A scorching summer day without the sea, without the beach, without fun, and without chicks... naturally, I was surfing the internet for the most stupid reason and... BOOM... a blow to the heart!
RED HOT LIVE!!! Finally, a real live album recorded in London in the most famous park in the world, and I was super excited...
Yeah...the Peppers, in Rome, put on a show not so much because of the setlist (By The Way, just to name one), but for the atmosphere they managed to create in that venue of... but what of ice... of FIRE!
Anyway, back to us. "LIVE IN HYDE PARK"! During the first listen, I was in a state of shock, something related to transcendence or something like that, for the simple reason that: "LIVE IN HYDE PARK" is. It is in the sense that it exists. Once I got over the shock of the first listen and left the world of being and idea... a second shock... negatively.
Where am I going with this? The Red Hot have never been musically thrilling in live shows. In Rome, they surprised me for the involvement they managed to create and for the energy... Here things change, they are not there, only the music remains of them. So their worst aspect in the live show, so... THEREFORE.
Frusciante falls asleep on the instrument during the intro and... we forgive him! But when the songs start, he's really awful... plays like a child.
Antony's voice is crap!
The drums sound uncoordinated... and thank goodness for Flea, who manages to maintain a decidedly better pace compared to the others, perhaps too much better! An entire track of the second CD is completely dedicated to him! What effects!
The drummer also (sorry, I can't remember his name) performs a tribute medley to the legendary Led Zeppelin, Queen, and U2!
For the rest, the usual nauseating mush... the usual MTV greatesthitslized setlist... “BY THE WAY, FORTUNE FADED...”
There are also gems like “AROUND THE WORLD", "GIVE IT AWAY", "CALIFORNICATION", "UNDER THE BRIDGE”...
Then two "listenable" unreleased tracks: “ROLLING SLY STONE” and “LEVERANGE OF SPACE”.
However, there's not even a shadow of “Mother’s Milk” and “Uplift Mofo”...
If you're die-hard fans, by now you should already have it. If you're just curious, don't get it... better do yourself a favor with a "Blood Sugar Sex Magic"!
BYE
Tracklist and Lyrics
02 Can't Stop (05:13)
Can't stop addicted to the shin dig
Chop top he says I'm gonna win big
Choose not a life of imitation
Distant cousin to the reservation
Defunct the pistol that you pay for
This punk the feeling that you stay for
In time I want to be your best friend
Eastside love is living on the westend
Knock out but boy you better come to
Don't die you know the truth is some do
Go write your message on the pavement
Burnin' so bright I wonder what the wave meant
White heat is screaming in the jungle
Complete the motion if you stumble
Go ask the dust for any answers
Come back strong with 50 belly dancers
The world I love
The tears I drop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Ever wonder if it's all for you
The world I love
The trains I hop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Come and tell me when it's time to
Sweetheart is bleeding in the snowcone
So smart she's leading me to ozone
Music the great communicator
Use two sticks to make it in the nature
I'll get you into penetration
The gender of a generation
The birth of every other nation
Worth your weight the gold of meditation
This chapter's going to be a close one
Smoke rings I know you're going to blow one
All on a spaceship persevering
Use my hands for everything but steering
Can't stop the spirits when they need you
Mop tops are happy when they feed you
J. Butterfly is in the treetop
Birds that blow the meaning into bebop
The world I love
The tears I drop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Ever wonder if it's all for you
The world I love
The trains I hop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Come and tell me when it's time to
Wait a minute I'm passing out
Win or lose just like you
Far more shocking
Than anything I ever knew
How about you
Ten more reasons
Why I need somebody new just like you
Far more shocking than anything I ever knew
Right on cue
Can't stop addicted to the shin dig
Chop top he says I'm gonna win big
Choose not a life of imitation
Distant cousin to the reservation
Defunkt the pistol that you pay for
This punk the feeling that you stay for
In time I want to be your best friend
Eastside love is living on the westend
Knock out but boy you better come to
Don't die you know the truth is some do
Go write your message on the pavement
Burnin' so bright I wonder what the wave meant
Kick start the golden generator
Sweet talk but don't intimidate her
Can't stop the gods from engineering
Feel no need for any interfering
Your image in the dictionary
This life is more than ordinary
Can I get two maybe even three of these
Coming from space
To teach you of the Pleiades
Can't stop the spirits when they need you
This life is more than just a read through
03 Around the World (04:12)
All around the world
We could make time
Romp in' and a stompin'
'Cause I'm in my prime
Born in the north
And sworn to entertain ya
'Cause I'm down for
The state of Pennsylvania
I try not to whine
But, I must warn ya
'Bout the motherfuckin'
girls from California
Alabama baby
Said, hallelujah
Good god girl
I wish I knew ya
I know I know for sure
That life is beautiful around the world
I know I know it's you
You say hello and then I say I do
Come back baby
'Cause I’d like to say
I've been around the world
Back from Bombay
Fox hole love
Pie in your face
Living in and out
Of a big fat suitcase
Bonafide ride
Step aside my Johnson
Yes I could
In the woods of Wisconsin
Wake up the cake
It's a lake she's kissin' me
As they do when
They do in Sicily
I know I know for sure
That life is beautiful around the world
I know I know it's you
You say hello and then I say I do
Where you want to go
Who you want to be
What you want to do
Just come with me
I saw God
And I saw the fountains
You and me girl
Sittin' in the Swiss Mountains
Me Oh My O
Me and Guy O
Freer than a bird
'Cause we're rockin' Ohio
Around the world
I feel dutiful
Take a wife
'Cause life is beautiful
I know I know for sure
ding ding dang dong dong
ding dang dong dong
ding dang
I know I know its you
ding ding dang dong dong
ding dang dong dong
ding dang
Mother Russia do not suffer
I know you're bold enough
I've been around the world
And I have seen your love
I know I know it's you
You say hello and then I say I do
04 Scar Tissue (04:08)
Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know it all
Close your eyes and I'll kiss you 'cause
With the birds I'll share
With the birds I'll share
This lonely view
With the birds I'll share
This lonely view
Push me up against the wall
Young Kentucky girl in a push-up bra
Fallin' all over myself
To lick your heart and taste you health 'cause
With the birds I'll share
This lonely view
With the birds I'll share
This lonely view
With the birds I'll share
This lonely view
Blood loss in a bathroom stall
Southern girl with a scarlet drawl
Wave good-bye to ma and pa 'cause
With the birds I'll share
With the birds I'll share
This lonely view
With the birds I'll share
This lonely view
Soft spoken with a broken jaw
Step outside but not to brawl in
Autumn's sweet we call it fall
I'll make it to the moon if I have to crawl and
With the birds I'll share
This lonely view
With the birds I'll share
This lonely view
With the birds I'll share
This lonely view
Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know it all
Close your eyes and I'll kiss you 'cause
With the birds I'll share
With the birds I'll share
This lonely view
With the birds I'll share
This lonely view
With the birds I'll share
This lonely view
06 Fortune Faded (03:28)
They say in chess you've got to kill the queen and then you made it
Oh why - do you?
A funny thing the king who gets himself assasinated
Hey now, every time I lose - altitude
You took a town by storm the mess you made was nominated
Oh why - Do you?
Now put away your welcome, soon you'll find you've over stayed it
Hey now, every time I lose - altitude
So divine, hell of an elevator, all the while my fortune faded
Never Mind, the consequences of the crime this time my fortune's faded
The medicated state of mind you've found is over rated
Oh why - Do you?
You saw it all come down and now its time to imitate it
Hey now, every time I lose - altitude
So divine, hell of an elevator, all the while my fortune faded
Never Mind, the consequences of the crime this time my fortune's faded
Come on god, do I seem bullet proof...
So divine, hell of an elevator, all the while my fortune faded
Never Mind, the consequences of the crime this time's my fortune's faded
So divine, hell of an elevator, all the while my fortune faded
Never Mind, the consequences of the crime this time's my fortune's faded
08 Otherside (04:34)
How long how long will I slide
Separate my side
I don't
I don't believe it's fair
Slittin' my throat
It's all I ever
I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up and brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
I've got to take it on the otherside
Centuries are what it meant to me
A cemetery where I married the sea
Stranger things could never change my mind
I've got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on
How long how long will I slide
Separate my side
I don't
I don't believe it's fair
Slittin' my throat
It's all I ever
Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtray's full and I'm spillin' my guts
She wants to know am I still a slut
I've got to take it on the otherside
A scarlet starlet and she's in my bed
A candidate for a soul mate bled
Push the trigger and pull the thread
I've got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on
How long how long will I slide
Separate my side
I don't
I don't believe it's fair
Slittin' my throat
It's all I ever
Turn me on, take me for a hard ride
Burn me out leave me on the otherside
I yell and tell it that
It's not my friend
I tear it down I tear it down
But then it's born again
How long how long will I slide
Separate my side
I don't
I don't believe it's fair
Slittin' my throat
It's all I ever
How long... how long
I don't
I don't believe it's fair
Slittin' my throat
It's all I ever
09 Easily (05:00)
Easily let's get carried away
Easily let's get married today
Shao Lin shouted a rose
From his throat
Everything must go
A lickin' stick is thicker
When you break it to show
Everything must go
The story of a woman on the morning of a war
Remind me if you will exactly what we're fighting for
Calling calling for something in the air
Calling calling I know you must be there
Easily let's get caught in a wave
Easily we won't get caught in a cave
Shao Lin's shakin' for the sake
Of his soul-Everything must go
Lookin' mighty tired of
All the thing that you own
Everything must go
I can't tell you who to idolize
You think it's almost over
But it's only on the rise
Calling calling
For something in the air
Calling calling
I know you must be there
The story of a woman on the morning of a war
Remind me if you will exactly what we're fighting for
Throw me to the wolves
Because there's order in the pack
Throw me to the sky
Because I know I'm coming back
Shao Lin's shakin' for the sake
Of his soul-Everything must go
Lookin' mighty tired of
All the thing that you own
Everything must go
The story of a woman on the morning of a war
Remind me if you will exactly what we're fighting for
Calling calling for something in the air
Calling calling I know you must be there
I don't want to be your little research monkey boy
The creature that I am is only going to destroy
Throw me to the wolves
Because there's order in the pack
Throw me to the sky
Because I know I'm coming back
Easily
10 Universally Speaking (04:16)
I saw your face
Elegant and tired
Cut up from the chase
Still I so admired
Bloodshot your smile
Delicate and wild
Give me she-wolf style
Rip right through me
Silvretta, the jets of a lifetime
Go and get her I've got her on my mind
Nothing better the feeling is so fine
Simply put I saw your love stream flow
Come on baby cause there's no name for
Give it up and I got what I came for
Universally speaking
I take it back and you make me nervous
Nothing better than love and service
Universally speaking,
I win in the long run
I saw your crime
Dying to get high
Two of a kind
Beats all hands tonight
Silvretta, the jets of a lifetime
Go and get her I've got her on my mind
Nothing better the feeling is so fine
Simply put I saw your love stream flow
Come on baby cause there's no name for
Give it up and I got what I came for
Universally speaking
I take it back and you make me nervous
Nothing better than love and service
Universally speaking,
I win in the long run
Silvretta, the jets of a lifetime
Go and get her I've got her on my mind
Nothing better the feeling is so fine
Simply put I saw your love stream flow
11 Get on Top (04:06)
Get on Top Get on Top
Hit me come get me I bite but she bit me
Go-rilla Cunt-illa
Sammy D and Salmonella
Come with me 'cause I'm an ass killer
You're ill but I'm iller
I'll malinger on your block and
Give the finger to a cop and
Pick a lock before I'll knock and
Set you up to get on top
Complications of a mastermind
Last temptation of my kind
Extra planetary sign
When do we align
All in time
Right on
Get up and come sit up I light up but she lit it
Grass Hopper Show Stopper
The life of a Wife Swapper
Come with me 'cause I'm a big bopper
You do but I wopper
Exterminate my cause
You want to draw some straws
Be the one to see my flaws
Make me bleed with painted claws
Complications of a mastermind
Last temptation of my kind
Extra planetary sign
When do we align
All in time
Right on
Get on Top Get on Top
Hit me come get me I bite but she bit me
Speed Baller Rhodes Scholar
Bottom Bitch and a Bottom Dollar
come with me 'cause I'm a free faller
you hoot but I holler
I'll malinger on your block and
Give the finger to a cop and
Pick a lock before I'll knock and
Set you up to get on top
Get on Top
Get on Top
Get on Top
12 Brandy (03:34)
There's a port on a western bay
And it serves a hundred ships a day
Lonely sailors pass the time away
And talk about their homes
And there's a girl in this harbor town
And she works layin' whiskey down
They say, Brandy, fetch another round
She serves them whiskey and wine
The sailors say, Brandy, you're a fine girl (you're a fine girl)
What a good wife you would be (such a fine girl)
Yeah your eyes could steal a sailor from the sea
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)
Brandy wears a braided chain
Made of finest silver from the North of Spain
A locket that bears the name
Of the man that Brandy loved
He came on a summer's day
Bringin' gifts from far away
And though he made it clear he couldn't stay
No harbor was his home
The sailors said, Brandy, you're a fine girl (you're a fine girl)
What a good wife you would be (such a fine girl)
But my wife, my lover, my lady is the sea
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)
Yeah, Brandy used to watch his eyes
As he told his sailor stories
She could feel the ocean foam rise
She saw its ragin' glory
But he had always told the truth, lord he was an honest man
And Brandy does her best to understand
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)
At night when the bars close down
Brandy walks through a silent town
She loves a man who's not around
She still can hear him say
She hears him say, Brandy, you're a fine girl (you're a fine girl)
What a good wife you would be (such a fine girl)
But my wife, my lover, my lady is the sea
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)
Brandy, you're a fine girl (you're a fine girl)
What a good wife you would be (such a fine girl)
But my wife, my lover, my lady is the sea
(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda-dit)
Is the sea
Is the sea
13 Don't Forget Me (05:22)
I'm an ocean in your bedroom
Make you feel warm
Make you want to re-assume
Now we know it all for sure
I'm a dance hall dirty breakbeat
Make the snow fall
Up from underneath your feet
Not alone, I'll be there
Tell me when you want to go
I'm a meth lab first rehab
Take it all off
And step inside the running cab
There's a love that knows the way
I'm the rainbow in your jail cell
All the memories of
Everything you've ever smelled
Not alone, I'll be there
Tell me when you want to go
(backround)
Sideways falling
More will be revealed my friend
Oooooooooh
Don't forget me
I can't hide it
Come again get reignited
I'm an inbred and a pothead
Two legs that you spread
Inside the tool shed
Now we know it all for sure
I could show you
To the free field
Overcome and more
Will always be revealed
Not alone, I'll be there
Tell me when you want to go
(backround)
Sideways falling
More will be revealed my friend
Ooooooooh and
Don't forget me
I can't hide it
Come again get me exited
(backround)
Sideways falling
More will be revealed my friend
Ooooooooh and
Don't forget me
I can't hide it
There's a match now let me light it
I'm the bloodstain
On your shirt sleeve
Coming down and more are coming to believe
Now we know it all for sure
Make the hair stand
Up on your arm
Teach you how to dance
Inside the funny farm
Not alone, I'll be there
Tell me when you want to go
I'll be there
Tell me when you wanna go
Come again and
Tell me when you want to go
More will be revealed my friend
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