Rhcp - Funk?
 

This is something I have always wanted to know, i love the red hot chili peppers but i don't know what genre they fall under, people say Funk, thus the reason im posting here others say Alt/Inde some Rock, Modern Rock Pop Punk.How do they fall under and what do they fall under?

theyre a rock band. possibly an alternative band. alternative is such a cop-out blanket genre though. its a catch all. theyre definitely not funk. they have funk elements. its different.

Well Flea brings more than an ELEMENT of funk into the band! If asked i would call them a Funk band, they are total old school also, i have been listining to them for sooo long now

One member can't define the genre of a band. I am a huge funk lover, my tastes ranging from the classic old school stuff, even back to motown, all the way up to some of the modern hip hop, fusion, groove bands, etc. And, from everything I've heard of the Chili Peppers, they are not funk. Yes, they have some funky elements and a few funky songs, but they are still definatley a rock band.

They don't fall under one specific genre because so many of their songs sound completely different. The album Freaky Styley, produced by George Clinton, is definately funk, but the abum By the Way is pop/rock. It's pretty much impossible to say that they are strictly a funk band or strictly a rock band.

Red Hot Chili Peppers are just Red Hot Chili Peppers, a new genre :P No, I think it's rock with a little bit of Funk (Flea) but that doesn't mean it IS funk.

[QUOTE=Jump]Red Hot Chili Peppers are just Red Hot Chili Peppers, a new genre :P No, I think it's rock with a little bit of Funk (Flea) but that doesn't mean it IS funk.[/QUOTE]


Flea isn't the only person in the band who plays funk. "Funky Monks" is a good example; John Frusciante and Chad Smith are playing more funky than Flea.

[QUOTE=MaxLeighton]They don't fall under one specific genre because so many of their songs sound completely different. The album Freaky Styley, produced by George Clinton, is definately funk, but the abum By the Way is pop/rock. It's pretty much impossible to say that they are strictly a funk band or strictly a rock band.[/QUOTE]

true

[QUOTE=MaxLeighton]Flea isn't the only person in the band who plays funk. "Funky Monks" is a good example; John Frusciante and Chad Smith are playing more funky than Flea.[/QUOTE]

but flea just has that total flow goin on it gives me a total funk vibb

his is more kind of standing out over the other guyus you know?

They are a Rock Band, Full Stop. A brilliant one at that.

Funk


Rock.

I agree with stealth

They pretty much play whatever the **** they feel like playing.

They are many genres molded into one. You say RHCP are funk, others will say they're alt. rock. Some will say funk rock. Some will go as far as funk metal. Others will classify them as pop.
They are influenced by jazz and funk. Influence only, they are not funk in itself. They are the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and if you were to throw them into one major genre, it would most definately be rock.
Yes, they have the funky tracks, and they have the rock tracks, and they have the pop tracks and whatnot...but let's think about all the other bands that would be labelled "funk" by the style used by the bassist, as you've mentioned, Flea:
-Audioslave
-Primus
-Korn, so help me God
-Rage Against the Machine
-Les Claypool's Frog Brigade
I wouldn't list a single one of them as pure funk, just as I wouldn't dare to throw the Chilis into that genre.
I'll stick with rock.

thanks guys...i should check out this forum more

they are funky but not like what we think of as funk like parliament. funky rock

omg Bob Marley has funky bass lines in his songs, so I'd say he should be classified as funk.


Better yet, listen to the music as a collective whole. RHCP isn't funk, plain and simple.

^Not in recent years, that's for sure... but Freakey Styley was most definitely a funk album. Maybe the only one that they ever issued.

[QUOTE=C. OSullivan]^Not in recent years, that's for sure... but Freakey Styley was most definitely a funk album. Maybe the only one that they ever issued.[/QUOTE]


YES! Finally someone speaks truth. None of this "funk Element" bull*h*t. George Clinton Produced that album and squeezed every funky sound out and jammed it up your eardrums like bananas.

[QUOTE=feedyourhead]YES! Finally someone speaks truth. None of this "funk Element" bull*h*t. George Clinton Produced that album and squeezed every funky sound out and jammed it up your eardrums like bananas.[/QUOTE]

definitely made that funk the p-funk...well at least made it funk

Either way, it's a good thing no one can agree one what genre they are. If they wanted to play funk like Parliament they could, and if they wanted to play rock like Led Zeppelin they could do that too.

[QUOTE=C. OSullivan]Funk


Rock.[/QUOTE]

agreed. chad smith is a crimminally underated drummer in my opinion. They really didn't get interesting for me until he joined the band.

I agree, they add funk, metal, and jazz influences to their sound. Their Hillel Slovak albums were more pure funk than anything though. Lately they have been pop-punk. I will keep waiting until they release another Mother's Milk :D

[QUOTE=fr0zt]I agree, they add funk, metal, and jazz influences to their sound. Their Hillel Slovak albums were more pure funk than anything though. Lately they have been pop-punk. I will keep waiting until they release another Mother's Milk :D[/QUOTE]

I think that if you'd listen to/learn jazz, you'd see that the Chili Peppers are hardly jazz inspired... true, Flea is and John is too a jazz fan (evident in interviews from the Bllod Sugar and recent era), but that doesn't really rub off into their playing at all. Also, metal? That's a huge stretch. The only song that comes close to metal is "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" off of Blood Sugar.
I don't know, I just have to disagree.

Also, I'd see pop punk bands as being things like Fallout Boy or Simple Plan... Warped Tour type bands. You can't play "Around the World"... "Can't Stop"... "By the Way"... these songs are atypical in and of themselves, let alone confiend to such a weak (weak in my opinion) genre as pop-punk. RHCP isn't a very complicated band when it comes to their music, but they're definitely out of the leagues of Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, and into more introspective music... particularly John and Flea. Just listen to John's solo work, his experimental touch...

I'm not saying that one genre is above another but the Chili Peppers are jus tnonclssifiable with pop punk bands.


I highly disagree with a few things said. First off, Uplift Mofo was more based on classic rock and bands such as AC/DC and Kiss than anything funky. The self titled debut, well that only had a few hillel tracks.

[QUOTE=C. OSullivan] The self titled debut, well that only had a few hillel tracks.[/QUOTE]


Actually the whole album was written by Hillel, Anthony, Flea, and Jack Irons. It was after all the songs were finished that Hillel and Jack quit the band. Jack Sherman and Cliff Martinez joined but, they only recorded the songs the others had already written.

^Well, he recorded only 4 of the 11 original tracks.. something tells me that Jack Sherman played a significant role in the guitar work on that album, the songs and the playing.

[QUOTE=TheMule]Actually the whole album was written by Hillel, Anthony, Flea, and Jack Irons. It was after all the songs were finished that Hillel and Jack quit the band. Jack Sherman and Cliff Martinez joined but, they only recorded the songs the others had already written.[/QUOTE]
That's wrong, my friend. Jack Sherman and Cliff Martinez wrote Mommy Where's Daddy with the peppers. I think they wrote a few other too. Just look at the album credits.

no. Just have a little funk influences, but i wouldnt call them funk/funk metal or whatever.

punk and funk

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*sigh*

you all have it WRONG!!!!

No way do the chili's come any where near anything even to do with punk.

Nor are they majorly rock

Or funk.

The chili's combine brillant musician ship, some of might not be hard but hey i'd like to see you come up with some stuff like theirs, with truly soul barring vocals and work together in complete harmony not found in practically any other band around.

The closest genre they can be put into would be alternative because thats really a artist specific genre with contriction placed what so ever.

The fact that no song on their albums sound like fillers at all tells us this, you listen to every track and don't skip any.

There mix of acoustic, lightly distorted and clean guitar working with the ever changing bass lines from flea with the amazing drummer chad. Then to top the cake put REAL song lyrics on top from anothny.This band shall be one of the ones remembered in the future unlike those crappy punk pop bands that sound crap, are crap and are riding a fad.

The only word's you can use to describe the chili's would be Diverse, Honest and Vibrant.

The best band around today full stop, that most successful band around lately and they have one of the biggest fan bases in the world.

Don't put genre's on bands because they don't want the labels, rhcp don't have a genre and something like Faith No More doesn't even have one, you know why because they are origional and the best. No one else can copy them.

Long live the Chili's

if you actually see that vid I gave you [up there] flea actually said that he mix punk and funk, it just their style
and do you know that flea actually in a punk band called "FEAR"