never going to throw on, but not skipping
10) Black Summer - Might be higher if not for Anthony's folk accent
11) Whatchu Thinkin - like John's guitar parts, not much else
12) Poster Child - Way too long, and RHCP has done this song 1 if not 2 times already but better (Walkabout comes to mind)
13) Aquatic Mouth Dance - This would be a great live jam. I want to like it more.

Bad songs: Will likely skip

14) The Great Apes - Some cool parts, don't like the verses, a bit simplistic or something
15) These Are the Ways - Anthony terrible
16) Let 'Em Cry
17) Tangelo

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Good songs

Here ever after

It's only natural

Whatchu Thinkin

Bastards of light

White braids and pillow chair

She's a lover

Nerve Flip

Pretty Good Songs

Black summer

Aquatic mouth dance

The heavy wing

Alright Songs

Tangelo

The great apes

Let em cry

Poster child

Not so good

Veronica

One way traffic

Not the one

These are the ways

 

On another note I feel as though JFs guitar style has changed from a strong, muscular style to an almost apologetic style.

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15 hours ago, rocknroll41 said:

TATW has been growing on me again. I think it’s just the “the smells” part that I don’t like lol.

I kinda liked it from the first few listens. I love funky RHCP, but I also really like it when they're more rocking. And the drums are great.

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On 5/6/2022 at 2:20 PM, rocknroll41 said:

TATW has been growing on me again. I think it’s just the “the smells” part that I don’t like lol.

Same experience here, sometimes find it stuck in my head…feel like my brain is hate-listening to it. Anthony’s chorus just sucks much

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It's really his worst moment on the album. It's there with Detroit from The Getaway: 
Henry won the war you see
But not with pen or sword
He did it with the little thing I think it's called a Ford

 

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I recently revised my RHCP Top 10 list and three songs from UL made the cut:

1.UNDER THE BRIDGE

One of the greatest guitar intro riffs of all time.

2.SCAR TISSUE

The best example of John’s “low notes mixed with high notes” technique.

3.HERE EVERE AFTER

This song really gets me going in the morning.

4.WATCHU THINKIN

This song is very nostalgic for me in a “daytime” sorta way.

5.WHITE BRAIDS & PILLOW CHAIR

Love the harmonies and the “western” style. Plus, I figured I should include at least one song where they say California.

6.BY THE WAY

One of the best examples of how unique and important John and Flea’s chemistry is.

7.MINOR THING

One of my favorite guitar solos (despite how simple it actually is).

8.THE ZEPHYR SONG

This song is very nostalgic for me in a “nighttime” sorta way.

9.DEATH OF A MARTIAN

Anthony’s best work as a lyricist, and John’s best work as a backing singer.

10.TURN IT AGAIN

John’s best work as a guitarist.

I wanted to include stuff from the other guitarists, but sadly there just wasn’t room.

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2 hours ago, axl666 said:

Are they playing anything from one hot minute or the getaway on the current tour?

I'm gonna say no. Frusciante never played anything from Dave, only Flea may play Pea sometimes and it seems John is not acknowledging anything that Josh did in the interviews so far so I don't think they'll play those. It's really going to be 0-2 Hillel songs + 16-18 Frusciante tracks depending on the night

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