Live in Hyde Park

Infobox Album |
Name = Live in Hyde Park
Type = Live album
Artist = Red Hot Chili Peppers


Released = July 26, 2004
Recorded = June 19-June 252004 at Hyde Park, London
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 2:03:36
Label = Warner Bros.
Producer = Red Hot Chili Peppers
Reviews =
Last album = " Greatest Hits"
(2003)
This album = "Live in Hyde Park"
(2004)
Next album = "Stadium Arcadium"
(2006)

"Live in Hyde Park" is the first live album—and double album—released by the Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded over three record-breaking nights at Hyde Park, in London on June 19th, 20 and 25 2004. These three concerts became the highest grossing concerts at a single venue in history.Cite web|url=http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/12178349|title=Chili Peppers Hot in London's Hyde Park|author=Waddell, Ray|date=June, 2007|publisher=Yahoo! Music|accessdate=2008-01-20]

Of the eight studio albums by the Chili Peppers that were released before "Live in Hyde Park", only three are actually represented in this album's set list - "Blood Sugar Sex Magik", "Californication" and "By the Way" (the song "Fortune Faded", however, was featured solely on the band's "Greatest Hits" compilation). Nine songs from "Californication" were played while only two from their breakthrough album "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" ("Under the Bridge" and "Give It Away"). Following this CD, songs from "By the Way" would begin to play a much smaller role in Chili Peppers concerts due to the combination of songs played live.

It has been revealed that guitarist John Frusciante dislikes his guitarwork on "Mother's Milk", which is why that album's songs are rarely played.

Frusciante and the other three members are not a fan of the band's music taken from the Dave Navarro era (the band's guitarist from 1994 through to 1997) as it does not suit his guitar style, which is why no tracks from "One Hot Minute", Navarro's only album with the band, have been played live since his departure (with the exception of the song "Pea", played and sung by bassist Flea only). It is also known that Frusciante, along with the rest of the band, is not a fan of Dave Navarro's time with the band, as the time of Frusciante's drug addiction which led him to quitting the band, took place during that period.

Track listing

Disc 1
# "Intro" – 3:55
# "Can't Stop" – 5:13
# "Around the World" – 4:12
# "Scar Tissue" – 4:08
# "By the Way" – 5:20
# "Fortune Faded" – 3:28
# "I Feel Love" (Donna Summer cover) – 1:28
# "Otherside" – 4:34
# "Easily" – 5:00
# "Universally Speaking" – 4:16
# "Get on Top" – 4:06
# "Brandy" (Looking Glass cover) – 3:34
# "Don't Forget Me" – 5:22
# "Rolling Sly Stone" – 5:06

Disc 2
# "Throw Away Your Television" – 7:30
# "Leverage of Space" – 3:29
# "Purple Stain" – 4:16
# "The Zephyr Song" – 7:04
# "Californication" – 5:26
# "Right on Time" (Contains the intro of Joy Division's "Transmission") – 3:54
# "Parallel Universe" – 5:37
# "Drum Homage Medley": – 1:29
#*"Rock and Roll"
#*"Good Times, Bad Times"
#*"Sunday Bloody Sunday"
#*"We Will Rock You"
# "Under the Bridge" – 4:54
# "Black Cross" (45 Grave cover) – 3:30
# "Flea's Trumpet Treated by John" – 3:28
# "Give It Away" – 13:17

External links

* [http://www.last.fm/venue/8778470?past=2004/ The three Hyde Park concerts at Last.fm]

References

succession box
before = "A Grand Don't Come for Free" by The Streets
title = UK number one album
years = August 7 2004 – August 20 2004
after = "Anastacia" by Anastacia