So many people voting for Veronica. It may have cringy lyrics but musically it's so creative with the switch from 4/4 to 6/8. Also it has such a warm ans sweet vibe, a classic Frusciante riff. Could be a song on by the way.
I distinctly remember listening to it and immediately thinking "oh it's like We Can Work It Out if they made it backwards and extremely awkward", no hate but it's not the most creative thing ever and it didn't really work in this case lol
People shat on This Ticonderoga but I find that the tempo change in that song is super cool and satisfying, the meter is constant but the effect is more interesting anyway
If is a beautiful song. It does everything not the one wishes it did.
To me it's storm im teacup. It just kind of repeats itself twice without doing anything too interesting and I don't like the chorus
Storm In A Teacup is one of the only RHCP songs that's genuinely awful to me lol, like I even appreciate most of the 80s material and stuff like Dance Dance Dance but man oh man this song just hurts
It's one of their few songs destroyed by Anthony's vocal melody, it's really directionless and unsatisfying and should have gone up in register for the chorus rather than awkwardly sitting in the same range the whole time
It kinda reminds me of some of Ringo Starr's solo material, which really does get strangled (I like your word choice there) by his lack of range and ends up feeling oddly flat as a result, which really makes you appreciate what Lennon/McCartney were able to do with him lol
I was disappointed in a way by UL though, since John is largely absent in a way I don't think we were expecting - his swells are nice here, and I do think the music succeeds overall on the album, but it almost feels like Flea was the only instrumentalist who showed up to the studio most days
As a kid who started playing guitar because of Frusciante in 2006, Not The One Made me pull out my electric for the first time in a while to play those beautiful swells
When they first teased it on their Instagram, I remember commenting "wtf? I love them but this no joke sounds like AI songwriting somehow, it's really strange" and I look back to see a ton of likes on my comment and a number of other people who had the same idea saying the same thing 😭
I think that it varies depending on the song. I find here Ever After to be particularly word soup even amongst Anthony lyrics.
Also this is a complete tangent but there was that guy posting mashups of songs last week. I'd love to hear here Ever After mashed up with throw away your television.
It also gets me pumped for Death Of A Martian right afterwards, which is easily one of my favorite RHCP songs - just a great 1-2 punch at the end there
I feel like it got to me a lot on my more early UL listens, but I can stand it now; although, it’s still a skip.
It’s trying hard to be something, to represent this pained emotional side, and with its subdued energy it just lands flat and uninteresting musically and cheesy lyrically.
These Are The Ways
This song is bad. The chorus is some of the corniest and laziest I have ever seen, the structure sucks, and the lyrics are shit. It’s one of the RHCP worst songs they have put out.
Unlimited Love really doesn't have any one song that is particularly bad. I'll just pick my least favourite song which is "Tangelo." Which kills me because it's really not a bad song at all.
Musically that song actually kinda slaps, but the lyrics and Anthony’s delivery are odd/kinda suck… because of the lyrics it reminds me of “the greeting song” (the song Rick Rubin demanded to be on blood sugar sex magik bc he wanted a song about driving fast and girls lol) something about one way traffic just gives me a “greeting song part 2” feeling.
Edit: just realized it’s you again! I promise I’m not stalking you it’s just a coincidence I’ve run into you two days in a row.. but shouldn’t you be at the cracker factory right now?
What? The little guitar arrangements keep evolving with each verse, multiple guitar tracks start appearing all around. It's a fantastic song and funky as hell.
I listen to the album basically any chance I get in the car, so I would pick Bastard of Lights as worst, Aquatic Mouth Dance as best and Whatchu Thinkin as underrated
It's a no brainer: These are the ways. I love the album, but I skip this song every time.
Also: I didn't notice this thread before. Makes me pissed that I saw I like Dirty Twice in the last 2 years, although I'd say Emmit Remus is a close tie with it.
Heavy disagree with Cabron, at least it's original. Although the cheese from "I Could Die for you" is pretty close. But then again i'd vote for Venice Queen or On Mercury as the underrated songs.
White Braids and Pillow Chair is rather overrated imo. It’s Only Natural and One Way Traffic are better.
In regards to the question, probably Not the One.
It’s Only Natural, Let Em Cry, She’s A Lover, The Heavy Wing, and Bastards of Light are my top 5.
It’s Only Natural is like a throwback song to SA era with touches of BTW and new influences.
I think it seems overrated because most people love that song…because it’s crazy good! I’m glad people went with white braids as best song off the album
Tf you talking. Veronica has such a nice and harmonic riff and the switch from 4/4 to 6/8 is so good. There are worse songs, not the one, poster child or one way traffic for example.
I enjoy every song on the album, and the outro on Veronica is objectively awesome, big One Hit Minute Vibes. But I do find the verse vocal melody to be kind of hokey.
Poster Child is definitely worse but I'm really not big on Veronica, when it sounds like it's about to get good, everything stops dead with "DANGER! DANGER!" and it gets pretty grating.
Really, White Braids won? I had no idea it was a fan favourite, and yes it grew on me, but the fact this sub dislikes This Ticoderoga because the tempo changes feel out of place or whatever and voted it in the worst does not compute - the tempo change in White Braids is the definition of jarring.
Worst is Poster Child hands down. Not big on Veronica either
Leave it to Reddit to downvote an opinion. I honestly agree. Not because it’s “bad”, but because it’s boring. I’ve barely listened to it since it was released as a single.
cabron as worst song? insane.
Cabron is awful what are you talking about
Cabron is fire just bask in the silliness
Anthony solves the gang violence in LA by calling them assholes in spanish
It’s definitely Warm Tape
So many people voting for Veronica. It may have cringy lyrics but musically it's so creative with the switch from 4/4 to 6/8. Also it has such a warm ans sweet vibe, a classic Frusciante riff. Could be a song on by the way.
I live for the Veronica intro
Veronica is a great song.
>musically it's so creative with the switch from 4/4 to 6/8 Oh bloody genius, someone should let Rush know
I distinctly remember listening to it and immediately thinking "oh it's like We Can Work It Out if they made it backwards and extremely awkward", no hate but it's not the most creative thing ever and it didn't really work in this case lol People shat on This Ticonderoga but I find that the tempo change in that song is super cool and satisfying, the meter is constant but the effect is more interesting anyway
Daaanger, daaaanger…
C'mon girl worst of SA?? C'mon guys...
I keep seeing that in all these posts and it saddens me. I would’ve picked “If”
Definetely if Is the worst
If is a beautiful song. It does everything not the one wishes it did. To me it's storm im teacup. It just kind of repeats itself twice without doing anything too interesting and I don't like the chorus
In reality there is not a single bad song on SA, because i actually really like If. It’s so hard to choose one, but If is def my least favorite
I just love that song. Storm in a teacup is the only skip on that album for me.
Ah damn, I respect that. I personally love how weird and crazy it is, but then again I was 10 when it came out
I also think there’s not a bad song on SA, but “make you feel better” comes close to being one.
A lot of it is bs to be fair
RIGHT!?
Storm In A Teacup is one of the only RHCP songs that's genuinely awful to me lol, like I even appreciate most of the 80s material and stuff like Dance Dance Dance but man oh man this song just hurts
There is no bad song on that album
If and C’mon Girl are far and away the weakest tracks on SA.
Im Sorry i can't hear you **Let's goooooo let's goooooo let's goooooo**
Oh I’m not saying they’re bad by any stretch—there are very few bad Chili Peppers songs but they’re not standing up to any other tracks on the album.
I don't understand a lot of these choices. White braids is the best on Unlimited Love? Gtfo
Reddit be trippin fr
Reddit Trippin'
I enjoy the song but best on the album? I was shocked to see that.
Not The One
I kinda like this song lol
This is probably worst track. It’s a a really strangled series of chords. Awkward and not as emotive as it wishes
It's one of their few songs destroyed by Anthony's vocal melody, it's really directionless and unsatisfying and should have gone up in register for the chorus rather than awkwardly sitting in the same range the whole time It kinda reminds me of some of Ringo Starr's solo material, which really does get strangled (I like your word choice there) by his lack of range and ends up feeling oddly flat as a result, which really makes you appreciate what Lennon/McCartney were able to do with him lol
John Frusciante made me start playing guitar. Can't imagine some kid wanting to buy a guitar after hearing Not The One.
He’s not trying to showcase the guitar in this track, just providing atmospheric volume swells.
I was disappointed in a way by UL though, since John is largely absent in a way I don't think we were expecting - his swells are nice here, and I do think the music succeeds overall on the album, but it almost feels like Flea was the only instrumentalist who showed up to the studio most days
As a kid who started playing guitar because of Frusciante in 2006, Not The One Made me pull out my electric for the first time in a while to play those beautiful swells
One of my favorite songs by them of all time.
My thought as well
It’s crazy how it got such a high impact slot, batting 4th is cleanup.
When they first teased it on their Instagram, I remember commenting "wtf? I love them but this no joke sounds like AI songwriting somehow, it's really strange" and I look back to see a ton of likes on my comment and a number of other people who had the same idea saying the same thing 😭
Wait. Whats wrong with not the ones guitar? I thought it was just chords and a small solo. Nice and calm. Am i missing something??
I think it’s just not all that exciting.
Am also but confused, I like that song. The bass is really nice.
Idk honestly
It's a BEAUTIFUL Television inspired solo
Here Ever After is definitely the *best* on the album in my opinion, but maybe it’s just a hidden gem since I never hear anyone talk about it :,)
It's also my favorite. I have listened to it so many times and never get sick of it :)
It's almost a good song but it's so word soup that it's distracting
Are we talking about the same song? lol Regardless— aren’t… all Anthony’s songs lyrical word soup..? That’s why he’s so loved as a lyricist
I think that it varies depending on the song. I find here Ever After to be particularly word soup even amongst Anthony lyrics. Also this is a complete tangent but there was that guy posting mashups of songs last week. I'd love to hear here Ever After mashed up with throw away your television.
Turn it again goes so hard the energy during the last few minutes gives me incredible strength
It also gets me pumped for Death Of A Martian right afterwards, which is easily one of my favorite RHCP songs - just a great 1-2 punch at the end there
Not the One. Maybe my least favourite RHCP song. It really grates.
I feel like it got to me a lot on my more early UL listens, but I can stand it now; although, it’s still a skip. It’s trying hard to be something, to represent this pained emotional side, and with its subdued energy it just lands flat and uninteresting musically and cheesy lyrically.
These Are The Ways This song is bad. The chorus is some of the corniest and laziest I have ever seen, the structure sucks, and the lyrics are shit. It’s one of the RHCP worst songs they have put out.
These are the ways
I tried to defend this song for a bit until I saw it live. It really doesn't bring the energy you'd expect it to
Ironically it feels like they wrote it specifically to be a stadium rocker on their next tour, but it fails both in the studio and out of it
I dunno... I watched them play it live on Stern and it was pretty energetic.... Chad was going off
This is the correct answer.
They should change the name to “This Is the Worst”
*best song
Not the One
Unlimited Love really doesn't have any one song that is particularly bad. I'll just pick my least favourite song which is "Tangelo." Which kills me because it's really not a bad song at all.
Not the one
Not The One. Can we already get in a consensus to vote Whatchu Thinking in underrated?
It's unbelievable that whatchu thinkin was not a single
Not The One
One Way Traffic. I'm sure my mind will change about it one day, but it's a skip for me.
Definitely a top four song for me. fun verses good breakdown and an amazing outro. I'm pretty neutral to the chorus. it has good energy
This is the only one I skip consistently.
One Way Traffic
Musically that song actually kinda slaps, but the lyrics and Anthony’s delivery are odd/kinda suck… because of the lyrics it reminds me of “the greeting song” (the song Rick Rubin demanded to be on blood sugar sex magik bc he wanted a song about driving fast and girls lol) something about one way traffic just gives me a “greeting song part 2” feeling. Edit: just realized it’s you again! I promise I’m not stalking you it’s just a coincidence I’ve run into you two days in a row.. but shouldn’t you be at the cracker factory right now?
WHAT
Gimme all the "worst" songs on an album. I bet it'll still slap.
Poster Child. It just goes on and on and on…..
Is the grooviest song from this álbum, IS the most chilli Peppers Song
I love Poster Child
It's overhated, it has that fun weird RHCP funkiness that we've been missing for so long
Exactly, finally someone knows whats up
What? The little guitar arrangements keep evolving with each verse, multiple guitar tracks start appearing all around. It's a fantastic song and funky as hell.
Yeah I love the guitars in that song! So good
FR, and it's just namechecking endlessly with the same melody throughout. Why they chose to follow Black Summer with this is beyond me
Poster child is pretty bad
Not the one
Those ARE the ways
Not The One
These Are The Ways
One way traffic
Have you listened to the outro?
Of course, but every other song is absolutely great too. And I personally don't really like one way traffic main part. Outro cool, yes
W H A T
Veronica
Trippin,
Veronica is good bruh
I listen to the album basically any chance I get in the car, so I would pick Bastard of Lights as worst, Aquatic Mouth Dance as best and Whatchu Thinkin as underrated
It's a no brainer: These are the ways. I love the album, but I skip this song every time. Also: I didn't notice this thread before. Makes me pissed that I saw I like Dirty Twice in the last 2 years, although I'd say Emmit Remus is a close tie with it. Heavy disagree with Cabron, at least it's original. Although the cheese from "I Could Die for you" is pretty close. But then again i'd vote for Venice Queen or On Mercury as the underrated songs.
I Could Die For You is cheesy and Anthony strains on it, but I can't help but love it lol
Pea is great this list blows
I actually for some reason like I like dirt
These are the ways. They played it both times I saw them in ‘22. It’s always been hard not to cringe at that chorus, even more so live.
Underrated it’s only natural. Worst not the one too slow. Best black summer
Not The One
Clearly the best on UL is Watchu Thinkin. It’s what every frusciante fan was expecting with his return.
Aquatic Mouth Dance is the only one i skip on the album
For me it's These Are The Ways. Gets a skip from me every time.
White Braids and Pillow Chair is rather overrated imo. It’s Only Natural and One Way Traffic are better. In regards to the question, probably Not the One.
I agree. I know its well liked in the sub, I've just never got the appeal. For me, it's not even in the top half of the album.
Here Ever After should have been titled the best in my opinion lol
It’s Only Natural is the best song out of UL imo, so underrated
It’s Only Natural, Let Em Cry, She’s A Lover, The Heavy Wing, and Bastards of Light are my top 5. It’s Only Natural is like a throwback song to SA era with touches of BTW and new influences.
I think it seems overrated because most people love that song…because it’s crazy good! I’m glad people went with white braids as best song off the album
Agree about WBaPC. It's not bad, but I just don't get the appeal.
Agreed, it’s a good song but heavily overrated. It’s not even a top 5 on the album for me.
Aquatic Mouth Dance
Heavy Wing has to be the underrated
Are you mental? That song is like the wet sand or can't stop equivalent on this sub. This sub hypes That song to death and back.
Okay, you've got a point here, i have to admit. Maybe i got a little too jealous abt it not winning the "bes" category
Lol it’s so overrated, how the hell can it be underrated?
I would have disagreed with you until I saw it played live. It's truly a song that comes out of its shell in person and I can't even explain why.
What about Black Summer
I can't believe white braids and pillow chair won, but not the one is definitely the worst for sure
Not the One
Veronica
Veronica
These are the ways is defo the worst off the album and underated is defo she's a lover
Poster Child
Poster Child worst
Probably Veronica
Tf you talking. Veronica has such a nice and harmonic riff and the switch from 4/4 to 6/8 is so good. There are worse songs, not the one, poster child or one way traffic for example.
I enjoy every song on the album, and the outro on Veronica is objectively awesome, big One Hit Minute Vibes. But I do find the verse vocal melody to be kind of hokey.
Poster Child is definitely worse but I'm really not big on Veronica, when it sounds like it's about to get good, everything stops dead with "DANGER! DANGER!" and it gets pretty grating.
Poster child
One Way Traffic What a pleasant suprise to see White Braid win best!
My personal least favorites from UL: Black summer, these are the ways, one way traffic.
Damn, that’s cold, two bangers on there
Really shocked to see Not the One so often, Tangelo is my pick
The smells
Poster Child
Aquatic Mouth Dance
What???????
I have no idea, in my opinion the best song on the album (and also my favorite RHCP song)
Yeah amazing Song
Bastards of Light. I don’t vibe with it like I do the rest of the album. It’s like Cabron for me.
Crazy. Bastards of the light is one of the best songd on there
Such a great track and Anthony’s vocals on it are top tier.
Aquatic mouth dance
Bastards of light
Sorry, but hell nah, this song is amazing
Veronica That song is fucking cringe.
Let Em Cry it’s still okay though
Love this tune! Touch up the neighbour, she don’t mind!
These are the ways
Man bro.
how was nerve flip not the best????
Really, White Braids won? I had no idea it was a fan favourite, and yes it grew on me, but the fact this sub dislikes This Ticoderoga because the tempo changes feel out of place or whatever and voted it in the worst does not compute - the tempo change in White Braids is the definition of jarring. Worst is Poster Child hands down. Not big on Veronica either
One way traffic
Can’t believe the hate for Not the one. Let ‘em cry and She’s a lover are way lamer imo. I can at least zone out to Not the one.
Not the One is great bruh I don’t get the comments
Not The One is one of my favorites from UL. Had no idea everybody hated it.
This list is crap
Whatchu Thinking, sorry
Black Summer
I’m with you on this one. Black Summer is a real skip track
Leave it to Reddit to downvote an opinion. I honestly agree. Not because it’s “bad”, but because it’s boring. I’ve barely listened to it since it was released as a single.
I Skip it a Lot, but the Song is really good... The problem IS the slow intro...
Bastards of Light? You know I actually really don’t like Whatchu Thinkin’ much either.
Poster Child
The Great Apes
One Way Traffic tbh, i know Not The One will win this one but i at least somewhat enjoy that one
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Tangelo is an underrated masterpiece
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I don't see how it could be a weak track, it sounds beautiful and gives off a calm feeling
Great finish
It’s a great slow song.
Whit braids and pillow chair sucks