:Stadium Arcadium

After the release of the band's previous album, By the Way, the Red Hot Chili Peppers embarked on a world tour, from July 2002 to a mid-June 2004 date at London's Hyde Park.{{cite web|url=http://rhcpnews.com/2004/07/red-hot-chili-peppers-set-world-record-at-london-hyde-park |title=Red Hot Chili Peppers Set World Record at London Hyde Park |date=July 14, 2004 |access-date=July 21, 2007 |publisher=RHCPnews.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715180748/http://rhcpnews.com/2004/07/red-hot-chili-peppers-set-world-record-at-london-hyde-park/ |archive-date=July 15, 2011 }} The band later appeared at the 2004 Democratic National Convention{{cite web|url=http://rhcpnews.com/2004/07/chili-peppers-spice-up-convention |title=Chili Peppers Spice Up Convention |date=July 30, 2004 |access-date=July 21, 2007 |publisher=RHCPnews.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715180759/http://rhcpnews.com/2004/07/chili-peppers-spice-up-convention/ |archive-date=July 15, 2011 }} and at Rock am Ring to tie up their tour in support of By the Way. The band then settled down to begin recording its with producer Rick Rubin, with whom the band had recorded its previous four albums.{{Cite news|first=Adly |last=Ramly |title=Stadium Arcadium |publisher=mmail.com |url=http://www.mmail.com.my/Current_News/mm/Buzz/BFeature/20060706145552/Article/index.html |work=Malay Mail |access-date=August 7, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061128093140/http://www.mmail.com.my/Current_News/mm/Buzz/BFeature/20060706145552/Article/index.html |archive-date=November 28, 2006 }}

The formation and recording of Stadium Arcadium took place at "The Mansion" where the Peppers had recorded their 1991 breakthrough Blood Sugar Sex Magik.{{cite web|url=http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/music/spin.aspx?iIDDisque=3645 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070912105221/http://ottawaxpress.ca/music/spin.aspx?iIDDisque=3645 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 12, 2007 |title=Stadium Arcadium |access-date=August 7, 2007 |last=Tousignant |first=Isa |date=May 18, 2006 |work=Ottawa XPress }} Given the house's reputation for being "haunted," guitarist John Frusciante recalled that he felt "there were beings of higher intelligence controlling what I was doing, and I didn’t know how to talk about it or explain it...it was very clear to me that the music was coming from somewhere other than me."{{Cite news | first=Phil | last=Ascott | title=Total Guitar, July 2006 interview | date=July 2006 | publisher=Invisible-Movement.net | url=http://www.invisible-movement.net/articles/2006/07-totalguitar/2/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080122042237/http://www.invisible-movement.net/articles/2006/07-totalguitar/2 | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 22, 2008 | work=Total Guitar | access-date=August 7, 2007 }} However, Kiedis noted that during the recording process of the album "everybody was in a good mood. There was very little tension, very little anxiety, very little weirdness going on and every day we showed up to this funky room in the Valley, and everyone felt more comfortable than ever bringing in their ideas."{{Cite news|first=Chris |last=Harris |title=Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium Has Some 'Retardedly Painful Funk' |date=January 18, 2006 |publisher=VH1 |url=http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1520634/20060112/red_hot_chili_peppers.jhtml |work=MTV News |access-date=August 7, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001131030/http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1520634/20060112/red_hot_chili_peppers.jhtml |archive-date=October 1, 2007 }} The band originally wanted to create an "old-fashioned Meet the Beatles-like record", and to keep the number of songs down to about 12, to make "a small, digestible piece of art." They ended up writing 28 new songs, with Rubin producing all tracks.

Described as a funk rock{{cite book |last=O'Reilly and Lazarevic |first=Eddie and Jade |author-link= |date=May 16, 2006 |title=LISTEN; REVIEWS: [Late Edition] |url= |location=Newcastle, Australia |publisher=Fairfax Digital |page=38 |issn= |quote=...mix of funk-rock stadium anthems, strummy acoustic ballads and catchy choruses suitable...}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/remembering-stadium-arcadium-as-red-hot-chili-peppers-getaway-tour-comes-to-miami-9286428|title=Red Hot Chili Peppers' The Getaway Can't Compare to Stadium Arcadium|first=Chris|last=Joseph|website=Miami New Times}} and alternative rock{{cite book |last=Osegueda |first=Mike |author-link= |date=August 25, 2006 |title=MEET THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS; INFOBOX: [FINAL Edition] |url= |location=Fresno, California |publisher=The McClatchy Company |page=E1 |issn=0889-6070 |quote=...mammoth double CD, "Stadium Arcadium," putting the Chili Peppers back near the top of the alternative-rock ranks}} album, Stadium Arcadium combines many aspects of musical style from throughout the band's career, with many fans and critics welcoming the return of the band's signature funk sound and the use of power chords after their significant absence from By the Way. John Frusciante said in 2006, "I didn't want to necessarily have songs that were just heavy metal songs the whole way through, but I wanted to have a certain amount of songs that had choruses that were just heavy metal riffs."{{cite web |title=The Making of Stadium Arcadium |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO06RsDf1OQ |publisher=Warner Bros. Records |access-date=July 22, 2020 |archive-date=August 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818192119/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO06RsDf1OQ |url-status=live }}

It was also noted that Frusciante's playing style had changed from his signature 'less is more' style, inspired by punk and new-wave guitarists, to a more flashy approach, not seen extensively in his playing since Mother's Milk, his first album with the band; drawing influence from guitarists such as Eddie Van Halen, Tony Iommi (of Black Sabbath), Jimi Hendrix and Steve Vai to even hip-hop artists such as Wu-Tang Clan. While he received moderate acclaim before Stadium Arcadium, this change in style gained him far more recognition than before. Frusciante's approach to guitar on Stadium Arcadium was influenced by progressive rock group The Mars Volta and R&B singer Brandy. Of Brandy, Frusciante says "she's doing something different, she's doing so many vocals that there is never a space. Whenever one voice stops, another one does something in its place. There's very little space, and there are so many vocal parts that are breathy, you don't know what you're listening to. There is so much going on, you can't hear her voice with your conscience, you have to hear it with your subconscience.[sic] Some of them have a watery sound, then metallic, she really creates a lot of dimension with her voice. I'm impressed with that." Of The Mars Volta, Kiedis states: "John's always had an understated confidence, but he likes being loud now, and part of that came from hanging out with The Mars Volta. Omar Rodríguez-López is such a rocker that John was like, 'It's time I let it all hang out.' Being at the forefront, going for the heavy blistering guitar in your face: John's always been capable of that. But he didn't feel it. Now he feels it."{{cite web |url=http://www.invisible-movement.net/articles/2006-press/0601-rollingstone/5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108124401/http://www.invisible-movement.net/articles/2006-press/0601-rollingstone/5 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 8, 2009 |title=Tattooed Love Boys | John Frusciante unofficial website – Invisible Movement |publisher=Invisible-movement.net |date=January 16, 2010 |access-date=April 7, 2011 }} Rodriguez-Lopez appears on the album, performing a guitar solo on the track "Especially in Michigan". Frusciante subsequently appeared on The Mars Volta's next three studio albums and performed a few times live with them as well. Frusciante would also go on to release a joint studio album with Rodriguez-Lopez, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & John Frusciante, in May 2010.

Frusciante also began layering his guitar playing, something he had not done before (many layered guitar parts appeared on Mother's Milk, but this was mostly because of the insistence of the producer, although it was against John's will); he also used a modular synthesizer on many songs after doing so on his 2004 album Shadows Collide with People. While Frusciante was pleased to have used the modular synthesizer on the album, he admitted that when the band began rehearsing for the tour, it was frustrating because many of the songs sounded empty without it. This meant the band had to rework many of the songs to perform them live.

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| quote = That thing at the end of Wet Sand – where the guitars come in and sound like a harpsichord – they’re just the treble pickup of a Stratocaster, three tracks in harmony with one another, playing that same riff you hear in the first part of the cycle of that section. But I recorded it with the tape slowed down, so that when it’s sped up it sounds like a harpsichord.

When I went home and listened to Burning Of The Midnight Lamp by Jimi Hendrix it had the same sound and, despite the Jimi Hendrix box set saying it was a harpsichord, I’m positive it’s a guitar that’s sped up.

| author = —John Frusciante

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Unlike By the Way, where bass player Flea was displeased with what he felt was Frusciante dominating the songwriting, Stadium Arcadium saw both Flea and Frusciante on even footing in the writing process.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9E8livzmRM |title=John Frusciante – Interview part 1 (2006) |publisher=YouTube |date=February 25, 2007 |access-date=April 12, 2012 |archive-date=May 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501172148/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9E8livzmRM |url-status=live }}

According to Kiedis, the album is musically and lyrically influenced by the various relationships the band members were experiencing at the time of its conception. Kiedis states that "love and women, pregnancies and marriages, relationship struggles – those are real and profound influences on this record. And it's great, because it wasn't just me writing about the fact that I'm in love. It was everybody in the band. We were brimming with energy based on falling in love."{{cite web |url=http://www.invisible-movement.net/articles/2006-press/0601-rollingstone |title=Tattooed Love Boys | John Frusciante unofficial website – Invisible Movement |publisher=Invisible-movement.net |access-date=April 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603060432/http://invisible-movement.net/articles/2006-press/0601-rollingstone |archive-date=June 3, 2013 }}

Kiedis recalled that the band "wanted to [release all 38 songs] on three separate discs that [would] be released in installments...something about those songs made us really like each one. However, by the time we planned to release the third installment in two years, we’ll be writing new music." This was the impetus for the band to pare those songs down to 28, a process Kiedis described as "heartwrenching." Nine of the unused songs have been released as B-sides. He explained the reasoning behind the decision to name the album "Stadium Arcadium" by saying that it had more "variety and verve compared to its predecessors [and] we each have things we do best and it’s all in there. Everybody played their part and expressed their creativity to the max."

To date, 37 of the 38 songs recorded have been released. During pre-album interviews, many of the songs were known by alternate/working titles: "Early Eighties" ("Strip My Mind"), "Forty Detectives" and "Ghost Dance 2000" ("Hump de Bump"), "Wu-Tang" ("Dani California"), "Funkadelicish to Me" ("She's Only 18"), "Fela Funk" ("We Believe") and "Public Enemy" ("Storm in a Teacup").{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/rhcpsessions/stadium-arcadium|title=Stadium Arcadium – RHCP Sessions|access-date=April 11, 2015|archive-date=July 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722221450/https://sites.google.com/site/rhcpsessions/stadium-arcadium|url-status=live}} The vinyl version of the album contains an alternate guitar solo on "Especially in Michigan" and also released was a promotional instrumental version of the album, mostly given to radio and TV stations for on-air play.{{cite web|url=https://www.rhcpsessions.com/2005-stadium-arcadium |title=STADIUM ARCADIUM Recording Info |website=rhcpsessions.com |access-date=April 11, 2023}}

Stadium Arcadium sold 442,000 copies in the United States in its first week and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 making it the band's first number one debut in their career.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/58396/chili-peppers-post-stadium-at-no-1 |title=Chili Peppers Post 'Stadium' At No. 1 |access-date=August 7, 2007 |last=Hasty |first=Katie |date=May 17, 2006 |magazine=Billboard |publisher=billboard.com |archive-date=September 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921191342/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/58396/chili-peppers-post-stadium-at-no-1 |url-status=live }} In its second week, the album remained at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 157,000 copies (down 65 percent).{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/58329/chilis-warm-to-no-1-album-post-again|title=Chili's Warm To No. 1 Album Post Again|last=Hasty|first=Katie|date=May 24, 2006|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc|access-date=February 4, 2009|archive-date=September 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915220948/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/58329/chilis-warm-to-no-1-album-post-again|url-status=live}} In Canada, the double album debuted at #1 on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 64,000 copies in its first week.{{cite magazine|url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/R/Red_Hot_Chili_Peppers/2006/05/17/1584387-ca.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719151034/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/R/Red_Hot_Chili_Peppers/2006/05/17/1584387-ca.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=July 19, 2012|title=Chili Peppers spice up Cdn. charts|first=John|last=Williams|magazine=Jam!|access-date=April 3, 2011 }}

"Dani California" spent fourteen weeks at number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart and is one of three songs in the history of the chart to debut at number one.{{cite web |url=http://www.nerdy-frames.org/2011/07/red-hot-chili-peppers-to-release-brand.html |title=Circus of the underrated music oddities!: Red Hot Chili Peppers To Release Brand-New Single, "The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie," On July 18th |publisher=Nerdy Frames |date=February 27, 2004 |access-date=August 5, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818083523/http://www.nerdy-frames.org/2011/07/red-hot-chili-peppers-to-release-brand.html |archive-date=August 18, 2011 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/8bfac288-ccc5-448d-9573-c33ea2aa5c30#p00d8vx4 |title=Music – Red Hot Chili Peppers |publisher=BBC |access-date=August 5, 2011 |archive-date=August 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820195625/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/8bfac288-ccc5-448d-9573-c33ea2aa5c30#p00d8vx4 |url-status=live }}

{{Music ratings

| MC = 73/100{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/stadium-arcadium/red-hot-chili-peppers |title=Reviews for Stadium Arcadium by Red Hot Chili Peppers |publisher=Metacritic |access-date=April 12, 2012 |archive-date=October 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015004739/http://www.metacritic.com/music/stadium-arcadium/red-hot-chili-peppers |url-status=live }}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/stadium-arcadium-mw0000400165 |title=Stadium Arcadium – Red Hot Chili Peppers |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=March 17, 2020 |archive-date=April 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404012654/https://www.allmusic.com/album/stadium-arcadium-mw0000400165 |url-status=live }}

| rev2 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev2score = B+{{cite magazine |last=Endelman |first=Michael |url=https://ew.com/article/2006/05/08/stadium-arcadium/ |title=Stadium Arcadium |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=May 8, 2006 |access-date=April 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214104447/https://ew.com/article/2006/05/08/stadium-arcadium/ |archive-date=December 14, 2019 |url-status=dead}}

| rev3 = The Guardian

| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite news |last=Lynskey |first=Dorian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/may/05/popandrock.shopping2 |title=Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=May 5, 2006 |access-date=June 12, 2013 |archive-date=September 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140922085128/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/may/05/popandrock.shopping2 |url-status=live }}

| rev4 = Los Angeles Times

| rev4score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite news |last=Kun |first=Josh |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-07-ca-peppers7-story.html |title=Deep into a Golden State of mind |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=May 7, 2006 |access-date=March 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008063006/http://www.calendarlive.com/music/cl-ca-peppers7may07%2C0%2C4701193.story?coll=cl-suncal |archive-date=October 8, 2006 |url-status=live}}

| rev5 = MSN Music (Consumer Guide)

| rev5score = B−{{cite web |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2007-04.php |title=Consumer Guide |work=MSN Music |date=April 2007 |access-date=March 17, 2020 |archive-date=October 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20181020121124/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2007-04.php |url-status=live }}

| rev6 = NME

| rev6score = 7/10{{cite magazine |last=Chester |first=Tim |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/red-hot-chili-peppers/7925 |title=Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium |magazine=NME |date=April 28, 2006 |access-date=April 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113184412/https://www.nme.com/reviews/red-hot-chili-peppers/7925 |archive-date=January 13, 2016 |url-status=dead}}

| rev7 = Pitchfork

| rev7score = 4.7/10{{cite web |last=Mitchum |first=Rob |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6710-stadium-arcadium/ |title=Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium |work=Pitchfork |date=May 9, 2006 |access-date=March 17, 2020 |archive-date=April 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430064624/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6710-stadium-arcadium/ |url-status=live }}

| rev8 = Q

| rev8score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite magazine |title=Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium |magazine=Q |issue=239 |date=June 2006 |page=106}}

| rev9 = Rolling Stone

| rev9score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine |last=Hiatt |first=Brian |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/stadium-arcadium-20060503 |title=Stadium Arcadium |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=May 3, 2006 |access-date=April 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501214803/http://rollingstone.com/artists/redhotchilipeppers/albums/album/10193413/review/10203828/stadium_arcadium |archive-date=May 1, 2009 |url-status=live}}

| rev10 = Uncut

| rev10score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine |last=Scoppa |first=Bud |url=http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/red_hot_chili_peppers/reviews/8751 |title=Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium |magazine=Uncut |date=May 10, 2006 |access-date=March 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929201259/http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/red_hot_chili_peppers/reviews/8751 |archive-date=September 29, 2006 |url-status=dead}}

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Stadium Arcadium received generally favorable reviews. Rolling Stone critic Brian Hiatt deemed it the band's best album to date and noted Kiedis' growth as a singer and songwriter: "the guy [Kiedis] who once yelped, 'I want to party on your pussy!' whisper-sings a gentler, though not unrelated, proposition: 'All I want is for you to be happy/And take this moment to make you my family.' The delicate 'Hard to Concentrate' is the most vulnerable Peppers tune ever—a full-on marriage proposal from Anthony Kiedis, with Flea's muted bass and John Frusciante's layered guitars slow-dancing over Afrobeat hand drums." The magazine later ranked it as the second-best album released in 2006, behind Modern Times by Bob Dylan. Q magazine said it was one of the year's best albums, while Andrew Perry of The Observer stated it was "relentless, purposeful, as moreish as McDonald's... mainstream America in excelsis."{{cite news |last=Perry |first=Andrew |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/apr/23/11 |title=Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium |newspaper=The Observer |location=London |date=April 23, 2006 |access-date=April 12, 2012 |archive-date=December 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209020227/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/apr/23/11 |url-status=live }} Josh Kun of Los Angeles Times wrote that "they've never sounded this good as musicians. The use of analog tape lends a raw, organic touch to the whole album and the Chili Peppers come off more assured and confident than they ever did back when they made a career out of bragging." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic was more reserved in his praise, finding the album overproduced and self-indulgent despite the presence of "something pretty great and lean buried beneath the excess". Pitchfork critic Rob Mitchum wrote that the album "is split between slightly askew mid-tempo pop and regrettable relapses into funk and muso noodling".

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A problem often pointed out by audiophiles is Vlado Meller's mastering for the CD release. It can be regarded as a product of the loudness war, with heavy use of dynamic range compression, and suffering of frequent clipping.{{cite web |url=http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=42376&view=findpost&p=389625 |title=Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium – Hydrogenaudio Forums |publisher=Hydrogenaudio |access-date=August 5, 2011 |archive-date=January 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113184413/http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=42376&view=findpost&p=389625 |url-status=live }} The vinyl was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray.

{{Main|Stadium Arcadium tour}}

In May 2006 the Chili Peppers announced that they would be touring Europe in May through July, followed by 26 dates in the US and Canada from August to November. Josh Klinghoffer, friend of John Frusciante, and multi-instrumentalist joined the band on tour in 2007 (Klinghoffer would replace Frusciante two years later as the band's lead guitarist until 2019, after which Frusciante rejoined the band).{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1529939/20060502/red_hot_chili_peppers.jhtml|title=Red Hot Chili Peppers Reveal Stadium Arcadium Tour Dates|publisher=MTV|access-date=September 12, 2008|date=May 2, 2006|archive-date=July 25, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725003754/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1529939/20060502/red_hot_chili_peppers.jhtml|url-status=dead}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/redhotchilipeppers/articles/story/10203445/red_hot_chili_peppers_prep_tour |title=Red Hot Chili Peppers Prep Tour |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=September 25, 2016 |date=May 2, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917004607/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/redhotchilipeppers/articles/story/10203445/red_hot_chili_peppers_prep_tour |archive-date=September 17, 2008 }} Rolling Stone named it "Most Anticipated Summer Tour" in an online poll. The Mars Volta were the opening act. The band also headlined the Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans.

Artist Storm Thorgerson, known for providing seminal album artwork for numerous bands including Pink Floyd, T. Rex, Audioslave, The Mars Volta, and Muse, was asked to create the cover art for Stadium Arcadium. Thorgerson provided at least three possible covers for the album, however, his ideas were ultimately rejected and a simple cover featuring yellow "Superman" lettering and a blue background with planets was used instead.

The inside artwork of the album featured a band portrait, another band portrait recreating the classic cover of the Odds & Sods by the Who as well as images of the band floating and on fire.

All songs written by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

{{Track listing

| headline = Jupiter

| total_length = 62:29

| title1 = Dani California

| length1 = 4:42

| title2 = Snow (Hey Oh)

| length2 = 5:34

| title3 = Charlie

| length3 = 4:37

| title4 = Stadium Arcadium

| length4 = 5:15

| title5 = Hump de Bump

| length5 = 3:33

| title6 = She's Only 18

| length6 = 3:25

| title7 = Slow Cheetah

| length7 = 5:19

| title8 = Torture Me

| length8 = 3:44

| title9 = Strip My Mind

| length9 = 4:19

| title10 = Especially in Michigan

| length10 = 4:00

| title11 = Warlocks

| length11 = 3:25

| title12 = C'mon Girl

| length12 = 3:48

| title13 = Wet Sand

| length13 = 5:09

| title14 = Hey

| length14 = 5:39

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Mars

| total_length = 59:50
Total: 122:19

| title1 = Desecration Smile

| length1 = 5:01

| title2 = Tell Me Baby

| length2 = 4:07

| title3 = Hard to Concentrate

| length3 = 4:01

| title4 = 21st Century

| length4 = 4:22

| title5 = She Looks to Me

| length5 = 4:06

| title6 = Readymade

| length6 = 4:30

| title7 = If

| length7 = 2:52

| title8 = Make You Feel Better

| length8 = 3:52

| title9 = Animal Bar

| length9 = 5:24

| title10 = So Much I

| length10 = 3:44

| title11 = Storm in a Teacup

| length11 = 3:45

| title12 = We Believe

| length12 = 3:36

| title13 = Turn It Again

| length13 = 6:06

| title14 = Death of a Martian

| length14 = 4:24

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Credits adapted from AllMusic.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/stadium-arcadium-mw0000400165/credits|title=Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Credits|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=March 8, 2021|archive-date=September 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930165108/https://www.allmusic.com/album/stadium-arcadium-mw0000400165/credits|url-status=live}}

Red Hot Chili Peppers

• Anthony Kiedis – lead vocals
• John Frusciante – guitars, backing vocals, keyboards, synthesizer, mellotron
• Flea – bass guitar, trumpet
• Chad Smith – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

• Natalie Baber, Mylissa Hoffman, Alexis Izenstark, Spencer Izenstark, Dylan Lerner, Kyle Lerner, Gabrielle Mosbe, Monique Mosbe, Sophia Mosbe, Isabella Shmelev, Landen Starkman, Wyatt Starkman – background vocals on "We Believe"
• Michael Bulger – trombone on "Turn It Again"
• Lenny Castro – percussion
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion
• Richard Dodd – cello on "She Looks to Me"
• Emily Kokal – chorus vocals on "Desecration Smile"
• Billy Preston – clavinet on "Warlocks"
• Omar Rodríguez-López – guitar solo on "Especially in Michigan"
• Brad Warnaar – French horn on "Stadium Arcadium"

Recording personnel

• Rick Rubin – production
• Andrew Scheps – mixing and engineering
• Ryan Hewitt – mixing and engineering
• Dana Nielsen – engineering
• Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman – mastering (vinyl)
• Vlado Meller – mastering (CD)

Additional personnel

• Shane Jackson – assistant photography
• Gus Van Sant – art direction

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070116040540/http://mediaserver.kataweb.it/katanew/musica/interviste/john_frusciante_intw_250k.wmv 15 minute video interview with John Frusciante] which includes thoughts on the new album.

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