The Album Compared to Older Albums

I think that this album is a great album because its different to all their previous albums but still has the main essence that is the red hot chili peppers which is the melodic side to them along with their original funk side which shows in songs like Ethiopia and in the bass lines in the songs like Look Around and Adventures of Raindance Maggie. Compared to albums in the past I think that this album is different because of the sound of the music and I think that is because the music takes influence by more areas of music. This is because there is signs in the songs of certain genres, for example in the soloing at the end of Meet Me At The Corner you could say hat has a slight blues sound to it, and also Anthony said in an interview that the piano riff in the song Even You Brutus? was influenced by the old hip hop beats that was in a lot of hip hop songs and that was the backbone for that song.  The similarities on this album to their old albums is they still use Harmony's and backing vocals extremely well like they did in their previous albums which came from John Frusciante's influence in old pop and rock and roll songs like the beach boys and the way they used backing vocals.  Although compared to their more older albums such as Uplift Mofo Part Plan and Freaky Styley, I'm With You is even more different as their early albums are more bare and a lot more fast and the genre is more punk/funk. Other albums that were in this punk/funk style were Freaky Styley, Uplift Mofo Party Plan, Mothers Milk and Blood Sex Sugar Magic had some of this style but there was a lot more emotion in the record and it was more relaxed but there was still more funk orientated. Whereas I'm With You is more melodic and is more musically in depth because they use more instruments and bring in new ideas and try and branch out musically. 

Red Hot Chili Peppers first album