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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I might be in the minority but I liked some of the experimentation the band did while Frusciante was out of the band. The drum work on I'm With You is really cool and interesting. I was hoping that Unlimited Love would carry on with some of that experimentation.
It also made me think of this, although there's no real resemblance:
Has anyone ever released multiple 12+ track albums in a single year (or a double album once) that wouldn't have been better as one tightly-edited record.
I'm struggling to think of more than a handful of exceptions
(I didn't bother with the Klinghoffer albums, and although I've got one or two of the pre-Frusciante albums, I've never listened to them much.)
Good question! I think you're right that most double albums - and a lot of single albums, since the days of CDs allowing up to 78 minutes - are excessively long.
And in terms of the timeframe, it was common for bands to issue an album, or maybe even two, within a year back in the '60s and '70s... but they were pretty short albums and nearly always had some "filler" tracks.
I've mentioned it before, but I've never forgotten a Billy Corgan interview where he compared someone else's album with Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and said how much better-produced this other album sounded. "But we didn't have time to make ours sound like that, because we had so many songs to record in the time available", he said. And I thought well, you should've just left some of those crappy songs out, you twat.
I loved Billy C's appearance in The Simpsons:
At Lollapalooza, iirc.
Billy C : Hi, I'm Billy, Smashing Pumpkins
Homer : 9awkward pause) Homer Simpson, smiling politely.
It's a line I'd love to use but will never be in the right situation.
I also think Stadium Arcadium is underrated - it *is* too long, but it would be difficult to cut enough to make a great single album without losing some good songs.
The Beatles. Three times... two each in 1963, 1964 and (in particular) 1965, all with at least 13 tracks - all 14 in fact, apart from A Hard Day's Night.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Stadium Arcadium suffers from a lot of filler. There's some decent tracks though. Arguably the decent tracks (most of anyway) were the singles.
I don't mind One Hot Minute, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan though. Some gems in there for sure. Always been a fan of the stuff like Fight Like A Brave, True Men Don't Kill Coyotes etc
Stadium arcadium would have been an awesome single album... Just too many similar tempo/vibe tunes and filler. Same with the last one.
Say this as a big peppers fan.