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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 5192
Released: September 12, 1995 |
| Our Price: $5.90 |
| Used Price: $1.44 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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One Hot Minute Track Listing:
1. Warped
2. Aeroplane
3. Deep Kick
4. My Friends
5. Coffee Shop
6. Pea
7. One Big Mob
8. Walkabout
9. Tearjerker
10. One Hot Minute
11. Falling into Grace
12. Shallow Be Thy Game
13. Transcending
Editorial Review:
At the time of its release, One Hot Minute was viewed as the beginning of a new direction for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Guitarist John Frusciante had departed and former Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro joined the ranks after some false starts with short-lived replacements. Band chemistry here isn't quite up to past standards. Navarro stretches out throughout the album, imbuing tunes with a heavy dose of hard rock and psychedelia and providing a stark contrast from Frusciante's dexterous noodling. Tracks such as "Warped" and "Aeroplane" display a band prone to exploring a less frenetic hard rock, while "Shallow Be Thy Game" sounds like the old band. Frusciante eventually returned to the fold, so this 1995 collection now stands as a curious intermission for the Peppers. --Rob O'Connor
One Hot Minute Reviews:
Brave but unfocussed 
2009-12-16 - [3.5 stars]
Look, it's not the Chili Peppers' best album. And it's not really representative of their sound, so it's not the place to start for casual fans.
But it is their most interesting album, and definitely their darkest. The macho-but-harmless lyrics of 'Blood, Sugar..' have been replaced by more serious themes of depression, drug addiction, and death. The music, too, is much more ambitious than before, as new guitarist Dave Navarro adds a stronger metal and psychadelic feel to the album. There is also a surprisingly strong prog-rock influence here; several songs run over 6 minutes, and there are many tempo and mood shifts within songs. Good examples of the prog feel include 'One Big Mob' (Faith No More meets 'Mothers Milk' meets psychadelia) and 'Transcending' (softer song that explodes at the end).
Nearly every song tries something different. The driving heavy metal of 'Warped', the vaguely jazzy 'Walkabout', restrained ballads 'My Friends' and 'Tearjerker', Flea's solo piece 'Pea', the spoken-word intro to 'Deep Kick', the near noise-rock of 'Coffee Shop'. The darker lyrics also begin to incorporate more explicit social commentary, as on the anti-homophobia 'Pea' and the religious critique 'Shallow Be Thy Game'.
However, while their ambition is admirable, the execution doesn't always work. The band doesn't seem as tight as before, and some of the songs sound a bit stiff and forced. Perhaps the long and difficult sessions resulted in a lack of focus, perhaps the band weren't totally convinced about a change in direction, or maybe Navarro just wasn't a good fit for the band, but a few too many songs seem to lack the spark of 'Blood, Sugar...'. At 13 songs and 61 minutes, maybe they could have cut the album down a bit by leaving off one or two of the weaker tracks.
So, how you view 'One Hot Minute' depends on your attitude. If you want another 'Blood, Sugar...' or 'Californication' you can probably give this a miss. But if you're open to some new ideas, and are willing to accept that not every experiment works, you might really enjoy this. It's probably a bit too inconsistent and unfocussed for my taste, but I do respect that fact that the Chili's were brave and ambitious enough to try to expand their sound.
great disc 
2009-11-22 - more rocker album of the peppers, really great,
one track was scratched but it's acceptable
A lull artistically, commercially and critically. But it wasn't fatal.
2009-04-05 - OK I have a confession to make. I pre ordered this and still have the free sticker they gave you for doing so. So keep that in mind Pepperites later on in the review when I am less than sold on this disc. OK?
Released in 1995 this album was the follow up to the ridiculously successful Blood Sugar Sex Magik opus and the Chilis are to be soundly praised for not just trying to repeat the formula. Used as a single, Warped opens up the albums account with pretty much the closest thing to heavy metal on the album, swirling sounds devolving into a vortex of circular sounds, a feeling used as inspiration for the video. However things move into more familiar quirky rock with track two, Aeroplane.
Taken as a whole this was a brave move in some ways as the band take their predilections to their logical conclusion and the results - such as the rockin' paeon to thinking for yourself Shallow Be Thy Name - are sometimes pretty good. However overly simplistic stuff like Pea doesn't really 'do it'. Funk rock structures abound and for an example of this sample yourself One Big Mob or Deep Kick or ... well most of the album actually is still replete with this bouncy vibe this band pretty much owned on BSSM.
It's also nice to see the band try a few different studio tricks and experiment with new things such as the childrens choir on the aforementioned Aeroplane. As per my earlier statement, the band didn't just try to do BSSM pt2.
But there are problems. Last album, all this was fresh to many in the mainstream and had the element of surprise. Here many of these tricks we've seen before, the overly self conscious 'wacky' musical behaviour. And the problems arise when this descends from wacky to stupid. Like the silly romper room choral inflections on Deep Kick.
Critically this was a bust. It seemed to me at the time to mark the beginning of the end as sales were down, excitement and hype trailed off and even though I thought parts of this were brave it seems the mass public only had the patience/indulgence levels required to accept one album of funk-o-matic hard rock from these guys. And the band took the lesson to heart, morphing into something else entirely and have a second bite at the cherry, producing great music of a different hue.
But all up this isn't their best by far and really only rates three stars.
Classic Chili Peppers 
2008-12-29 - This is an excellent CD, and I loved almost every track with favorites being "My Friend" and "Aeroplane." If you love the Chili Peppers, you will love this CD! The only negative thing I would say is that it does contain a lot of swear words, so you need to be careful if your pre-teen is listening in.
This was hot for only about a minute 
2008-12-24 - 2 1/2
Perhaps not their absolute worst material (there still seems to be more fire involved on the whole then their extremely competent though mostly lobotomized current work) , but probably the disc with the biggest identity crisis. There are many less-then-funky choices going on here which keep this album from even becoming uniformly good, dragging these sessions down into noisy creative conflict instrumentally at odds with each other.
