杂志原图 http://ppt.cc/e@Ws 评价：★★★ 大致上扫过一遍，算是好坏参半吧， 主要还是认为Josh的表现不如John这20年所带来的风格。 关於这点，我还蛮想回"废话"的 XD 毕竟，那可是John啊！ 虽然乐评对Josh不太满意，但我觉得他对AK更有意见...XD 虽然看完有点抖，但是想想，当初SA刚出来时， 评价也没有多好，尤其一定会拿去跟BSSM跟Californication比... 全文 Minus their guitarist, the chili peppers are a little bit mild. By John Lewis – Uncut Magazine, September 2011. EVEN IN THE tardy world of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, for whom several years between albums is nothing remarkable, the five-and-a-half year gap that has preceded I’m With You is considerable. Especially when their last album, the global chart-topping Stadium Arcadium, was such a display of fecundity – two CDs, 28 tracks, nearly all of them pretty good – that went on to sell nearly eight million copies worldwide. 此段在说上一张专辑有多好。 In the interim, they have been busy. Front man Anthony Kiedis has, apparently, been working on an HBO series based on his Rabelaisian memoir Scar Tissue. Drummer Chad Smith has formed a metal supergroup, Chickenfoot, with Sammy Hagar and Joe Satriani and an instrumental jazz-rock band, Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats. Bassist Flea went to Nigeria with Damon Albarn’ s African Express, toured with Thorn Yorke’s Atoms For Peace, and went to a conservatoire to study music theory, composition and jazz trumpet. 此段在说AK、Chad与Flea在这五年多来做了什麽。 More pertinently, however, Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante- a key member for over twenty years- has left the band for the second time. Listening to a playback of new RHCP album, I’m With You, one can definitely hear a John Frusciante-shaped hole in the proceedings, prompting us to consider exactly what qualities he brought to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Their first three albums, all recorded without him tended to compromise riff-based, single-chord funk jams. It was John Frusciante’s arrival, on 1989 ’s Mother’s Milk, that changed all that. Instead of being a facsimile funk-rock band – a blend of Funkadelic, Defunkt and Gang Of Four – they slowly morphed into a rock band who held their funk chops in reserve and began to explore more properly structured songs. 这段提到John的二次离团。然後，乐评在新专辑"I’m With You"中感受到一个 "John Frusciante-shaped hole"，John形状的缺口。 (不得不说很贴切，我想乐迷们心中也有这样的洞吧...) 於是乐评开始思考，John究竟为这个乐团带来了什麽？ 头三张专辑没有John，乐曲风格多是riff-based, single-chord funk jams的折衷。 然後John在"Mother's Milk"中加入後改变了一切。 将RHCP从"facsimile funk-rock band"，仿傚放克摇滚团， 变成一个摇滚乐团，因为John的让他们的曲风大为拓展。 The last time John Frusciante quit, before 1995′s One Hot Minute, they enlisted Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction, who turned them into a rather maudlin metal act. This time they’ve gone with journeyman guitarist Josh Klinghoffer. He’s more than a decade younger than the other Red Hot Chili Peppers and boasts a highly respectable CV – stints with PJ Harvey, Gnarls Barkley, Beck and the Butthole Surfers, and even a stint playing as John Frusciante’s sideman on a string of solo records. But Josh Klinghoffer seems to lack the spiky inventiveness of his old mentor. On several tracks he sounds bereft of ideas, just waiting for the breakdown of each song to play a ponderous-sounding chord tempered with some wobbly effect, in the style of Andy Summers from The Police. The lead single “The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie” has a solo so amateurish it sounds like it’s been pasted in as a joke by the studio’s tea boy. 这段提到John初次离开时，Navarro的救火让乐团转变成maudlin metal act， 情感脆弱的金属演出(?) 这次则是加入了游牧吉他手(?)Josh， 他比其他团员年轻十多岁，有体面的经历，跟相当多大咖合作过，包括John。 但Josh比起John似乎缺少了敏锐的创造能力。 在不少曲目中听起来都缺少灵感，似乎只是在一旁等待加入然後做出效果。 而首支单曲中的吉他solo，跟业余吉他手没什麽两样。 In places, I’m With You sounds like a parody of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. “ Ethiopia”, a plodding by-numbers funk-rock jam, is topped by some rambling Anthony Kiedis doggerel (“Tell my boy I love him so/Tell him so he knows/Lost in Ethiopia/ washed out on that road”), “Look Around” is another schematic funk workout that starts with some ill-advised Anthony Kiedis rapping (“Hustle me bitch and you’d best beware/Don’t try and tap your round peg into my square”) and doesn’t get much better. “Factory Of Faith” sounds like an end-of-the-pier Franz Ferdinand tribute act. "I’m With You"听起来像是摹仿RHCP风格的作品。 "Ethiopia"有着缓慢沉重的funk-rock jam，缀以AK毫无规则的打油诗。 "Look Around"则是另一首schematic funk(严谨有章法的放克?)作品， 开头便是AK没头没脑的rap，之後也没有进步。 "Factory Of Faith"听起来像是Franz Ferdinand的致敬之作。 And yet, and yet, amid this poor material, the Red Hot Chili Peppers still manage to deliver a handful of very, very good songs. The more interesting of these largely jettison Josh Klinghoffer’s guitar and foreground the piano, apparently written by Flea and played by long time Red Hot Chili Peppers collaborator Greg Kurstin. “Even You Brutus?” starts with a “Mr Blue Sky” four-to-the-bar piano stomp that quickly mutates into a compelling hip hop-tinged groove. “Happiness Loves Company” is a jangly, piano-led, 70s-style number in a similar lyrical vein to “Under The Bridge”. And “ Police Station” is a lovelorn piano ballad which appears to be about a fallen Hollywood idol who now appears to spend her entire life in and out of police custody. It will doubtless be used to soundtrack some low-budget TV cut-and-clip documentary about Lindsay Lohan in the near future. 虽然这几首表现不怎麽样，但RHCP还是创作出几首相当杰出的好歌。 有趣的是，Josh的吉他表现平平，然而Flea所创作的钢琴部， 再由RHCP长期合作的Greg Kurstin做出演奏则相当突出。 "Even You Brutus?"以"Mr Blue Sky"式的钢琴重拍开头， 接着快速转变成令人赞叹的嘻哈色彩浓厚的节奏。 "Happiness Loves Company"有着以钢琴为主的70年代味道， 歌词上有颇具"Under The Bridge"式的脉络。 "Police Station"是一首单相思式的钢琴民谣， 在述说一位堕落的好莱坞偶像，将自己的生命耗费在进出警局。 不久的将来，应该会很适合用来做为琳赛罗涵低成本纪录片的主题曲。(有够酸) The other standout tracks are similarly atypical of the band. “Did I Let You Know” is a furious Afrobeat collage, with off-kilter drumming, hi-life guitar, some timbales and a cracking trumpet solo. It also – be warned -has Anthony Kiedis rhyming “freaky” with “Mozambiquey” 其他的杰出作品，则多是类似的乐团非典型风格(??) "Did I Let You Know"有着狂暴的Afrobeat，off-kilter drumming， hi-life guitar，一点蒂姆巴尔鼓，以及极佳的小喇叭solo。 警告。这首歌当然还是有AK把freaky跟Mozambiquey做押韵的惯例。 (这乐评好像很不喜欢AK...) Brendan s Death Song is an acoustic ballad which pays tribute to Brendan Mullen, the LA nightclub owner who gave the band their first break: “Like I said, you know! I’m almost dead/I’m almost gone/When the boatman comes to ferry me away/to where we all belong” Both suggests that, post-John Frusciante, the Red Hot Chili Peppers could be due another radical change in direction. In all probability, though, we’ll be waiting another five years to find out where it all leads. "Brendan s Death Song"是一首acoustic ballad，向Brendan Mullen致敬。 John的时代过去了，现在的RHCP正经历另一段剧烈的转变。 其中充满各种可能性，尽管我们可能需要再等另一个五年， 好看看这个转变的方向就竟走往哪去。 --

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