Californication

Meh, some classics but dull album trakvs

It was pretty good. I won't seek it out, but if it is on, I won't shut it off.

Too long and the singles are markedly better than the rest. Still, can’t beat those California vibes.

Some classic singles and a lot of filler.

This whole record was conflicting to me, because there were so many elements I either hated, or liked. For what I liked, it was mostly thanks to Flea and Chad Smith. Together these two make for a hell of a rhythm section, Flea especially and it was fun as heck to really listen to how good he is for an entire album considering I rarely listened to RHCP prior to this. Some songs were highlights, Californication is a classic, loved the energy and vibe Get on Top had, and the cool laid back nature of Road Trippin was also quite enjoyable. On the flip side, I thought a lot of these songs kinda felt like B-sides in a way, especially some of the album tracks. I did not really care for a lot of Anthony Kiedis' vocals throughout, his singing style is just not something I really like at all. But the worst thing for me might have been the production, which felt like all of the elements of each song were just amplified too much to where it felt distracting, similar to the problem of specific albums and the loudness war. I think I enjoyed enough to give this a three.

Quite a few iconic songs on this. Didn’t really love the rest, but did enjoy the song Road Trippin.

This album is overrated. Songs are just ok, very similar, nothing groundbreaking.

3 good songs A few dings were hard to get through. Lots of crazy weird hi pitched guitar sounds.

Aah, zo'n band die super bekend zo en niet eens zo oud. Ik vind het bas werk van Flea iconisch, al is daar op dit album niet super veel van te merken. Ik vind de stem van Anthony Kiedis super fijn, maar vooral als hij normaal zingt, en niet als hij allerlei rare stemmetjes of intonaties doet. Al met al is mijn mening een beetje rommelig, wat iconische hits, maar ook wat zeer saaie nummers. Al met al is het album best dynamisch, met zeer verschillende intensiteit in de nummers. Favorieten: Parallel Universe, Californication, Road Trippin

Some albums, even some great albums, from the 90s sound like they are definitely from the 90s. This is more timeless.

I listened to this as I walked to coop and it was okay --an album that I ahve never really connected to, but there were a few songs that I really enjoyed! Some awful cheap rhymes tho hahahah

So many singles, I forget about tracks like Road Trippin and I Like Dirt

Favorite Tracks: Around the World, Parallel Universe, Scar Tissue, Otherside, Get On Top, Californication, Easily, Porcelain, This Velvet Grove, Road Trippin'

There were some smash hits on this one for sure. I don’t find they added much to the sound they had years earlier on Blood Sugar…

They are a really good band (besides kiedis) but idk it just doesn’t do much for me. It gets a little boring/annoying at times. So much better than a lot of stuff on this list

Just such an average album that seems to lack any real spark.

Såen ca det gennemsnitlige

Not their best, but a few classics make it a strong album

Listened to this loads when it came out. Relistening now, I'm still enjoying the music - lyrics are as cliché as ever. First half is funky good, second half meh. 3.5

it all kinda blurs together after a while

Rating based on the album quality and not Kiedis-creep level.

Listened Before? Y Half of this album is unlistenable for me. It is not the Chili Pepps' fault, though. It's mainstream rock radio playing all the singles from this one directly into the ground, and then playing them some more. If I have to hear the title track one more time my head may explode! That being said, it's a good album and I'll rate it fairly. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Around the World

good instrumentation, annoying voice and vocals

Just ok

Kindle mid but its definitely not bad so 3/5

They have a sound and it’s unique to them. I like the basics - and the sound and bass/lead interplay are great. It’s just overall it kind of repeats itself. Has some great tunes but not the whole deal.

weak 3. i like dirt best song.

a lot of good songs, but way too tonally inconsistent

I should like this more but I don't. Great pieces of music though

лучше чем я боялась (переслушав рхчп в тот один день двадцать лет назад)

I was pretty bored with this album. I feel very neutral about it but I definitely know I won't be seeking it out.

Classic

B-puoli notkahtaa pahasti, kun hitit on syydetty alkuun, miksauksessa/tuotannossa on jotain vikaa kun levy kuulostaa muhjuiselta ja hiljaiselta. Mutta ne hitit! Hyviä.

Bändi seilaa sellaisilla melodisilla vesillä, jotka eivät ole itselleni kaikista tyydyttävimpiä. A-puoli on silti melkoinen saavutus - kuuntele vaikka Otherside, jos muistikuvasi MTV-ajoista ovat jo hieman hatarat.

I like the guitar and bass work, pretty boppy in places. But I don't care for the lyrics or vocalese.

I don't like saying this but it was actually kinda good. but they have a habit of adding really stupid elements to the songs which drag it down

Disappointed with it, I love John, flea and Chet but that band as a whole I don’t like, the songs are not that interesting one the whole rap rock thing is not that great here

My first album on this list was a RHCP album and shortly after that was an offspring album. Knowing what I do now and what comprises most of this list I will say I underrated both album. This is the RHCP redemption album. In this list and in their actual discography. Californication is a much more chill/poppy album that still delivers hits and deeper cuts. I enjoyed this album quite a bit and would revisit most of the songs. RHCP weren’t as cool in the 00s as they were in the 90s but I feel they are still a solid band that have made some memorable and important music over the years. 7.2/10

Leuke muziek om naar te luisteren. Beetje ska en hip-hop invloeden, maar bovenal pop/rock muziek. Uiteindelijk niet mijn favoriete artiest, maar ze hebben wel leuke nummers. Dit album heeft op zich wel een goede balans, maar komt niet voor in mijn persoonlijke lijst. ***

I think almost every dude had a phase where they were really into this album. Well, almost every dude. I never could quite get with it much. Like, it has a buncha "good tracks" but they all feel a bit lackluster in the end, it could be something really great but they wanted to stay a bit too safe and commercial. So, it's just average for me.

Great hits, boring deep tracks. I usually don't like the songs where Kiedis raps instead of singing.

Mostly good, but loses a point for round the world

It seems kind of uncool to give this album a good review but it's hard to deny that it sounds unique and has some pretty catchy songs, particularly the singles. It really does seem like it's captures a time and place (California/America just before the turn of the century) perfectly. I might not seek this one out myself but definitely wouldn't mind listening to it again.

RHCP is one of those bands that I feel like I should have gotten into in middle school or high school, but that's not to say that they're a juvenile or amateur band. I really have no problems with this album, other than a complete lack of personal connection to it. There's a lot of good grooves on here and the sound is pretty tight, but to me, this is just a bunch of middle of the road funky alternative rock. Hoping to one day understand what the hype is all about. Worth listening again? I don't see why not Initial rating: 3/5 (I like it)

Definitely had some timeless summery songs, but odd lyrics and out of place tracks hold the album back

I've had an odd on-and-off, hot-and-cold response to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' music over the decades. At times, I don't like the sound overall and find the rap-style delivery of the lyrics by Anthony Kiedis to grate on me. Other times, I hear incredible musicianship in the performances. John Frusciante is an amazing guitarist to my ear, blending so many influences and styles into his own sound, and Flea and Chad Smith groove superbly well. All I can say is this leads me to the same places I usually find myself when it comes to experiencing any art in any form; that is, much as my human mind has its tendency to want to categorize things, label them as "good" or "bad", and so on, I don't have to. I'll experience their music, this album, and any art as I experience it, and there is an infinite universe of possibilities in that act alone. Plenty for this clumsy bumbling human to work with. Today, I enjoyed most of the tracks. I hear such strong musical performances. At times, it got a little too intense for me, but that's all mood-dependent and I know at other times I've welcomed the high energy of some of the songs. And, yeah, at times I've had to pause it for a bit because Kiedis' vocal delivery was a bit much. Overall, though, some really solid music here.

Flere klassiske låter.

RHCP are a favorite. Flea is supreme on bass. Lyrics are thoughtful. 3 stars. Good but not great.

Favorite song: “Otherside”. Overall, it was better than I expected, even though the occasional rapping really didn’t work.

Overinflated score for childhood nostalgia

I honestly don’t get the hype around this album. The funk tones of the bass is good, Anthony Keidis’ voice is okay, but nothing really stood out to me. Despite saying that, the rhythm section was fire. Favorite songs: Scar Tissue, Californication, Porcelain, and Savior.

It gets good and slips into not so good. Never bad, as such. Just very unspecial. I like the sound musically. But there’s just something about it that isn’t right. I want to give it a 2.5, right down the middle

I'm not much of a Chili Peppers fan. This was certainly better than most of the punk stuff earlier in my list, but not worth another listen.

a couple good songs, a couple bad songs, and a lot of okay songs. i didn’t like when everything was super distorted

look, the funk tracks on this album are detractors, sometimes they work, but often its just abrupt between cool riff indie adjacent guitar rock. flea gonna flea. his basslines work well in smart alt rock format as well as slappity doo da daying on their funk shit. the drummer has it. he drives frusciantes guitar and keeps a menacing pace and energy. however, it just feels overloaded with tracks that dont belong. kiedis lyrics are as dumb as ever “look at my spoken word gobbledeegook, im smart” nonsense. but thats what hes known for. so you get what you pay for. this is their album for a new generation and it mosty works. good for them.

Pretty shallow stuff, but it has its moments. Catchy, too. Standout Tracks: Parallel Universe, Scar Tissue, Purple Stain

This was pretty good.

Californication is the seventh album by the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers and is the band's most commercially successful - being certified 7x platinum in the US. This alternative rock album was softer and more melodic than their previous albums, showing an evolution of the band. The album's singles - especially its title track - were part of the reason behind the explosion in popularity because they were played so much on the radio. This is an awesome alt-rock album that marked a comeback for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It's even a little nostalgic for me since the album came out during my childhood. Great music, band, and album. The RHCP need to release another album like this!

The first part is full of hits but the second is just not as good. But it’s still some good stuff.

Surprisingly didn't hate it. I'm not gonna buy it, but it wasn't offensive. I could go the rest of my life without hearing Get on Top and Californication ever again though. Clearly, they had stepped firmly into their elder classic rock statesman role at this point.

Absolute filth

Despite being a ‘hard rockin band’, RHCP best songs are the soft ones. Sot Parallel universe Scar tissue Otherside Californication Porcelain Road trippin 3.5/5

There was a time when I would have given this a 4, and maybe even a 5. But I've grown to find the sound of Anthony Kiedis' voice difficult to handle, especially when the lyrics it's conveying are at the level they are at. That said, RHCP will always be sorta fun. The musicianship is pretty fantastic, and I've gotta appreciate a mainstream funk act. This album is front-loaded with a lot of singles and other popular cuts, but I think "Scar Tissue" and the closer "Road Trippin'" are the only two songs I can still enjoy without rolling my eyes just a little bit. Don't get me wrong, it's still one of their better albums -- top 5 for sure. But the good stuff here has been overplayed.

Hoo boy, another pile of OK. Not to mention another instance of reflecting on teenager me and inquiring to him "what was wrong with you?" While yes, there are still a couple of songs on this outing that I enjoy (namely "Scar Tissue" and "Otherside"), and recognize that Frusciante, Flea, and Chad Smith are talented musicians, Anthony Kiedis is the anti-X factor. Bluntly put, I cannot stand his herky-jerky brand of talk-singing, especially for over 50 minutes. Californication is absurdly uneven in quality, and it unloads mostly all of the choice numbers into the first half and seems to go on forever, with the passable closer "Road Trippin'" signifying the end. I didn't particularly enjoy listening to this for the first time in full since the early college days. Didn't loathe it either. I'd give it 2.5 stars if possible, but rounding up for the musicianship.

Better than the other chili peppers album...but bailed about half way through. Just a lot of the same sound

The lyrics are really indirect. I always assumed i knew what Californication was about, and that it was painfully obvious. Some of these songs might not mean anything but create a vibe. They're certainly about something. The mixture of rapping and singing does feel very 90s california. Like the melodies themselves are part of speech. Some good grooves in here. I like Easily and Scar Tissue best. These are just rock bops. Easy to jam to. Driving and moving forward. Some fun bass stuff in here. None of the lyrical imagery grabs me well. So many lines feel unhinged from the line before them. They're not taking the time to build a scene or story. They create a feeling or a sense of what the song is about.

One of the biggest albums of my teenage years. Didn’t like it much then, don’t like it much now either.

I had to listen to this three times to solidify my rating. I was never into the Chili Peppers, but this exceeded my expectations, which was admittedly not very high, however, that's beside the point. I was this close to giving it a 4, but it really didn't impress me that much and it kind of fell off towards the end. And the only songs I'll probably come back to are 'Scar Tissue' and 'Otherside', so the lack of nuance there should speak for itself.

Favorite songs were Scar Tissue and Quixoticelixer, get why daniel likes RHCP but not my favorite thing I’ve ever listened to, also I Like Dirt is a crazy thesis statement for a song to have and honestly I respect that

Bing-a-bong-a-bong-a-bong Burbank Gigga gigga, gigga gigga-Glendale

Never been able to get into the peppers. I find their swings between quasi-rap and super mellow to be disorienting. Clearly talented musicians and capable of writing good songs, but other than the hits there’s very little in this album that I’d like to revisit. High 3.

This is an album with a bit of an identity crisis. Musically it is less freewheeling and energetic than RHCPs earlier albums, but you can also see how the band is trying to mature into a more refined sound. When it works, it's fire. Like the first half, which boasts several exceptional singles. The rest of the album meanders a bit and is uneven in quality and tone. The lyrics range from surprisingly introspective and honest to inanely horny. For such a vibrant and talented group of musicians, I would have hoped to see a stronger album from them at this point in their career. Fave Songs: Scar Tissue, Otherside, Californication, This Velvet Glove, Easily

I heard it enough as a teenager. Didn't need to relive.

That was a show

A couple of fantastic singles but not consistently outstanding

Le rythme des chansons est bon mais elles sont parfois trop répétitives... shout out a Californication et Otherside

Strong tracks. Muddy mix.

good and nostalgic but v long

I knew should be brillian and all, but I find it quite boring.

A few good songs here. Not amazing. Just a perfect 3/5, nothing more or less.

For all the new bands and music this project has given me, it has also taught me that some of the music I used to like isn't quite as great as I remember. The hits on Californication still hit but otherwise the album is merely fine, or honestly markedly less than fine in places. Extra star for nostalgia value.

I only like RHCP in small doses and they get repetitive *really* quickly, so Californication has a tough job to tread a fine line and make me like it more than tolerate it. Kiedis' voice and delivery is irritating but it works selectively; Scar Tissue, the title track, Easily, and not really all that often. The back half of the album is poor, the first half holds it up just enough to get a 3 but they're really a marmite sort of band.

First half of this album is really really good (although part of that is probably nostalgia from when I listened to it a lot as a teenager). It's so catchy, mix of some classic indie and more funky stuff, very easy to listen to. Unfortunately, the second half of the album really brings it down; there's nothing there really worth listening to after track 7 (out of 15), which brings my rating down to a 3.

Musically it's pretty great, but that voice and those lyrics really bring the whole thing down.

Big hits. Admittedly, the first half (minus Get on Top) is great, but the album takes a DEEP nosedive after the title track. The Red Hot are just incapable of making an album that is good from beginning to end. This isn't an exception. Great singles though.

Few hits help them gain their popularity, but does good singles make a ''album you got to hear before you die''..

I know, I know for sure Ding, dang, dong, dong, deng, deng, dong, dong, ding, dang

The opening of this album is honestly dynamite, hard to square with my discovered-but-avowed hatred of the Peppers. Some of it's familiarity, as proved by significant sag in the middle. But the band manages to close things out strong. It's pop music, highly of the time and fifteen minutes too long but worth knowing. Intentional listening wasn't too much worse than radio osmosis.

I enjoyed today's album, it had a nice relaxed ending as well

There are some fun hits on this album, and overall, I think was a more mature effort than previous RHCP albums. In my opinion, it has not aged particularly well, however. Another reviewer mentioned the fidelity being terrible, and although I don't remember noticing it at the time, I agree it's a fuzzy mess! And not in a cool lo-fi way. It must have been less noticeable when hearing these songs on the radio in my old 1972 VW bug, flying down the freeway with the windows open ... There are some fun, even good, tracks on this album, especially in the first half, but the second half is boring and unmemorable at least until the last track. It hasn't held up super well over the decades, and what felt subversive in 1999 now feels obnoxious and crude to my (older, more matronly) ears (clutch pearls, lol). Still, I have fond memories, so 3/5.

This album is pretty solid overall, some of the lyrics are a bit goofy, the title track is overplayed/overrated, and I wish it was a little funkier. But despite all that it's got some good singles and a couple good deep cuts. I wouldn't necessarily listen to it in full again, but there are good nuggets here. I dont know why it's become so trendy to hate o this band. There's much better targets for ridicule.

Veel bekende bangers en vroeger dit album al paar keer geluisterd, maar lange tijd niet meer. Daardoor klinkt het wel bekend en misschien beetje nostalgisch maar begrijp dat ik dit toen ik jonger was beter vond. Is soms toch wat eenvoudige muziek en niet meer mijn smaak. Ik laat hem lekker in het verleden liggen.

Voor het eerst helemaal geluisterd en vond het best nice!! Kende eigenlijk al best veel nummers, maar het is nog steeds niet helemaaaal mijn smaak

Klassisk rhcp, både høj- og lavpunkter, flere bangers, men også lidt langt

I can take RHCP in small doses. I was quite ready for the album to end a third of the way through. Up to then I was quite invigorated and then I just got an attack of the tediums. Happy to listen to the singles if they appear on the radio. But a whole album is too much. I like the Road Trippin’ song.

Californication. Good, occasionally poor. Around the World, 2 to gale 3, Scar Tissue increasing severe gale 4. Rough or very rough, later. Rain, thundery showers. Road Trippin' Moderate, remainder of album occasionally very poor.

Le son est mauvais. À l’époque, j’ai acheté cet album et m’en suis débarrassé. Je considérais que ce n’était pas à la hauteur des deux précédents et que beaucoup de pièces m’ennuyaient. À l’écoute aujourd’hui, je remarque que Red Hot est en fait sur une pente descendante entâmé par cet album. Ils sont de moins en moins inventifs et variés dans leur musique. À postériori, c’est probablement leur meilleur album des 25 dernières années. Il y a plein de bonne choses, mais c’est dillué dans de l’ennuyant. Si on enlevait les 5 « fillers », ce serait une excellente galette.

A good album. Frusciante is fantastic, and flea is in great form on this - Kiedis for me is still a cripplingly weak link for the Chillis, and were it not for him this album could potentially be something special

I like the funkier stuff on this album, but to be honest, songs like “Californication”, or “Other Side” fall into the same category as “Jump” or “We Are The Champions”: I’ve heard it so many times on the radio that I no longer feel any joy or positive connection to the song.

I can’t stand the red hot chili peppers

I like a few here, but then a lot of them seem kinda samey.

Two songs already liked on Spotify before listening (Scar Tissue and Californication). Know a few will be liked for sure, like Around the World, Parallel Universe, Otherside and Get on Top. Feels like after the first 6 songs the rest of the album is a write off (except Road Trippin’) Purple Stain would have been better as an instrumental Disliked: Right on Time Hated: I Like Dirt Great band with a terrible frontman

Ehh.. I don't hate it but I don't love it. Like the other RHCP album, it's fine. The good songs are good the bad songs are bad. The album is quite one note and too long and by the 10th song they clearly ran out of ideas. Besides Californication I've already forgotten all the songs. At least it isn't offensively bad like some other albums.

Trudde eg skulle lika da litt mindre

It's hard to review an album you've never heard but heard almost half the songs a million times growing up on the radio. Moving away from their funk sound, these songs appeal to the mainstream audience, with pop structures that align with the dominant alt rock style of the time. Now, I will say I really enjoyed most of the tracks and has a ton of replayability. It's loud and energetic with memorable moments, especially during its most chaotic and melancholic moments. But where I believe this album falls apart is in its production and track ordering. Just like Oasis, this album favors loudness over quality. There's such a large emphasis on the vocals and lead guitar that everything else, especially the drums, sound muddled and often barely recognizable. This is mostly due to the high compression. All the instruments suffer from a fizzy effect which cause it to sound distorted, and combined with the high volume can cause an uncomfortable harshness, especially during the choruses. Another major problem is the sharpness of the cuts between clips, which are really annoying and bothersome one you notice them. From what I hear, most of these problems cannot be fixed by mastering, and so we're stuck with most of these problems, but fortunately due to modern techniques in streaming, they sound a bit better (at least what I'm hearing with Spotify). As for the track ordering, they attempt to put all the massive hits toward the front, and the rest seem to be randomly dispersed. Due to the range of moods and loudness, going from track to track feels conflicting and makes the record sound overall incoherent. The first 4 tracks are fine, but then the mindless dance punk "Get on Top" is placed between two introspective ballads. We get to a fun jam track "Easily" to the dream pop "Porcelain" (sounds straight from Mellon Collie) back to the grungy "Emit Remmus." It continues like this to the very end, and it just feels like a compilation. Despite all, the standalone compositions are amazing, beautiful, and unique, and it is unfortunate to say this is the lowest score I've given where I really enjoyed almost all the songs, even the bonus tracks. There's dream pop in "Porcelain", hip hop in "Purple Stain", disco in "Right on Time", baroque pop in "Road Trippin", and I already mentioned the punk, grunge, and pop rock tracks, making it a very diverse and memorable listen.

7/10

classic

FIRST OF ALL mr. flea on the bass??????????/// no further comments ur honour

Really inconsistent albums a lot of the songs are really fun and groovy and then sometimes it deng ding dong dong ding ding and then there's some questionable mixing/production on a lot of the tracks where it's just weirdly loud.

They polarise people don't they! I liked them a lot when I was young - and there are some nice passages here. I can understand the criticisms but aren't going to join in the pile-on

Notes trial, good album

It brings back a million memories of a summer when I was coming of age and weed was plentiful. It's a good album, the last of their imperial phase from Blood Sugar Sex Magic to this, but the warning signs of the bloat and blandness to come are here too. Still, you can't argue with Scar Tissue and Around the World. Hey, did you know they're from California?

As others have said, the first 6 songs + Road Trippin' are pretty good (some of these I even put on voluntarily!), but then the rest of the album all blends together in meh-ness. What are you left with? 3 stars, I guess.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers is a good band. I like "Scar Tissue".

bien qsy! no es lo mío pero no me disgustó 7,5 / 10

Opening track, Kiedis annoying with his plain-spoken verses with little accompaniment. Like how bass-forward the album is, particularly Scar Tissue and Get On Top. Californication is a great song, well put together. Easily felt messy coming off the back of 4 great songs, but followed up by Porcelain which is a nice reprieve from the album so far. Not a fan of Emit Remmus, lyricism of "animal of California" felt awkward. I Like Dirt was fun and very bass forward, This Velvet Glove and Savior felt forgettable. Purple Stain is funky as hell, probably my favourite song on the album, feels very Hendrix.

Overall solid album. Though it contained many of the classic RHCP songs that I knew from the radio, it's not an album that I'd put on from start to finish. Besides those poppier radio-friendly tracks and a few of the classic-style hard funk tracks later on, the remaining tracks were pretty forgettable. Could have been a really tight, short album maybe.

Identifying the Red Hot Chili Peppers : It’s the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Love-Hate relationship with RHCP. Some great songs followed by all just more of the same. Starting with this album. Inoffensive but unremarkable. I actually find Stadium Arcadium the most interesting post One Red Hot Minute album other than the 2 hour length.

a couple of good hits but Im not a huge fan of their sound

I have this game where I try to figure out how a release from the past will be received today. If it is d genuine classic or not. No idea where californication as a whole would land. Good listening fun though

I can't quite put my finger on what it is about this band I don't enjoy. I appreciate their honesty, but something leaves me flat with this band. As in the case of "Otherside" — I was thinking, "hey, this is a really nice tune," but before the song was over, I was less smitten. Kind of emblematic of how I feel about the RHCP. There are plenty of great moments, and while Anthony Kiedis is a singular presence as a vocalist (and Flea as a bassist), I prefer him when he goes with a "less is more" approach, and that's not usually his style. I also wasn't knocked out by the guitar work. I guess this is just not a band I love. I've had bandmates (bassists, specifically) who love this band, and they've been on my radar from early on (1985's Freaky Styley), but I've never been drawn in. I like them on a song-by-song basis, but not enough to go all in.

Liked some, not so much the rest

This album was such a commercial success I was very familiar with several tracks. I still find the melody of Otherside to be very catchy or ear-wormy anyway. But overall, I’ll not that enamored of this effort. It certainly has plenty of Flea-driven funk and all that but I guess for me it just starts to sound like the RHCP formula at work. I don’t know. Just not as much a fan of this album as of some others.

Some genuinely good stuff on here. Bits I’m not into as well. Dunno if just the Apple Music mastering but wildly different volumes across a couple of tracks.

rhp is hit and miss for me, and this album is more miss than hit. this album could have been half the tracks and under 30m. after easily, you can smash skip until "right on time". i'm not mad at californication being a hit, but it's sooooo long, and for what? my ★★★★☆ cut of this album: Around the World Parallel Universe Scar Tissue Otherside Get on Top Easily Right on Time Road Trippin'

Half good songs. Half lame funk rap. Just buy a greatest hits to avoid the dross.

I think everyone has heard this. This was probably the last album of theirs I truly enjoyed. Full of great songs.

First time of listening to whole album. Enjoyed but not a convert.

I've always had mixed feelings about the Chili Peppers. I feel like I should like them more than I do, but I find it difficult to care about them at all. I feel the same way about he Eagles - like the the whole is less than the sum of its parts. Like, Anthony is a great front man, Flea's amazing, John (and Navarro before him) are solid rock guitarists - but, still, I get bored listening to them after a while. All that to say, this album is probably their best and deserving of being on the list. Unique, recognizable sound that's solidly executed. Put any one of these songs on and I'm rocking out right along with them. Put 2 or more on in a row and I'll zone out.

Some of RHCP’s better work, but its appeal is still limited.

En vrai pas fou fou hein

There are some pretty good songs here but it's about 25 minutes too long

It's more of the same RHCP you know and love, some good some not. Lots of radio hits here, but deeper cuts like Savior are a really pleasant listen. I'm not a huge fan, but it gets the job done.

It's kinda fun but also grating. 6/10

For the most part, a pretty average alternative album, though I enjoyed some of the songs. Didn't appreciate the hip-hop/rap bits in a couple of the songs either.

Best Song: Parallel Universe. Not a full ballad but still slow enough that Kiedis needs to sing, not rap, which I prefer. Also a track that didn't reach the stratospheric heights of the other singles here, so it doesn't feel so overplayed. Worst Song: Porcelain. Why include such a slow, lullaby-style song in the middle of the album? Overall: No one else sounds at all close to how the RHCP sound, but sometimes they don't sound all that good. Despite Kiedis not having a conventionally strong singing voice, I really prefer his singing to the kind of staccato, Beastie Boys-esque rapping that he favours. Although I was a bigger fan of them when I was younger, listening to them now I can't help but feel like they are the musical equivalent of the TV show 'Friends': difficult to hate (unless you're outright trying to be contrarian), but also so strongly of an era that they become less relevant with each passing year.

I propose cutting this album down to tracks 1-7 plus Road Trippin’. There’s too much uninspired sounding filler in between. I would rate that album one star more…addition by subtraction.

3 20+ years later and still not feeling this is somehow their best, notorious as it is for the start of the Loudness Wars in mastering. BSSM and Mother's Milk are so much better. So much padding. It ends well, though... Even so would not miss it for another twenty years.

I use to like the Chili Peppers, Mother's Milk was pretty good, they were funky, edgy and different than most of the stuff on the radio or MTV and they put on amazing live shows. But something happens when you sell a gazillion copies of a record, chart high on the charts and attract the attention of celebrities and a mainstream following of teenage girls and loser hipsters. They're live shows are probably still a spectacle with the help of a much bigger budget and same with their music, big budget, accessible radio-friendly music so another bazillion people can stream it on Spotify or whatever. Kind of makes me sad...

The slippery down slope of a great band. At least it made them some greenbacks

Bops

Meilleur que BSSM, beaucoup plus de hits de mon genre, mais ça reste 1h de RHCP, ça devient lassant vers la fin.

When a legit album starts to sound a lot like a parody of the band, you have to worry for the direction the band are taking. Kiedis’ lyrics are frequently gibberish (sometimes literal gibberish) and the man has nothing to say- all non sequiturs and Dr Seuss rhyming and A level poetry) and renders the whole project a disappointment, despite the talents of Frusciante and Flea. That isn’t to say there aren’t highlights and a lot of it is catchy but for a band with our attention they sure waste an opportunity.

Strong 3, I see the appeal

I knew most of the songs on this because it was so big at the time. Not my thing but I listened start to finish in the cat or the freeway. Enjoyed it but don’t love it.

3/5 nice but not enough.

The guitar riffs are great, the bassplay is amazing, the lyrics are as non-sensical as always. But the whole thing is flat. From production to songwriting, it's safe and a bit empty.

So played out right now

Disappointed

On kyllä kiimaisia äijiä :D Tykkäsin tästä enemmän kuin Blood Sugar Sex Magicista, mutta ehkä jätän silti 3/5. Letkeetä ja onneks muitakin ok biisejä ku loppuun saakka kulutettu nimikko, jota en oo jaksanu moneen vuoteen.

A very good, but very… long record.

Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999) Incorporating elements of hip hop, prog rock, and funk, this album seems designed to broaden the commercial appeal of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ well established and diverse musical explorations of sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. I can imagine that some diehard fans of RHCP’s earlier work might have been disappointed in this development. Anthony Kiedis’ squeaky but clean lead vocals are layered over good, elaborate rock arrangements. Guitarist John Frusciante returns to the RHCP lineup, after a hiatus from 1992-1998 (during which time he had been replaced by Dave Navarro, formerly of Jane’s Addiction). This fundamental change has made a great impact on the sound of Californication. What we get is more mellow, with a predominance of relatively soft grooves—a suitable accompaniment to the widely referential and geographically diverse lyrics, but I’m not sure it improves the art. Solid and melodic bass lines by Flea, and splashy cymbal-heavy drum work by Chad Smith provide musical quality and sonic texture. The album’s diversity sustains interest, but the variety seems aimless. The track “Savior” could be interpreted in a way that inspires thought, but it falls short due to exaggerated ambiguity lack of depth. The sound of the closing track “Road Trippin’” is refreshing, with acoustic stylings and accompanying string ensemble. It almost makes the serious listener want to start the album over again. Almost. It’s good background music, but none of the tracks stand out as immediately gripping (with the possible exception of “I Like Dirt”, which is quite entertaining, with its funky wah-guitar stylings toward the end). I think if one listened to this album a dozen times one could grow to love it, but on first listen, it’s not top shelf. Am I the only one who thinks it’s too long? 3/5

I understand why this album was so popular, but it's just not for me. The songs are good and funky, but end up sounding the same. Some cool bass lines and good melodies.

Starts strong, but loses steam after the title track, and only returns to form at the last one. Funky and a summery vibe, but lower half drags everything else down with it.

3/01/22

#15?

While the return of RHCP's impressive guitarist definitely influenced their turning point album, "Californication", I think the irresistible groove and kicks of it should be credited more on the amazing and now one of my favorite bass player, Flea. And of course, I am expecting the single that boasts that infamous video game themed music video. It's as good as I remember (although "Otherside" is personally better). Aside from being a nice title track, the song "Californication" is also the last great song in the entire album. I could consider the closer "Road Trippin'" decent, but anything between it and the title track is personally monotonous and uninteresting. That is disappointing because as I listen to the first five tracks, I thought that I'll have another five star album. Still, I love the unique funky flavor of it. I get the hype around these guys. But if I would listen to it again, I would stop right after the title track.

I'm old enough to remember when this came out, and was absolutely everywhere, and I absolutely hated it at the time. Listening to the whole album reveals it's not too bad; it has a certain ADHD energy and Kleidis is a surprisingly sharp lyricist. But every song relies on the same formula, which wears a bit thin, and it's far too long.

Classic Chili Peppers. I like the harder funk style of BSSM better, but this is a close second

Some songs aged well, others didn’t. The Album as a whole is a good sum of that era.

A whole different album beyond the singles that have been played to death on alternative rock/mainstream radio. Pleasantly surprised by the more hard-driving uptempo tracks on this one, as they push well beyond what's expected from an RHCP song. The slower, ballad-like tracks come out of left field as well, but balance some of the more indulgent energies on the rest of the LP.

This album started off really strong. If this album ended after 7 songs or so it would probably be a 5 star album. It really dropped off pretty hard after that though. Most of the songs in the second half of the album just felt like uninspired filler. First half - 5 stars, second half - 2 stars. 3.5 total.

First half is an 8/10, second half is a 5/10.

Entertaining

A bit long. 3,5/5

De va bättre än ja trodde

Shout out to everyone in the band that isn’t Anthony Keidis… he’s not even that bad

För långt och Anthony Kiedies stinker FR! Dock mycket fler legit bra låtar än på blood sugar sex magik.

Listening to a bunch of RHCP songs back to back made me wonder if it wasn’t for Flea how long they would have been relevant or if they would even be relevant in the first place. The songwriting abilities of the members are…lacking and Antony doesn’t have that great a voice, although I appreciate him trying out a lot of different styles. The distinctive groove of Flea’s bass is really the only great thing about RHCP. He clearly has a lot of funk and disco influences and his skill never fails to shine through. Overall, a listenable album but I don’t think it really holds up that well in comparison to the albums of rock giants they were up against at the time (if I want to hear rapping over a groove baseline then I’ll listen to RATM) Best tracks: Californication/Scar Tissue Worst tracks: Road Trippin’/Get On Top (Also points deducted for Antony being a nonce)

I grew up with California radio so the singles from this are deeply ingrained in me, but boy most of the deep cuts don't work at all to my ears.

Thank god they stopped him rapping on every song. The rapping was so bad as to make any of the songs with raps on unbearable. The slower songs were the highlight for me. A really inconsistent album.

Some great songs on this album but not all.

die rache der hotdogbude

sì i quattro pezzoni, il resto è superfluo. Male le ballatone

It’s alright. Cali pop rock. It’s is very much a classic album with a shit ton of popular songs from very popular musicians. My favorite is “Porcelain” It’s just not my music

I think the non single songs were pretty great. The singles I’ve heard ad naseum so they were def skips for me.

Decent album. I like the hits songs fairly well...Scar Tissue is a top 3 RHCPs song IMO. Feel like some of the album serves as filler. 3/5

3.75

Listened to years ago. Not take my bag but some fun

hmm

Enjoyed more than expected

Has its moments

I remembered there being more energy in this album than this. Not quite blood sugar sex magic.

White guy funk! Flea is sweet with it.

It was fine, not really sure why it was on a list of albums i need to hear before i die

I<m not a big RHCP fan, this is the first album I listen to from front to back. But it has quite a few high quality moments. My favorite moments are the poppier ones I find their Funk freak outs a little distracting though the skill of the playing is undeniable. Lots of good stuff. Not quite a four but surprisingly close. 3.75 stars

It's a "cleaner" version of Blood Sugar Sex Magik. The music is a formulaic repetition of mainstream stereotypes (that they already used in the previous album). (5/10) Favourite Tracks: Road Trippin', Otherside

Hoewel ik John Frusciante als 1 van mijn favoriete muzikanten zie, heb ik nooit heel veel brood gezien in the Red Hot Chili Peppers; Onrustig allemaal maar, met hier een daar een aardige of zelfs goede uitschieter.

I‘m indoctrinated by regular exposure during my teenage years.

This album is very nostalgic to me.

It’s catchy as hell.

The Californication music video terrified me as a child.

Much better than I expected. The good stuff (the singles and a couple of other tracks) are very good, but possibly I'm a little jaded about them due to their ubiquity at the time of release. The weaker elements are pretty good, making an overall pleasing and engaging listening experience. But they really should have invested in a few shirts.

this album is okay. I understand the hype but to me it's alrighttttt

Surprisingly fine. Didn't hate it. A little long.

It aight

It’s no Blood Sugar Sex Magic. I get this is Frusciante‘s triumphant return on guitar after he left back in the early 90s but I dunno. This record is a bit too tame for me. The singles are all ok, but overall the rest of the album is just fine. It’s not terrible, it’s not great. I feel like it’s like the zenith of just regular ass RHCP songs. There’s nothing here that grabs me like their earlier stuff. Probably a good listen for someone just diving in but the old stuff is better. Hate to be that guy but it’s how I feel.

Couple classics, lot of stuff that sounds generically like the RHCP

Questo album suona veramente malissimo, distrutto da compressione e limiting. Non mi fa impazzire lo stile del cantante, anche se i testi son belli, ma in generale molte cose del gruppo mi piacciono. Nel voto finale sono stato influenzato negativamente dal suono.

When The Good Place took a stab at Red Hot Chili Peppers indicating that fandom of this band was a ticket to "The Bad Place" I had one of those moments where I looked around and mouthed "Me?" while pointing at myself. Honestly on this album I think I understand that jab a bit more than when it comes to Stadium Arcadium (an album I'll defend with my dying breath). Nonetheless, Californication and a few other songs are indisputably good jams. His rock rap just threw me a bit at times.

Enjoyable upbeat album. RHCP isn't my favorite but this is their best work I think. I don't know if it's fair for me to ding it for being overplayed but it's my ratings and I will do what I want.

Not sure I've heard the whole album before so didn't know that the chili's were so varied in style, still liked the classic 'californication' type ones the best.

More melodic than I remembered

Liked their style…..good tunes

Saved Prior: Scar Tissue, Otherside, Californication Saved Off Rip: Parallel Universe Cutting Edge: Easily Overall Notes: Other than the three songs I knew already, the other songs kinda sounded the same. I wasn't able to devote full attention to the album so maybe I just wasn't listening close enough, but nothing especially stood out in a positive way. Will probably come back to this one.

weird album. some absolute unforgettable slaps like otherside, californication and parallel universe but some really weird songs that dont work at all like around the world and get on top

Pretty dull really. Should be a 2.5. Plumping for a very generous 3 mainly on thee grounds of the singles on the album. The rest not so good.

Nice album, shame that Rick Rubin clipped it to hell and back.

The beginning actually reminds me a little bit of the Kidrock album from last week. I guess that was a sound for that time period. I like the rest of the album (after the first track) better, though I still wouldn’t buy the album.

For some reason this album really makes me laugh. I want to hate it but I really just can't, its as fun as it is stupid. I wouldn't necessarily call this butt-rock since its just a slight peg up, making this taint-rock. The first song and "get on top" really reminds me of this https://youtu.be/LYjqm9HIGtQ. This album feels like how the band members look, greasy, kind of overtly sexual in a gross kind of way. Maybe I can't shake the fact that this music was made by pedophiles and rapists but I don't feel clean listening to it, even though the music really is pretty fun and kind of hilarious. I did get really tired of the singing after about halfway through the album though, he really does sound the exact same on almost every song. But the album picks up again in the last bit with some unique songs. Still, part of me can't totally get into these songs because they almost sound like a parody of something else with how played-up and samey they are. Overall, the album was good but there are a lot of things that put me off. Favorite track: Right on Time Least Favorite track: Otherside

Listened to this album a ton when I was younger, loved it then, not as much into it now.

rhcp were never really my thing

Ok

Not my jam. Their earlier work has inspired me more.

What’s up with the lame white boy rapping over rock? They stink. But I suppose it’s not a horribly produced album, and creatively it’s got some merit. And people really like it. So 3 starts.

Never been a big fan

2.5 rounded up for the sheer amount of singles and Road Tripping. IDK how I ever loved this band. Lyrics are yikes and production is bad (no dynamic range).

listened to about half, its the chili peppers. cant go wrong

I just can't get on board with RHCP. Yes their singles are bangers but it's all the same to me, slappadabass, some fast rapsinging then a bit of slow singing and repeat. I also just don't like his voice. I don't think they are bad but just not what I want from life.

Can't hate these Chili Peps, it's not a crazy-win for me, but an enjoyable listen especially those base-lines. Not as goofy as I remember them being, and with some iconic tracks. All of it sounds similar to me, but not in a terrible way. I will say that Californication itself is overplayed and not my fave song in the world.

A mixed bag of an album, the singles are fantastic but some of the album are incredibly cringey. Took me back to being a teenager and watching Kerrang! TV though.

It was okay.

Easy listen, better in concert. Not many occasions where I am in the mood for this.

Decent - a little long for me. Very 90s feeling.

I really don't like Red Hot Chili Peppers, and I'm afraid that Californication has done nothing to change my opinion.

I’m honestly not a huge fan of Red Hot Chili Peppers. I listened to them in middle/high school and kind of fell off what they were doing after One Hot Minute. This album has them fully in their formula. I prefer crooner Kiedis to ‘rapper’ Kiedis. Actually I prefer zero Kiedis, but that’s not an option. Overall, the album is fine. It was a little too long and probably should have been sequenced differently. The band did a great job though. 2 stars

I can take these guys in small doses but a whole album, well, it begins to grate...

Really only enjoyed the super popular songs. Everything else was meh

Stoked a lot of memories. Overall a lot of similar sounding songs. RHC just never hit that sweet spot for me.

Talented musicians, tedious music.

Otherside is a really good song. Also liked Easily and Velvet Glove. Don't like: Around The Word, Scar Tissue, Get On Top, Californication, I Like Dirt, Road Trippin'. I know artists can feel a love/hate relationship with the city where they cut their teeth; for example, didn’t Sandburg and Sinclair write about Chicago with that same mix of awe and anger? And the Chilis really talk about LA and Hollywood in these grandiose apocalyptic terms on the title track. However, I feel they’re too hedonistic to pull this off. I don't want to judge Anthony Kiedis the musician for his personal flaws. But his lyrics are myopic, horny, and praising-with-faint-damnation. Ultimately, it’s too much California for me.

didnt finish so boring omg. i like the song californication but the rest of it - the guys voice is irritating

teveel van californication genoten voor een 1 ster recensie maar mijn god wat een kutalbum

RHCP are one of the quintessential rock bands aren't they. One of those bands where you're surprised by how many tracks you know, but these are two words that struck me when listening: classic and formulaic. There's almost an air of smugness, like "we know we've found something which you (the unsuspecting public) are gonna struggle to resist". Fair play to 'em. But the ick is strong.

meh. not a huge fan of the lyrics and sounds on this album. Favorite songs: californication, porcelain, savior

The only reason it's not 1 star is because of Snow

A band with whom I'm not especially familiar, although I recognised Scar Tissue, Otherside and Californication. Generally this album didn't grab my attention.

Just can't really get into the RHCP.

not as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue

No thank you.

i kind of understand why red hot chili peppers is so popular but this is not my taste of music at all. all the songs on this album just sounded the same to me it all blurred together. it’s Okay.

Red Hot Chili Peppers. Funk for your boomer mom.

The thought of listening to this gives me the boak. The soundtrack to mtv2 and every crap gathering for about 5 years, this is one of the go to albums for people that don't like music. The safe option with some catchy sing along hits. Kind of like the grandfather of Kings of Leon or the Killers. As much as they annoy me, at least the early albums had some grit.

Teenage drivel, sehr sehr wütend, anstrengend, alles sehr ähnlich

Very tight and some catchy singles, but Anthony really lets the team down. Blood Sugar Sex Magik was great, but this is not anywhere near that level.

awful mix

I really like the lead singers voice. Road Trippin is the song I liked the best, more melodic, the harmony was smooth and the swell of additional instruments was a nice and different choice from the other songs on the album.

𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 is an album I like more for what Flea and John Frusciante are doing than for the songs themselves. Their playing gives the record most of its personality, especially when the band slows down and lets the bass and guitar create some atmosphere. Anthony Kiedis is the part that wears me down. On several of the singles, his nasal delivery, phrasing, and vocal melodies start to feel almost interchangeable, which makes the album more repetitive than it should be. Some of the later tracks break away from that formula and are more interesting because of it. Even then, 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 feels oddly ordinary for an alternative-rock album from 1999. There were plenty of records around that time taking bigger risks or developing more distinctive sounds. Flea and Frusciante keep this one afloat, but not enough to make me want to return to it.

Flea and Frusciante are good enough musicians that not even Kiedis can fully drag them down by himself… unfortunately he’s getting help from some of the shittiest mixing known to mankind

Some truly nice alt-rock songs severely outnumbered by more RHCP unlistenable white boy funk rap bumpers. Still I can’t hate them.

Not a fan of the any song besides Californication.

The lyrics on this album are so lazy. Rhymes porn with unicorn. At one point he just starts saying ding ding dong instead of actual words. I bought this album for my high school boyfriend as a joke when I was 16 because he loved it and I thought it was trash. Knowing I bought it on a CD means it's likely actual trash now and that makes me kinda happy. All that being said, I love the Chili Peppers and have seen them live twice and it was a great time. I just don't like any of the songs from Californication.

Dull

I think I heard this once upon a time, but I'm more familiar with his third album, Pink Moon. I'm sure Pink Moon will pop up later. I think I'm going through a bit of a rough patch at the moment, not least because I'm quite ill. I can't see out of my right eye at the moment, and I think I'm getting depressed again. When I'm depressed, the phrase "Black Dog" always jumps into my head, which is what Drake used to refer to his bouts with depression as. As I take my paroxetine every morning, I think of him. There's only so much heavy lifting a little pill can do, when everything else seems to bring you do that much. ────────────────── Nick Drake with full orchestration is kind of magical. That's the first thing I noticed. I'm so used to hearing him with just his acoustic guitar behind him, invariably in some tuning I haven't tried out myself. The strings and the horns work perfectly with his voice, it's like listening to a more mature Van Morrison. It's odd to hear such a young voice with such a fully realised project (Nick Drake was 22 years old when Bryter Layter was released), but it's fantastic to hear something so enrapturing from such an old soul. The flute parts dotted about this album in particular are wonderful - it's almost a call back to the parochial songs that Molly Drake would have raised him on. ────────────────── When I was 22 years old, I had recorded an album called Action Figures, and I had been waiting for years to release it. Mixing takes time, but not as much time as I was expecting. It was 2020, the year everything was covered in a thick film of fear and the stench of alcohol. I was working in a supermarket, I was going running four times a week, I was moving away from the coast to a sad little town in the Midlands. We thought it would save us money, but with nothing to spend money on, we still managed to waste it. I thought it would have happened to me by then, and it still hasn't happened to me now. I was scared of dying, and reticent to download TikTok. Crucially, I was away from everyone I had spent the past four years playing music with, and no venues were open, not even an open mic night. I felt stuck. I am stuck. ────────────────── I wonder who Hazey Jane was. Who inspired these two wonderful songs? Was she real? Did Nick read about her? Was she him? One of my favourite things musicians do is write to themselves, or a part of themselves - epistolaries especially. A card or a letter to a fraction of their brain, awaiting a response. One wonders if Jane ever wrote Nick back. Maybe that's what the rest of the album is. One Of These Things First is a true stand out on this album; it allows his acoustic guitar to shine through everything, even with a truly miraculous piano part going wild in the background. And it's bristling with possibilities. I wish Nick Drake had had the time to be anything he wanted to be. ────────────────── I wish I had found the time. ────────────────── 8/10 Stand Out Tracks One Of These Things First Hazey Jane II Sunday

Yes, it is a sin: I don't like the RHCP

4/10

Stopped listening at track called ‘I like dirt’. Title track will always be good though

Hilarious a bunch of men approaching their 40's made this album. Still baffles me that John Frusciante continues to be in the Red Hot Chili Peppers when he is clearly so much more talented than anyone else in the band. In a perfect world, he would have gone ahead and actually joined the Meat Puppets. Anthony Kiedis should be in prison.

Väldigt långt album, många låtar väldigt lika och jag blir less på sångarens röst efter tag vilket inte riktigt är bra betyg. Topplåtarna "Californiacation" och "Scar tissue" tycker jag håller måttet och är riktigt bra, men allt annat känns lite samma. Overall bra producerat men nej inte för mig, idag blir det en tvåa på detta album

what's this a racist caricature of chinese? "ding dong" (sung with a lilted accent) they know how to run a bassline. scar tissue and otherside are bops. they have a formula for a song, and it works. the strong bassline and drums. rhythm guitar. the vocals, it's all musically well balanced and the album is cohesive. it's just so freaking cheesy tho. deduction for having an album over 47 minutes. savior should be the last song. the electronica / disco beat from right on time is nice nice acoustics on road trippin' it makes sense that the bassist and singer are the only constant members of the band because the vocals and the bass are the most distinct parts of their music. i think i gotta deduct one for how corny it is and one for being too long EDIT actually this deserves a 2/5. kudos to them for figuring out their formula, but their music ain't that good.

RHCP is not for me.

00:15 into around the world - WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Its a shame it only lasts 10 seconds cos it just gets worse from then on.

The only good Chili Peppers album is Blood Sugar Sex Magik, which this album is not.

“I’ve never been, like, running to Kiedis to answer life’s questions.” – Pat Finnerty

Sweet, sweet nonsense with a side of tinnitus. There is very little there here. Not to say I don't enjoy this (ninth-grade me REALLY enjoyed it)! Why does it feel like RHCP never lived up to their collective potential? Why is Ethan Risser selling home security systems in a Ponzi scheme? Well, some very talented people are destined to accidentally make a ridiculous side quest their main adventure. If you think about this as funding for John's solo albums, it gets a thousand times better, lol.

Nothing crazy about it

The musicians in this band are all extremely talented. However, I do not like the "funk rock made for radio hits" style. The guitarist, bassist, and drummer have all done different projects I like, but I just don't think this style of music is great, especially when distilled down to the lowest common denominator for radio hits. Also, I have never been able to stand the singing, even if he was saying intelligent or actually good lyrics (which isn't always a deal-breaker for me). That all being said, the production is obviously very good, especially with the remaster, and there are some parts of the music I do like, but it's just parts of songs, and it always goes back to the main parts of the song being the stuff I don't like.

This got rid of a lot of what I liked about Blood Sugar Sex Magik (the funky drums and guitar) while keeping a lot of the stuff I hated (goofy lyrics). Oh well, at least a lot of the white-boy rapping was dropped too. BSSM was weird and sometimes annoying, but at least it was never bland like Californication often got. I can't really rate this a one; I have too much nostalgia for the singles on here since my older cousin would play them all the time in the car, but overall not an album I was gripped by.

3 days in a row of mediocre radio rock. I really paid 20 1999 dollars for this? The bass, guitar, and drums are all pretty good. There were also some memorable music videos that came from this album. Otherwise I just feel meh about it. Kiedis just ruins what could otherwise be a good, even great band. Judging from the other reviews on this I don’t think I’m letting my memories of being a cringey teenager bias me too much. It’s really an indictment of the recording industry that this was one of the biggest albums at the turn of the millennium.

I've never really liked RHCP. I haven't voluntarily listened to them in decades. The opening notes of Scar Tissue and Otherside sound like me trying to find another radio station in my 96 Honda Civic.

AROUND THE WORLD: i loveeeeee the riffs and rap-style lyric delivery PARALLEL UNIVERSE: the drums clearly shine in this song, the guitar solo at the end is so fire SCAR TISSUE: the way he sings push-up bra scratches my brain, i like it OTHERSIDE: more sad, but the pacing of lyrics in the beginning with such a beautiful riff is gorgeous GET ON TOP: "right on" is soooo cringy, shows the age of the album CALIFORNICATION: clever play on words, clearly the song that they put the most time in so far on the lyrics EASILY: feels punk PORCELAIN: very modern, slow, i like EMIT REMMUS: interesting title and i like the contrast between american man and english woman I LIKE DIRT: cheeky and funny while still being poetic THIS VELVET GLOVE: good riff at the beginning but this feels like every other song i've listened to on this album SAVIOR: varies throughout the song and is a clear standout - like the bridge, yes ma'am PURPLE STAIN: these lyrics are lowkey making me throw up like dude idc about what you do at night but i do like the "we all live in hollywood part" that's fun RIGHT ON TIME: holy whiplash oh my gosh this is better then coffee for waking someone up and not in a good way ROAD TRIPPIN': croony FAT DANCE: ew OVER FUNK: funk is the right way to describe it QUIXOTICELIXER: sounds like everything else on the album

not a bad album, but it was unlistenable for me at some points and didn't enjoy most of it

Cruise ship band music. This is the type of music drunk dads in their 40-60s think is good simply because it's easy to digest, easy to sing along to, easy to understand, easy to forget. The instruments are nice enough; clearly they're talented and follow the right formula to create popular music. The vocals, I'm not too excited about though. And perhaps that's just a me-problem because I've been around too many socially ambitious office workers that speak the way this dude sings. I feel the same way about the songs as I do about the show Friends--I understand the popularity but don't feel enough depth in the water to dive into the pool.

Not getting into a whole Chi Peps thing again. Some songs are fine, most aren’t. Dumb lyrics.

bleh...

Top Songs: - Otherside - Californication - Emit Remmus - Road Trippin‘

Artist David Hockney -who died last week- was known for his images of swimming pools. They looked inviting and made the viewer want to dive into the picture. The same can't be said for the pool on the cover of the Chilli Peppers album. It looks like a tumultuous sea of molten lava. As uninviting as that sounds, it might actually be preferable to listening to this. Terribly produced, and featuring a lot of Kiedis spoutung gibberish over leaden funk filler tracks. Scar Tissue is one of the only RHCP songs I think is any good but even that can't save this from a 2.

If you go and read my review for Blood Sugar Sex Magik you will know how I feel about Anthony Kiedis. When I was doing research for that review I found out that he and Mike Patton and a lot of it had to do with the fact that around this same time Mr. Bungle put out California. I do remember the 'beef' from that and at the time and today I am going to pick Mike Patton over Anthony Kiedis and now more so since we know Anthony Kiedis is a pedophile. Also as of this writing we don't know but I'm pretty sure that Mike Patton has not had sex with a child. Only two good songs on here so two stars.

Lyrically this is probably ine of their better albums but i just find it boring as fuck. I’m not a hard devotee of their earlier punk-funk stuff so this isnt a reaction to a change in direction that this album seems to have been. I just find musically the ideas are largely 1 dimensional and not expanded on. It feels like they sat around with an acoustic guitar, strummed a few chords, blurted some nonsense words on top, said right go write some deep lyrics to that melody then we’ll record it. I get there is a bit more to it than that, but not a lot.

Dreadful

One word that’s always come to mind with this band is “underwhelming,” and having finally sat through a whole album… I still largely agree. I respect the distinctness of their sound, I get the appeal, especially in the 90s, and Flea is fun to listen to. There are big hits on this one, Otherwise has always been one I enjoyed, and Porcelain was a cool track to discover. But otherwise the album mostly alternates between “hit song” and the “funk/rock song”, without either a sense of cohesion or any real journey. The funk stuff is ok but, the players never go that hard, vocal delivery is distinct but boring to me, and the lyrics don’t help. If you’re gonna rap, have something to say. So ultimately in the end these “fun” tracks just have a hollowness to them. I’ll stick with catching a song of theirs on the radio once in a while, albums do not seem to be their forte

The older I get, the less I like the peppers. They are a band I’ve outgrown

This is the when the chili peppers completely lost me. This album is awful boring.

A great guitar player, a drummer with the most infuriating snare this side of Ulrich, a pedophile, and a bassist who's great in interviews walk into a funk/rap/rock heroin bar and make a bajillion dollars off of people whose deeply rooted racism make them incapable of listening to music that their parents didn't bone to in 2003. Yeah, I didn't care for this one.

Amazing musicianship and songwriting completely undermined by Anthony Keidis' ridiculousness.

just not my kind of music.

Tripe! What happens when a California surfer dude tries to access his sensitive side? You get a lot of weird sexual imagery under the guise of I’m a man that has feelings ugh. The bass and the guitar was alright

This is a must-listen only for those born too late to have had it constantly shoved into their ears. This album was everywhere and could not be stopped. Too bad RHCP's best music was already long behind. Another nail in the coffin of 90's Optimism.

I hate RHCP, not sure why. They just dont sound good or interesting to me.

2/3

I had an ex that tried to argue that I should like Red Hot Chili Peppers because they had a greatest hits album prior to the release of Blood Sugar Sex Magick. Which I always found to be a preposterous argument. I've since learned she wasn't even correct (it was released after that album). This has always colored my opinion of the band. Trying to come into this album with fresh ears, I recognize that the singles which were played to death for me are not bad, but that I am still not a fan of the band or the album. While I can see why people enjoy this style of music it has never resonated for me. So while I give it two stars as it was massively popular and does give insight into music at this point it's just not that good of an album.

Jeg har altid syntes, at RHCP er så vanvittigt irriterende, så se bort fra mit rant, hvis du er fan RHCP lyder sådan her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE5JMEu5hZA Man gad godt have fat i kraven på den tumpe, der har mastered det her album Write an RHCP song without mentioning California challenge LEVEL IMPOSSIBLE RHCP er Maroon 5, hvis de var lige så obsessed med deres hjemstavn Kiedis er så utroligt irriterende, at jeg ikke kan begribe det jeg bliver heated nu sorry Burde det være 1 stjerne? Ja, det gjorde det nok, det virker bare så brutalt, at det skulle ligge nede ved Robbie Williams. Jeg lærte at spille soloen til Californication, da jeg var barn, så det trækker op. 2 stjerner for de stakkels Logitech 2.1 højttalere, der troligt har spillet det her gennem tiden 1.8

It didn't do much for me. It's just... so... plain. Yeah I know what the title track is about and I read its lyrics

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They're very good instrumentally but the singing and lyrics are awful. If they got themselves a decent singer I could see them making it big.

Absolutely trashy album imo. Only giving this a rating at all at is because when I was a kid the first song I learned on guitar was Californication, I taught myself how to read music after that but never really liked RHCP.

This is a difficult record to rate. On one hand it's iconic, catchy and has some genuinely amazing hooks and songs on it. On the other hand it also has some stinkers on the second half and is mixed atrociously. I just wish a it would be remastered from the ground up because it could be a great record, but I just can't listen to a lot of the songs, even the good ones without kinda hurting my ears. A real shame. 4/10

This made me realize I actually just don't like the red hot chili peppers. Musically they're pretty good, but the vocals sound like a guy who desperately wants to be found more cool than he is, and the style of music supports it. Moreover the entire album seems to be built around one song (californication), while everything else feels like filler. At least the drums aren't done by Will Pharrel.

A one star album I’m giving two stars because Otherside, Scar Tissue and Californication are etched so deeply into my bones, I sing along like a possessed horror movie character committing atrocities against their will.