Stadium Arcadium
| Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stadium Arcadium
Stadium Arcadiumis the ninth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. The album was released on May 9, 2006, on Warner Bros. Records.[1] The album produced five singles: "Dani California", "Tell Me Baby", "Snow (Hey Oh)", "Desecration Smile", and "Hump de Bump" along with the first ever fan made music video for the song, "Charlie". In the U.S., Stadium Arcadium became the band's first number one selling album. According to the band's vocalist Anthony Kiedis, Stadium Arcadiumwas originally scheduled to be a trilogy of albums each released six months apart, but was eventually condensed into a double album.[2] The album is also the group's last to feature guitarist John Frusciante, who confirmed his departure from the band in 2009."-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
2xCD set of arena-friendly songs about California, sex, and having sex in California is split between slightly askew mid-tempo pop and regrettable relapses into funk and muso noodling.
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Rolling Stone
the most ambitious work of its twenty-three-year career — an attempt to consolidate everything that is Chili Peppers
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NME
The biggest charge we can levy on these Californian raisins is that of nudging the death of the album that little bit closer
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Uncut
Stadium Arcadium the Chili Peppers’ most life-affirming work, even as it explores the apocalyptic anxieties of the age we live in.
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Prefix Magazine
There is a lot of room to fill in the two hours of cookie-cutter funk presented here, but in Frusciante’s able hands there is a new texture, tone or technique at every turn.
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Sputnik Music
this record is their friendliest and warmest album to date.
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AV Club
nobody sounds like they're having much fun, a fatal flaw for party music, even party music as conversant with the dark side of California high life as the Chili Peppers'
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Under the Radar
Stadium Arcadium was where everything came together in the form of a wildly unhinged double album. If it seems excessive, it is, but in a good way.
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The Guardian
Two CDs, 28 tracks, and almost every one a gem. They've come a long way
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All Music
an album that's designed for you to mix and match, create your own playlist, rip and burn on your own.
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BBC
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are now confirmed as card-carrying Rock Gods.
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Contact Music
a great and vastly colourful but sometimes frustrating journey Stadium Arcadium is, all of its fine musicianship, madness, mediocrity and majesty being held together by the reliable and sometimes excellent drumming of Chad Smith.
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IGN
downfall to the bulk of Stadium Arcadium is that it's incredibly heavy handed in terms of being over stocked with sweet and smooth sounding numbers that seem more geared to lulling listeners to sleep or at least put them in a warm state of calm.
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PopMatters
Stadium Arcadium is perfectly capable and occasionally ingratiating, but whatever goodwill it musters up is trounced by its redundancy
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Music OMH
Arcadium is such a triumph of melodic power and driving rhythms.
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Chorus
Stadium Arcadium, and that it was the best double album I’d ever heard.
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Entertainment Weekly
flashes of brilliance and moments of inanity.
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Scene Point Blank
it just doesn't have the staying power to topple their previous, more well-rounded efforts.
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OOCities
Stadium Arcadium, on which a very good band trots out one good-to-very-good song after another
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All Gigs
Apart from the occasional strong song, and Frusciantes more subtle guitar workouts, it lacks By The Ways magic.
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Grateful Web
The most refreshing thing about this disc is that Anthony Kiedis's vocals are just as fresh and vibrant as they were on their first release in 1984.
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Okzygen Studios
the twists and turns of the record make the full listen more fruitful than a pick and choose method
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