Red Hot Chili Peppers – discography
One Hot Minute
Original Release Date: 1995
Produced by: Rick Rubin
Tracks:
- Warped*
- Aeroplane*
- Deep Kick
- My Friends*
- Coffee Shop*
- Pea
- One Big Mob
- Walkabout
- Tearjerker
- One Hot Minute
- Falling Into Grace
- Shallow Be Thy Name*
- Transcending
(* marks the tracks released as singles)
Review
One Hot Minute, is the sixth studio album released in 1995, and the only album recorded with Dave Navarro as a guitarist, since John Frusciante has left the band. It was a big disappointment, even thought it did well on charts, it couldn’t replicate the success of the previous Blood Sugar Sex Magic. Navarro’s hevy guitar riffs have added more to the metal sound, emphasizing the dark mood and the good old playfull funk almost dissappeared.
One Hot Minute is an unusal combination of all the different sounds and styles, one that could never been duplicated. Most of the 13 tracks, as well as being over six minutes in duration, begin in a heavy, loud and energetic, fast-paced manner, but then dramaticlly slow down somewhere in the middle of the song. I would like to single out Deep Kick that begins with a slow, spoken-word poem and is an authobiographical song about two friends in youth – Flea and Anthony. Another track that deserves to be highlited is definitelly Pea, a song being played and sang by bassist Flea only.
During the recording of One Hot Minute, lead singer and lyricist Anthony Kiedis was struggling with a heroin addiction, thus album’s lyrics are often bizzare and much darker in tone, focusing more on the introspection on the contrary to their previos albums where the main topic was sex. However, it was Dave Navarro who had a major influence on this album, but that wasn’t for too long; as the band couldn’t musically fit with the new guitarist, soon after releasing One Hot Minute, Navarro has left the band.
