Search - Red Hot Chili Peppers :: Tell Me Baby

All too brief.

Michael Stack | North Chelmsford, MA USA | 12/22/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

""Tell Me Baby" is the second single from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Stadium Arcadium". Like all recent Chili Peppers singles, Warner Bros. released it as a two part deal, splitting three b-sides over two short discs.



The single itself is clearly a Chili Peppers classic-- a funky groove is laid down throughout with guitar and voice creating dense, nervous, verses and open, breezy choruses.



The b-side on this part is the brief (about two and a half minutes) "A Certain Someone". Sitting on a delicate, Fender Rhodes driven melody, it's a decent enough piece, slowly loping along, with vocalist Anthony Kiedis singing almost awkwardly above it all.



No doubt any fan of the band is going to want this one-- I'm rating it three stars because of its brevity (it's a hard to find good value in two and a half minutes of non-album tracks), but the b-side here is probably worth the investment. Recommended for fans of the band."

Both greats songs off a great album

Frank Bolo | Devon, England | 07/24/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Good single, with Tell Me Baby which is a classic from Stadium Arcadium, A Certain Someone is a very interesting listen to."