Stadium Arcane-ium

After a six month hiatus, I mustered the gumption to play the now-Grammy lauded Stadium Arcadium by the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers. My hope was to uncover a great rock and roll effort that I must have surely not given much of a chance when playing it back in May.

Nope. I discovered that 50 percent of the album is crap spread across a half-baked packaging concept and on two CDs. No wonder Sir Elton John regards the Grammys with about as much squalor as he would a Girls Gone Wild DVD: there's just no substance there.

While spacing out at work, I decided to be playlist geek and find within Stadium Arcadium the album they should have made. Surprisingly, there's gold in there, you just have to look. The record I think they should have made is called We Believe and arranged thusly:

Snow (Hey Oh)

Desecration Smile

Hey

We Believe

Slow Cheetah

Dani California

Strip My Mind

Make You Feel Better

If

Especially In Michigan

Hard To Concentrate

She Looks To Me

Torture Me

Animal Bar

Arrange these tracks in your mp3 player and let it roll. I'm confident you'll hear a gem that they somehow convoluted with 14 other poorly executed, tired tracks.

If you don't agree with me, come back with your own 14-track combo, name it, but stick with recent RHCP tradition and have a title track.

The Grammys would tell you that's terribly uncool.