Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Excelsious, gamechanger

Have owned this album for close to 30 years. Tip top stuff.

Tremendous

4,5

Great in parts but feels really dated

Funky weird and sprinkled with a few good songs.

Wasn't as good as I remembered

Loved

Too long, singing is annoying, honks trying to be funky

Instrumental brilliance marred by vocals that have aged like milk. Minimal mentions of California.

Hit and miss

There are a few diamonds, but they're buried in a lot of rough.

"Blood Sugar Sex Magik" is the fifth studio album by The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. This album was noted as having a different style than their previous album "Mother's Milk" with less heavy metal guitar riffs, funk and punk and having more melodic songwriting from guitarist John Frusciante. I will say that's true on their hits but they still bring the funk for the majority of the other songs. It was produced by Rick Rubin and have themes of sexual innuendos, lust, drugs and death. It was interestingly recorded in the mansion owned by Harry Houdini where they also lived. The album was a huge success selling over 13 million copies, propelling them to arena rock status and a seminal release in the alternative rock explosion of the 1990's. The album opens up with two funky songs. "The Power of Equality" has the groove going, singer Anthony Kiedis doing his rap-singing thing and a decent guitar solo (that happens throughout most of these songs). Racial equality, prejudice and sexism. "If You Have to Ask" was the fifth and final single. Kiedis whispering and stream of consciousness lyrics. The melody finally comes to the forefront in "Breaking the Girl." Acoustic guitar and interesting and strange percussion. All band members were involved and those instruments were from a garbage dump. It's Kiedis constantly shifting relationships and being left with nothing. The first song I remember from this album and their third single is "Suck My Kiss." A more aggressive and prominent bass. Kiedis strutting his stuff. A softer guitar is used in "I Could Have Lied" A subtle melody and one of the better guitar solos. Kiedis whispering and about a relationship he had Sinead O'Connor. A hidden gem on this album. "Give It Away" was the first single and was based on a conversation Kiedis had with Nina Hagen. Anytime I have the chance, I will mention Nina Hagen. Chaotic. The band jamming and setting into probably their best groove on the album. "Under The Bridge" is the song that sent them to that arena level. Kiedis writing about his drug addiction and low point. Frusciante tried to counter the sad lyrics with happier chords. Whatever they did, it worked. This album has probably the most popular Chilli Pepper songs that are pretty much rock radio staples. The songs are melodic but there is still very much a funk element throughout. Flea's bass is toned a lot relative to their other albums which was on purpose by the way. It is long at 73 minutes and they definitely could have trimmed it down but you can't argue with that 13 million number. For me, this is agood album ad probably their best along with "Californication."

under the bridge is one of my favorite songs. the rest of the album is ok. it's too long.

Overall this is a really well produced album. Musically I think they're really strong and sound super tight. The drums and guitars are all solid. There's some interesting rhythmic things happening throughout. I agree with another reviewer that I really like the jamming moments and wish there were more of those / they were extended. Like I said, they play well together and those bits are great (found in songs like 'Sir Psycho Sexy'). On the other side I'm not a big fan of the general rapping and musical style for most of the songs, and it's also a long album. RHCP remain a band that I really like a number of songs from, but who I'm not that interested in overall. Under the Bridge remains a stone-cold classic.

True love

Fun and well known.

hated this, terrible album, terrible music, terrible band

Some good tracks but I didn't feel the whole album hung together very well.

I wish every song could be as good as Under the Bridge

I enjoyed myself with this. At least for a short while. And not just because of nostalgia. BSSM is entertaining and impressive in parts. And while there are elements of the wannabe-90s-funk I could do without—especially where it fuses with wannabe-hiphop—I admit, I am mildly interested in the space where RHCP fuses funk with punk. Though I am firmly uninterested where any of this attempts to cross over with alt pop or adult contemporary. Listen, RHCP (or was it Rick Rubin?) saw a hole in the billboard charts that the band’s perverse brand of punk/funk/alt-pop might just party-boy its way into. And it did. There is vision there. And there is immense talent in this band. Flea, for instance, is a vital American cultural and musical icon and one of the best-ever bass players. Kiedis, meh, I’m not so hot on him, his presence, or his voice. Rick Rubin and John Frusciante are likely the forces that made this album the cross-over success that it is and they’re both OK in book, and obviously immensely talented and important to their craft. But the buck stops there. Oh Chad Smith is fine too. Blood’s greatest fault is its runtime. I like the first 6 tracks and very little more than a riff after. It’s just repetitive, monotonous, and sounds quite like a headache. I like that Steve Huey of AllMusic called it "probably the best album the Chili Peppers will ever make.”That’s the best dig at a band that was doing something novel with pre-existing pieces and doing it well but not exactly combing the ocean floor for artistry, poetry, or depth. They really couldn’t and wouldn’t do much better than this using the formula they were using. All they could and would do is lean further and further away from the punk-funk roots that once made them interesting, in favor of an all-out, soft-rock sound designed for arenas, nostalgia, and radios. And I actually disagree with Mr. Huey; the best RHCP album is the George Clinton-produced Freakey Styley. But still, BSSM is a pretty good funk album for a bunch of strung-out white boys living by the beach. If the first 6 tracks are a 4/5, what follows quite nearly approaches a 1, which makes this a 2/5. But I'll give an extra half-point for Flea, and an extra half-point for nostalgia's sake. I used to listen to this album A LOT as a kid.

What to say about this album? Meh? My first contact with it has been confusings. The musicianship is top notch, and the recording quality is extremely high. I like 90s, beastie boys type rap. I like funk. I like Rage Against the Machine. I like Dispatch when they were going more Rage Against The Machine. I like Rick Rubin... I think I do? I get this "eeehhhhh" taste in my mouth after listening to it for too long. Maybe they spend too much time on a single idea, and it gets boring to my ear? My negative feelings, I can't explain it! I'm all turned around! I want to feel the feelings of this album! But then I got to "Suck My Kiss" and I feel repulsed. Maybe it's the jammy, blues structures. Maybe it's the same-ness. You might have to just give me more time to form an opinion on this one. I can't keep up! I'm having a nervous breakdown! 2/5

Toppers zitten ertussen, wel echt funky.

This album had to grow on me at first, but now I think it fucks. 4.5/5

Flea's funky basslines carry this sexually-charged early 90's alt rock album that pushes back against the grunge of the time. Ranging from silly to serious, contemplative to corny and always explicit, the bluesy guitar riffs over creative bass lines make this a solid listen. Major hits include "Give It Away," "Under the Bridge," and "Breaking the Girl."

This is a LOT of album, and I'm not quite interested enough to playlist a shorter one. Brilliantly played with comically strange and horny lyrics. Flea tones it down to great effect. Love the bashy drum bit.

A wiki comment regarding the album warrants a 5 alone; 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik', simply, sounds like fucking. Even the purest virgin comes away from Blood Sugar Sex Magik with a degree of sexual maturity; even the slickest playa can learn a couple of new moves." This is considered the best RHCP album and it's hard to disagree. It's not my favourite as By The Way was the album that introduced me to them but it is the best. Other than RHCP, what else sounds like this? 'I Could of Lied', 'Breaking the Girl', Blood Sugar Sex Magik', 'Under the Bridge' and 'If you have to ask' are some of my favourite RHCP songs all on one album. Funky as fuck with a young Frusciante doing his bits

Love RHCP

3.5

flea

Arguably their definitive album, although you could also say that Californication really distilled their style better. Its really long and kind of cringy, but has an undeniable vibe and appeal.

Rick Rubin earns a star, Flea earns another, and Under the Bridge gets the last. Everything else I'm very much indifferent to. A decent record.

Big album at the time but never fully got into it and was disappointed after Mother's Milk. For starters, it is very long and lyrics are - as per RHCP default - terrible, but a new low is reached with the title song. Just like Wonderwall I cannot listen to Under The Bridge anymore. Yet, the instrumental basis of several songs is great, but the vocals and lyrics are so weak and annoying that the album is pretty unlistenable in one go (even though I still managed) and it is just too hard to justify a score of +3.

This sounded even better than I remember.

Although this album would have benefited from a stricter song selection (to, say, 50-60 minutes), it contains many highlights, including one of the prettiest songs ever (Under the Bridge).

Starts out weaker than I remembered. Gets better

I owned this album in high school and concluded that I am not an RHCP guy. I'm listening to this 30 years later and I have confirmed I am still not an RHCP guy. Some fun instrumentation, but dumb, dumb lyrics. Kiedis's delivery veers wildly between shitty rapping, out of tune singing, and a bad George Clinton impression. At least we get a Frusciante album on the list, before these guys became completely insufferable.

Beetje aparte muziek voor de liefhebber, maar is ook voor anderen heel goed te luisteren. ***

This is a good album. The radio really did a number on them. If I ever want to hear the Red Hot chili peppers I can just turn on the radio.

I was pretty excited when I saw this one. And not because I'm a huge Red Hot Chili Peppers fan. They're fun... I enjoy them, but don't LOVE them. I did however have this album on *gasp* cassette tape (showing my age there, lol). It's fun. Mostly upbeat. I enjoyed it. 8.5/10

I think I heard them on the radio too often before also, but that feeling has faded - I enjoyed this album. Under the Bridge is one of my favorite songs of theirs (already on my playlist), and just a great song in general. The rest was enjoyable enough, wasn't expecting that much funk but it wasn't a negative at all. No overly annoying songs imo. I did realize that I enjoy later RHCP more than the early stuff like this. Good listen overall. 7.3/10

Nostalgia bumped it up to a 4. Most of the non-single stuff is forgettable.

pretty good

Fav Tracks: "Breaking the Girl," "I Could Have Lied," "Give It Away," "Under the Bridge." Least Fav: "Mellowship Slinky in B Major," "Blood Sugar Sex Magik," "Apache Rose Peacock," "The Greeting Song."

One of the first albums I found and then bought myself. I remember the first time seeing their video for "Under The Bridge" and the sound just blowing me away. Up to the point where I got into 90s alternative music I was straight hard rock and hair metal. Hearing George Clinton's fingerprints on this album broke my teenaged brain. This album still holds up and is one of the better ones from this group (not too many songs about California on this one!). It's easy to see how these guys and this album blew up, it's a masterpiece of funk rock.

Used to love RHCP loads so I'm a bit biased! Good album, though it drags a bit imo Saved tracks: Funky Monks, Suck My Kiss, The Righteous & The Wicked, The Greeting Song, Little Miss Lover, Castles Made of Sand

Yeah, just ok. Good funky alternative. Great iconic hits in there as well. But, again, I gotta be in the mood.

I don’t really need to ever listen to a Res Hot Chili Peppers album. Their radio hits are decent, but this was pretty uninteresting.

Headbangin'. Makes ya wanna dance. Great to sort your room to.

Super funky! Very crisp drums. Enjoyable album all around!

this was not the first album by RHCP. in fact, it was their fifth. they had been around a few years and had some success with radio airplay, but this… this album was different. full of that funky bass that has been flea’s calling card, this album was an amalgamation of tales of drug abuse, relationships, sex, and trying to find personal meaning. and all tied together by the genius producer rick rubin. it made them into superstars and they never looked back. a complicated album that is sometimes serious, usually fun, but never ever boring. highlights: “the power of equality” “breaking the girl” “the righteous and the wicked” “blood sugar sex magik”

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: The power of equality, Breaking the girl, Blood sugar sex magik, Suck my kiss, Give it away, Under the bridge

Holy shit this sucks. This band sucks, it's crass and bad and flea isn't even that good the bass is just mixed loud. Took me 3 days to finish this. 0/5

Classic RHCP. This is probably their first foray into what I would deem their signature sound. With classic tracks like Suck My Kiss, Under the Bridge and Give It Away, Blood Sugar Sex Magik is quintessential RCHP listening. Best: Give It Away; Under The Bridge Worst: They're Red Hot 3.5 Stars

This is one reasons to do this. Listen to albums you never say down to understand and appreciate. They have their own sound. Out there on their own mastered it and stayed Distinctive ... I don't know what you call this funky r&b bear but it works and it's great. Full of anthems of our time. Breaking the Girl. Give it Away! Blood sugar sex magic .. under the bridge Are standouts. Some low points but legendary rock tight bands live sound. Captivating singer.

Love this album! I hadn’t listened to it in ages, but it popped and rocked and funked with surprising freshness as well as familiarity. I was never comfortable with the sexual aggression in a few of the tracks, and this has only grown. 4.5 stars from me.

It’s early 1992. The relationship is wobbling ( Sometimes I feel like I don’t have a partner). The record shop is about to turn ten but is also under the pump. Keating’s Recession We Had To Have is wreaking havoc (don’t ask what interest rates were). I start a clerical job at the Social Security Office in Campsie & leave the shop in Simon’s capable hands, because we really need the money. I miss it (Take me to the place I love). This album is the soundtrack to this part of my life. The song is Under The Bridge. Give It Away is on the jukebox at home ( with a cover of The Stooges’ Search & Destroy on the flip). For over a year this album leaks great singles. I purhase tix to see the band at the Hordern in May. The tour gets postponed. I finally see them there in October, by which time I’ve resigned from Social Security but am also resigned to closing the shop. They’re terrific live. Very fond of this record. Can take or leave most of their others, but love this.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Nirvana's Nevermind, Primal Scream's Screamadelica and Trompe Le Mode by the Pixies were all released int he same week, September 1991. I was working the counter at Scratches Records in Newtown, and we sold a lot of copies of all of those, but this album was certainly amongst the most consistent sellers over the following year as they kept releasing more hit singles. This record was on pretty consistent rotation at the store and at home for the next year or two. I went to the secret gig they _almost_ played at the Lansdowne Hotel after John Frusciante quit the tour in Japan and delayed their tour. Reliable sources said they were had rehearsed a replacement for a few days and would play with the Meat Puppets and Hard-Ons at the Lansdowne. Until an idiot DJ announced the rumour on Triple J late that afternoon, and the band freaked out at the crowds that turned up. I did spot them loitering backstage, but they didn't play. But I caught them when they eventually came back to the Hordern Pavillion a few months later, and they tore it up. By that stage, they had a bunch of hit singles and turned into one of the biggest bands in the world. I played this a lot when it first came out. I had been a fan of Mother's Milk prior to this, and really enjoyed the looser, less polished feel that Rick Rubin brough to this record. It's a little less frenetic than their previous records, and the more organic production suits their playing. "Mellowship Slinky in B Major" or "Suck my kiss" are probably the best examples of the agreeable funky nonsense on offer. Frusciante really is the star player on this record. They were not an intellectual band, but they had feel and energy and charisma at this point in time, and were at the height of their powers. But I am not sure how I feel about it now. The Chili Peppers have not aged well as a band. I have loathed just about everything they released after this record, and the seeds of that deterioration are here in this record. The weak link is Anthony Kiedis. I feel like Under the Bridge is the initial success that convinces Kiedis that he can be a more melodic and 'sensitive' singer, and it is all downhill from there. His lyrics are nearly all terrible, especially when he thinks he is being profound, and the spectacle of a nearly 60 year old man strutting around like Sir Psycho Sexy has progressed past ridiculous into being creepy. So, the 30 years of increasingly terrible music that followed this record has put a bit of a sour taste in my mouth, and I haven't listened to this album is quite a while. But, coming back to it after quite a long break, I can pretend they never did anything after this, and it _is_ a great album, consistently fun and fresh all the way through. I feel bad for denying myself the charms of this record. If you'd asked me in 1992, I certainly would have called this a five star album, and, when I look at those other classic albums released in the same week, it's not out of place with those 4/5 star albums. I think I am going to have to overcome my habitual distaste for what the Chili Peppers now are to (grudgingly) give this five stars, despite Kiedis' terrible lyrics and borderline singing.

Angelfire-ass music. I can see the rotating gifs and bright links as I listen to this. Masterful lyricism: "Ugh yeah. Blowjobs are awesome!" - repeat for an hour and 13 minutes. Jesus, this album is long for absolutely no reason. Anthony Kiedis can sing pretty well, so I don't understand why he's so insistent on rapping. I get second-hand embarrassment every time he tries to rap-sing about a "creamy beaver hotter than a fever" (that's an actual lyric from this album. You can doublecheck). "Under the Bridge", overplayed as it may be, is the best song here. 2/5. Come on man.

I just don’t get the appeal. I don’t like the subject matter, I don’t like the execution of said subject matter, and I don’t like the preying on young female fans and getting away with it. It’s a no from me.

When I got a RHCP album three days ago, all I could talk about is how much I dislike RHCP now. So they had to come back with BSSM just a few days later! Those bastards! They know this album is my weakness. This is a really good album. Funky as all hell, with even Kiedis offering some of his better songs (though a lot more of his idiocy too). Oh well, at least here we can chalk it up to age.

The Chili Peppers have never been my favorite, but this is a pretty cool album.

One of my more embarrassing opinions is that I have been known to defend RHCP, but not even I can defend this. There are about three or four OK songs on this album and a whole lot of bad ones and it's just not an album that is enjoyable to listen to straigh through. They always seem to think that more is more, but we could all use a little less from Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

Several good songs on this album followed by hard-snare slap-bass low-effort punk and two Hendrix covers. Three stars

A good album, but this is a little too funky for me to say 5. Under the bridge top tier song tho

This is an album that I owned when I was younger, but it's one that I remember skipping a lot of songs on so that I could get to the good tracks. Now I can remember why. This album is very repetitive. I don't know that I would say that it's a bad album. It certainly has its highlights. Unfortunately, listening to so many albums on this list has introduced me to a lot of music that sounds substantially similar to RHCP, which makes them feel much less revolutionary than I thought they were when I was younger. Now, this album feels very uninspired, and I still have 6 more songs to get through before I get to hear Give It Away. I have been listening to this album for 5 hours, and I'm only on song number 7. Is this album the secret to time travel? 3/5, with a handful of songs doing all of the work, since most of the songs on this album are so boring that I can't be bothered to look up their names to talk about them

Under the Bridge blijft een heel goed nummer. De rest van het album schiet er minder uit dat dat nummer specifiek maar ondanks een prima album.

Personal opinions on the band aside, a competently mastered and mixed album. Gets a bit repetitive (each song blends in to the next, not in a good way) by the end, but funky none the less.

Technically great album, I think a little bit of it might not have aged very well but not enough to pull the album down, I can see how this is sort of a proto-califorication but it stands on its own well

top 5 peppers

Einfach Nein.

Red Hot Chili Peppers thrash their way through 1991, as grunge bursts out of the floorboards all around them. I’ve only heard “Californication” in the past and really didn’t like it, but I haven’t been able to shake a second-hand respect for the Chilis as musicians: it’s an empirical truth that John Frusciante is a peerless guitarist, and that Flea is one of the greatest bassists of his era. In “Blood Sugar Sex Magik”, they’re key ingredients in an intriguing cocktail of blistering hard-rock, slightly abrasive rap and stomping funk, throwing in the odd radio-friendly hook. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn’t, and it’s much longer than it needs to be, but there’s an impressive raw energy running through this album which can’t be ignored. Most of the best songs are in the opening stretch, before things get too stale. I got a kick out of the bone-dry guitar scratching its way through “If You Have to Ask”. “Breaking the Girl” calls to mind the dark acoustic folk of Led Zeppelin III, and “Funky Monks” is the loosest and most enjoyable track to be had: danceable in the best way. There are nice moments scattered across the remainder of the record, including Flea’s liquid bass solo in “Naked in the Rain”, a surprise trumpet hiding in the left channel and singalong wordless refrain in “Apache Rose Peacock”, and the welcome outlier of the nicely melodic, undisputed hit single “Under the Bridge”. The sequencing is well done, with tracks running into each other to keep a nice sense of pace. The closer, a tossed-off cover of Robert Johnson’s “They’re Red Hot”, calls to mind Abbey Road’s “Her Majesty” or Night at the Opera’s “God Save The Queen” as a novelty throwaway coming in after an epic climax. It’s a fun, lighthearted way to finish such an unwieldy album. So “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” is funkier, rawer and- it has to be said- hornier than I expected. It doesn’t all land, and there’s not enough variety for such a long running time, with the band frequently resorting to shouted rap over fairly generic funk riffs. The shoutier it gets, the more grating and wearing: “Suck My Kiss” and “Give It Away” are both a real chore to get through. But at its best, there’s enough strength in this album to keep it lithe and lively. I’d take it over “Californication” any day.

Absolutely brilliant album. Rocking, funky, great lyrics, takes me back to band practice at my nans house. Good times.

Timeless funky nostalgia fest, easiest 5* going

A very well received album, a change in style from the band for sure but not in a bad way. A lot of solid songs here that helped bring RHCP to the top of the charts and into every house at this point. First time listening to it front to back, and it was all very solid, classic songs on there but also found some I haven’t heard that were all so good! Very solid album.

This album is a classic for a reason, and it deserves that credit. Tracks like Breaking the Girl and Give it Away still hold up, but overall it’s a product of its time. RHCP would go on to develop their sound a lot more subtlety and with a better focus on songwriting. The production here is “sharp” in a pretty unpleasant way, and the album is weighed down by filler tracks like They’re Red Hot. Give me Californication, let’s go.

What you got, I must respectfully decline-a.

The vibes on this album are absolutely bonkers. I was torn the whole time between whether I loved or hated it, settled in the middle. Excellent musicianship, deeply corny lyrics, mostly very fun but maybe better in short bursts.

Corny lyrics over mostly solid instrumentals. This would be a 2 without Give it Away and Under the Bridge. Most of the rapping is pretty bad and detracts from the overall experience, but Give it Away is hilarious and one of their best songs. I hope that Californication is on this list because that album is a 5.

RHCP bust through with an album of the sexiest funk, so much so you could lay a rail line across the us with all the hip thrusting this album promoted. A true classic and worthy to be included In such a list. Favourite tracks - Breaking the girl, Under The Bridge

Absolutely love the album, specifically The Rightous & the Wicked, alongside the hit singles. People always make a comment about how unique Flea's basslines are and it shows in full force. The only critique I have which might be a common one is that i'm very much enjoy lyrics and the wordplay, sadly some of the lyrics are so non-sensical that I couldnt justify a 5 4.5/5

Thought my headphones were broken because of the start of the opening track 😂 I think I have heard this all the way through before but only once, about 10 years ago. I had no memory of Breaking the Girl but loved it. Give It Away is a classic RHCP song but does annoy me a little bit. Under the Bridge is probably one of the best songs of all time imo (at least top 50) and definitely the best song of the album (maybe the best chilli peppers song?) Generally I did really enjoy this and am likely to listen again, but it can be a bit too in-your-face for 5 stars 4.5/5

Well, I enjoyed this album a lot more than I expected to!

RHCP vind ik een van de beste bands ooit. Alhoewel dit album niet mijn persoonlijke favoriet is, staan er veel steengoede nummers tussen waarmee ze hun iconische sound voor het eerst aan de wereld hebben laten horen. Compleet begrijpelijk en verdiend dat ze hiermee zijn doorgebroken.

Aardig album van de RHCP's, met twee van de grootste hits van de band. "Under The Bridge" is met afstand het beste nummer van het album (én de band in het algemeen). Deze en de sterke Jimi Hendrix covers compenseren voor de verder goede maar enigszins repetitieve tracklist. leukste nummer - Under The Bridge "Apache Rose Peacock" is een ode(?) aan New Orleans en haar "Southern belles" - altijd een pluspunt

Awful. 0/5

Some fun, funky songs by a very talented band. The lead singer/rapper wasn't great, but good enough to not derail the whole thing. I award them 3 tube socks, someone is gonna have to go without. 🧦🧦🧦

two albums into the Red Hot Chili Peppers (with Californication being one of the most abysmal first listens of my life), and i am confounded as to how they managed to pass as anything truly listenable, unless done with the greatest amount of irony — a band people would love to laugh at, not with. there’s hardly a lyric here worth paying attention to: the most consistent thing about RHCP is their shallow, oft banal wordplay that is so grating, causing brain cells to dissipate at a rate faster than the time it would take to roll one’s eyes. the album clocks in at 79 minutes, and gosh they are excruciating. every song has a pace that drags, and six songs into the record, all i want is for it to be over. granted, Blood Sugar Sex Magik has more going for it than Californication — it’s compositions more assured, and the bass more lively, and it manages a semi-decent song in “Under the Bridge” — but it is such a deliriously low bar to clear that it doesn’t ring as a complement in my mind. Californication came years after this, and it’s insane how RHCP clearly never evolved past their frat-boy, pubescent style of songwriting. i just hope i never have to undergo the torture of listening to even one more word out the mouth of Kiedis ever again.

This is totally my kind of album. It was the perfect length, and sounded amazing

Interesting stuff but nothing good

oh hell yeah

Heard this album so many times in restaurant kitchens. Great album.

I had actually never heard this album from start to finish and there were a couple things that came to mind as I finished: 1) It's quite long and I feel like they could've trimmed some of the fat. 2) Is home to two of some of the most popular songs in "Give it Away" and "Under the Bridge", my personal favorite. It does sound quite modern, though, especially given that it came out in '91; it aged wonderfully, music-wise. Sounds pretty modern. 8/10

I’ve never really considered myself a fan of Red Hot Chili Peppers. I think the music is interesting enough (and the bass is frequently fantastic), but I’ve always found Anthony Kiedis’ vocals to be annoying and whiny. Regardless, let’s listen to this from front to back and judge it fairly. Songs I already knew: Suck My Kiss, Give It Away, Under The Bridge Favourites: Under The Bridge, Naked In The Rain, Apache Rose Peacock I was quite surprised by how much I enjoyed this! I do stand by the fact that the vocals can be quite annoying - the “YEAHHH”s at the beginning of suck my kiss sound so stupid that it comes back around to sounding funny. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the tracks that I wasn’t remotely familiar with. Naked In The Rain was fantastic, and had me bopping my head away and having a good time. RHCP have a pretty unique sound, and respect is due for that and finding their own genre. Overall, this was better than I expected.

I love these guys even when I don't love everything that they play. I love how the will play all different styles, and then mix styles together. Their avoidance of being formulaic works for me in how they go about writing their music.

Look, I loved this when it came out. Listening to it now, I got herpes.

I'll start with the positives - there are some good individual performances here, for sure. The dynamics on this album are cool. There's a three-song stretch in the middle of the album that is top notch. The case against - this album is far too long and flabby. Kiedis' voice is sub-optimal and characterless. And the worst bit - this tries so hard, with much sweat and effort, to give you the impression that the Chilis are Good Sex Men. I've said before now that genuine sex elf Prince sometimes sounded ridiculous when asserting his bedroom credentials, but these guys never had the mystique in the first place.

I've made some bad musical decisions in my life, but never caving into the temptation of buying this album - or any Chili Peppers album - isn't one of them. If I had any revelation upon listening to this it's that I can't place all of the blame solely on the vocals of Anthony Kiedis. His voice has always, always bugged the crap out of me (yes, before it was cool to hate him) and I always wondered if they would be better with a different signer. But now I have the opinion that I probably wouldn't like this band no matter who was singing for them. I know Frusciante seems to get a pass because he does some cool stuff on the guitar, has a solo career, was a junkie, etc. But more times than not anything funk-adjacent on this record makes me cringe before Kiedis even opens his mouth. So, there's blame to go around. I liked "Breaking the Girl" and, surprisingly, "Give it Away." Whatever's happening on those two songs at least feels like the band is in unison. But the rest is a complete pass for me. And maybe I told this story already, but I saw them headline Lolapalooza 1992 (right after Ministry, which is just wild to think about) and... I had fun! So, I'm not too cool to dislike this band entirely, but I am too cool to like them on record. If I'm going to be subjected to silliness, I suppose it works much better on me visually in the same way I don't want to listen to a Benny Hill record, I want to see that shit.

Loved it in the 90s. Still kinda crushing on it. I feel like this album is everything I wanted RHCP to be.

I like RHCP, but really only know the singles. I liked the songs I already knew, but none of the other songs enticed me to listen to this album again.

ew except one song

So horny

Songs I Liked: Breaking the Girl, Funky Monks, Under the Bridge. 2/5 - mainly because I didn’t really like the rap-style delivery on many tracks.

Well I'm saillllllllin'! Thank you generator for cuttin' me my share this morning, Fuck Yeah! I am so excited about this album today. I unabashedly love RHCP and I don't even care that this album is way too long. It's got that early 90's Rick Rubin treatment and the sweet Frusciante sound these guys needed to elevate their schtick. The singles from this album alone make it a 5 star rating: monster songs, all-time favourite material, the sounds of my misspent youth that make me feel alive. I mean, the chokehold Give It Away and Suck My Kiss still have on me is unbelievable! And the beautifully moving and humanizing Under The Bridge gives listeners a sincere look at the damaged and tortured soul of Anthony Kiedis. Okay, Sir Psycho Sexy is unbearably cringey and immature, but you have to understand that all that lascivious overflowing sexuality is part of the damage and it needs an outlet too. I just love them and I love what they're about: free range unfiltered expressions of self. Some people are brave and bold enough to let it all hang out, I'm not. But through the lens of RHCP I feel like I could be. They always give you a funky good time, and yeah, brevity has never been their forte, but you just have to sit back and enjoy the crazy blood sugar sex magik motherfucking ride to appreciate what it's really all about. In reality, my head knows this is a 3 star album, but my dick is telling me it's 5.

Refused to listen.

It’s a great album, some absolute classic tunes

A bit before my time, but a formative record nonetheless. Suck My Kiss, Give It Away and Under the Bridge being the standouts for me.

This is the pinnacle of RHCP

Yuk. One of those "change my mind moments." Never liked them. Never listened to a whole album. Here goes...Yeah no change. Hate the white boy funk swagger, dislike AKs voice. Lyrics are bollox. Guitarist is good. Massively overrated band.

Total banger. Top notch album. Probably number 2 in their discography.

Rick James, James Brown, and RHCP all subscribe to the genre called Funk. Discuss, with examples. This aside (and all three have places in my musical heart, albeit for very different reasons), Under the Bridge is the ultimate bait and switcher. Personally, I think they deserved all the new people it introduced to them.

There are elements of this that are great, and then there are elements that are annoying.

As long as we are leaving bonus tracks (Jimi covers) out of the considerations here this is to me the stand-out album of their career, still retains the remarkably unusual qualities of the early days, but marries it with the refined production later on. Its a surprisingly concise effort that all stands as very unique. I really dig and respect it even though some of it is not for me.

This has always been the best rhcp album to me

Yeah it was impossible for me to not like this, I do enjoy some Chili Peppers. This was a great album, but to me the issue was that it often felt a bit same-y after a while. The songs themselves are great but this feels like one that's just better to be split apart, IMO. No matter though, there's some classics here and a few more new to me that I enjoyed greatly. Favourite: Give It Away

Higlights: Mellowship Slinky in B Major, Give It Away, (Under The Bridge), They're Red Hot

"Give it away" "Under the bridge" spoko, reszta średnia. Californication lepsze. Trochę za długi i byle jaki rap. Takie 3.5, jakby był krótszy to pewnie 4- by wpadło.

1 absolute masterpiece, the rest mediocre rhcp has better albums

Interesting case with Red Hot Chili Peppers. If I could pick up my favourite songs by this band and condense them into a one, short album, that might be one of the best things I have in my collection. But unfortunately, in here I am about to rate just the song on Blood Sugar Sex Magic. And the jury is out with a verdict - slightly above average. When they get a hit, it's a really top notch song, breathtaking track. But on this album it's just 4 out of 17, and this is exemplifying the whole discography of the band. Very original bass lines, extremely interesting and atmospheric guitar riffs and solos, but only when the whole song lines up perfectly, and unique vocal by Anthony make it a great mix, but happening only 25% of time. Still, very worthwhile to listen to!

Way too long and just not my vibe

Wow, so this one really devises opinion apparently. I was expecting to be team love it, and while I do love the funky white boi rock-rap vibes these no need for this to be over an hour long. There are skills on show and some “classic” track here but it got repetitive and formulaic.

CD

I didn’t know I hated the Red Hot Chili Peppers so much until listening to this album.

Done

This has a couple good songs, some nice bass lines, otherwise it's mostly just annoying and juvenile. No thanks.

Hurr Hurr 'willy'. I've definitely listened to this plenty in the past, I think probably because boys liked it. I guess it would be a 3.5 because I prefer it to other 3 rated albums but I'm not sure it's a 4. Does go on a bit too.

Wasn’t a fan of the first half of the album but the second half was pretty good

1/1- Playing Xbox

One of their most popular albums is also one of their more popular titles. It's good in a commercially accessible way.

Comfortably the worst band of all time.

This album largely stunk outside of the hits. Really disappointed in this. Favorite track: Give It Away

I’ve never really got the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I’m fine if they are playing somewhere, on the radio or in the background. But for me the sum of their parts adds up to less than the whole. I wouldn’t go out of my way to play them and I never particularly believed the hype. I find them tedious and self-serving so this a no-no!

Heroin beach funk. Great musicianship all around.

So, as I'm listening to this album, I thought to look over my earlier review (Californication), and god damn... it sums it up perfectly. So I copied and pasted it. I'm resolving to working smarter, not harder, in 2023. 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. As in the case of "Suck My Kiss" — I was thinking, "hey, this is a cool 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.

The first time I heard Chasing the Girl, I was on shrooms, and I thought it was the greatest song of all time. Spoiler alert: it's not. Anthony Keidis might be my least favorite singer ever (which is not something I realized until I participated in this project). I don't like how he sings or what he sings about. I'm not giving them one star, though, because the musicians are good, I just wish they put their talents to better use. Also, I had a fun time listening to Chasing the Girl that one time, and that's not worth a star, than what is?

Solid

some catchy songs and instruments but vocals are too annoying

Excelente

funky 4/5

One of those first albums I really needed when I was a kid. Filled out my nirvana and sublime obsession. It’s a damn good album and I’ll stick by that.

i understand why this is here, just never been a fan of their sound. 7/10

I love the guitar but I also got stuck of it by the end. Good album

Really good also really strange in a way

I enjoyed this album a lot more than I thought I would. I may enjoy Californication a bit more though.

funk

Nostalgic soundtrack Emotes feelings of a time simpler and sunny

It was unique when it came out and The Peppers have gone on to release some amazing songs, but it is hard not to listen to the songs on this album (other than Breaking the Girl and Under The Bridge) and hear the Anthony Kiedis and Flea formula on heavy repeat.

This album was a welcome relief and perhaps because the previous ones had not been so great I might be scoring it higher than I might have otherwise. 4*

Its a low 3 from me. Almost creeping in to 2 terroritory but saved by one or two good songs.

Under the bridge och Give it away är ju bra. I övrigt inte särskilt spännande.

Is this the bad that lead us to rap metal? It told me to wake up and smell the slime in the first song. Flea does have some funky base lines. My lilly white ass is tickled pink by music that makes me think. Truly the voice of a generation. This explains the 90s. Suck my kiss doesn't hold up. The lyrics are half scat nonsense. 17 songs is a lot. Patty fell asleep. It is all well done and played, but I don't think I would listen again. Start to righteous and the wicked was some cool sounding guitar. Was it mixed weird? Bass was all over the place. Maybe just the Spotify version?

I don't think there were any hidden gems on this album. The good ones all got played a million times on the radio. Reasonably entertaining, but whole album feels fairly juvenile/simplistic (or maybe that's just nostalgia and age-association)

Uh Oh. According to The Good Place I might go to hell for this one. I knew two songs off of this, Under the Bridge and Suck My Kiss. Under the Bridge is easily the big standout from this album. I'm just not in love with the rap singing from the rest of the album. The bass and guitar are solid for sure, the rest is not much to write home about.

Since knowing the big hits (Give It Away, Under the Bridge, Breaking the Girl), this is the first time I have listened to this album in its entirety. I must admit the experience has been a bit tedious. With the album consisting of 19 tracks and a runtime of nearly 80 minutes, it quickly overstayed its welcome. Combine that with most of the songs sounding very similar - a highly extroverted form of funk rock - , and you get an album that is by no means bad but really quite uneventful. The aforementioned songs are great for a reason, and I really enjoy listen to them, but the rest could have done with both some trimming and some variation. 3.5/5

Boppy, funky, and all in all some great tunes Could've been shorter and had a little more variation

Not today Satan

It's been about 30 years since I've really given this album a listen. It does show its age, but this was still a fun listen. This is the Chili Peppers at their best - funky, confident and gleefully libidinous. I'm less tolerant of the horndog vibe than I was at age 20, but I will say as a woman that this is more sex positive than exploitative or demeaning. There's just a lot of it. But for all the bravado, there are also surprising moments of introspection and vulnerability that really add a lot of depth to the album. Most importantly, the musicianship on here is no joke, just really excellent. There are quite a few songs that are ultimately forgettable, but the standout tracks are pure classics. High 3, not quite a 4. Fave Songs: Give It Away, Breaking the Girl, Under the Bridge, Funky Monks, I Could Have Lied, The Righteous & the Wicked

ok

I own this one on CD but haven't listened to it in many many years. I know this album is very beloved and the music might objectively be great, but somehow I only really connect to the slower songs.

Just Anthony Kiedis singing about a blowjob he once had.

Quite same-y throughout. Under the Bridge is a fantastic song, the rest of this album is pretty forgettable. Not a strong RHCP album.

no. if you listen to RHCP you go to the bad place

There were some standouts but a lot of songs that I didn't like.

Flea's cool, but I never really got into the RHCP. Don't get me wrong - there are a few great songs on this album, but I can only take their "style" for about 3 of them and then I'm out. Still, they warrant a spot on the list given how recognizable of a sound they created.

I've always liked "Mother's Milk" by RHCP. The band is really locked in, the vocals and everything else really grooves. The over of "Higher Ground," holy crap this kicks serious butt. Then this album comes out, and I listen to it and it just... yawn. I have two major gripes about this album: 1) It's too long. It was too long when I first heard it back in the 90s. I was like, "Geez how many songs is this thing?" 2) Anthony Kiedis is really not a good singer. I listen to songs like "Breaking The Girl" and even "Under The Bridge" and I think "man, the band sounds great. Imagine what this song would sound like if there was a better singer doing the vocals." He sounds like he has a cold. Or he's high. Probably both. Really detracts from the song. "Sheeeeee was a guuuuuuuhhhhhrrrrrrllllllll....." Yikes. And his scatting. Dude. Stop. Just, stop. Anyway, then there's songs like "Sir Psycho Sexy" and "Apache Rose Peacock". They just sound dumb and sophomoric today. "Under The Bridge" is still a good song, but "Take me to the place I luuuuuuuuuuuve." Gah. Sorry the vocals detract from it too much for me. He gets better on other ones. "One Hot Minute" is awesome. But this one I never got why it was so great.

This album is magikal. Can't decide if it's a 4 or a 5. It feels like 17 songs is too much, perhaps a bit bloated. But the 9 song sequence from Breaking the Girl to Under the Bridge is phenomenal. Suck My Kiss and Give it Away are kick ass rock songs (funk rock), and if you like that you need to listen closely to the Righteous & the Wicked because it might be even better (my new favorite; what a hidden gem). Funky Monks, Mellowship Slinky in B Major, and the title track are a bit odd, juvenile, or over-sexed but they are funktastic; the musicianship on them is incredible, particularly Flea's bass and Frusciante's guitar. And then Breaking the Girl, Under the Bridge, and I Could Have Lied are absolutely beautiful pieces - it shows you these guys were serious (Kiedis too) not just a novelty act. Such depth in lyrics and again the musicianship - Smith's percussion on the first one is great (with help from the rest of the group) and Frusciante is a guitar god on the latter two. Even throw in the first 2 tracks (not bad, just not the same level as the next 9) and that's a 5-star 11 track album. So what about the other 6 tracks? Aimless at times, some Kiedis drivel at times but also just pumping rock. Case in point, if you can shut out the lyrics in Sir Psycho Sexy (they'd make a prostitute blush), Flea absolutely puts it down on bass. I mean, out of this world bass lines. In the end, these guys took what they were (strung out funk rock wannabes with flawed style and ability) and what was going on in rock (depth and edgier themes) and completely reinvented themselves and rock music. What they did always occupied its own little corner of rock music - they built on acts like Faith No More or In Living Colour but not a ton of acts followed them exactly. Still, they blazed a new trail. And that tips the scales for me.

Like a lot of teens/twentysomethings in the 90s, my entrance to funk-rock-rap was through RHCP and this album in particular. I thought this album was incredibly cool back then, although Sir Psycho Sexy made me cringe ("There's a devil in my dick and some demons in my semen"??? Made me go ugh then, makes me go ugh now). Some of the tracks continue to blow me away - The Power of Equality, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Under the Bridge (yes, overplayed and all). Other top tracks include Funky Monks, I Could Have Lied, Breaking the Girl, The Righteous & The Wicked, and Give It Away (another overplayed track, but still love the bass line). The one common trend through pretty much the entire album is outstanding musicianship and very cool writing. Even the lyrics are good for most of the album. I'll move past the lyrics on Sir Psycho Sexy and past the fact that I overplayed it when I was younger and give it the 5 it deserves. It's their breakthrough album for a reason.

ffffuuuunnnnkkk

Under the bridge är ju bra, fan vad störigt allt annat va

Mjeh

“I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the f**k is this garbage? And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.” - Nick Cave. Couldn't agree more.

O álbum que tem a minha música favorita do Red Hot, amo esse álbum mesmo não sendo o meu favorito deles. Um compilado de ótimas músicas e que eu poderia passar o dia todo ouvindo. Melhores músicas: Under the Bridge, Give It Away, Breaking the Girl e Castles Made of Sand.

RHCP being spicy and funky when it needs to, yet mellow in the best ways during the softer songs too. Such a nice mix between soft and hard which makes for a great all round consistent album. It's over an hour run time goes by pretty quickly, has no sour points and has multiple bangers. Ticks all the boxes really. Give It Away was the only song I really knew before and its a solid banger, but I came away liking the title track and Under The Bridge even more. Sir Psycho Sexy and Breaking the Girl were my other highlights.

진정한 베이스 맛집

Didn't like every song but a solid album.

I remember being super into this album as a teenager. I still like most of the songs, but the album as a whole runs way too long. 3.5/4

Not bad. Not great either. Why is this 72 minutes long? Some great things on here surrounded in duds. 3/5

I don’t really have much use for the Chili Peppers anymore. There’s no subtlety to their sound- once you hear a song, you get everything they intend from it. And other acts from the same period are more exciting. But this album is still a part of my DNA. My mom used to play this all the time, alongside One Hot Minute (underrated), Pearl Jam’s Ten, and Tom Petty’s Greatest Hits. It’s still pretty good, too. But never my first choice. B

The Chili Peppers were busting heads in 1991, but in the decades since so many bands have imitated their sound that it’s lost some of its magic. That being said, Flea and John Frusciante are fantastic players-just don’t pay much attention to the often puerile lyrics.

Couldnt even finish it.

The guitarist, bass player and drummer are all very good. This deserves 4 stars. The less we say about the singer, the better (he's a nonce)

Not really a big Peppers fan, but I did dub a copy of Mother's Milk to cassette back in the day. On Blood Sugar...the band hits the mainstream big time and they don't compromise too much, their sound is similar, though a bit more slicker and commercially appealing. The record's good, one of their best, I only wish they stopped making albums after this one.

Noisy shit, not even UtB can save it

It gets better at the end. Classic

Love Under the Bridge. Wish Soul to Squeeze was on this album. Give it Away is solid...the filler songs are really bad. Glad I never bought this when I was younger. 2.5/5

18 year old me would be so upset with adult me for hating this. Their music didn’t age well for me and I just find it annoying, sure it’s funky and the band itself is good at what they’re doing, they’re tight I give them credit for that but their music is so annoying. I guess it really boils down to me thinking Kiedis is a chud and his vocals are dumb. 2.5/5 but I refuse to round up mostly bc

So freakin' sensational.

i want to like it a bit more than i actually do. the ballad bits (breaking the girl and under the bridge) are phenomenal. give it away is also incredible, though the rest have a very cool RHCP energy and funk that is unique and exciting. though the remainder don't really elevate the album for me.

There are a lot of very legitimate criticisms you can throw at this band, but it doesn’t change the fact that this album fucking slaps. A goofy band bonded together by immense trauma and drug addiction.

Raunchy.

Liked this one, will give it another listen at some point, different Unique and interesting

Good Album definitely contains at least one gen

very groovin STANDOUTS: the power of equality suck on my kiss give it away under the bridge

Very much enjoyed

A decent album from a very talented group of musicians. The album was perhaps a bit too long for my liking. After Under The Bridge, the album became harder to concentrate on and enjoy since the musical variety in the album is slim. Still, the musicianship in this album is world class. They are one of the most successful groups in the world for good reason. Flea is a master on the bass. Mellowship Slinky, Breaking The Girl and Under The Bridge are probably the best songs on the album. Decent album, but was glad when it was over. Would rate it a 4 if six or seven songs were cut off.

Un album qui a definit un son pour les re hotd. 5

the rapping is offensively bad under the bridge is such a standout compared to the rest

Ok.. I listened to this CD, on my disc man, for probably 6 months straight. It was like '91 and I was like 11 or 12 lol. That summer into fall it was this record, Nirvana's Nevermind and Pearl Jam's 10. There are so many songs about heroin on here which is wild as I had no idea as a pre teen. Also the lead singer and bassist both worked as hustlers in Hollywood before getting famous. So that's hot sort of if we're objectifying sex work. Are we anymore? Not sure. By the end of the 6 or so months, I honestly never touched this CD again. I don't know if it was the fault of RHCP's but also Nirvana just became my whole world and with them came like dozens of new bands from their scene and a bish got put on big time. Still the skill level is there, they were obsessed with funk and I think are owed a debt bringing that funk sound into rock or punk or whatever this is haha.

This is fun. Again, not the closest listen, but this this is a good time.

I have a soft spot for this band.

RHCP FTW

Funky as they come. Some real gems here obviously but I always thought it ran a bit long

Excellent album. A great mix of funk and that 90s sludgy sound in the production. Tons of hits, and great album tracks, with zero skips.

This band is very nice. I take the songs "Give it away" and "Under the bridge".

Don’t think I’ve ever listened to this all the way through but this shit slaps!

Lots of great songs on here, though there’s some weirder ones that keep it from being a five for me.

Not my thing, and too long.

There is like ~2 good songs on this album. Most of it was just grating.

Hyvä albumi sitä luulee.. vähän nukahtaa... sitten tulee.. yks biisi.. albumin paras biisi.. Under the Bridge.. TÄRÄYTTÄÄ PYSTYYN ei sen takia että se olis energisempi.. vaan koska se on erilainen... Näyttää että kaikkea sitä osataan tehdä.. Sen jälkeen laatu ei tipahda.. Oskillaatiota ei tapahdu.. Syystäkin pidetään RHCP:n mestariteoksena... KOSKA ON HYVÄ ALBUMI VIISI TÄHTEÄ MONI BIISI JÄÄ MIELEEN!!! EI OLE TASAPAKSU 1H 19 MINUUTTIA!!

curto afu das antiga ja

This was an important album for me. I shunned Funk since to me it was a little too closely related to disco. This album reintroduced me to funk, cleared my musical pallet and dealt with my disco hangover that had lasted a decade. The ballads are also pretty cool.

We saw these guys live at a small club in Ottawa after the release of their 1985 album. It was a chaotic show that started with Flea smashing a beer bottle on the stage. Most of the band members wore diapers. The punky funk style was new at that time, I loved it, but it didn't hold my interest for long. This LP is more melodic, the guitar playing is great and I think "Give It Away" is one of the top hi energy pop songs of the 90s.

Contrary to what other reviewers have said, I think this nearly 30 yr old album has aged well. It features a shit-ton of hits and the performances by the band are excellent, most notably Anthony Kiedis on vocals. This is a strong 3.5 but I’ll round it up

Great guitar tones.

6,5/10

Classic

5/10. Couple of good songs on here, but as an album, boy does it drag.

Far more than the recommended daily amount of Red Hot Chili Peppers… 6/10

A funky mess of macho stolen black music. wow. these guys are pigs and the only thinfg that is redeeming about this album is that they know how to play their instruments well. i guess if you like pig headed dudes high on drugs barking about sex and being rock stars, glom on this shitty album. yuck.

fire

5 stars. There is a lot of hate that this hasn’t aged well. Yes the sexual innuendoes are childish, and Anthony often can’t find the pitch. But who the fuck cares! This has a special place in my heart (and my 2000 accord coupe CD visor attachment RIP)

- First listen - Better than Californication - Way too long, mix of great and meh songs - UNDER THE BRIDGE is the best RHCP song by a distance - Not a fan of SUCK MY KISS at all - Best songs: UNDER THE BRIDGE, THE POWER OF EQUALITY, FUNKY MONKS

loved under the bridge, give it away

This was apparently the first album by the chili peppers that featured their trademark sound and I can definitely tell because it's not quite to the greatness of Californication but still very distinct. Under the bridge is a great song and the album got better as it went along but I still wasn't enjoying it as much as other peppers music. Also give it away is an overrated song.

I recall liking this at the time, but didn't like it this listen.

El disco preciso en el momento justo. Puros 90. "The Power of Equality", "Breaking the Girl", "Suck My Kiss", "The Righteous & the Wicked", "Give It Away", "Under the Bridge", "Naked in the Rain", "My Lovely Man", "Sir Psycho Sexy" y para terminar "They're Red Hot".

Grew up with my parents blasting this album lol. Not my favorite RHCP album but it is a classic. Holds up a lot better than i expected.

I’ve listened to a lot of RHCP but never this whole record. Surprisingly quality lyrics that touch on a lot of deeper subjects, which usually isn’t their MO but it makes for good songwriting. Instrumental work varies enough to keep it interesting throughout as well. 7/10

I fucking love this album and have since High School.

groaned when this came up. i don't know that i ever bothered to listen to this in it's entirety back when i was discovering music but i hope this is the last time i do. "i could have lied" and "under the bridge" are the only standouts for me. god is this album a slog.

so much fun hearing it again! Lose a point for too much penis.

Pretty decent, not that much to say about it really.

Y'all. This is not good. Nothing about this is worthy of a listen. It has no redeeming qualities. If this is your jam, I don't know what to do with you, brodude. I just don't know.

Feeling a 3 on this one. I've heard a number of RHCP songs before, and generally been a fan of them, so I suppose i'm a bit disappointed that this doesn't quite live up to the image of them I built in my mind. There's a number of songs that I like on this album, but very few that I really enjoy. Lots of the songs sound very similar on this album, too. It's a good sound, lyricism similar to hip hop applied to rock, and it sounds great but it's hard to differentiate all the songs on the album.

Perfection

One of the best albums ever.

I don’t give a shit abt this kind of music unfortunately.

They’re really just having fun this things goofy and funky but some go too goofy and funny and horny and it shidst

RHCP. Vinilo.

No soy muy de los Red Hot.4

Just good classic punk rock, couple hidden bangers on this thing that you wouldn’t know about until you fully listened through. Will say I think the slower songs are much better, lot of the other songs come off a bit generic punk rock (even for the time). Overall solid but really wanted more from this, disappointing, don’t think I’m revisiting 70% of the songs ever again but they are solid

yeah!!!

bass players dream but not really my style. did like some songs tho

RHCP at their hottest and pepperiest. This is the perfect balance between the zany funk-rap weirdness of their early stuff and the catchy but safe alt-rock they grew into. I dig.

RHCP doing their thing. The back half is really strong, and quite a few strong tracks throughout. The only negative feeling I had about this album is that it continues to make me feel that Sublime was entirely slighted.

Easy five. The king's of making me strut around the house. Suck My Kiss has been a favourite song of all time since I was a young bloke.

p662. 1991. 2 stars, but should be 1.5. Distinctly average, and far too long for what it is. Not keen on the shouty white faux funk/rap, and most of the tracks sound the same and just blur into each other. Set against that, excellent musicianship and there are a couple of good tunes - but not enough to deserve repeated listening.

Oh lord, I was just thinking earlier today that sooner or later I would have to listen to one of this band's awful albums. I was spared for so long, but I guess I jinxed myself. RHCP started off even more aggressively mediocre than the Foo Fighters and while FF were content to waste away in banality, RHCP got worse and worse and worse until they made U2 look good by comparison. RHCP have been self-parody for several decades now, but let's take a look at the album that launched them into popularity in the early 90s. This is a sound that did not age well. Even much better bands who were playing around in a similar vein at the time like Faith No More came away much better after abandoning this late 80s/early 90s rap-rock/funk metal marriage. The best moments on this album is when they get away from this dated pastiche - Breaking the Girl stands out both in lyricism and its unique groove. Ultimately, this isn't a terrible album. It isn't a 1. All of the band members outside of Anthony Keides are actually quite good, but they are hampered by playing in a dated style that went no where and being led by an idiot manchild whose songwriting became more and more derivative as time went on. If this album was an instrumental, I would rate it significantly higher... it would still have its flaws, but the musicianship would shine through a lot more and not feel so aggressively stereotypically California. As it stands, this comes off as a white Lenny Kravitz blatantly thieving from Prince with milquetoast, Cypress Hill-adjacent raps over some solid grooves with dated production.

Half way between creative and bland. Funky and tedious. Aged hip hop. Singles good. Non-singles have no hooks and are not sonically interesting enough to be anything but filler. 17 tracks of similarity. Under the Bridge is magnificent so is strangely out of place. Best take the two or three hits and dump the rest. (2.5)

The instrumentals were very well done, and the vocal performance was decent. I liked the funky vibe of the album.

Two words: rhythm section

Lots of their classics, decent.

I like the funkiness. My favorite hidden gem song is Mellow Slinky in B Major

Album is a jam. It’s got a few duds for me but the bangers make up for those. Definitely a good driving album

Hot and nasty and thoroughly enjoyable!

7.9

Funkyfy. Basen är gasen.

Not a huge Peppers fan but this album really works for me.

Great - one of my fav bands.

Seems like the exact midpoint between their early, funk-driven albums and their more melodic (better) later style. It could definitely use some culling, but there are enough great tracks (in the first 2/3 of the album especially) to warrant a good score. HOT TAKE: Breaking The Girl is low-key one of the best Chilis tracks. Just terrific.

This has some real classic tracks, but I can't shake the feeling of being molested by Anthony Keidis.

Don't care much for red hot, albums OK mostly background noise

This album makes me feel like a warm prepackaged waffle coming out of the toaster oven on a Saturday morning. The clicks, the beeps, the crackling, but most importantly, the aromas. Pure contentment.

Great album but drags on a bit.

A great reminder of teenage years. Funky, fun, lewd, rocking.

This is phenomenal! It's a double album that keeps you excited for the whole ride. I still haven't heard a chillies song I don't like and I get to see them in January!

Better than I remember

An excellent mix of classic rock'n'roll and hip-hop\funk. The only components I have a problem with are the lyrics and vocals on the more hip-hop-style tracks - they are cheeky to the degree of occasionally being obnoxious.

Banger, seminal RHCP album. Granted this came out in my junior year of college, so very nostalgic for me. Game changer that came out amidst the grunge movement. Breaking the Girl blew my mind. The opener is a wake up call. Took RHCP from weird funk niche California band to worldwide superstars and set the stage for the next few RHCP albums.

Ah, one of the most famous albums of the 90's. This album shows the Chili Peppers at their peak creative form and thanks to producer Rick Rubin as a cohesive and great sounding band. But, clocking at 72 minutes, it's almost a double album and with it come double album problems. There are songs that feel like filler on this classic, and a small cull to make it 45 minutes might not have been misplaced.

One of the best albums ever made. ever

Geen twijfel over de rating. Funky, heel erg rockend. Goeie nummers en fantastische muzikanten

All ready loved the album

Yep, pretty classic. Not my favorite band or album of all time, but fun.

Really nothing interesting going on here. Bland

Funky. So apparently there is a good chilli peppers album after all (how cheeky of me lol).

The Chilis are no longer cool to like, however at the time they were hot. This has hits and is well packaged, produced and performed. Relentless, assured and in your face. I like their energy - bass and drum relentless with a funky guitar and basically wrapping lyrics. A lot of the albums in this 1001 are low key and unknown. This is the opposite.

Absolutely amazing album which hits like a baseball bat - Pure LA sound and a complete reshuffle/breakdown of the rock scene when it dropped. Every track is a winner and at least half this album is top 10s. 5/5

As you’d expect really. Less anthemic than their later material and a little more introspective at times. This is the jewel in their crown imo!

A+++

Funky. Soulful. Fun as hell. Addiction, lust, love, philosophy of life. Hits from start to finish. Flea's bass and Fruchante's guitar are awe inspiring, Kiedis's lyrics are insane at times and deeply powerful others. Chad Smith holds it all together with precision drumming throughout.

The vocals on this record physically pain me on almost all songs. The lyrics really don’t help either and whoever decided it should be an hour and twenty should be burned at the stake. Sir psycho sexy is actually torturous to listen to. Under the bridge is still a great track tho. The instrumentals are consistently solid which saves it from a 1/5 Top track: Under the bridge Worst track: Sir psycho sexy

The hits are here, but it gets repetitive after a bit.

Im already a fan of the Chili Peppers though hadn't listened to this album in full before.

its alright, not the best for most occasions

I recall seeing RHCP perform at an MTV Awards the year that this was up for awards. They set up to play Under the Bridge in formal wear and got through the first chords before ripping off their clothes and busting out Give It Away near-naked as 50 fans joined them on stage for an orgy for the eyes. This album is joyous.

It's just.... not for me. I already knew I hated "Give It Away" before listening and this is just 60+ minutes of the same energy (minus Under The Bridge and Breaking The Girl). I can see how a person could enjoy it, but that person is not me.

under the bridge brings back some memories but there are gaps between good moments

Great album. IMO it's the RHCP best album. It brought back great memories from my teen years listening to it.

Had like 3 or 4 interesting songs but if it came out today people would laugh

What can be said that Yasi Salek hasn't already explored? The episode of Bandsplain about RHCP really did change my view of the Peppers but this album is a solid work from a band that has evolved so much over the decades.

Was good, not the best for studying though

I remember watching the documentary of the making of this album. It's definitely a classic. I fell off liking them decades ago, but there's no doubt that this album has a great sound and classics. Just not for me.

I have no interest in hearing Anthony Kiedis clumsily rap about what gets him hard for even one minute, let alone 73. The singles are fine, but the album drags. Not for me. One for the Cali kids.

Yeah it's fine. Some cool ideas but I think the next era of RHCP is where they figured out their sound.. then they got to know their sound too well and it got boring.

Didn't most of this, but I Could Have Lied is great. That "slap bass" really turns me off.

I remember there being a book of bass tablature in the guitar shop I got lessons from that was strictly for this album. Naive, 12-year-old me flipped through it one day landing on "Sir Psycho Sexy" (of course, the tab book had lyrics). Years later, I finally got around to listening to the record, and it became my favorite RHCP record of their entire discography. Love them or hate them, this is RHCP firing on all cylinders, a well-oiled machine of funk rock, somewhere they would never really touch again. Flea absolutely puts work into this record, and John Frusciante creates wonderful soundscapes for Anthony Keidis to go into full white-boy-rock-funk mode. It's, in my opinion, a great album, the right combination of youth, drugs, and just fucking going for it. There's plenty of vulnerability on here too, with "Under the Bridge" remaining a very important track to me. A few songs could be described "misses" on this project, but they'd be the best songs on a lesser album, so they get a pass. Favorite tracks: "Sir Psycho Sexy", "The Power of Equality", "Under the Bridge", "Blood Sugar Sex Magik", "Suck My Kiss"

Way to long bunch if funk rock infused jams. Which has been done better before and since. The album was just long tedious and repetitive.

Really got into the Chilli Peppers around the time of Mothers Milk. This was another good album of a bit more mainstream. Awesome live band.

Some brilliant songs on this album, but it’s also a bit all over the place in parts. Some of the rap style songs are a bit cringe now too.