There’s a famous Nick Cave quote that gets passed around whenever anyone wants to dismiss the music of a certain long-running Los Angeles funk-metal act: “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.” I can’t find the exact origin of that quote, but Cave apparently said it sometime around 2004, when he’d already achieved full elder-statesman legend status. That line is obviously fire. In all my years as a professional music critic, I don’t think I’ve ever come up with anything quite that damning and quotable. But Cave has mellowed in recent years, and now he has addressed his stance on the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the latest edition of his Red Hand Files newsletter.
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