History Music / StadiumArcadium

The band agreed that the chemistry between its members was at its peak during the recording of this album (as opposed to previous sessions where one member would generally be the dominant creative force), and bassist Flea even stated that this was his favorite album out of all of them. After the album promotion tour, the band took a two-year hiatus during which they pursued other interests, and guitarist Music/JohnFrusciante left the band amicably in 2009. He has since been replaced by Josh Klinghoffer.

''Stadium Arcadium'' is the ninth studio album released by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers in 2006. It is the band's first (and so far, only) DistinctDoubleAlbum, with a whopping ''twenty-eight songs'' distributed between two discs. Nevertheless, it debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 200 and received massive critical and commercial success. It won five [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward Grammy Awards]], including Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song, and Best Rock Performance (the latter two accolades were both achieved by lead single "Dani California").

* DistinctDoubleAlbum: 28 songs in total, spread over two discs, one named "Mars" and the other "Jupiter." The band claim that this was because they didn't want there to be a particular chronological order to the disks.

* IThoughtItMeant: Fans used to hearing the Chili Peppers writing about drugs thought that "Snow ((Hey Oh))" and "Charlie" were both about cocaine (since both titles, by sheer coincidence, are slang terms for the stuff). This was alleviated after the band released a documentary discussing every almost every song on the main album, but suspicions still remain for some reason.

* GenreRoulette: In the music video of "Dani California", directed by Tony Kaye, shows the band dressing up in various costumes that chronologically show a history of rock music. Among the genres that pass by are {{Rockabilly}}, RockAndRoll, UsefulNotes/BritishInvasion, PsychedelicRock, {{Funk}}, GlamRock, PunkRock, GothRock, HairMetal and {{Grunge}}.

'''''Stadium Arcadium''''' is the ninth studio album released by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers in 2006. It is the band's first (and so far, only) DistinctDoubleAlbum, with a whopping ''twenty-eight songs'' distributed between two discs. Nevertheless, it debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 200 and received massive critical and commercial success. It won five [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward Grammy Awards]], including Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song, and Best Rock Performance (the latter two accolades were both achieved by lead single "Dani California").

* FourChordsOfPop: "Snow (Hey Oh)."

* DistinctDoubleAlbum: 28 songs in total, spread over two discs.

* RecurringCharacter: "Dani" was a character vocalist Anthony Kiedis invented in "Music/{{Californication}}", continued in "By the Way", and finally concluded in "Dani California" of this album.

* ConceptVideo: "Dani California" had the band dress up as [[AffectionateParody affectionate parodies]] of ''nine'' different artists who represented their musical influences, before culminating in the band's present-day attire.

* EpicRocking: The two-minute guitar solo on "Turn It Again", complete with four separate guitar tracks interweaving each other.

* ExplicitContent: The band actually averted the "Parental Advisory" sticker for the first time. However, "Tell Me Baby" does have a "''shitty''" concealed during its rap verses; "She's Only 18" has the cringeworthy lines "''You've got some glitter on your titty at the discotheque/I throw my lovin' in your oven not a head to check''"; and "21st Century" has the band singing (rather loudly) "''Oral sex and bird migration''" in the final verse. The committee still didn't deem it explicit for some reason.

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'''''Stadium Arcadium''''' is the ninth studio album released by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers in 2006. It is the band's first (and so far, only) DistinctDoubleAlbum, with a whopping ''twenty-eight songs'' distributed between two discs. Nevertheless, it debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 200 and received massive critical and commercial success. It won five [[GrammyAward Grammy Awards]], including Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song, and Best Rock Performance (the latter two accolades were both achieved by lead single "Dani California").

* ShoutOut: Chock full of these in the aforementioned "Dani California" video. Among the artists they dress up like are Music/ElvisPresley, Music/TheBeatles, Music/JimiHendrix, Music/{{Cream}}, [[Music/GeorgeClinton Parliament and Funkadelic]] (Flea dressed up as Music/BootsyCollins, complete with UFO landing on stage, as was common in their shows), Music/DavidBowie (in his [[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars Ziggy Stardust]] period]], Music/{{Slade}}, Music/SexPistols, Music/TheMisfits, Music/{{Poison}}, Music/{{Nirvana}} and themselves. The most notable one is probably the shout-out to Music/KurtCobain during the line "''It only hurts when I laugh/Gone too fast...''", which mimicks the ''Music/MTVUnpluggedInNewYork'' concert.

But I need more than myself this time

* ShoutOut: Chock full of these in the aforementioned "Dani California" video. The most notable one is probably the shout-out to Music/KurtCobain during the line "''It only hurts when I laugh/Gone too fast...''"

* SpecialGuest: Music/TheMarsVolta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López, who collaborated with Frusciante a few times, does the solo on "Especially in Michigan".

** Billy Preston, who is sometimes considered to be "the fifth [[Music/TheBeatles Beatle]]", provided clavinet work on "Warlocks". Interestingly enough, he was literally on his deathbed when someone played him a recording of the song, before he jumped out of bed, recorded his piece, and went back to sleep. He died a few days later.

'''''Stadium Arcadium''''' is the ninth studio album released by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers in 2006. It is the band's first (and so far, only) DistinctDoubleAlbum, with a whopping ''twenty-eight songs'' distributed between two discs. Nevertheless, it debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 200 and received massive critical and commercial success. It won five [[GrammyAward Grammy Awards]], including Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song, and Best Rock Performance (both for lead single "Dani California").

The band had initially recorded 38 songs and planned to release three separate discs six months apart, but decided instead to condense it into two discs while the leftovers became B-sides. WordOfGod maintains that it is a ConceptAlbum, with each disc corresponding to a planet; the first disc represents the planet "Jupiter" and the second one represents "Mars", while the unreleased third disc was to represent "Venus".

The band agreed that the chemistry between its members was at its peak during the recording of this album (as opposed to previous sessions where one member would generally be the dominant creative force), and bassist Flea even stated that this was his favorite album out of all of them. After the album promotion tour, the band took a two-year hiatus during which they pursued other interests, during which guitarist Music/JohnFrusciante left the band amicably. He has been replaced by Josh Klinghoffer.

Stay for a while and I'll come around, but not for the last time''

The water, the water, the water saving us from the heat

* IntercourseWithYou: "She's Only 18", "C'mon Girl", "I'll Be Your Domino", and to a lesser extent "She Looks To Me". However, these songs are much, much more gentle and metaphorical than what the band is normally known for; "C'mon Girl" is really about exploring someone you love to have ''really'' good sex.

* GriefSong: "Joe", which is about Joe Strummer of Music/TheClash:
--> ''Stand up, turn around, beat it out, you gotta sound, Joe\\

* HorribleHollywood: It's less obvious than the title track of ''Music/{{Californication}}'', but "Tell Me Baby counts. It's about how people get swept under the rug in Hollywood's mad race to choose up-and-coming starlets and musicians.

Stay for a while and I'll come around, but not for the last time\\

I'm forming and I'm warming, state of the art until the clouds come crashing

* TurnOfTheMillenium: "21st Century", which goes on about all the depravities and issues the world is facing (sex, drugs, violence, global warming), but is still somehow optimistic, since the band is sure that humanity will find a way through these problems.

* IntercourseWithYou: "She's Only 18", "C'mon Girl", and to a lesser extent "She Looks To Me". However, these songs are much, much more gentle and metaphorical than what the band is normally known for; "C'mon Girl" is really about exploring someone you love to have ''really'' good sex.

* ShortTitle: "If". It's also the shortest song on the album.

The band had initially recorded 38 songs and planned to release three separate discs six months apart, but decided instead to condense the number while the leftovers became B-sides. WordOfGod maintains that it is a ConceptAlbum, with each disc corresponding to a planet; the first disc represents the planet "Jupiter" and the second one represents "Mars", while the unreleased third disc was to represent "Venus".

The band agreed that the chemistry between its members was at its peak during the recording of this album (as opposed to previous sessions where one member would generally be the dominant creative force), and bassist Flea even stated that this was his favorite album out of all of them.

* John Frusciante – guitars, backing vocals, keyboards

* ConceptVideo: "Dani California" had the band dress up as [[AffectionParody affectionate parodies]] of ''nine'' different artists who represented their musical influences, before culminating in the band's present-day attire.

'''''Stadium Arcadium''''' is the ninth studio album released by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers in 2006. It is the band's first (and so far, only) DistinctDoubleAlbum, with ''twenty-eight songs'' distributed between two discs. The band had initially recorded 38 songs and planned to release three separate discs six months apart, but decided to condense the number while the leftovers became B-sides. WordOfGod maintains that it is a ConceptAlbum, with each disc corresponding to a planet; the first disc represents the planet "Jupiter" and the second one represents "Mars", while the unreleased third disc was to represent "Venus".

The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 200 and received massive critical and commercial success. It won five [[GrammyAward Grammy Awards]], including Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song, and Best Rock Performance (both for lead single "Dani California"). The band agreed that the chemistry between its members was at its peak during the recording of this album (as opposed to previous sessions where one member would generally be the dominant creative force), and bassist Flea even stated that this was his favorite album out of all of them.