Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Slane Castle

1. "By the Way"
2. "Scar Tissue"
3. "Around the World "
4. "Maybe" (cover by John Frusciante)
5. "Universally Speaking"
6. "Parallel Universe
7. "The Zephyr Song"
8. "Throw Away Your Television"
9. "Havana Affair" (Ramones cover)
10. "Otherside"
11. "Purple Stain"
12. "Don't Forget Me"
13. "Right on Time"
14. "Can't Stop"
15. "Venice Queen"
16. "Give It Away"
17. "Californication"
18. "Under the Bridge"
19. "The Power of Equality"

Ahhh the classic Slane Castle concert. From the legendary intro before "Californication", to the energetic performance in "Can't Stop" and the absolutely powerful rendition of "Under the Bridge", this is an all-time classic rock album that will make you fall in love with Red Hot Chili Peppers no matter what your thoughts were about them before. Pure energy!

Highlights
Californication:

The epic intro before the song is too good for words to describe. Just feel the electricity between the bass and the guitar. Amazing.

Otherside:
A personal favorite of mine. One of the reasons I started playing bass guitar is the bass solo part in this song. Too many memories.



Overall Assessment
I'm going to come out say that there is a very realistic chance that you won't find a better live performance album than this. Too good to pass up whether you are a fan of them or not.

Thinking in Textures

No		Length
1.	"I'm Into You"	4:23
2.	"Terms and Conditions"	3:42
3.	"No Diggity"	3:41
4.	"Love and Feeling"	4:10
5.	"Cigarettes and Chocolate"	5:16
6.	"Solo Sunrise"	4:04
7.	"Everything I Wanted"	3:30

"Thinking in Textures", a recent discovery of mine, is a great album for taking a step back and relaxing. The whole album is very much like a long and comforting exhalation that helps you forget about whatever unnecessary stress you were dealing with earlier. The album starts off with "I'm Into You", which captivates you with its sheer intimacy, as it empties your mind and fills it back in with love (great vocals and "romantic" lyrics in this one). The cover of "No Diggity" is the highlight of the album and probably Chet Faker's most famous song, as it literally forces you to sing along and nod your head to the heartbeat-like beats made with kick drums. I have seen Chet Faker live two months back and wasn't the least amount of surprised to see how cool and calm the guy was, while he killed it on stage with his performance. He has this aura about him, you just feel like he is a chill guy with good intentions, who has been through a lot of stuff romantically. Thanks for helping us exhale Chet.

Highlights:

No Diggity:

Live Sessions version is even sexier.



I'm Into You:

#Groovy.



Lyrics of Random Wisdom:

"But on a sunday morning sun, Well I don't, I don't believe in your loving"

Well in that case, it's time to move on.

Heligoland

No.				Length
1.	"Pray for Rain"			6:44
2.	"Babel"			5:19
3.	"Splitting the Atom"			5:16
4.	"Girl I Love You"			5:26
5.	"Psyche"			3:24
6.	"Flat of the Blade"			5:30
7.	"Paradise Circus"			4:57
8.	"Rush Minute"			4:51
9.	"Saturday Come Slow"			3:43
10.	"Atlas Air"			7:48

I remember the first time I listened to this album. It was a sunny spring day, I was on a school bus going home, thinking about my high school crush. She wasn't really a particularly beautiful or attractive girl, but she had an unexplainable control over me. To this day, I haven't been able to fully understand what it was that I liked about her so much, but looking back, it was a truly intense feeling that I haven't been able to experience again. This album reminds me of that exact feeling. It's a unique trip: it gets you hooked with the genially simple piano part of the peaceful Pray For Rain, much like love at first sight, then it builds up your emotions with the captivating Paradise Circus and it climaxes with Atlas Air, especially with its crazy outro which smacks you on the face like a breakup. A short love story that you look back at and get all nostalgic about, without understanding what it is that you exactly miss about it. Maybe it's just too good for words to describe. 

Highlight

Paradise Circus

Enjoy.



Lyrics of Random Wisdom:

The devil makes us sin, but we like it when we're spinning in his grip.

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Track Listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The View from the Afternoon"	3:38
2.	"I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"	2:53
3.	"Fake Tales of San Francisco"	2:57
4.	"Dancing Shoes"	2:21
5.	"You Probably Couldn't See for the Lights but You Were Staring Straight at Me"	2:10
6.	"Still Take You Home"	2:53
7.	"Riot Van"	2:14
8.	"Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured"	2:23
9.	"Mardy Bum"	2:55
10.	"Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But..."	4:28
11.	"When the Sun Goes Down"	3:20
12.	"From the Ritz to the Rubble"	3:13
13.	"A Certain Romance"	5:31

"Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" is the debut album from Arctic Monkeys. This is definitely a "good day" album, it has so many happy tunes in it. Listening to it now reminds me of the countless times I listened to it while I was busy preparing breakfast on weekend mornings (the best feeling ever). I know this is a strange association to come up with but it's absolutely a great album to cook to. It just cheers you up no matter what. I mean, I dare you guys to listen to Mardy Bum and not feel good. It's just impossible.  From a lyrical standpoint, one of the best albums out there in terms of being witty and fun. Years ago, when I first heard the Arctic Monkeys, I hadn't liked them. Turns out I was legitimately out of my mind back then since now they are more or less one of my top three favorite bands. As time went on, Arctic Monkeys have changed their style dramatically, they leaned towards slower beats and more mature musical and lyrical content. Nothing against their current style, in fact I love their latest album "AM" so much that I thought about doing a post on it, but "Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not" is a totally stand alone experience in terms of its pure energy and it just never gets old. An instant classic.

Highlights:

Fake Tales of San Francisco: 

Look guys, they wrote a song about our time in Hult!



Still Take You Home:

Workout song. No question. The breakdown at 1.26 mark is just too good to pass up. Also there is something funny about shouting out loud the "You know nothing!!!" part. Fun fact for all the Game of Thrones watchers out there: We used to play this song live with Moobs and our back vocalist would change that part up a bit by going: "You know nothing, Jon Snow".  Aaah, the good old days.

Lyrics of Random Wisdom:

Anticipation has a habit to set you up for disappointment in evening entertainment. (The View From The Afternoon)

TRUE.

Overall Assessment:

Listen to this. Seriously just go and listen to the whole album right now. You will instantly feel better about your life.

Umm so, this is the first post.

My friends, welcome to Albumlando, aka the best named blog in the history of blogs (the name albumland was already taken so...). I will review some of my favorite music albums from various different genres in this blog, and I may or may not share some personal stories about why certain albums and songs are enjoyable for me, depending on my daily mood. Hopefully it will be fun to write and you guys will enjoy it. I'm thinking about covering stuff from artists like Gorillaz, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Massive Attack, Arctic Monkeys, etc. We will see how it goes. No Adam Levine though. That guy is such a douchebag.

Some info on my musical background: I was a bass guitar player in an indie rock/alternative band called Moobs (yeah) in Turkey before coming to San Francisco. We were playing in festivals and bars. Had a bunch of fun moments on stage including but not limited to: doing Jager shots, dodging thrown water bottles, our singer forgetting the lyrics of a certain song all the time and of course, doing pushups on stage. That's always fun.

The reason I went with a music blog is because music is a subject I'm deeply passionate about; I can talk about good music for years. That is a cliche sentence but it's true nonetheless. I can't sing for the life of me by the way. Those that have seen me do karaoke would agree, 100%.

Let me also present to you the ultimate Moobs concert footage. Everyone was drunk at this concert, which was fun. Fast forward to 1.00 minute mark to start.