The Chilli Peppers have split!

I read this last night in a Chuck Klosterman interview, I thought it was funny and accurate:

Q: I do have one Rock Criticism question I'm dying to ask you. Granted, the recent Red Hot Chili Peppers album is god, but no one had anything less than worship for it..

A: Those guys are so annoying. I was just thinking that today in fact. I had just woken up and one of those VH1 top video shows was on. " Dani California" is actually a pretty good song. I liked that song more than the vast majority of their catalogue, but they're one band where watching the video makes me dislike the song because those guys are just idiots. They remind me of when you're in college and some guys start a band and they go out of their way to make sure at all times that everyone knows they're in a band. And, because they're in this band they're in this artistic venture- they're allowed to embrace the most obviously eccentric public posturing and act like they're on drugs all the time even when they're not. They're like that college band that's now super successful.

 

chili peppers suck.

 

That's not how to eat chili peppers - chili peppers bite!
(and then the rest of the kebab)

 

Dammit, I love the Chili Peppers before Dani California. And I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks of me because of it. :talk2hand

 

Never heard of that. I meant this kind of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC7WJgF4vOE&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01B6rUn3-oQ&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V2hrgD4E2k&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84zdP66k0X8

 

agreed. if they have a 'best of' album that came out a nubmer of years ago, i may own it. i seem to recall owning an album of theirs. havent touched it in ages though >.>

 

They were a great fun band in the eighties and early nineties, but then they started progressing. Only sadly for them and most people who know what good music is, they progressed into territory only the great are capable of surviving. They pretty much invented the whole funk metal tangent, but it was always going to be one of those chocolate and cheese fusions. The funk metal craze started around 1989 with the emergence of bands like Faith No More, Primus and Living Colour. It enjoyed a sharp puberty and died sometime around 1991, following the arrival of grunge into the rock vocabulary. The jumping up an down hand waving sort of rap jesture also died with it, as did the infamous Red hot Chilli Peppers belly flop.