Friday, May 25, 2007

friday post!


In honor of Kiedis' impending fatherhood (which I am pretty stoked about), I completed a little project I have been wanting to do for a while in which I compile a list of all the place references in the lyrics of Stadium Arcadium. If you listen to the Chili Peppers you will know that this is always the well that Kiedis will dip his wick in when he is stuck for a lyric. Here goes:

Disc one: Jupiter

Dani California-
California of course
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
Indiana
Minnesota
North Dakota

Snow (hey oh)-this is my favorite because it is the only goddamned one with an even semi-catchy hook
None? Amazing

Charlie-
None

Stadium arcadium-
St. Petersburg

Hump de bump-
Love street

She’s only 18 (gross name)-
None but he does have the phrase “the smell of springsteen”

Slow cheetah-
None

Torture me-
Brazil

Strip my mind-
Hades
Carolina?
El Dorado

Especially in Michigan
Michigan, natch
Lithuania

Warlocks (best song title)-
The Vatican
Santa Monica
Japan
China

C’mon girl-
None

Wet Sand-
None, but he does mention “balarama girl” as if balarama is a place

Hey (not to be confused with hey oh)-
None

Here we go with disc two, mars

Desecration smile-
Malibu


Tell Me Baby-
“they come from every state”
Kansas City
This song also contains the best lyric “three fingers in the honeycomb”

Hard to Concentrate-
“the world”
An estuary is a kind of place

21st Century-
Venus

She Looks to Me-
South Seas

Readymade-
Arizona (rhymed with moaner)
State of California
City of Sedona
*Mentions black and decker WITHOUT rhyming it with pecker wrecker

If-
5th Avenue

Make You Feel Better-
None

Animal Bar-
None (but does mention Norman Mailer)

So Much I-
None

Storm in a Teacup-
Heaven
Someplace called a “lasarium”
*also notable because he calls some girl a “sour Kraut”

We Believe-
None

Turn It Again-
Kazakstan
Cuba
Aruba
Dominican

Death of a Martian-
Mars, obvs

And the last mention is…..of course….. Vegas!

Hmm.not quite as many as it seems when you're listening to the album, but still a lot.

9 comments:

beckler said...

how is it possible that with all the women he's fucked, including many many times when he was probably high out of his mind, that he only has one child? here's a teeny picture of the lucky lady, including a hot nsfw one on the left (it's safe unless you click on it)

http://agentbedhead.com/index.php/archive/anthony-kiedis-romance/

beckler said...

I guess "she's only 18" is about her

Anonymous said...

That is strange that there is only one child, although perhaps the drugs helped there and made him less potent.

At any rate, hopefully baby Ozone will have a good nanny.

-md

Anonymous said...

There is only one kid that we know of. I bet there are dozens of little bastard Keidises (keidi?) running around out there.
-biz

Anonymous said...

Biz,

Will you please start a band called the Kiedi? You can dress like trolls and play awesome songs.

Thanks,
md

Anonymous said...

How is it that he is not aging? Must be some special drugs that only celebrities and the rich have access to.

Anonymous said...

No, everybody has access to good ol heroin.
-biz

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Anonymous said...

OK, I'm bored, Heckasac went home, I might as well announce here (since I don't have a HS log-in anymore - what's up with that?) that The New Band is playing at Fools on Monday with the Intelligence & The Standard Tribesmen. There's an experiment going on with an earlier start time so this show is starting at 9:00 instead of 10:00. I know, I know, but it could happen if people actually show up at 9:00! Worse case scenario: it doesn't really start on time & you go hang at the Spaghetti Factory bar. You can't lose!

-miller