Californication

Ruck RHCP

I cannot with this band. I really did try to listen to it but I abhor RHCP and just couldn't do it.

Physically impossible for me to smash the one-star button any faster

Not for me

Was going to give this credit because I like “Scar Tissue” and “Otherside” but the new lows that it reaches on the back half are literally like a -2.

I’ve never really liked RHCP and I still don’t. I’ve tried to get into them before, largely because one of my friends is a fan, but ultimately I don’t enjoy the sound of his voice nor the structure, cadence, rhythmic patterns, whatever you want to call it, of the songs. And there’s only so many times you can hear the word California! Scar Tissue is good though, and I didn’t mind Purple Stain or Right on Time either. (1.5 stars)

Had to skip the first track half way, not a good sign. Parallel Universe was alright actually, similarly the others didn't already know were all more enjoyable. The famous ones just have seeped into my skin too much over the years of exposure

If the album was only the singles it would still be a 2/10.

Nick Cave: “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.’” Besides the fact that the Chili Peppers are overrated, I try to not contribute to anything that benefits abusive men like Anthony Kiedis, Flea, or Chad Smith.

I knew that at some point a RHCP album would appear on the list, but didn't expected to be this soon. I don't like RHCP. But regardless, I try to listen to this album with open ears. Maybe this would change my opinion. Maybe. It didn't. There were some moments where I was enjoying what I was hearing, but never a full song. Their style is overpowering and it seeps through every track. And I'm talking only about the music. Because at no point I enjoyed Kiedis' voice. Not when he does that shouting rap, not when he does the quiet singing, not when he goes from highs to lows, and certainly not when he does the ding ding dings and dangs rang dangs. The production was a mess, too muffled and weird. I thought there was an issue with my headphones, but no, it's supposed to sound like that. A complete mess and the confirmation that RHCP is just not for me.

I hate that I even typed in that dumb title to listen to this album. It took 30 seconds for this to turn to shit. In order not to recognize the talents of a band that doesn't deserve it, I'm referring to them as Jalapeno Peppers That Were Neutered by a Tech Bro so They Have No Heat. This album starts with a cool bass line, because Flea on his own is rather talented, but once the singer takes over, it's all JPTWNbaTBsTHNH as usual. The first song isn't over and I'm getting Sepultura ready to clear my head afterwards. What the FUCK is with that fake-Chinese?-mimicry? You know what? I'll go ahead and say all the instrumentation is fine. Anthony Kiedis fucking sucks. Completely destroys anything credible. I take that back. The rest of the band are enablers. They all fucking suck. "How long how lonnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnng" will I have to listen to this fucking album. You can tell Kiedis is a sex pest because he writes nonsensical lyrics he as a thirtysomething at the time would think teenaged girls would like. Sure enough I googled and found an article from the mid-2010s (AFTER this album was made) where he was dating a 19-year old.

Wow... This stinks. It's almost completely lacking the ONLY thing these guys ever (even remotely) did well, sophomoric punk influenced funk. The few times it shows up, it's a neutered version of its former self. This is a record FULL of the pretentious songs I hated most on their previous albums. Musically this is a guy in clown make-up screaming to be taken seriously. Fuck this trash.

I genuinely have a hard time thinking of a more uninteresting and boring band than RHCP. Everything about them is bland and blah. I cannot fathom how anyone could put this on and unironically enjoy it.

Dull dull dull - like a gummy dog trying to slurp apple sauce! They were better on the drugs to be fair

Fuck these guys.

Scar Tissue is a decent enough track but the rest is a load of old cobblers! I like a lot of their stuff but Anthony and Flea have let us and them selves down with this piss poor effort!

Having loved the funk jams of BSSM, this album is so very boring. I can't believe I endured the whole thing.

+: Around the World, Parallel Universe +-: Get on Top, Californication, Porcelain, Emmit Remmus, This Velvet Glove, Purple Stain, Right on Time, Road Trippin' -: Scar Tissue, Otherside, Easily, I Like Dirt 4,0/10

Honestly... this was really difficult to get through. Like, I didn't even actually finish it cause I just could not handle it after 40 minutes. Anthony Kiedis' vocal flows just grate on me, and some of the songs just go on for 2 or 3 minutes longer than they need to - even something like title track Californication, which is alright, could be almost half the length. The rhythm section is admittedly keeping things alive and is clearly full of talent, but there's something about this that just really gets under my skin a bit. To be honest, I almost lost it at track one when he goes ding ding, dong dong. I think the popular tracks besides Californication are decent (Otherside & Scar Tissue, basically) but it makes so much sense to me that I seemingly never hear anyone talk about any of their non-hit songs - they're pants. The singles are like a 5/10, but the album as a whole? 2/10. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood.

Refused to listen to it because Anthony Kiedis is a self confessed pedophile.

no

Ugh.

Not my style

Vahva ykskauttaviis, ehkä kaikkien aikojen inhokkilevyni. (Toki jos Kiedis pitäisi suunsa kiinni niin Parallel Universe olis ihan kuunneltava biisi.)

Day 30 - July 1 Catchy? Yes. Do I still hate RHCP? Yes. 1/5

Annoying, irritating, an assault on the ear's. Probably the best things I can say about this. like U2 RHCP is way overhyped and because the audio is compressed to buggery this is tiring to listen to.

One of the worst bands to ever exist.

This whole album is meh. I like Scar Tissue but everything else just doesn't even register including the other hits (Californication, Around the World and Otherside). It's like if AI wrote a Red Hot Chili Peppers album. Plus, it's a double album which is hard to pull off. You better have everything pulled together because that is a lot of songs to have to get right.

See Queen. One of my most deeply held convictions is that RHCP are the most overrated band of all time, and luckily, I'm right again. Why dose the dreadful man shout over everything. Some of the songs (e.g. Around The World) might be in the running for the most obnoxious noise on the planet). Strangely, when he sings, like on Scar Tissue and Porcelain, you then notice that the rest of the band are pretty good (and yes, in Flea's case incredible). They should tell him that and maybe he'll stop ruining everything.

Did not listen as I have heard this album far, far too many times. As a grown-ass woman, I have finally decided that the RHCP are not for me. They are one of those bands that everyone around me loves, so I grooved along. I think I may have even rated them highly earlier in my 1001 Albums journey simply because I thought I was supposed to, I guess. No more. I'm done. Trite, simple, gimicky, and dull.

Awful album and awful band. I have nothing to say about this!!

It's as bad as Blood, Sugar, Sex Magic and for the same reasons so I'll just copy and paste the same review. Chad Smith is amazing. Flea is great. They get two stars. Frusciante is technically accomplished. But he's one of the legion of guitar players who utterly lack musicality. He sounds lost most of the time; like his brain - fingers and not his ears - heart are driving his contributions. Kiedis sounds developmentally disabled; regardless of whether he's singing, shouting, or doing that cringe-inducing rap thing. Lyrically, he's like a 13 year old trying to convince someone he's a man. And together it's so disjointed - just a total mess to these ears.

I don’t understand how anyone could enjoy this.

This was a struggle - Emit Remmus may be the worst song I've heard as part of the project

Admittedly I did come into this album with a bias of hating Red Hot Chili Peppers, but this album did nothing to change my mind. I don't hate everything about Red Hot Chili Peppers! I think the music is fun and interesting at times. I like Flea as a bassist a lot. But I don't like Anthony Kiedis's voice, and I think the lyrics are stupid to the point of distraction on every single song. I will probably regret rating this album as low as I am, because I didn't HATE it, but at the end of the album runtime my patience was almost gone.

Awful band, awful album

instrumentals are sick? i hate his voice lol. finding it hard to finish any of these songs RHCP is such a meme lol lyrics contain the male gaze(tm) so it's really only tolerable at <10% volume

Solid album shame they're all sexual assaulters and nonces

We heard it everywhere when the record came out, but the purpose of this site is to listen carefully to each record. And this one is worse now than it was then. Actually is a two songs record : Around the World-like and Californication-like. I really like some records of RHCP but this one has not got the mojo and inspiration. Poor melodies, no intention in singing, incoherent grooves. One Hot Minute and By the way are way better. The song "Right On Time" is a good example of the worst thing that this band can produce... and they will produce more of it after this record. Sadly.

First and last time listening to this album.

This would be a 5 star album if it wasn’t for Anthony Kedis being in the band.

i hate this album sorry. wont listen haha

Ew, no.

These guys suck

suckx my cock

An album I enjoyed as a teenager but one that hasn’t aged well. Not sure if it’s because songs like Scar Tissue and Californication have been played to death on every rock station across the country or if it’s the lyrics or Anthony Keidis’ voice or what but I just can’t stomach it anymore

When I was 14 and this came out I loved scar tissue the first few times I heard it and got the album. I was disappointed in how bad the rest of it was, but that was common with 90s radio bands' albums: full of filler. Then I heard scar tissue 500 times a week on the radio and stopped liking that one song too. Then Californication was played out even more and I can't even here a note of this band without instinctively reaching for the car radio knob. So, it's been a long time since I revisited this album but good to know that my 14 year old self was correct: there's one good song on here ruined by overplay and the rest is boring dreck. Embarrassing little raps, self-parody level slap bass, the most vapid lyrics imaginable, and annoying whiney vocals. Some pretty guitar bits and solid drumming apart there is basically nothing here. BSSM was goofy and fun, this is somehow goofy and self serious. How is this band so big? America's Coldplay.

Awful

If I could give negative stars, I would. Garbage album by a garbage band. Get this shit the fuck outta here.

1.0 Look, there’s some good guitar, bass and drumming on this album, but Anthony Keidis brings everything down to 1. He sucks such ass. Just creepy, hair sniffing, shitty singer. Hate him.

Hmm, the album is nearly an hour long and the maybe 12 minutes that Scar Tissue, Other side, and the title track doesn't make up for the other 40+ minutes of flippity dippity sexual, California funky jams. Not a fan.

Where do I begin? Californication? As the an influential RHCP album? Influential for shitty pop rock? What exactly did this album influence? It's terrible. The only thing it influenced was marketing companies making shitty commercials who needed a song about California. I hate RHCP but they definitely have influential albums. The early the late 90s had all kinds of shitty bands attempting to copy RHCPs shitty attempt at copying George Clinton long before this garbage pop album.

Extra star for the good playing from the rhythm section. Kiedis’s voice is insufferable and Frusciante is a good guitarist but the riffs overall are so meh

With the recent (to me) revelations that Anthony Kiedis is an admitted pedofile, it has changed my opinion on every bit of the RHCP catalog. I would have given this 4 ⭐️ previously but now tainted by Kiedis’s proclivities it’s a 1 for me 🤢

Meh.

Nononononono 3/10 (1 stern weil ich glaube sonst kein album daran kommt)

pass

Boring

This music is so boring and predictable. I hate what this band has become. And yet, one of the tracks has over a billion listens on Spotify, so what do I know?

The music video for the title track made me give this 1 star.

“Ding ding dong dong ding ding dong dong ding” - Anthony Kiedis Ik heb dit album nog nooit in z’n geheel geluisterd, en ging hier met enthousiasme in. Wat kom ik hier bedrogen uit. De teksten zijn absolute nonsens, perfect voorbeeld van ‘ik ben 14 en dit is diep’. Soms zelfs compleet onverstaanbaar door Anthony’s debiele manier van zingen. Ik heb geen RHCP nostalgie, dus het zal mij waarschijnlijk minder doen dan wat oudere luisteraars. De singles zijn nog wel catchy (al heb je ze al 1000 keer gehoord), maar hoe verder je in het album komt hoe sneller je wil dat het afgelopen is. Ik lees dat het geproduceerd is door de legendarische Rick Rubin, waarom heeft hij de wereld niet behoed voor deze Karbonkel verschijning in albumvorm? Deze verzameling kattengejank heeft in 1 ochtend mijn houding van onverschilligheid tegenover de band naar dit-nooit-meer gebracht. Ieder volgend nummer richting het eind brengt mij dichter bij een 0/5, maar door deze site moet ik het alsnog een 1 geven. Onverdiend.

No

I don’t like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Sorry :/

Why are you doing this to me on a Monday? Isn't Monday bad enough already without Chili Peppers. I'd watched a doc about Woodstock II on Sunday too, so my already negative feelings about RHCP are at an all time low. The bass is ok on 'Scar Tissue', most of the rest of the time, Flea plays too much. Kiedis should not be allowed anywhere near a microphone. Sample lyric: "Ding ding, deng dong, deng ding."

No.

don't make me do it

Dislike. Found a formula and rinse and repeat

Pliis ei enää näitä. Olin alun hittien jälkeen, että jees ihan nostalgista, vois antaa nyt 2/5. Mutta siis ei helvetti mikä b-puoli. En vaan pysty ymmärtämään, kamalaa musiikkia. Tuli jo toisaalla esille, mutta ysärin Maroon 5.

Nah... But because I told myself I was gonna commit to this whole 1001 albums things, fine. I'll listen and have my spotify algorithm all fucked. Damnit... Anywho...yep, still terrible. Gets the one star for Otherside, which I would not turn off when it came on MTV back in the day and it still kiiiiinda jams. I mean Flea IS a great bassist and that's a fun bassline. But everything else about this album? Naaaahhh...

I hate this band, sorry. Not listening to it.

The first time I heard these guys was 1991. I bought the Blood Sugar Sex Magik album and all I can say is that, at the time, I was looking for music that didn't sound like anything else. And, like, the song Give It Away just seemed like - wait, is this guy having sex with some girl's entire family? Like what is this about? It seemed like something my parents would hate. But now, looking back on most of the songs by this band, nothing seems all that good. Scar Tissue is maybe the song that sticks on this one. But in the first track, he rhymes 'entertain ya' with 'Pennsylvania' and then the sweat stains on the rhymes in Californication are real rough. And then comes Purple Stain and I'm like, man, fuck you.

Dave Rubin my balls, funk weezer

Annoying.

I'm really disappointed that this is on the list. This is Chili Peppers album that made walk away from them. This album has no soul. Not that the band is particularly deep, it just feels like generic, SoCal rock and it makes me sad.

Awful... just awful. It was so hard to pick a favorite on this one... Most of the songs have been in constant radio rotation since 1999, but I tried listening to the rest with an open mind. I ended up just picking the shortest song as my favorite. I really didn't like this album.

Not a fan! Not even worth listening to! The Red Hot Chili Peppers suck!

Never liked it

Not a fan

Not a fan.

Time slows down listening to this

Some great songs here "Classic Rock" standards. Scar Tissue, Otherside, and Californication. The middle to end sounds the same with the exception of the last song Road Trippin'.

Chequemos este buen albúm a ver que tal causa