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.
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:
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/
I guess "she's only 18" is about her
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
There is only one kid that we know of. I bet there are dozens of little bastard Keidises (keidi?) running around out there.
-biz
Biz,
Will you please start a band called the Kiedi? You can dress like trolls and play awesome songs.
Thanks,
md
How is it that he is not aging? Must be some special drugs that only celebrities and the rich have access to.
No, everybody has access to good ol heroin.
-biz
This is totally random, but I think you'll enjoy this video
http://www.metafilter.com/61505/Sushi-Bar-Video
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
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