Sunday, April 19, 2009

Whose #*$@ Did Anthony Kiedes Suck?

I'm not saying Anthony Kiedes is gay, or that when he was addicted to heroin he may have done nasty things to get a fix. I am wondering though who did Anthony Kiedes and the Red Hot Chili Peppers blow to get their songs in constant rotation on the radio. Every time I put on the radio I hear a Red Hot Chili Peppers song sometime in the rotation of my listening. Its damn ridiculous.

My local station WTMD 89.7 FM Towson Univeristy Radio is doing a countdown promotion of the 897 best artists of all time. I was checking off the list in my head and in surely in the top ten I came to RHCP. Since 1985's Freaky Stylee (or 1983 if you want to be a music douche and talk about some first time preforming under a different name bullshit) the Chili Peppers have been making excellent music, but after the band shake ups, break ups, and hair cuts they reformed and released Californication in mid 1999. At this point it seems the dick sucking must have begun in earnest, because I only hear RCHP songs from this and subsequent albums. Basically the first 14 years of music is ignored and the last 10 years of less and less relevant slow ballads about California can be pooped at me in heavy rotation.

I seriously like the Chili Peppers. I would not hesitate to go see them in concert, and they are definately one of the best artists of all time, but the over playing of basically three songs, Californication, By The Way, and Dani California are ruining them for me. I wish the radio would play some of their older songs, which would be perfectly acceptable since they have not produced a new single in 3 years, but apparently every program director in the country was well fellated and we are left listening to the same three songs all the damn time.

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