Blood Sugar Sex Magik

My girlfriend sent me a voice note of our cat snoring which drowned out Kiedis and improved the song Blood Sugar Sex Magik immeasurably. This album does contain some stone cold classics, though but is let down by some real dross.

I was really quite disappointed with this one, had quite high hopes. But yeah, top-heavy, goes on a bit, which seems out of kilter for a band at the relatively early stage of its career. Enough tunes to scrape a 3, although I do feel like they should change some of the lyrics so that everyone can enjoy them

Here where it says, "What I got you gotta get and put it in ya," how about just, "What I'd like is I'd like to hug and kiss ya." Wow. That's much better.

More than any other album so far, this tested the rule of listening to an entire record. I tried to keep an open mind, but it's absolute dogshit, and even worse than I anticipated. The first half of "Under The Bridge" is fine but then the planet-sized snares and horrible shriek choir kick in and everything's awful again. The rapping is woeful. The bass is impressive but completely soulless. The guitar is trying so hard to be Hendrix but with none of the melody. And the brass neck to namecheck the Meters? They have none of the swing, nuance, and musicality of the meters. They're not fit to clap their hands to the Meters. And the "sexy" bits? Jeez. Absolutely dry heaving. Presumably they thought it sounded like the freakier bits of George Clinton, but in Keidis hands, it's just straight sexpest. And here there's no room for separating the art from the artist here (certainly according to Miki Berenyi's book, and I know who I trust here). No. Never again please.

Great album But Kiedis is a nonce

The first song greets me with the kind of rap I find unpleasant. The second track is no better—spoken-word vocals mixed with this high-pitched, squeaky voice. Yuck. "Breaking the Girl" has a bit of a grunge sound. All in all, it’s a strange blend of funk, alternative rock, punk, and hip-hop. There’s some great bass guitar here and there. I know "Under the Bridge" well; it was played constantly on the radio. It’s actually a pretty cool song. But taking it as a whole—I’m never going to listen to this album again!

Something has always bothered me about RHCP that I've never been able to put my finger on. Their hits are tolerable, because they can be funky and and I like Flea on bass. But holy shit, listening to this for 80 mins is nearly unbearable. Keidis voice is annoying, some of the lyrics are just plain garbage and the album feels like it's never going to end. 2.5* rounded down to 2 because it's so fucking long, and Keidis is a nonce.

Good lord. If there is one band in the world I would avoid listening to at all costs it’s the Chill Peppers. Can’t adequately explain it but they rub me the wrong way. Speaking as objectively as I can, this album was too long, too repetitive, with juvenile lyrics and with too many crappy guitar tones. Under the Bridge is an ok track, but the guitar sound is awful and the choir is laughable. It would’ve been so much better with some Stones style backing vox. Anyway, I hate this band. Sorry.

Back when CD mail in clubs were still a thing, my younger sister (who had to be 10 or so at the time) got this. I doubt my parents had much of a clue what to expect. Under The Bridge was a huge song (tiny human me had no idea it was about heroin abuse). Suck My Kiss and I Could Have Lied are still in regular rotation. I have forgotten that half of this album is crap funk rock, but plenty of strong songs to level it out. 3.5/5

If I wanted to listen to a 13 year old boy rapping, I'd rock up at my children's school for their annual talent contest and listen to some kid's puerile poetry. I wouldn't spend money on listening to a man-child like Kiedis with his juvenile lyrics. Well produced by Rick Rubin, but a polished turd is still a turd. This really was beyond dire.

High 3 - under the bridge is the highlight for sure but some songs are not good

I’ve heard this before and I own it. What to say about this album? The music is so good that it overcomes the terrible production of Rick Rubin, so tinny and lacking in low end, and it overcomes the ridiculous lyrics and vocals of Anthony Kiedis. I got this tape I think in 7th grade, I was 13 and even then thought the lyrics were dumb and childish and felt second hand embarrassment for Kiedis. Whenever I think I’ve written a song I think is stupid I just remind myself that Anthony Kiedis wrote the lyrics to Sir Psycho Sexy when he was 29 and I feel much better. He’s also a massive douche and a bit of a creep as well. The music however, it’s incredibly good! There’s a great mix of funk, rock, punk, and metal and a little bit of folk as well. Frusciante’s playing is much better than on Mother’s Milk and he was already a better guitarist than Hillel Slovak, and the interplay between him and Flea is outstanding, and Chad Smith’s drumming locks it all together tight, and the songs are all ordered and laid out perfectly from start to finish. There’s an instrumental only version of this album and it’s amazing even with the dogshit production. So I’m trying to figure out how to rate this and in the end, I can look past the dumb lyrics and singing and the tinny recording as I always have, maybe as nostalgia, maybe not, I can’t help but love it.

Anthony Kedis's voice does my nut in

Marko 4 Sara 4

There's a pretty awesome album in here if you end it right after Under the Bridge. Frusciante's guitar and Flea's bass are definite highlights. Anthony Kiedis's vocals, not so much. Just incredibly uncreative, annoying, vulgar lyrics and bad singing. The Rick Rubin production is a real treat. Rating: strong 7/10

I was expecting nostalgia to play a big role with this one but instead I don't think it's aged all that well. Under the Bridge is a banger though

A solid outing. Quite a few big hits.

Slappy

confirmed nonce Anthony Kiedis This is the same song 17 times!! Ok, 16, because Under the Bridge is great, but was the only track I enjoyed. An album that was never meant to be listened to in its entirety. Some of the lyrics are truly vomit inducing

Bin hier mit der Erwartung reingegangen, dass ich das wie bei vergangenen Hördurchgängen auch nur ganz gut finde, weil die vielen Hits durch zu viele mittelmäßigen Funk-Rock/Metal-Songs ergänzt werden, die diese Platte auch viel zu lang werden lassen und das Album mit kompakten 12 Songs wesentlich besser funktioniert hätte. Aber irgendwie haben mich dann doch alle Songs gepackt und es war entgegen meiner Erwartung doch deutlich mehr Abwechslung in dieser Platte drin ("I Could Have Lied" z. B. ein schöner ruhiger Kontrapunkt). Klar steht bei vielen Songs der Groove im Vordergrund, das große Hit-Gespür kam dann vollends erst in "Californication" durch. Aber trotzdem hat hier jeder Song mindestens ein catchiges Riff oder eine einprägsame Gesangsmelodie. Nur bei Anthony Kiedis' Lyrics sollte man vielleicht nicht immer zu genau hinhören. Vielleicht hab ich durch Living Colour in den letzten Jahren auch einfach mehr Gefallen an diesem Funk-Hybrid-Style gefunden. Für mich ein überraschend großartiges Hörerlebnis.

Viele Hits natürlich und auch gutes Zeug dazwischen. Aber so 2-3 Songs weniger wäre dann doch passender gewesen.

Und ich wollte jetzt die Tage mal in die Diskografie der Chili Peppers reinhören. Passend. Mir ist das Album insgesamt zu funkig. Das macht live garantiert Spaß, aber auf Platte ist es mir einfach zu viel Jam. Es ist abwechslungsreich und alles. Aber für den Funken reicht es leider nicht. Das ist genau das, warum mich die Chili Peppers neben den Hits nie gekriegt haben.

Hier zeichnet sich ab was die Band in den 00er richtig gut werden lässt. Leider zeichnet es sich meistens nur ab, vieles hier ist noch nicht rund, zu ausufernd jammig und zwar auf die langweilende Art und nicht díe gute. Die großen Momente sind dafür ordentlich aber noch nicht überlebensgroß. Schwieriges Teil.

Preferred 'Californication'. This is overly long and doesn't have a lot of variation. Meh.

I get so tired of RHCP to listen to a whole album, but at least this one is a double album! A couple good songs.

Super fun. A classic from my childhood.

Good album. RHCP are overplayed so I don’t normally listen very often but this is one of their better ones

Helluva an album though got sick of it for a long time

Ok mut ei näiden best

Many listens. I still enjoy this album. I can notice the imperfections more now that I've had some time away from this music. That doesn't hurt the album, I think it enhances it. This style of music doesn't benefit from over production.

I'd say that before while there were moments in the discography of the band that that showed promise, this is the first time that as a whole the band is firing in all cylinders, arguably only repeated in Stadium Arcadium. Yes, there is The Greeting Song and They're Red Hot but it gives a charm that otherwise this album wouldn't have.

No one ever wants to admit they enjoy the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but if you're gonna enjoy one album from them, this is the one. I am biased as hell because this album changed me in middle school, but I still stand that it's a very good album in its own right if you dig this sorta thing, "think" referring to Kiedis being Kiedis on top of a really good funk rock band.

Dans le haut de la liste des albums les plus marquants des années 90.

Un album marquant de mon adolescence. Je sais que Rubin a pas toujours la cote à cause de sa participation au loudness war et de ses albums de 1h15 à l'ère du CD. Mais maudit que je trouve que ses albums sonnent la grosse tonne, je dois pas être un audiophile. Encore une fois, Frusciante m'impressionne et Kiedis est cringy as fuck avec ses paroles.

Classique 90s! Des musiciens de haut niveau. Album trop long, c’est tout ce que j’aurais à dire de négatif.

Luke warm chili peppers

Muchas canciones me gustan pero la voz de kiedis me resulta peor en cada escucha. El resto de la banda compensa pero los preferiria instrumentales o que cante frusciante.

Very little about California on this album, what were they thinking?

This was probably RHCP at their peak. Californication and everything thereafter was clean, but a bit too clean. Their early work was hit and miss. On BSSM we have a great mix of rock and funk. Some nineties classic tracks and a couple of lesser known gems.

immediately recognized this album cover. giveitaway, giveitaway, giveitawaynow!! yo the chilis??? i've seen them in concert like 50 times! not rly it's from the good place. anyway. nice bass lines. This is a decent album for me to come back to after abandoning it from that godawful beck album. hey why do you peple have a damn slow song?? SKIP. took a break halfway thru finishing it today. did not know under the bridge was called that. i honestly didnt know what song i thought that was. 4 stars tho cause anthony keidis sucks and some of the lyrics are awful

Even though Frusciante is one of my favourite artists, mainly because of his solo work and guitar skills, I've never been able to get through a full Red Hot Chili Peppers album. They're just too long and packed with filler. They're a band built on great singles and greatest-hits compilations, and this record contains a few of those, like "Breaking the Girl" and "Under the Bridge". The rest, however, is mostly skippable.

I just can't seem to get into the Peppers. The vocals irritate me, and I find a lot of the songs just blended together, especially as this thing just kept going and going and going and going....

Filmmaker Gus Van Sant photographed in the solarised style of ManRay and created the artwork arranged around artwork by a Dutch tattoo artist Hendrikus “Henk” Schiffmacher. If the record company insists on a band photo then this is a good solution. That anyone thought making this record was a good idea is a mystery.

sometimes bad, but more often great than i recalled it being. rick rubin has genius and dogshit moments so his presence is entirely value neutral

Classic album with some perfect songs on it

The band is extremely talented and the grooves are funky as hell. I have 3 complaints. 1. Album’s too long 2. The lyrics and vocals are comically cringeworthy 3. I just don’t really like their sound to begin with

Blood Sugar Sex Magik is the record where the Red Hot Chili Peppers grew up without actually growing up. They’re still immature. Still obscene. Still ridiculous. Still obsessed with sex. But now they can write a devastating ballad about addiction, a genuinely beautiful song about heartbreak, a political funk anthem, a tribute to a dead friend and one of the greatest alternative-rock singles ever recorded. That’s the transformation. The musicianship is exceptional, the chemistry is undeniable, and Rick Rubin gives the band the space to become something much bigger than their previous incarnation

Love love love! I don't listen to RHCP enough, but when I do, I love it!

I really liked some of it, but really disliked most of it.

This really brings me back. It was raw and energetic, a complement to Smells Like Teen Spirit's (released on the same day) melancholy.

Excellent album, I lean Californication overall - 4/5

I was in the right place at the right time for this album.

Terrible lyrics and overly long. I cringed at some points. Give it away is a banger though.

8 - GOOD

Classic for sure, the sound of rhcp gets boring after a while though. Last song was a fun addition and broke the melancholic sounding album into something more fun.

RHCP have been pretty ever-present in my life, but I have never really been _that_ into them. I think they have some good individual tracks, but I've never been motivated to listen to a whole album. As such, this album was my first time doing that, and it was a bit of a slog - I had to pause it multiple times because I just got kinda bored. I think my preference in general was for the heavier tracks, I think the energy and overall vibe of these tracks just makes them more interesting. The bass is definitely the highlight for me throughout, the rest of the instrumentation isn't that interesting and the vocals, although fairly iconic and recognisable, aren't that great. Although the bass is good, it doesn't come close to bands like Funkadelic (who others have mentioned). I didn't hate it, I do like RHCP in general but they're only manageable in small doses. I think a few individual tracks might have been 4s here for me but the album as a whole is nowhere near that. Low 3.

Couldn't listen to this when I was younger - too threatened by the tune. The angry and kind of dangerous tone is something I can handle and I'm surprised by just how fun and funky most of these tunes are. Great variety too.

Some good songs but didn’t love

Chilis at their best

Kiedis is the weak spot, but musically the record is solid.

I'd forgotten how good this is.

goes on for too long but i liked it

Bien.

I ungdommen var dette ei av platene der eg stadig fann ein ny favorittlåt. I dag framstår den ikkje like fengande, og framkaller slett ikkje dei same varme minnene som t.d Master of Puppets gjer. Tekstane er jamnt over pinlege, men musikalsk er det framleis ting å setje pris på her.

Jeg likte denne plata godt en gang. Syntes den var dritbra. Jeg synes ikke den er dritbra nå, men denne, One Hot Minute og Californication står igjen for min del som det jeg innimellom kan sette på av Red Hot Chili Peppers. Et band jeg liker mindre og mindre. Problemet med denne plata er at den er for lang. Kanskje ikke en overraskende mening når den kommer fra en som mener langt over halvparten av alle album er for lange for sitt eget beste, men ikke mindre riktig av den grunn. Jeg mister rett og slett interessen. Her og der dukker det opp en låt som huker tak i meg igjen, men nesten hver gang kommer den en nokså intetsigende låt like etter. Det er 17 låter på plata, og den hadde vært så utrolig mye bedre om det bare var 10. 5/10

Det var ei sann fryd å høyra på Metallica igjen i helga. Denne var det litt vanskelegare å forholda seg til igjen, og eg har garantert høyrt like mykje på den der og då. Kanskje meir. Funkrocken tåler eg forsåvidt greit, og mykje av gitararbeidet er like diggbart i dag. Men ei stappfull CD-lengde med Anthony Kiedis er rett og slett ganske utmattande.

Av alle disse storselgerne som kom ut i 1991 var Blood Sugar Sex Magik favoritten min. Jeg brukte masse tid på å høre på den, og ikke minst bla i omslagsheftet som fulgte med kassetten. Snurrige bilder å se på, tekster å lese, dobbeltbetydninger av tvilsomt slag å dechiffrere. Om jeg ikke husker helt feil var det også en lang takkeliste som ga nye band og artister å dykke ned i. Lest som et tegn på et band som hadde interesse for en verden utenfor seg selv, noe som appellerte stort. Blant de mange låtene var det betydelig variasjon, iallfall sammenlignet med det jeg hadde hørt på fram til da, og det skiftet stadig hvilken som var favoritten. Etter hvert som de mest åpenbare kom ut som singler, gjaldt det å finne en ny skatt på plata, en de andre i klassen ikke hadde oppdaget ennå. Blood Sugar Sex Magik har overraskende mange slike. Det hjalp også at Red Hot Chili Peppers føltes som et ordentlig band. Alle hadde en tydelig rolle og personlighet. Jeg likte å lese om bandet og om innspillingen, om hvordan de hadde leid et hus og spilt inn plata der. Det ble åpenbart at det å være rockestjerne var noe ganske annet enn en ni til fire-jobb. Dypt fascinerende greier for en tolvåring. Er det like stas 35 år senere? Nei, det er jo ikke det. Dessuten blir jeg jo farget av alle de fæle platene de skulle gi ut etterpå. For ikke å snakke om alle idiotene som tok ideer herfra og startet sine egne, elendige band.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Huff… Først Limp Bixit - så dette… Veit de kva eg hatar? Eg hatar rockevokalistar som “spyttar” ut setningane? Veit de kva meir eg hatar? Når kvar linje blir presentert som om det er den kulaste statementen verda har høyrt. Men dette er ikkje titusen versjonar av russekortet til Doffen Sædstad (“Det er aldri så gæli at det ikkje er godt for noko”) - det er ei heilt grusom lang plate av det soniske takraset Red Hot Chili Peppers var i 1991. Eg veit mange av dykk var i ein slags perfekt, motstandslaus alder då denne plata kom ut, men fytti helvete kor stygg denne stivbeinte funken er. Det høyres ut som om kvar song her er laga for å gi ein eller anna superhelt-utkledd wrestlar ein eigen tema-låt å ankomme ringen til. Sjå på meg. Pappaen min har større tiss enn pappaen din! Og igjen, eg veit dette skjedde på tidleg 90-tal, og at reglane er annleis… men med to kuler i løpet og Fred Durst og Anthony Kiedies i same rom så gir eg lett ei til kvar. 3/10

Best album by RHCP and my favourite era for them. A few too many tracks. They need more quality control, but the highlights are 90's rock anthems and the musicianship and style is prime Chilli's.

Shama Dama bing bong blama zama whama uh

Have always loved this album. Easily their best and has one of the all-time greatest songs on it. Under the Bridge brings back high school memories every time I hear it.

The album where they became the chili peppers we know

Didn't expect to enjoy it. But great album! fave tracks: I Could Have Lied

A classic, though in typical RHCP style, it goes on for too long

Good album. Has some really good songs, including my favorite RHCP song with Under the Bridge, but also seems like quite a few filler songs. So the whole album from start to finish isn't great.

It’s fine. Anthony Keidis creeps me out.

What happens when you take one of the greatest bassists alive, pair them with an amazing guitarist, a great drummer, then have them fronted by the absolute worst vocalist in all of music? Well, turns out you get bad music. Go figure!

There was a time in my life that this would have been an automatic 5 star album. RHCP were one of the first non-Christian bands I feel in love with in the late 90’s. I grew up in a super conservative household and “secular” music was almost entirely frowned upon, and I had to sneak in MTV time when I hit middle school age. Th Chili Peppers were everywhere after the release of Californication, and their “old” hits from Blood Sugar Sex Magik found renewed radio play as well. Sometime during college, I did a deep dive through their entire catalog, going back to the mid eighties through what was probably Stadium Arcadium at the time. For a sex crazed (starved?) 20 year old straight male with a not fully developed frontal cortex, Blood Sugar Sex Magik sounds like Blood On The Tracks. At close to 40, married with kids, the sex lyrics are sounding a bit juvenile and weird, possibly predatory. It’s probably the kind of music my parents were worried about. It also, in its high moments, still slaps. Under The Bridge is a fantastic song that I think even RHCP haters can appreciate. Give It Away, the title track, and Suck My Kiss feature some of Flea’s sickest work, and songs like Breaking The Girl preview their sound on Californication and By The Way (their best work in my opinion). Even if it hasn’t aged as well as some of the 90’s best rock albums, there’s no denying it was huge and influential, for better or worse.

So much sex and maybe in a way that is not okay... But damn its good guitar work, good catchy lyrics, and good rock

This started off kinda meh for me, I feel like RHCP's music belongs in a certain place and time and doesn't hold up as well anymore. They also could've edited this by about 20 minutes, and there's just a lot of immature lyrics. All that being said, I thought the album got better as it went on, and there ARE some fun classics on here.

Great album. Feels abit overly long and wouldn’t say it’s my favourite chilli’s album, but a lot of great moments on here. Really cool album. Suck my Kiss, give it away, under the bridge, if you have to ask… lot of great tunes. Just doesn’t hit for me quite as much as Californiacation or By the way which should be on this list!

RHCP is quickly becoming how i think of the rolling stones. Aging rock stars who prey on younger girls and their music is mid outside of a few hits. I used to really like this group

Como gran oyente, ya tenía algunas de las canciones más escuchadas, pero el album mantiene ese ritmo fuerte, duro, metálico y si me gusto. No es mi favorito, pero esta bien.

I don't know if this is true everywhere but in my world I hear the Chili Peppers all the freakin' time, whether I like it or not. This is not as annoying as hearing Aerosmith against my will on a near-daily basis, but it's not great. In any case, I've had enough for one lifetime. Two stars.

There's a half way decent 35 minute album hiding in here somewhere, but this didn't need to be nearly an hour and a half long. Excellent playing, although it doesnt quite get away from the idea that P-Funk did it first, but some of the songs are pretty ordinary and whoever told Keidis that he could write lyrics needs to reconsider their life choices. Most of them are at the level of "Baa Baa Motherfuckin' Black Sheep." I'm thinking the Greatest Hits compilation might fill my Chili Pepper needs

I enjoy the Chilis in spite of Anthony Kiedis and his extreme goofiness. This a fun album, with some great tracks, despite being way 20 minutes too long.

I get the Red Hot Chili Pepper hate now.

This album is an hour and 13 minutes long and every song is basically exactly the same which I did not appreciate. But listening to it sporadically over several days, it's alright. I feel like I really got a handle on rhcp from the few songs i had heard before this

Yeah no! I didn't like this! I actively felt like it was making me dumber and it made me dislike the RHCP more and more as I listened. I think it could have been salvaged to a 3 but then I had to listen to Suck my Kiss which is by far the grossest song I've heard in a LONG long time. So it gets a 2 and I think that's being generous.

Amazing album loved every second of it. Great sound!

There are some great sounds in this that show the Chili style that makes them so unique. But I found it a slog mostly.

There are a few great tracks here :Suck My Kiss, Under the Bridge and Break the Girl but the rest is pretty relentless rap/funk.

Probably wouldn't have minded this if it was just 30/40 mins

Nice to have some recognisable songs, and I liked the general vibe of this

4.5

9.0/10 One of my favourite albums

Another great album. So much to like, Flea’s funky bass, John Frusciante’s guitar in such various forms. Chad Smith’s drums. Even Anthony Kiedis’ vocals work and his lyrics can be forgotten mostly with a few exceptions: “Lovely Man”, “Breaking the Girl”, “Under the Bridge”, “I Could have Lied”. The music was always what made this their best album. John left after but returned later. They were never the same. “Funky Monks” may be my favorite with the false ends, the funk and blues blurred well.

September 24, 1991 is often cited as one of the greatest days for album releases in music history. There were quite a few albums released on this day, but there are three big ones that people point to to show how stacked the day was for album releases. Those three albums were Nirvana's Nevermind, A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory, and the subject of today's review, Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. People have debated over what the best of the three albums is, but to me personally, the matchup feels like "Hydrogen Bomb vs Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby." This album is the coughing baby. Nevermind and The Low End Theory are two of the best albums of the 90s and, by extension, all of time. Blood Sugar Sex Magik? It's alright. It's not bad. It's got some undeniably great elements to it, but also some things that drag it down. This is just how the Red Hot Chili Peppers are as a band though. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are band comprised of three of the most talented musicians alive... and also Anthony Kiedis. Yeah, I shouldn't have to be the first person to say this, but I am not a fan of Anthony Kiedis as a vocalist. I'm sure he has the energy for a good live performance, but even ignoring his more indefensible character traits and actions, I just find his voice annoying. The instrumentalists though? Great stuff from all of them. I have no complaints with the musical talents of Chad Smith, John Frusciante, and especially Flea. But how is Blood Sugar Sex Magik as an overall album? Well, it's got its moments. The production isn't horrible. It's at least better than Californication's production, I'll give Rick Rubin that. This album is undeniably iconic, and it has iconic singles. However, I'm kinda conflicted on most of them. "Give It Away" and, to a lesser extent, "Suck My Kiss" have good energy and instrumentation behind them, but as you could probably guess, it's Anthony Kiedis who makes me question whether I even enjoy the songs at all. There are popular songs here that I do like though. "Breaking the Girl" is pretty solid, but "Under the Bridge" is genuinely great. It's by far the best song on the album. What else can I say? The album's pretty long. The last two songs kinda got on my nerves. The writing is sometimes alright but it definitely gets uncomfortable at other times. I don't love the Red Hot Chili Peppers as much as many others do, but I also don't hate them as much as some others do. I'm right in the middle. I can appreciate their best elements, but their worst elements are definitely noticeable and I don't really listen to them that much. Still, Blood Sugar Sex Magik is an iconic album for a reason. Its funk rock sound is certainly unique, and I can see why this album made these guys as popular as they are. It's alright. Strong 3/5.

En voi antaa rhcp:lle alempaa ku 5 tähtee! Lempibändejä

It was a surprise kinda