Red Pot Chili Peppers Stoner Songs
by Julian Palmer
Okay so we all know the funky, punky Red Hot Chili Peppers. Despite their deserved success and well-recognized (though it should be more well-recognized) genius, most people would not consider the punk funkers to be an iconic stoner band (think more Sublime, Bob Marley & the Wailers, and Grateful Dead). However, I am here today ladies and gentleman to present to you the list of the best RHCP stoner songs. The Zephyr Song: • lyrics to note: 1. “Get it off with no propeller / Do it up, it’s always stellar” 2. “Fly away on my zephyr / I feel it more than ever” • drums- the fill before the chorus…I can’t even • backing vocals (service of Frusciante)- takes you places • the music video will make you trip balls Green Heaven: • lyrics to note: 1. “The smile of a dolphin is a built in feature” 2. “Let your soul float away like the soul of a crow” • the title alone is pretty telling (get it? Because ‘green’ is slang for marijuana!) • this song critiques American society, and A. Kiedis dreams of a world where humans will take after dolphins and be chill (he seems to have a thing for dolphins doesn’t he?)
Open/ Close: • lyrics to note: 1. “Get out of bed and I clear up my head and I don't want to go but I do it instead” (um wake and bake?) 2. “we smoked weed and we’d go up in the hills” • Kiedis narrates about his friends and good memories in one of the only RHCP songs to feature spoken word
Mellowship Slinky In B Major: • lyrics to note: “Good God any day now/ Good God take me away/ Good God purple haze/ Good God the baddest of dank-ass art by Sam Watson brains” (references to Jimi’s Purple Haze and Behind the Sun: Yertle the Turtle: the Bad Brains, and I’m • lyrics to note: all of them; Kiedis • lyrics to note: “Look at that gonna go out on a limb frequently refers to his friend, a turtle go, bro” spoken by the here and guess they talking dolphin highest person ever smoked hella ganja) • bass: funk-tastic! The sequence • this song is about a turtle named • has a real “funk, swing, following the first verse will Yertle that lives in a pond on the shuffle feel to it” as make you want to jump into a island of Salamasond described by Smith volcano (in a good way) • turns Dr. Seuss’s tale into a funk himself • trippy Indian noises masterpiece • the music video looks like it was written, filmed, and edited by Quixoticelixir: druggies, and hey, it probably • lyrics to note: “Kick back a little just was to watch and see/ Getting sicker by the minute with debauchery” • backing vocals- holy shit 31
