Warped / Aeroplane / Deep Kick / My Friends / Coffee Shop / Pea / One Big Mob / Walkabout / Tearjerker / One Hot Minute / Falling Into Grace / Shallow Be Thy Same / Transcending

John Frusciante left the band just before they started the show at Kyoto, Japan which was the part of their "BSSM" tour. To fill in a blank of the guitarist(after some provisional guitarists), they recruited Dave Navarro(ex. Jane's Addiction). This "One Hot Minute" was the only(as a result) album created with Dave. Rick Rubin continuously produced.

This piece is in many senses "heavy" anyway. The sounds dramatically changes to the world of heavy and nervous touch from the world of BSSM which had been a "nature" touch.

Dave's play is...how to say..."gorgeous" different from John's play in BSSM. The sounds have a thick impression and his style of making sounds must be accurate and..."gothic"(i'm not so sure this term is proper or not). i saw some moving pictures of the shows, he is stable compared to John as the matter of fact, and "safe" impression. Generally it can be said he is faultless. Or you might think he is uninteresting, maybe, but it depends on each fan's taste.

While there are many great songs like "Warped," "Aeroplane" in this album, it seems there are some tunes which are rather too much gorgeous and sort of "tedious". For instance, "One Big Mob" is a hard funk tune that is specialty of RHCP, but it has a too much long slow tempo part in its middle. i feel this slow part spoil the flavor of up tempo funk part somehow. It could be more simple structure. In other tunes, i cannot help feeling too much gorgeous, too much splendid in terms of arrangement. i felt "easy" melody making that i saw in some tunes of "Mother's Milk," in the tune "Coffee Shop."

Looking from a heavy rock fan's standpoint, tunes in this piece are generally cool and not missing the mark, but i still feel it lacks sharpness somehow. To be honest, this album didn't satisfied me enough.

Because i met this album when i was in a state of depression personally, it seems that i took the outlook of "heavy" world more seriously. i listened to this honestly, but this piece never made me vigorous. This album is not that kind of piece, i think.

Next to Hillel Slovak, they've lost one of their important friends by narcotic again. Flea's fellow as an actor and truly a friend, River Phoenix. In the last part of the tune that sang about River, "Transcending," Anthony's crazy shouts are recorded. His voice sounds nearly insane. There haven't ever been the song which he expressed his emotion open to this extent. The impression of the vocal is...writheing in pain and cursing. "F**k the Magazine. F**k the Green Machine. See the family...." Here, the "magazine" clearly aims at magazine media. "Green Machine" is obscure, but considering the fact that the color of the bill of the United States is green, it is assumed to aim at money-making showbiz, movie industries. They have never straightly express their emotions like this and never cursed like this through their fights. Here, we can clearly see them being so tired with their fights and suffering and struggling.

In this album we see RHCP's fights which has been fighting for a long time are completely at deadlock. And it leads to the "declaration of defeat" in next "Californication."