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RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS "Stadium Arcadium" Reviews
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AZRating: 7.2
Users rating: 8.2 |
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Release: 9 May 2006
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Genre: Rock
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| The Independent |
Rating: 10.0 |
It's by no means a completely perfect collection.
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| AbsolutePunk |
Rating: 9.2 |
If you buy one album in 2006, Stadium Arcadium should be that one as the Red Hot Chili Peppers have outdone themselves with this expansive, career-defining release.
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| E!Online |
Rating: 8.4 |
The whole thing seems like a guided tour through the band's different incarnations, so fans of Anthony Kiedis' quasi-spiritual coyote howl, Flea's slap bass antics and John Frusciante's inscrutable guitar doodling will be thrilled. Which is good, because these songs are going to be inescapable.
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| Entertainment Weekly |
Rating: 8.3 |
Listen to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' new hit single, ''Dani California,'' and you'll get a sense of what's good, bad, and aggravating about Stadium Arcadium, the band's ninth studio album.
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| RollingStone |
Rating: 8.0 |
Stadium Arcadium has too many midtempo tracks and, in the manner of U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind, is more of a summation of the Peppers' career than a step forward.
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| Jam! |
Rating: 8.0 |
Even if it's not the best of both worlds, it's still a nice little trip on its own.
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| Blogcritics |
Rating: 8.0 |
Stadium Arcadium is a brilliant album but it shouldn't have to span two discs and two hours to make that point.
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| Uncut |
Rating: 8.0 |
The album may be massive, but it's intimate as well, thanks in part to the wise decision not to pile on the overdubs.
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| Virgin |
Rating: 8.0 |
Doubtless there will be many critics who suggest that the band should have condensed this double album into a standard length LP of highlights, but that's to deny them the space to let creativity breathe - creativity which ultimately makes this album their best since Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
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| NME |
Rating: 7.0 |
No more socks on cocks, but have they lost their partying edge?
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| Times Online |
Rating: 6.0 |
Transmitting from the most harmonious phase in the band's 22-year life, Kiedis says that the group had enough ace material for a triple set. Well, he would, wouldn't he? It's a little late to expect modesty.
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| Guardian |
Rating: 6.0 |
Stadium Arcadium boasts virtuoso musicianship, lustrous arrangements and unpredictable flourishes, but inside all this breathtaking sonic architecture it is strangely empty.
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| NOW Magazine |
Rating: 6.0 |
The filler-rich Stadium Arcadium, produced by Rick Rubin, just confirms the conventional music-biz wisdom that no double album set, given some judicious editing, wouldn't be better as single album.
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| Dotmusic |
Rating: 6.0 |
Attempting such an ambitious concept in an age of diminished attention spans should no doubt be applauded, but overstretching itself in a stab at immortality, "Stadium Arcadium" marks a step backwards from 2002's "By The Way".
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 4.7 |
Double albums can be fearless declarations of self-indulgence, an idea dump for a band looking to expand its boundaries, give the secondary members a few chances to songwrite, or share that gestating song cycle about warring clans of magical elves with the world.
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| PrefixMag |
Rating: 3.0 |
The album is no more than a high-volume singles campaign -- an arsenal of potential radio and video hits packaged as a concept and touted as a grand return to form, just in case anyone is still paying attention to these things.
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Users comments
| Me |
Rating: 10.0 |
It is absolutely outstanding. The variety is like a trip through the 80's, 90's and 2000's. It has smooth rhythms, and hard rock. It has songs like 'Under the Bridge' and 'Californiacation' but others with that traditional Red Hot Chili Peppers funk. If you don't like this album, you are on crack. It is outstanding. It is as close to perfect as any album can get, and a must buy for ANY music fan! |
| Anything |
Rating: 9.0 |
This is one of the best albums in 2006.Totally impressive...the music really rocks.You can tell whether they're a good band by their tracks.Erm Me i also agreed on ur point that it's like 80s... rock music.Totally awesome album and it didn't disappoint me. |
| taffie |
Rating: 10.0 |
Stadium Arcadium is not an attempt to thrust forward new works and new ideas but to rekindle the experiences the Red Hot Chili Peppers have already had. The album follows up from what has already been and this is why, without a doubt, the fans love it more than any other album. New fans are also being found as the works seem both original and exciting to them! |
| Kman |
Rating: 10.0 |
ok, next to black parade, this is the best album of 2006, it has everytthing, and it has 28 songs, theirs bound to be one song you like. |
| GRETA |
Rating: 6.0 |
red hot chili peppers!!!!!!!!??
YOU can better!?!?! |
| Lance |
Rating: 10.0 |
I dare you to listen through these two disks several times and not say this album is better than anyone before it including greatest hits or whatever.
There are so many songs that you'll fall in love with no matter what type of rock you like.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are truely one of the greatest bands of all time! |
| Sugar |
Rating: 4.0 |
Snow and Dani Claifornia are the only ones worth your time. Even though Dani California is way overplayed. NO one can beat Death Cab for Cutie!!! |
| woweitsjodi@comcast.net |
Rating: 8.0 |
I love the video for Dani California, and the video,the music and the words to Snow {Hey Oh} are all absolutely stupendous!!!! Yeah you boys out did your self on that one!!! It will be my alltime favorite forever!!!! |
| xtremerockerdudeman |
Rating: 9.0 |
hey is the best song, not hey oh, and it does have a few filler songs, but i love slow cheetah, wet sand,she Looks to Me, desecration smile, hard to concentrate, if and the title track stadium arcadium
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| EmoNemo |
Rating: 10.0 |
I listen to this album more then I listen to my own mother. This album was beyond any speakable praise, put down, blah yakkety, yak and they should be proud. |
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