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One Hot Minute (1995)

Where the lyrics of One Hot Minute take you, and where it was really made.

Dave Navarro, the guitarist on this album, was fired in 1998, so One Hot Minute is the only studio album he made with the band.

Key places

Recording at The Sound Factory (1995)

Recording site The Sound Factory — The band recorded One Hot Minute at The Sound Factory in Hollywood. The recording ran from June 1994 to February 1995, a period that included a break for Woodstock '94. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• One Hot Minute: sixth studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Released September 12, 1995 by Warner Bros. Records
• Only studio album with guitarist Dave Navarro
• Second collaboration with producer Rick Rubin
• Moves away from the funk of Blood Sugar Sex Magik toward heavier riffs and a psychedelic rock lean
• Lyrics mostly dark and melancholy
• Flea sang lead vocals on Pea, the first time he had done so on any album

Background

• Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) made the band an international sensation
• Guitarist John Frusciante quit in 1992 during the Japanese leg of the tour
• Dave Navarro, formerly of Jane's Addiction, hired in 1993
• Vocalist Anthony Kiedis resumed cocaine and heroin use in 1994 after more than five years of sobriety

Recording

• Recorded at the Sound Factory in Hollywood from June 1994 to February 1995
• Recording paused for Woodstock '94, the first show Navarro played with the Peppers
• Kiedis finished his vocals in late January 1995; the rest was completed within the next month
• John Lurie played harmonica on the title track

Cover

• Cover artwork designed by Mark Ryden
• Ryden made a mock design using Black Fish Ferris Wheel as the title before the band settled on One Hot Minute

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in Los Angeles in 1982 by Anthony Kiedis, Hillel Slovak, Flea, and Jack Irons, classmates at Fairfax High School.
• First performed on December 16, 1982 at the Grandia Room club on Hollywood Boulevard, in front of about 30 people.
• Changed the name to Red Hot Chili Peppers in March 1983.
• Released the self-titled debut album in August 1984, which sold 300,000 copies.

Members

• Current: Flea (bass, backing vocals, trumpet), Anthony Kiedis (lead vocals), Chad Smith (drums, percussion), John Frusciante (guitars, backing vocals, keyboards).
• Former members include Hillel Slovak (guitar, died of a heroin overdose in 1988), Jack Irons (drums), Dave Navarro (guitar, 1993–1998), and Josh Klinghoffer (guitar, 2009–2019).

Career

• Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) was the first major commercial success; "Under the Bridge" reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Californication (1999) became the band's biggest commercial success, with over 16 million copies sold worldwide.
• Stadium Arcadium (2006) was the first album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and won Grammy Awards.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 31, 2022.
• Over 120 million records sold worldwide.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Rolling Stone's Daina Darzin said the album dives into the emotionally deep end of drug addiction and loss
• Entertainment Weekly's David Browne wrote that the album wails and flails like a mosh-pit workout tape, but has moments of subtlety and maturity
• Browne criticized the band's attempts at cosmic philosophy and some songs' tired frat-funk
• Q's Peter Kane wrote that the Peppers work their own little patch with considerable expertise
• Q included the album in its best-of-the-year roundup
• The album received mixed to positive reviews, but was not as universally well received as Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Reappraisal

• AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine said following up Blood Sugar Sex Magik was a difficult task
• Erlewine felt Navarro's metallic guitar shredding made the band's funk gradually fade from the blend
• Erlewine saw My Friends as an attempt to hold the mainstream audience gained by Under the Bridge
• Robert Christgau gave the album a rating of dud

Records

• Sold more than two million copies and was certified multi-platinum
• Peaked at number four on the US Billboard 200
• Reached number two on the UK chart, the band's highest-charting album there at that time, kept from the top by Blur's The Great Escape
• Certified Gold on November 11, 1995
• Later certified Double Platinum in the United States
• My Friends peaked at number one on the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts and number 29 on the UK Singles Chart
• Aeroplane peaked at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Warner Bros. saw the Warped video and wanted it thrown away, judging it unmarketable; the band kept a kiss between Kiedis and Navarro in the final cut
• The kiss drew a backlash from part of the college segment of the audience
• Black Fish Ferris Wheel was almost the album title
• Other working titles included The Sensitives, Turtlehead and The Blight Album
• Bob, a song about close friend Bob Forrest, surfaced 11 years later as an iTunes bonus track in 2006
• The US leg of the tour was postponed to early February because Chad Smith broke his wrist

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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