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Stadium Arcadium (Music)

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Stadium Arcadium is the ninth studio album released by Red Hot Chili Peppers 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 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").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. Word of God maintains that it is a Concept Album, 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.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })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 John Frusciante 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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Songs of Solace
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Songs of Solace: The title track:
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Alliterative Title: "Million Miles of Water", "Whatever We Want", "Funny Face".
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Special Guest: The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López, who collaborated with Frusciante a few times, does the solo on "Especially in Michigan". Film director Gus Van Sant once again did the art direction, like he did for other albums by the band before. Billy Preston, who is sometimes considered to be "the fifth 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.
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I Can't Do This by Myself
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I Can't Do This by Myself: "Snow ((Hey Oh))":
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Concept Album
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Concept Album: 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.
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Concept Video
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Concept Video: "Dani California" had the band dress up as affectionate parodies of nine different artists who represented their musical influences, before culminating in the band's present-day attire. Also "Hump de Bump", which even had Chris Rock as the director. It was taken on the set of "Everybody Hates Chris", his TV show, and even featured a cameo from him.
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Genre Roulette
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Genre Roulette: 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, Rock & Roll, British Invasion, Psychedelic Rock, Funk, Glam Rock, Punk Rock, Goth Rock, Hair Metal and Grunge.
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Knuckle Tattoos
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Knuckle Tattoos: Flea has "LOVE" etched onto the knuckles of his right hand. This is actually mentioned in the lyrics of "Charlie":
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Recurring Character: "Dani" was a character vocalist Anthony Kiedis invented in "Californication", continued in "By the Way", and finally concluded in "Dani California" of this album.
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Iconic Song Request: During the promotion tour, the band often left their signature songs, "Give it Away" and "Under the Bridge" from Blood Sugar Sex Magik, 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.
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Record Producer
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Record Producer: Rick Rubin. They even recorded the album in the same studio in which they recorded Blood Sugar Sex Magik, called The Mansion (which Rick Rubin now owns).
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Last Fertile Region
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Last Fertile Region: "Animal Bar", which is more of a metaphor for practicing meditation to get closer to your soul:
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Singer Name Drop: In addition to the aforementioned namedrop on "Charlie", Anthony calls "Oh, clean it up, Johnny!" right before Frusciante does his awesome solo on "Readymade".
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Epic Rocking: The two-minute guitar solo on "Turn It Again", complete with four separate guitar tracks interweaving each other. The last minute of "Slow Cheetah" had a long, avant-garde psychedelic jam at the end.
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Break Up Song: "Hey", which is can also be viewed as a subversion, since the narrator obviously doesn't want to leave:
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Turn of the Millennium
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Turn of the Millennium: "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.
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Phrase Salad Lyrics: 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.
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Listing Cities
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Listing Cities: "Dani California", though it's more of a "listing states" thing. "Readymade". Anthony apparently has a "Brother making trouble in the state of California" and is "Going to rockin' to The Ramones in the city of Ramona". Hmmm.
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The Four Chords of Pop
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The Four Chords of Pop: "Snow (Hey Oh)."
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Careful with That Axe
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Careful with That Axe: "Torture Me".
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One-Man Song: "Charlie" and "Joe"
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Silly Love Songs: "Funny Face":
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Loudness War: 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 Californication, but it still got complaints from lots of listeners.
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Content Warnings
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Content Warnings: 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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Rearrange the Song: "Desecration Smile" was performed at the Bridgefoot School Benefit in 2004, two years before its appearance on Stadium Arcadium. At the insistence of Record Producer Rick Rubin (who claimed in turn that Sir Paul McCartney had in fact given him the idea), the band changed the chorus and bridge for the album version.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Chock full of these in the aforementioned "Dani California" video. Among the artists they dress up like are Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Parliament and Funkadelic (Flea dressed up as Bootsy Collins, complete with UFO landing on stage, as was common in their shows), David Bowie (in his Ziggy Stardust period, Slade, Sex Pistols, The Misfits, Poison, Nirvana and themselves. The most notable one is probably the shout-out to Kurt Cobain during the line "It only hurts when I laugh/Gone too fast...", which mimicks the MTV Unplugged in New York concert. Also in "Warlocks", which references the band's fanbase and its various influences.
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One-Word Title: "Warlocks", "Hey", "Readymade", "If" and "Lately".
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Horrible Hollywood
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Horrible Hollywood: It's less obvious than the title track of 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.
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Love Redeems
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Love Redeems: 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.
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Love Nostalgia Song
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Love Nostalgia Song: "Million Miles of Water", which could be a reference to Anthony's previous girlfriend, Claire Essex.
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Intercourse with You
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Intercourse with You: "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.
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Grief Song
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Grief Song: "Dani California", about the title character born into a life of crime before being killed by a bounty hunter. "Joe", which is about Joe Strummer of The Clash: Also "Death of A Martian", about Flea's dog.
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Ode to Sobriety
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Ode to Sobriety: "Snow" is a type 3.
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Series Fauxnale: 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.
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