The Red Hot Chili Peppers (album)

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers
EMI America
  • Enigma
    • ProducerAndy Gill
    Red Hot Chili Peppers chronology
    The Red Hot Chili Peppers
    (1984)     		Freaky Styley
    (1985)

    The Red Hot Chili Peppers is the debut studio album by American

    Jack Sherman on guitar. Sherman was in the band as a replacement for founding member Hillel Slovak, who'd left the band along with founding drummer Jack Irons before the album was recorded. After the tour for this album, Sherman was fired and Slovak rejoined the band. The album also features founding members Anthony Kiedis on vocals and Flea on bass, as well as Cliff Martinez
    on drums.

    Writing and recording

    The band was often at odds with producer Andy Gill over the musical direction of the album. Anthony Kiedis was disappointed with the overall sound, thinking that it lacked the raw energy of the band's original 1983 demo tape.[6][7] In his 2004 autobiography Scar Tissue, Kiedis recalled, "One day, I got a glimpse of Gill's notebook, and next to the song 'Police Helicopter', he'd written 'Shit.' I was demolished that he had dismissed that as shit. Police Helicopter was a jewel in our crown. It embodied the spirit of who we were, which was this kinetic, stabbing, angular, shocking assault force of sound and energy. Reading his notes probably sealed the deal in our minds that 'Okay, now we're working with the enemy', It became very much him against us, especially Flea and me. It became a real battle to make the record."[7]

    Flea expressed similar misgivings in a June 2023 interview with the Los Angeles Times: "I always regret the way we made the first one. I think the songs are really good. Our band was smoking at the time. But [drummer] Jack [Irons] and [guitarist] Hillel [Slovak] quit, and we hired these two other guys: Jack Sherman and Cliff Martinez. Both were great musicians, but the connection just wasn’t as profound as we had with the guys we started with. I’ve often wanted to go back and re-record that album, but I can never talk anyone into it."[8]

    Reception

    Professional ratings
    Review scores
    SourceRating
    AllMusic[5]
    The Rolling Stone Album Guide[9]
    Select[10]
    The Village VoiceB−[11]

    The album failed to chart on the Billboard 200, reaching No. 201 (meaning it "bubbled under" the main album chart for eight weeks in the autumn of 1984). The album received college airplay and MTV rotation, and built the band's fan base. The reviews that were published of the album were mixed, with the first issue of Spin magazine giving, according to Anthony Kiedis in his autobiography Scar Tissue, a positive review.[7] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic later wrote that "their first effort didn't quite gel into a cohesive album".[5] Robert Christgau stated: "As minstrelsy goes, this is good-hearted stuff (and as minstrelsy, it had better be). The reason it doesn't quite come off isn't that it's good-hearted, either: the band is outrageous enough, though probably not the way it thinks it is. Perhaps there's a clue in this mysterious observation from spokesperson Flea: 'Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Blow have great raps, but not that great music with it.' In a bassist, that's serious delusion."[12]

    As of 2007, it had sold about 300,000 copies worldwide.

    Jack Sherman's contributions to the band, particularly his knowledge of funk music and music theory, were instrumental in the band's development that were not present with Slovak. In a June 2023 interview, Flea said that he felt the album was the band's worst saying "I think the songs are really good. Our band was smoking at the time. But [drummer] Jack [Irons] and [guitarist] Hillel [Slovak] quit, and we hired these two other guys: Jack Sherman and Cliff Martinez. Both were great musicians, but the connection just wasn’t as profound as we had with the guys we started with. I’ve often wanted to go back and re-record that album, but I can never talk anyone into it."[14]

    Gwen Dickey, better known by her stage name, Rose Norwalt, provides backing vocals on "Mommy Where's Daddy?" Dickey was the singer for the 1970s group Rose Royce. On live performances of the song, her lines are performed by Flea.

    Live performances

    As of 2023, many of the songs from the album have not been performed in 21-38 years, with the exceptions of "Mommy Where's Daddy?", last performed in 2017, "Police Helicopter," last performed in 2019 and "Out in L.A.", which was performed in October 2023, marking its first performance since 2004 and only the second time it was performed since 1992.

    Track listing

    The Red Hot Chili Peppers track listing
    No.TitleWriter(s)Length
    1."True Men Don't Kill Coyotes"
    Jack Sherman
    		3:38
    2."Baby Appeal"Kiedis, Flea, Hillel Slovak, Martinez, Sherman3:40
    3."Buckle Down"Kiedis, Flea, Martinez, Sherman3:21
    4."Get Up and Jump"Kiedis, Flea, Slovak, Jack Irons2:51
    5."Why Don't You Love Me"Hank Williams3:21
    6."Green Heaven"Kiedis, Flea, Slovak, Irons3:58
    7."Mommy Where's Daddy"Kiedis, Flea, Martinez, Sherman3:29
    8."Out in L.A."Kiedis, Flea, Slovak, Irons2:00
    9."Police Helicopter"Kiedis, Flea, Slovak, Irons1:16
    10."You Always Sing the Same"Kiedis, Flea0:16
    11."Grand Pappy Du Plenty" (instrumental)Kiedis, Flea, Martinez, Sherman, Andy Gill4:04
    Total length:31:54
    Bonus tracks on 2003 remastered CD version
    No.TitleLength
    12."Get Up and Jump" (demo)2:37
    13."Police Helicopter" (demo)1:12
    14."Out in L.A." (demo)1:56
    15."Green Heaven" (demo)3:50
    16."What It Is (aka Nina's Song)" (demo)3:57

    Personnel

    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    2003 edition bonus tracks (tracks 12–16)

    Additional musicians
    Recording personnel
    Artwork
    • Gary Panter – cover art
    • Edward Colver – photography
    • Howard Rosenberg – photography
    • Henry Marquez – art direction

    2003 remastered version personnel

    • Kevin Flaherty – producer for reissue
    • Ron McMaster – remastering
    • Kenny Nemes – project manager
    • Michelle Azzopardi – art direction
    • Kristine L. Barnard – design
    • John Dinser – photo imaging and additional design
    • Edward Colver – photography
    • Howard Rosenberg – photography
    • EMI Archives – photography

    References

    1. ^ "CMJ New Music Report". January 5, 2004: 14. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
    2. Consequence of Sound. Archived
      from the original on June 23, 2016. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
    3. ^ Stafford, James (August 10, 2015). "The Story of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Self-Titled Debut". Diffuser.fm. Archived from the original on January 9, 2019. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
    4. ^ Haire, Chris (August 12, 2009). "Psychostick returns funk metal to its silly roots". Charleston City Paper. Archived from the original on August 13, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
    5. ^ a b c Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Red Hot Chili Peppers – Red Hot Chili Peppers". AllMusic. Archived from the original on May 7, 2021. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
    6. ^ Reiff, Corbin (August 10, 2015). "How the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Debut Pointed to Big Things". Ultimate Classic Rock. Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
    7. ^
      ISBN 1-4013-0101-0
      .
    8. ^ "Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea on the meaning of God, the band's worst album and the vice he misses most". Los Angeles Times. June 26, 2023.
    9. ISBN 0743201698
      .
    10. ^ Perry, Andrew (September 1990). "Instant Korma". Select. No. 3. p. 105.
    11. ^ Christgau, Robert (December 25, 1984). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on February 10, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
    12. ^ Robert Christgau: CG: red hot chili peppers
    13. ^ Faris, Lynn (January 2007). "Not your Mother's Milk". Creative Loafing. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved October 9, 2007.
    14. ^ "Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea on the meaning of God, the band's worst album and the vice he misses most". Los Angeles Times. June 26, 2023.

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