Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Album: One Hot Minute
Song: Aeroplane
Date: 3/1/96
Status: Not Acquired
One Hot Minute is a great Album, but its a weird fit with the rest of the Chili Pepper catalog, or at least it felt that way at the time. A song like Aeroplane still sounds great, but it sounds more like a Chili Pepper side project.
There are some really quite moments, like the opening guitar work, which are really pleasing, but what really carries the song is the sing-along quality of the lyrics and the repeated "That Mother Fucker, Always Spiked with Pain". Most of us assumed it was a song about depression, drug use, and inspiration, things Kiedis knows a lot about, but something about the hook made the themes seem more universal than that. Getting a little older, getting into and on with college you begin to realize that pain and joy are inextricably linked.
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