Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers [4× Vinyl LP Box Set]

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium [4× Vinyl LP Box Set]

Details

• Format: 4× Vinyl LP, Album, Box Set, Gatefold, Stereo, Explicit
• Catalogue Number: AWAR 44391
• Barcode: 093624439110
• Genre: Alternative Rock / Funk Rock / Hard Rock
• Label: Warner Bros. Records / Warner Records
• Originally Released: 9 May 2006
• Reissue Released: 2020
• Condition: New & Sealed

Description

Stadium Arcadium is the ninth studio album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the most ambitious undertaking of their career — a double album spanning 28 tracks across two separately titled discs, Jupiter and Mars, recorded at The Mansion in Los Angeles between March and July 2005 with their long-term producer Rick Rubin. Released on 9 May 2006 via Warner Bros. Records, it debuted at number one in 28 countries including the UK and United States, and became the band's fastest-selling album to that point, moving over 442,000 copies in its first week in the US alone. It is certified triple Platinum in the UK and quadruple Platinum in the United States. At the 2007 Grammy Awards it took home five awards including Best Rock Album, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group for "Dani California", and Best Rock Song for "Dani California" — with Rick Rubin simultaneously receiving Producer of the Year. The album yielded five hit singles: "Dani California", "Tell Me Baby", "Snow (Hey Oh)", "Desecration Smile" and "Hump de Bump".

The sessions were the most prolific in the band's history — over 38 songs were tracked, with 28 making the final cut — and represent the last studio album to feature John Frusciante before his 2009 departure. Frusciante's guitar work across the double album is widely regarded as the high-water mark of his recorded output with the band: technically extraordinary across styles ranging from delicate fingerpicked acoustic balladry ("Slow Cheetah", "Hard to Concentrate", "She Looks to Me") to searing psychedelic rock ("Warlocks", "Turn It Again"). Bassist Flea and drummer Chad Smith operate throughout at a level of ensemble fluency that reflects twenty years of performing together, and Anthony Kiedis delivers his most melodically varied vocal performances to date. The Jupiter disc is generally considered the more immediate and commercially accessible of the two — home to the biggest singles and some of the album's most direct melodic writing — while Mars moves into more experimental, atmospheric and sonically expansive territory.

Stadium Arcadium was not without its critics at the time of release — some reviewers felt the double-album format indulgent and the material uneven — but subsequent reassessment has been largely favourable, and it is now widely regarded as a definitive late-career statement from one of the most decorated bands in rock history. The band's previous five studio albums had each featured in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums list, and the accumulated commercial and critical goodwill around Stadium Arcadium reflects a band at the absolute peak of their mainstream reach.

This 4× LP box set presents the complete double album across four records, divided into two individually jacketed gatefold sleeves for Jupiter (LP1/LP2, Sides A–D) and Mars (LP3/LP4, Sides E–H), housed together in a rigid slipcase picture box. An authoritative and generous physical presentation of one of the defining rock albums of the 2000s.

Tracklist

Jupiter — Side A

1. Dani California
2. Snow (Hey Oh)
3. Charlie

Jupiter — Side B

1. Stadium Arcadium
2. Hump de Bump
3. She's Only 18
4. Slow Cheetah

Jupiter — Side C

1. Torture Me
2. Strip My Mind
3. Especially in Michigan
4. Warlocks

Jupiter — Side D

1. C'mon Girl
2. Wet Sand
3. Hey

Mars — Side E

1. Desecration Smile
2. Tell Me Baby
3. Hard to Concentrate

Mars — Side F

1. 21st Century
2. She Looks to Me
3. Readymade
4. If

Mars — Side G

1. Make You Feel Better
2. Animal Bar
3. So Much I
4. Storm in a Teacup

Mars — Side H

1. We Believe
2. Turn It Again
3. Death of a Martian

Credits

• Anthony Kiedis – Vocals
• Flea – Bass
• John Frusciante – Guitar, Backing Vocals
• Chad Smith – Drums
• Rick Rubin – Producer
• Andrew Scheps – Engineer, Mixer
• Greg Fidelman – Engineer
• Label – Warner Bros. Records / Warner Records