Line #118 Music/StadiumArcadium


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3	''Stadium Arcadium'' is the ninth studio album released by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers in 2006. It is the band's first (and so far, only) double album, 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").
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5	The band had initially recorded 38 songs and planned to release three separate discs six months apart, but decided instead to condense the songs into a single two-disc album 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''.
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7	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. Guitarist Music/JohnFrusciante left the band amicably in 2009 and returned ten years later, during which he was replaced by Josh Klinghoffer, at his own suggestion.
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10	[[foldercontrol]]
11	[[folder:CD 1: "Jupiter"]]
12	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/99c852aa597055c973c55b9972ec1455.jpg]]
13	# "Dani California" (4:42)
14	# "Snow (Hey Oh)" (5:37)
15	# "Charlie" (4:37)
16	# "Stadium Arcadium" (5:15)
17	# "Hump de Bump" (3:33)
18	# "She's Only 18" (3:25)
19	# "Slow Cheetah" (5:19)
20	# "Torture Me" (3:44)
21	# "Strip My Mind" (4:19)
22	# "Especially in Michigan" (4:00)
23	# "Warlocks" (3:25)
24	# "C'mon Girl" (3:48)
25	# "Wet Sand" (5:09)
26	# "Hey" (5:39)
27	[[/folder]]
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29	[[folder:CD 2: "Mars"]]
30	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/430879f3d84d8795287c42ce683266e9.jpg]]
31	[numlist:15]
32	# "Desecration Smile" (5:02)
33	# "Tell Me Baby" (4:07)
34	# "Hard to Concentrate" (4:02)
35	# "21st Century" (4:22)
36	# "She Looks to Me" (4:06)
37	# "Readymade" (4:30)
38	# "If" (2:53)
39	# "Make You Feel Better" (3:52)
40	# "Animal Bar" (5:26)
41	# "So Much I" (3:44)
42	# "Storm in a Teacup" (3:45)
43	# "We Believe" (3:36)
44	# "Turn It Again" (6:06)
45	# "Death of a Martian" (4:24)
46	[/numlist]
47	[[/folder]]
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49	[[folder:CD 3: "Venus" (B-side compilation)]]
50	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cb54b1664c647d835940db8f57462b85.jpg]]
51	# "Million Miles of Water" (4:05)
52	# "Whatever We Want" (4:48)
53	# "Lately" (2:56)
54	# "A Certain Someone" (2:26)
55	# "Mercy Mercy" (4:02)
56	# "Funny Face" (4:48)
57	# "I'll Be Your Domino" (3:58)
58	# "Joe" (3:55)
59	# "Save This Lady" (4:20)
60	[[/folder]]
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62	!! Principal Members:
63	* Flea – bass, backing vocals, trumpet
64	* Music/JohnFrusciante – guitars, backing vocals, keyboards
65	* Anthony Kiedis – lead vocals
66	* Chad Smith – drums, percussion
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69	!!''Tropium Indexium'':
70	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''M'''illion '''M'''iles of Water", "'''W'''hatever '''W'''e '''W'''ant", "'''F'''unny '''F'''ace".
71	* BreakUpSong: "Hey", which is can also be viewed as a subversion, since the narrator obviously doesn't want to leave:
72	-->''Hey, oh yeah, how long, I guess I gotta walk away\
73	Hey, oh yeah, so long, whatcha gonna do today [...]\
74	Hey, what you say if I stayed, stay for a while if I may\
75	Say it again and I'll come around, but not for the last time''
76	* CarefulWithThatAxe: "Torture Me".
77	* ConceptAlbum: Sort of. The whole planet imagery relates to the spacey, psychedelic theme of the songs at certain moments, but doesn't really unite the album as a whole.
78	* ContentWarnings: 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.
79	* ConceptVideo:
80	** "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.
81	** Also "Hump de Bump", which even had Creator/ChrisRock as the director. It was taken on the set of "Everybody Hates Chris", his TV show, and even featured a [[TheCameo cameo]] from him.
82	* EpicRocking:
83	** The two-minute guitar solo on "Turn It Again", complete with four separate guitar tracks interweaving each other.
84	** The last minute of "Slow Cheetah" had a long, avant-garde psychedelic jam at the end.
85	* TheFourChordsOfPop: "Snow (Hey Oh)."
86	* 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/TheBritishInvasion British Invasion]], PsychedelicRock, {{Funk}}, GlamRock, PunkRock, GothRock, HairMetal and {{Grunge}}.
87	* GriefSong: "Dani California", about the title character born into a life of crime before being killed by a bounty hunter.
88	** "Joe", which is about Joe Strummer of Music/TheClash:
89	--->''Stand up, turn around, beat it out, you gotta sound, Joe\
90	Swing low, and now I know, it's hard to let a brother go, Joe''
91	** Also "Death of A Martian", about Flea's dog.
92	* 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.
93	* ICantDoThisByMyself: "Snow ((Hey Oh))":
94	-->''Come to decide that the things that I tried\
95	Were in my life just to get high on\
96	When I sit alone, come get a little known\
97	But I need more than myself this time''
98	* IconicSongRequest: During the promotion tour, the band often left their signature songs, "Give it Away" and "Under the Bridge" from ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'', off of their setlists. They did this in order to focus on their new material more, but it still didn't sit well with audiences.
99	* IntercourseWithYou: "She's Only 18", "C'mon Girl", "I'll Be Your Domino", "If", 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.
100	* KnuckleTattoos: Flea has "LOVE" etched onto the knuckles of his right hand. This is actually mentioned in the lyrics of "Charlie":
101	-->''Everybody do the twist\
102	Get the message off Flea's fists''
103	* LastFertileRegion: "Animal Bar", which is more of a metaphor for practicing meditation to get closer to your soul:
104	-->''Raindrops will fall from the sky\
105	Stealing their shape from your eye\
106	Now we can all get some sleep\
107	The water, the water, the water saving us from the heat''
108	* ListingCities: "Dani California", though it's more of a "listing states" thing.
109	-->''Gettin' born in the state of Mississippi\
110	Papa was a copper and Mamma was a hippie\
111	In Alabama, she was swingin' hammer\
112	Price you gotta pay when you break the panorama[...]\
113	Black bandana, sweet Louisiana\
114	Robbin' on a bank in the state of Indiana''
115	** "Readymade". Anthony apparently has a "''Brother making trouble in the state of California''" and is "''Going to rockin' to Music/TheRamones in the city of Ramona''". Hmmm.
116	* LoudnessWar: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RHCP_Snow_Hey_Oh_waveform.png This picture]] shows just how loud the CD version of the album is compared to the vinyl version. Granted, this album doesn't have the clipping problems notorious in ''Music/{{Californication}}'', but it still got complaints from lots of listeners.
117	* LoveNostalgiaSong: "Million Miles of Water", which could be a reference to Anthony's previous girlfriend, Claire Essex.
118	* LoveRedeems: The most potent example is probably "Wet Sand.” Flea stated in an interview that it's about the dark side of love and its redeeming qualities.
119	-->''My sunny side has up and died, I'm betting then when we collide\
120	The universe will shift into a low\
121	The travesties that we have seen are treating me like Benzedrine\
122	Automatic laughter from abroad [...]\
123	You don't form in the Wet Sand, you don't form at all\
124	You don't form in the Wet Sand, I do''
125	* OdeToSobriety: "Snow" is a type 3.
126	* OneManSong: "Charlie" and "Joe"
127	* OneWordTitle: "Warlocks", "Hey", "Readymade", "If" and "Lately".
128	* PhraseSaladLyrics: The long poem at the end of "Death of a Martian" takes the cake. Anthony even stated that he didn't even write it specifically for the song; he just dug it out of his notebook and changed some lines around to fit the meter.
129	* RearrangeTheSong: "Desecration Smile" was performed at the Bridgefoot School Benefit in 2004, two years before its appearance on ''Stadium Arcadium''. At the insistence of RecordProducer Music/RickRubin (who claimed in turn that Sir Music/PaulMcCartney had in fact given him the idea), the band changed the chorus and bridge for the album version.
130	* RecordProducer: Music/RickRubin. They even recorded the album in the same studio in which they recorded ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'', called The Mansion (which Rick Rubin now owns).
131	* RecurringCharacter: "Dani" was a character vocalist Anthony Kiedis invented in "Music/{{Californication}}", continued in "Music/ByTheWay", and finally concluded in "Dani California" of this album.
132	* SeriesFauxnale: This album was meant to be one, since the band had decided they had written everything they wanted to and John Frusciante left in 2009. However, they decided to keep on going.
133	* [[ShortTitles Short Title]]: "If". It's also the shortest song on the album.
134	* ShoutOut:
135	** 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.
136	** Also in "Warlocks", which references the band's fanbase and its various influences.
137	* SillyLoveSongs: "Funny Face":
138	-->''You're my angel, baby, you're my darling, you're my star\
139	Lo lo lo [[Literature/{{Lolita}} lolita]] let her see me deep in love\
140	Every single little princess needs a crown\
141	Make more of life, just settle down''
142	* SingerNameDrop: In addition to the aforementioned namedrop on "Charlie", Anthony calls "''Oh, clean it up, Johnny!''" right before Frusciante does his awesome solo on "Readymade".
143	* SongsOfSolace: The title track:
144	-->''Alone inside my forest room and it's storming\
145	I never thought I'd be in bloom, but this is where I start [...]\
146	The Stadium Arcadium, a mirror to the moon\
147	I'm forming and I'm warming, state of the art until the clouds come crashing''
148	* SpecialGuest: Music/TheMarsVolta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López, who collaborated with Frusciante a few times, does the solo on "Especially in Michigan". Film director Creator/GusVanSant once again did the art direction, like he did for other albums by the band before.
149	** Billy Preston, who is sometimes considered to be "the fifth [[Music/TheBeatles Beatle]]", provided clavinet work on "Warlocks". Interestingly enough, he was very ill and bed-ridden (battling kidney disease) when someone played him a recording of the song and requested his clavinet work. As soon as he heard the funky beat, he jumped out of bed, recorded his piece, and went back to sleep. It was one of the last recordings he did before his death.
150	* TurnOfTheMillennium: "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.
151	-->''There's a reason for the 21st century\
152	Not to sure but I know that it's meant to be''

Context Music / StadiumArcadium