Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

Anthony Kiedis called it at the time "the best thing that we've ever done" -- and it's hard to argue. Released in 2006 and spread across four records, Stadium Arcadium is the Red Hot Chili Peppers at their most ambitious, a sprawling double album that manages to feel both monumentally grand and intimately connected to their roots.

The band has described a quality to the record that is difficult to pin down but impossible to miss -- a subliminal undercurrent that echoes the spirit of their earliest work while standing firmly as a statement from one of rock's most enduring and beloved bands. All the passion, energy, and funked-up rock that built their legend is here in abundance, and then some.

Repressed in 2016 and spread across four 180gm LPs, this boxset is the definitive physical edition of a record that deserves to be heard big and loud. Whether you're returning to it or discovering it for the first time, Stadium Arcadium rewards the investment -- and then knocks your socks off anyway.