In this day and age of iPod shuffling, channel and web-surfing, even the die-hard Peppers fans jonesin' for new material might find themselves having trouble trying to digest 28 new tracks all at once, so we’d suggest the band should have opted to release these two discs, subtitled “Jupiter” and “Mars,” separately, about a year apart, but we missed the marketing meetings.

Since the Peppers decided to drop it all at once, all we can do is attempt to take it in. Stadium does have its moments. The opening track and lead single “Dani California” will stick in your head for days, despite or maybe because of the fact it has the Peppers revisiting their home state in song (remember 1999’s album and song “Californication”?), and sounding suspiciously like Tom Petty’s “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” (production guru Rick Rubin worked on both songs) and classic Hendrix courtesy of John Frusciante’s “Foxey Lady”-like guitar theatrics.

And just when you thought the Peps couldn’t possible get any more mileage out of their punk-funk shtick, they knock you on your backside with “Hump De Bump,” which succeeds by having horns collide with the Flea-Chad Smith rhythm section.

Aside from that the Peppers are at their best on the quieter tracks, including the tender “Wet Sand” and the hypnotic “Hard To Concentrate.” Sure there’s more, but we’re still exploring the Stadium’s many corridors. By the time football season rolls around we’ll have digested it all if it doesn’t turn into Tedious Anthony Kiedis before then.