Blood Sugar Sex Magik

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

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.

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

It’s a great album, some absolute classic tunes

This is the pinnacle of RHCP

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.

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

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!

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.

Done

Heroin beach funk. Great musicianship all around.

Solid

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

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*

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

ffffuuuunnnnkkk

진정한 베이스 맛집

Didn't like every song but a solid album.

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.

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.

It gets better at the end. Classic

Raunchy.

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

I have a soft spot for this band.

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

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

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

Classic

loved under the bridge, give it away

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

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

No soy muy de los Red Hot.4

yeah!!!

Two words: rhythm section

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

Was good, not the best for studying though

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.

Can't help think that it is no coincidence that I got Jane's Addiction instantly followed up with this RHCP album. They are very similar in their notoriety, musicality, and timelessness. Most Peppers albums do not feel like they are of their time, and this one is no exception. What a record. It's hard to believe they were able to ever come close to this one again, and they kind of routinely do reinvent themselves. Nothing beats them when the are at full strength with John Frusciante. There's definitely something missing without him. Crazy dude though. And Flea's bass lines are hopping on this thing. Anyway, This one has something for everyone, and while I'm not a devoted fan of this band, this album is something else, and deserves to be heard. It grows a little long in the tooth as it rolls on but the energy never stops.

I forgot how much I listened to this in high school, I hadn't thought about these songs in a while but they came right back to me. I like the first half a lot, it gets hit or miss partway through. I think there are several songs that sound like b-sides and could have made way for a shorter, tighter album. I gravitate toward the funkier songs like "If You Have to Ask," "Funky Monks," "Blood Sugar Sex Magik," "Apache Rose Peacock." You can almost break the songs up into groups, there are a handful of more acoustic-based songs, chief of which for me is "Breaking the Girl," a really excellent song. There are some massive hits on this album, especially "Under the Bridge" which kind of lives on a stratosphere of its own. "Suck My Kiss" is great, "Give It Away" is great. I heard that story about Anthony Kiedis writing "Give It Away" after his girlfriend gave him a jacket of hers that he thought was cool back in high school, and it stuck with me. "Sir Psycho Sexy" is ridiculous but it's super funky, really memorable and musically it's a great listen. In summary, this is a really good album but the extra fat keeps it from being a 5 star album for me.

This came out when I was 11 years old and "Under The Bridge" was one of the first songs I ever had a deeper emotional reaction to. It showed me that music had a much wider range of expressive possibilities than I had previously thought. It likely had alot to do with the simple coincidence of my own emotional development at the time, but it will always be an important song for me for that reason. The rest of the album is, on the whole, a fun, all over the place, almost wreckless affair. In a way I love it for having those extremes contained within it. Sort of runs the gamut emotionally. A quintessential example of CD era bloat, but I can't fault them for the excitement they must have felt at this creative peak - with a great producer behind them who understood them and encouraged them to grow. It's also a great example of an album recorded in a house, where life and work temporarily converged into the same thing. I'm a huge fan of this method and tend to romanticize the records which are produced this way. Certainly not a perfect record by any means, but chock full of passion and some real stunners and jams throughout.

6.5/10 Fave track: Suck my kiss

Fun album. I remember loving it when it came out as so many other great albums including Nevermind came out around the same month. Really nice depth and wide range of songs, the band were definitely at their peak when recording this and they have never captured that same energy for me as they did here. Some of the songs grate after 30 years but that is forgiven as the rest of the album is worth it

As always with the Chili Peppers, you've got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find the princes. The gems here are among the best they've ever done. My favorite track is a lesser known one, "I Could Have Lied". I loved it so much I used to play it during my on-air shift on college radio station 90.3 KRNU. The CD we had included an edited version of the song, which featured a guitar riff played during the line, "I fucked up now" to block the profanity. This still isn't my favorite Chili Pepper album (that honor may forever belong to "By The Way", although I tend to ride hard for "One Hot Minute" as well). A big part of me wants to push this to a 5, but there are just too many skips. A five doesn't ask you to kiss that many frogs.

What classic. This was the peppers at the height of their powers before they went of and did calinfornibollox and all those terrible albums. It's weird, its funky its sex obsessed I fell for this album as a teenager and return to it periodically. Funky slap bass and cosmic groves.

Better than expected, my expectations having been set by all the later shit that they came out with. I had forgotten how good this is

At last! An album which deserves a spot on this list!

Yet another 90s nostalgia kickback! Funk rock, love it. But the album length felt a bit too long now.

****

Þessi plata var einhvern veginn alltaf í spilun í kringum mig í 10. bekk og sumarið fyrir menntó. Fannst hún í lagi, en ekki mikið meira en það. En nú er þetta fjörug og skemmtileg nostalgía. En af hverju er Under the bridge með næstum milljarð spilana á Spotify?

Starts different from what I expected, ended good.

RHCP, to me, have always had such a unique, signature sound; there just isn't any mistaking them for anyone else, and this album cemented that sound for them. While some other bands do the "funk rock" sound, RHCP still stands out among them, and is probably the most known for this sound. Simultaneously, with this iconic album, the helped to usher in the 90s alternative craze, and would be solidified as powerhouses in that genre for the next two decades. This album has some of the band's greatest work on it -- the funkiest guitar riffs coupled with fun funky vocals, as well as memorable lyrics. True to the album name, I never realized just how many sexually suggestive lyrics danced throughout the songs on this album. Overall, it's just a fun, interesting, and catchy listen. Not every song is a hit single, but every song is fun to listen to and I wasn't tempted to skip anything -- a feat for an album clocking in at nearly 1 hour, 20 minutes. An album definitely worthy of this project!

Cool funk album, very dirty

I've heard most of these songs a million times over again, but never sequentially in the album. It was a cool mix of classic Chili Pepper vibes and EXTREMELY funkyness that they lean in to from time to time. I personally enjoy Californiacation more, but that could be nostalgia talking.

Very good

Dynamite. Groovy. Raw. Fun.

Fun throwback. Probably their best

such an incredibly fun album. it’s funky, it’s silly, it’s camp! i love RHCP. this album has some of my all-time favorite RHCP songs, too (such as “Breaking the Girl” <3333) do i think this is the best RHCP album? no. but it’s still undeniably entertaining. can’t understand what Kiedis is saying? SO WHAT!! let yourself be immersed in his gibberish. if you don’t like this album, you’re probably a reaaaally boring person. you must be fun at parties…..

I am completely shocked right now. Leila, who is in my group, loves RHCP. I’ve always clowned on them. She made me listen to their music and I started at the beginning because I knew I liked their earlier stuff more. And it was great, I admit. Then… I reached this album. I hated it. I couldn’t even finish it. My complaints started and ended with Anthony. So damn annoying. That was only a few months ago. I’m not sure what changed but I actually enjoyed this album. 1: the production is awesome. I love it. 2: the instrumentals are (mostly) incredible. I already knew that going into it though. But now… the vocals. They are a lot more tolerable than I remember. It’s kind of…. camp. I learned that word from Leila. He’s still flat every once in a while but it’s not awful, nor is it frequent. I’ve always been a fan of his cartoonish rap style, though. So when there isn’t a melody, I’m diggin it. The LYRICS THOUGH OH MY LORD. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS DUDE TALKING ABOUT. Once again, though, I tried to tune it out and write it off as “camp”. I really think giving the album a fair shake helped me enjoy it so much more. Only cons: Lyrics, some pitchy points, a little bit bloated, under the bridge. I don’t care what any of you say. Under the Bridge is an awful song that should not exist.

2/28/22

Yep banger

Great listen, although gets a little bit samey towards the end - another one to listen to again

Nice

Good but not my favourite chillis album. My view of this band also changed after reading Anthony Keides’ autobiography.

Surprisingly varied! Best RHCP?

Tää on kyl must Californicationin kanssa RHCP:tä parhaimmillaan. Funkkaavaa ja jotenkin kilahtanutta rokkii olematta samaan aikaan liian hörhöö. Ekoja levyjä mitä opin kuuntelee CD:nä ja lapsena diggailin tästä kovasti. Diggailen edelleen. Pakko oli vanhempana ostaa vinyylinäkin. Ihan muutaman biisin vois karsii — sit tää olis kyl jumalainen. 4/5

Eindelijk wat niveau…

The production is great. I find myself surprised due to TRHCP actually have varied songs. TIL

So probably the most lyrical of all Chilli's LP's some great tracks here with clear and unambiguous messages throughout. Love "Under The Bridge" and "Give It Away". You can see the links, no doubt through Rick Rubin's influence, to Hip Hop within the mixes here. Not in my collection but a justifiable choice I think.

3.5

That Bass!

Chili's are always a win.

I miss when mainstream records could be this successful and this shaggy

Listened across the weekend including on the drive back from whistler after skiing! Really grew on me as I listened. They're a great band, frusciante is a genius, drums are great, slick wear coast rock with a dash of hip hop.

And good start for a good journey.

The album that showed the depth and range of the band.

Rolling Stone has Flea as the 22nd greatest bassist of all time. That seems criminal to me. This album has one of my favorite RHCP songs ever (Under the Bridge) and least favorite (Suck My Kiss). But I do enjoy this album as a whole, love the funk/punk vibe of it.

Funk turned up to 11. Obviously there are the great classics like "Suck My Kiss", "Give It Away", "Under the Bridge", and the self titled "Blood Sugar Sex Magik". I didn't know how many tracks this album had, but there are a number of others I will revisit. Hard to put this up against Stadium Arcadium, which is a solid listen all the way through. Best track: Under the Bridge / Give It Away (depending on your mood)

Liked it. Funkier than I remembered it being. Flea is a god on bass, really heard him throughout the album. Good shit.

Prototypical RHCP album. A few amazing classics and lots of ok filler.

better than I expected, I wouldn’t really call myself a fan of this band but this album actually was pretty great, I’ll give it an 8/10, I’ll also give Californication a listen sometime

Already knew it, flea and john make it amazing

3.5/5 it's terrible and I love it

It was a good album. I have heard this album before and still enjoy it. There are two mega hits on it.

I was going back and forth between giving this 3 and 4 stars, but I ended up giving it 4 because that's what I did with Jeff Buckley and I think I enjoyed the two albums about the same. I honestly enjoyed BSSM more than I thought I would, seeing as my main exposure to RHCP was Californication and I only liked some of the songs off it. There were definitely some better parts (the beginning especially had crisp transitions and was absolutely solid) and some parts that seemed to drag a little (the songs between Under The Bridge and Sir Psycho Sexy are very forgettable), but ultimately I like it a lot just because of the sexy distorted slap bass that made you say umph (looking at you minute 1:58 of Power of Equality). Favorites: If you have to ask, under the bridge, I could have lied Least favorites: Apache rose peacock, suck my kiss Other notes - Crisp production overall - Funky Monks is a jam and the "crudeness" of the bass/guitar at the beginning reminds me of The Violent Femmes - Under the Bridge is objectively really good - Sir Psycho Sexy is kinda weird but I like the atmosphere it creates - wtf is up with some of the names on this album (and the album itself) - Breaking the girl sounds like that one Christmas song We Three Kings lmao

Solid. Like, at least as solid as a rock. I dunno, I'm not good at rating things

I never had listened to this album all the way through before, it's certainly a lot funkier than the ones I have listened to (which makes sense cause like half the songs have the word funk in them). It's a fun album to listen to though, prefer the not funky songs like "I could have lied" and "under the bridge".

Great album

Some classic tracks. 4.5 / 5

Een echte classic, vooral met dat bass geluid van flea

The classic songs are classic, but the rest just makes the album too damn long.

Epic tracks on this bit feel a bit basic and samey compared to their more recent work. Still a banger but not a 5.

A classic album from my childhood, but more songs I didn’t remember than I thought there’d be

So fun—even though I was a teen when this came out, I didn’t remember all these tracks on one album. The Chili Peppers have fun and you can tell.

Yes

at one point reminded me of spring awakening mmmnn my back hurts pretty 4.5/5, very groovy head bangers

Great album, a lot of classics

simultaneously very good and pretty annoying

Enjoyed this one

I would say this is RHCP's fourth best album, after Californication, Stadium Arcadium and By The Way. These three records are all easily 5 stars, as I can honestly say not a single one contains a bad or mediocre track. This might be due to nostalgia, as I discovered the Peppers when I first got into music and tried to develop my own taste instead of listening to what my parents liked, but I can't help but adore them. Blood Sugar Sex Magik contains some of the best tracks RHCP ever created, such as the amazingly catchy and energetic Give It Away Now, the emotional and epic Under The Bridge, and the classic guitar riffs on My Lovely Man, but there are a handful of tracks I am not in love with. Examples of tracks I have lukewarm feelings towards are The Power of Equality due to Kiedis' vocal performance, the sleep-inducing I Could Have Lied, and the creepy/weird vocal effects on Mellowship. Besides that, it is a solid 4/5.

not as much california like their other albums :(

Not the biggest fan of RHCP but a great album nonetheless

So there are many phenomenal songs here, but for me there are certainly a few fillers in there too. Songs like "Power of equality", "Mellowship slinky..." & "Naked in the rain" are good, just don't think they stand up on their own. These "fillers" just sound like generic chili's to me, and maybe it's unfair to compare them to the other masterpieces on the album, and maybe I'm unfairly comparing the album to other chili records that are undoubtedly 5-star (Californication, by the way) but I'm rating it as great, not perfect.

I used to listen to their singles all the time in middle school and I was never able to label what their music exactly was until now. It is now what I consider one of the best blends of funk and rock out there, with songs like "If you have to ask" sounding like it came out a Sly album. This is RHCP at their freshest. They finally found their sound, and it only took 5 albums. Their later albums would build off this formula. But this isn't as poppy as their later albums. There is so much youthfulness and energy in this album that would make funk proud to see where it went in the 90s. When listening to this album, there are two sides at conflict. There's the punkish energetic songs, and there are the softer relaxing songs that come to define their more popular songs. Then there are the songs that combine both. My favorite songs on the album are pretty much the singles I grew up with, especially "Breaking the Girl". Everything was the instrumentals to the lyrics to the back vocals to the solo are perfect.

Probably one of/my fav RHCP album. Groovy :D I think I pretty much like every track owo

Still a classic

What a treat. 4.5.

Starts funky/ska style. Hits it stride in the middle. “I could have lied” helps the album progress through to their hits. Enjoyable. Longer album that covers several sub genres throughout. EDIT: After completing this list. RHCP was my fist album so I expected this list to be filled with way more albums that I’d like more than this one. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case. This was one of the better alt rock albums on the list in general and deserves an update. 8.3/10

Yep. This is the stuff.

Top! Voll funky. Unerwartet

Nunca lo había escuchado, me encantó

Some people shit on the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It's not really my thing, but I think it's really good pop music.

So cool and sounds amazing. Great tracks!

Um dos melhores do RHCP e um dos melhores que esse projeto já me fez ouvir haha

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Pretty good probably won't listen again

Algo más funk comparado con los últimos discos. Además de traer clásicos.

This album is a little too long in my opinion. But otherwise very good. I'm glad I'm revisiting it after all these years.

Tons of HS nostalgia in this album. Will always remember the time I met Anthony Kiedes at a campground in West Michigan while he was visiting his grandpa.

I am not a huge fan of theirs, but this holds up. There is some idiocy on the album, like Suck My Kiss, and the big thumbsucker that is Under the Bridge, but John Frusciante's sunshine bright tones cut through the funky sludge, creating a style that has earned its popularity.

This album is very nostalgic for me. So, I may have a bias here. I think this album is all over the place in a wonderful way. There isn't a cohesive story or even sound. It makes each new song refreshing compared to the previous. The messages and themes in the song are always worth looking at the lyrics for.

Takes me back.

Geen Peppers fan, maar dit is toch wel echt een tof album.

Allereerste keer dat ik deze klassieker voor het eerst helemaal heb beluisterd. Hoewel ik de stem van Kiedis maar moeilijk blijf trekken, vind ik dit album grote klasse. En je hoort (wanneer niet) de hand van de grote John F.

Stilzitten is onmogelijk bij deze plaat! Wat funken en grooven de mannen Frusciante, Flea en Smith toch de pan uit. Qua muziek 5 dikke sterren, maar Kiedis zijn rap-zang is niet altijd even hip-en-happening (hoewel op deze plaat nog het best te pruimen van alle Peppers platen).

Sobre todo el sonido del bajo en este disco me resulta muy agradable, le un ritmito chido, muy bouncy, muy noventas, semi-pesado conservando el chill. Canción favorita del album: The Righteous & the wicked por el breakdown más o menos inesperado del min 2:31, pensé que regresaría al coro o algo así, pero fue una buena sorpresa. Mood: Horny swag.

Not a huge fan of RHCP, but I've loved this album for about 20 years despite that. As close to a 5/5 as you can get with being 5/5

Highlights: Power of Equality, Breaking the Girl, Under The Bridge It's the breakout album that introduced the world to California punk-pop (for better or for worse). It's uniquely obnoxious and brightly endearing, and something that most other bands couldn't get away with, especially since the grunge sound had taken hold at the same time (BSSM was released on the same day as Nirvana's Nevermind). There's something for everyone here, not all tracks will hit equally, and certainly no one should feel bad if they don't enjoy them all.

"Give It Away" Released: September 4, 1991 "Under the Bridge" Released: March 10, 1992 "Suck My Kiss" Released: May 1, 1992 "Breaking the Girl" Released: July 30, 1992 "If You Have to Ask" Released: February 1993

It remembers my teenage years so I have some good memories of all RHCP's career. However, this album is not so great that I remember, even with the last songs being great examples of all the RHCP power and dominance of their style. I'll give it 4 stars for it because of all, the memories, the sentiment, and the good songs.

Goo.

Love this album.

Mi primera impresión es que se trata de un álbum súper enérgico. En general, me gusta mucho el sonido de los RHCP y acá, al pensar que esto es de 1991, sí pienso que de alguna manera proyectó (o influyó en) una vertiente del rock posterior. Las guitarras y la batería se lucen en varias canciones y pues la voz de Kiedis yo sí diría que es icónica. Además este es el álbum de dos canciones que me gustan mucho: "Give It Away" y "Under the Bridge". Fuera de los singles, creo que la que más me gustó fue "Apache Rose Peacock" y la que abre, "The Power of Equality" que es un curioso statement político de alguna forma y se diluye un poco para pasar a canciones más sensuales, medio eróticas. 8.5/10

Amamos a los RHCH por su poder aunque de repente no digan nada. Este LP abrió brecha spor un video, así que sabemos que merece todo

Been listening o it since the ninties, great album

Funky AF.

Fresher Bass zum Geburtsjahr - 4

Gooood.

Hace un tiempo meditaba a mis adentros... "¿Realmente todavía son relevantes los RHCP? ¿Hay quien honestamente siga pensando que son buenos?" La respuesta es irrelevante en este caso, lo que nos recuerda este disco es que, a pesar de tener bastantes topes y subidas y bajadas en su carrera, no se puede dudar que han sacado música tanto de altísima calidad como de muy importante relevancia. En un segundo disco que se lleva de calle al debut de Mother's Milk se escucha una banda mucho más melódica, con un funk más vivo empujado con un toque de punk. Las letras muchísimo más maduras en algunas canciones sin dejar bien claro que de primera instancia son una banda que tampoco se va a tomar tan en serio. Puede sonar medio cliché hablar bien de este disco pero creo que es el que mejor refleja esa magia inicial que creció a la banda. Ahora, lo que tampoco se puede negar es que creo, al menos la mitad de todo el crédito que puede tener este disco es de Rick Rubin, él es el verdadero genio detrás de todo esto y sin él estoy seguro que no hubieran llegado a ser todo lo que fueron/son. Al ver sobre 1991 caigo en cuenta que salió el mismo año que Nevermind y Ten, y aunque en su momento cualquiera hubiera dicho que los otros dos son mejores discos creo que el sonido de BSSM ha sobrevivido mucho mejor con el paso de los años como para ser introducido a alguien sin contexto, mucho más accesible que un grunge que quizá hoy en día no le habla tanto a los jóvenes. No llega al 5 solo porque en mi opinión todavía no es su mejor disco y todavía serán unos años y otra ausencia/regreso de Frusciante para que salga el que a mi parecer es el punto máximo de la banda.

Classic Album!

Just a classic record for me.

Este disco tiene el sello inconfundible de los RH: una combinación de Funk + Rock + Jazz + Hip Hop. Ya conocía algunas canciones de este disco, pero fue muy interesante escucharlo completo, de corrido y en orden, ya que se puede apreciar que las canciones fueron acomodadas a propósito en ese orden, como en una especie de disco progresivo. Este disco es pre-Californication y se nota; la música es un poco más "astringente" y jazzeada. Además, me parece que Californication evolucionó a partir del estilo de "Under the Bridge". El lado "negativo" del disco es que varias de las canciones son como muy parecidas llegando a hartar. Creo que hubieran podido quitar dos o tres de ellas y el disco hubiera funcionado mucho mejor. Esto casi hace que le de 3 estrellas, pero bueno, tiene Under the Bridge y pues... XD

Plutôt 3,5 que 4 mais bon

Classic. So good and I can’t help but smile and just listen over and over

7.9

I do love me some RHCP. Perhaps I'm a bit of a casual in regards to their music, as I enjoy their later stuff a bit more. Californication being the magnum opus for the band, however I do like the funk/punk mix of their earlier stuff as well. Nevertheless I can't help but groove along their music and for me that's a marker or something awesome.

Intro to The Power of Equality goes hard, nice bassline too. Love the album, Under the Bridge is one of my favorite songs. Give It Away is a classic. Album is solid and fucking filled with sexual innuendos. I love RHCP but as a whole, the album didn't impress me as much as I thought it would, still solid though, 6/8.

I like the old stuff

Iconic RHCP

I feel like I would have really liked this album if I was around at the time just out of it's punk, alt-rock nature. There's some hip hop influence in this record that I attribute to Rick Rubin's production. Good album, although it starts to drag on with 17 tracks. Standout Tracks: Suck My Kiss, I Could Have Lied, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Sir Psycho Sexy

best rhcp

Heard this a kazillion times, some of it is classic. Drags on a tiny bit towards the end though. 4/5.

I don't know what they're trying to do with this one but they sure aren't succeeding. I feel kind of the same as with the last RHCP album I got here, californication, that they have a couple of bangers mixed in with hot garbage. But yeah not their best work, they have better.

I do not enjoy this album as much as 1999’s Californication. For starters, it’s way too fucking long, an hour and fourteen minutes is a ridiculous run time for a rock record. There are 5 mediocre to bad filler tracks I can eliminate right now that would make this album better by subtraction. As good as the big hits are (‘Under The Bridge’, ‘Give It Away’, ‘Suck My Kiss’), those alone can’t save this from being bloated and wearing out its welcome. It’s a solid 3/5; good, but could have been so much better.

Its well know that Anthony Kedis is by far the weakest member of this band. His lyrics are ass and he can be so annoying sometime. Im also not a big fan of funk rock. But I do like "Under the bridge" a lot. Their best song. Holly shit this album draaaaags for so long. It breaks my heart to give this album a 3 because RHCP is the reason I like music. Their the first band I ever liked and basically made me a music fan. Used to play the fuck out of them when I was like 8 years old. I latter discovered way better bands and stopped listening to them. So thank you RHCP... you changed my life but this is a very mid album. Nostalgia isnt saving this/5

Frusciante. No matter how cringey, how in bad taste, how stupid this band is, John Frusciante has always made it worthwhile to listen. That is not to say that Flea and Smith aren't also great musicians, but there's something about Frusciante's restraint, style and taste that elevates everyone around him. Except Anthony Kiedis. I believe I got this album as part of a Columbia House membership, the kind that would ship you 12 CD's for one cent. Yes, I memorized 'Sir Psycho Sexy', but the songs that pulled me in were definitely the ballads - 'Breaking the Girl', 'I Should Have Lied' and 'Under the Bridge'. Of course, 'Give It Away' rules too (in spite of the ridiculous lyrics). The production is excellent - Rick Rubin successfully coaxed several tasteful moments from these dick-swinging hedonists with no class. If you were to cut 7-9 songs, you might actually have a classic album.

Definitely not my favorite rhcp album. Has a few standouts but also a few stinkers that i can't stand. Still it's overall ok.

Feels pretty mixed, might've been a four if you took out some of the songs. Like the Jimi Hendrix stuff though.

The 90s wouldn't be the same without them, but i don't think this will ever be a favorite for me.

This is an extremely generous 3-star rating. It’s probably more like a 2.5 but RHCP has been an important band in my life so they get bumped up slightly. I think because I like so many of their songs on other albums that I’ve learned to somehow tune out Anthony Kiedis and focus more on the incredible work that the other musicians put in. Frusciante has some awesome work on this one. Flea is great as always. There are some lyrics that occasionally take me out of enjoying the music but overall it was fine to me. I could understand how others would be completely put off of it though. I will say that Under the Bridge, which is an all time great song, fits in very weirdly on this album. It’s sort of thrown in toward the middle-end unceremoniously and is wildly different from all the other tracks. Honestly in writing this review I feel like I should go back and give it a 2, especially since Suck My Kiss is on it and that song is AWFUL. But we’ll keep it at a 3.

First off, Blood Sugar Sex Magik is just an all-timer rock album title. Glancing at the tracklist I was surprised to only recognize two songs. As I’ve come to find out, this album isn’t for the big hits - that would be Californication. No, this album is pure funk, with a production quality that actually lets you appreciate Flea and Frusciante’s god-level playing (unexpected after Californication). Truly, Sir Psycho Sexy had me feeling funk I had not felt since Mothership Connection. This would be a four-star if Anthony Kiedis wasn’t hitting the crack pipe whenever it’s time to rap. Why oh why must he rap. This album has some the worst performances I’ve heard from him! That one reviewer who said his lyrics got better once he started singing about California had it exactly right. Standouts: Breaking the Girl • Funky Monks • The Righteous & The Wicked • Sir Psycho Sexy

Some great songs. Cringy lyrics and Anthony Kiedis is a terrible singer. Flea's bass lines are fantastic.

I can name atleast 5 albums to be here on this app instead of whatever generic stuff this was ....

Occasionally the quality of the songwriting rises to the level of the musicianship, but mostly it does not.

With RHCP, I tolerate and observe curiously rather than embrace. They take so much influence from things I like, particularly funk, and I admire how capable they are at delivering on it, but I just can’t really get on board with who they are as people. I heard Flea interviewed and he seemed far less the ass than I had expected, but next I see him being an ass in an awful diva kind of way and I’m switched off again. And Flea isn’t even the one I should be having the biggest problem with. Anyway Blood Sugar Sex Magic is the album that really made them I guess, and is the blueprint for probably everything that has been considered a “return to form” over the years (feels like they could use one of those right about now). Thing is, I recently got though ‘Stadium Arcadium’ (a double CD) and ‘By The Way’ (also long AF) and they are more accomplished than BSSM. Yes, it’s got a couple of MTV mega hits, but the rest of the (again too long) album is very plodding. There’s the same formula as they became more regularly successful with, but it feels like the diehards are looking back to this “heyday” with rose tinted glasses. It may have been the first time their sound properly gelled (though I preferred ‘Mother’s Milk’) but I don’t think it stands up as well as its reputation would suggest.

The singles and Kiedis' vocals hold up better than Californication. Went in with really low expectations and am surprised this came out at 3 stars.

I know it's cool to hate on RHCP but this album most definitely deserves a spot on pretty much any list. Some pretty great songs, and not too much filler. RHCP aren't the kind of thing I choose to listen to but while it was a bit too long it was still enjoyable enough.

Like one mass jam session. The lyrics are forgettable and most of the time not needed especially the white man rap, as I’m just listening to the music. Which bounces all over the place and feels like layer upon layer of quality instrument playing especially the bass which was slapping all over the place! Best track- Only one track that actually had decent vocals to accompany the music and that was ‘under the bridge’ possibly a couple Of others could have been classed as ok. Worst track- ‘they’re red hot’ I mean what even was that- made the band come across like a shit parody band. I also disliked ‘suck my kiss’ I enjoyed the music side slightly more than I disliked so just like with the first RHCP on this list I’ve reviewed it scores the same at 6/10

Distinctive sound, good songs

Hits zijn top. Opvulling is te funky naar mijn goesting

Niet veel meer dan de hitjes

The RHCP would be one of the best rock bands of all time, what with their punk rock/Led Zeppelin/Funkadelic meanderings, perfect for the short attention span generation. But then Anthony Keidis ruins everything with his, just, ABJECTLY stupid lyrics. And people make fun of, say, Vanilla Ice for plain old bad rapping. But this is simply awful. Too long. Leave in stuff like Mellowship Slinky, Funky Monks and Under the Bridge (the best RHCP song - which has to have a choir at the end to hit the high crescendo notes the Keidis totally fails on) and a couple fillers like the Zeppelin/Rush homage The Greeting Song, and you have a classic.

A sizable quantity of high quality musicianship,songwriting and innovative playing continues to make Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik a record worth listening to after 35 years. The band toned down many of the elements that made me instinctively withdraw from them when they first appeared on the scene. They impressively filtered a number of influences into several memorable songs. “Breaking the Girl” reminds me of Love’s best work. It has the same swirl of sound that creates a vibe of confusion and wide-eyed wonder. It does not sound the same, but live Love, the song reveals someone coming to a realization, which often is not pleasant. That atmosphere surrounds “Under the Bridge”, which while bleak at times, has the narrator homing to move away from his lowest point in life as he embraces Los Angeles, and hopefully a new existence. Those tracks stand out as the best example of the Peppers moving away from their metal-funk approach. Several others attempt new avenues featuring John Frusicante’s more melodic guitar work, and a much less busy approach from Flea and Chad Smith. The band still gives over more than half the record to their usual style. I found “The Power of Equality” and “Mellowship Slinky in B Major” to not be particularly interesting. “If You Have to Ask” finds Anthony Kiedis going for a Digital Underground rap on a few verses, which should have been cut. The best known songs deserve their popularity as “Suck My Kiss” and “Give It Away” inspire a strong degree of slam dancing. Something about The Red Hot Chili Peppers always made me cringe. Like The Beastie Boys they WERE music for beer chugging “cool” frat guys. Believe me, I was there at their birth. The Beasties evolved into a group that used a sampling pastiche to create two brilliant records. This album has the Chili Peppers overcoming some of my warranted hesitations. Adele: 21 THREE-AND-A-HALF STARS

2 good songs

Nostalgia alert! Fact: I was obsessed with this band as a pre-teen. On MTV (in Brazil) they were everywhere. Their looks, their heavy hitting sound, their slacker/skater related culture... I basically ate it all up. Also was the first real rock band I saw as a kid, and it made a huge impression on me. I still like a lot of the tracks on here (especially the hits, yes, even "Suck My Kiss", as dumb as it is), but I admit that Kiedis's vocals/lyrics are often more embarrassing than ever. I hadn't realized how sexually blatant and stupid they were until re-reading it all here. However, the band is really tight and talented, even here. Very focused, heavy, and groovy sound. I'm a big fan of John Frusciante and Flea, and I honestly think they never topped what they did here (ditto for Chad Smith, super underrated drummer in general). Blistering guitars with a intensely creative drum/bass combo of so many styles imaginable. The hits are still classics to this day (in my 13-year-old mind), but there's a lot of filler and ironically not enough noise, which they do great here. It's as if the band didn't really know what they wanted to do or they had to basically put all of their B-sides/throwaways on the album under contractual obligations. Relistening to this, I now have a greater perspective on Kiedis's feud with Mike Patton, which was truly embarrassing, for those that haven't read up on it. It's as if he actually wanted to be more like Patton but didn't have the talent to do it. Sort of figures why this album is all over the place. It's often like a Faith No More record without the brains and all of the $$$ ambitions, which is saying a lot given similarities with both bands' sound/lyrical content.

Album #119: Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers Genre (W): Funk rock, alternative rock, funk metal, rap rock Singles: Give It Away, Under the Bridge, Suck My Kiss, Breaking the Girl, If You Have to Ask I have not listened to this album before. Thoughts?: I think some songs are cheesy and a little too glad about the sex, however, I love the production and arrangements. Favorite songs: The Power of Equality*, Funky Monks, Suck My Kiss*, Mellowship Slinky in B Major, Give It Away, Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Under the Bridge, The Greeting Song, My Lovely Man

Great three song stretch between the title track and Naked in the Rain but basically could’ve done without the other hour of this

Not as bad as I thought it would be. If they had a better singer, they’d have been so good.

Childhood fav, most doesn’t really hold up. Fond memories, but a bit “music for the theoretically horny”?

*68 Roterende bevægelser med hofterne. Det er et sjovt album.

Would be four if not so long. Great album though.

Soundihan on sukkamunamiehillä varsin jees, mutta jotenkin ei itse biisit kuitenkaan ihan iskenyt paria lukuun ottamatta.

Mä tykkään paljon enemmän semmosesta Californiacation-henkisestä tunnelmallisemmasta RHCP:stä jossa päällimmäisenä on se Fruscianten huikea kitarasoundi. Tällä levyllä siihen päätyyn ei kauhean paljon hypitä, vaan meno on enempi basso- ja rumpuvetoista. Muutama todella kova biisi, mutta kokonaisuus jää kyllä itselleni vähän tylsäksi.

3.5

great funk.

Esse foi com certeza o disco que começou a ditar a estética que a banda iria usar pra fazer sucesso. É bem diferente dos primeiros discos que puxam pra algo “punkzado”. Aqui a banda já vai pra uma linha bem funk/hardcore e passa a ser bem comercial. É um disco bem legal, apesar de ser um pouco maçante pela quantidade de músicas (pra quem não gosta tanto assim). Tenho minha opinião de que pra quem gosta dessa vibe DNA da banda, a discografia deles é um prato cheio.

I've tried a few times now to get into the RHCP and I just can't do it. The drums are fantastic, the bass is one of the best, the guitar is serviceable, the songs are for the most part catchy, so I think it's just his voice and singing style. It doesn't work for me. Lots of talent, but I just can't get into it. Give It Away is a top 50 all time favorite song for me though.

Not as heavy as I would have guessed. I would give a 2.5 but am rounding up since it is better than the other stuff I give 2s

RHCP:stä vähän menny kans maku koska Anthony ilmeisimmin sus ja pelle jätkä. Musiikki ei oikein jaksa kovin pitkälle kiinnostaa, rupee vähän sulamaan yhteen ja kuulostamaan puurolta pidemmän päälle. Välillä tuli nyökyteltyä perässä, kyllähän se groovas ja funkkas, mutta eioo suuria tarpeita mennä takasin.

Hmmm. I remember this being a seminal album of the early 90s. Looking forward to listening again when it came up on this list. Disappointed. All a bit bland funky alt rock sounding the same. Very Chili Peppers without being memorable. Give it Away was a decent single and Under the Bridge was an absolute monster of a song and still is a classic, but the rest of the album is not as good as remembered /hoped.

a bit long for my taste. chad smith is incredible in this.

The bad songs on here are deeply embarrassing. They almost read as self-parody (Apache Rose Peacock is particularly egregious). It is also far too long. But I can’t deny that some songs work. Under the Bridge rocks, Give zit Away is a great time. 2.5 but I’ll round up on the strength of the hits.

Was never a big fan of the peppers, I find the singer's voice pretty grating and the lyrics nonsensical garbage. I didn't realize how funky they sound though, I love all of the bass guitar through this very long album, but man this album feels so long to get through. Not sure if it's just an issue with doing this 1001 challenge, but it felt hard to get through the whole thing. I think overall I enjoyed the bassline and funky grooves to the songs more than I hated them so I'll go with a 3/5 on this one.

give it away now was cool and the drums are decent, not my thing otherwise

Under the bridge, erarbeiten wohl ihren so bekannten Sound hier

2,7 Highlights: Breaking the Girl, Under the Bridge

A heavy funk sound with sprinkles of ballads and between. If there was ever a term called “frat-funk” this album might be it. It comes off as juvenile rather than sensual to me. I can get behind the sound but it’s tiring like 30/40 minutes after that. I think the past few albums so far in this challenge have me stretching my attention span or seeing where it lies.

very strong start but for 95% of rock music u can't make a 1:15 album and see that the quality will be there for the whole run. enjoyed most of it tho.

I will never knock the talent of some of the musicians in this band. Chad Smith and Flea's groove is other worldly on every track on this album. I will also not deny that there are some classic tracks on here and the run of "Give it Away," the title track, and "Under the Bridge" is unmatched on a lot of albums. However, 73 minutes of music from a band who I've steadily lost interest in since middle school is too much for me. 3/5

on my head, the RHCP are a band that i really enjoy in some songs, and has a extended discography with that songs. In reality, i only liked 2 songs here, and the rest where background noise. idk

RHCP hasn't aged super well for me. The funky bass lines are enjoyable but the lyricism and song structures are a miss for me now. 3/5

It's admittedly nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be. It's music to idly bump your head to in the car because they're the only tolerable band you can find on the radio. I can say I learned that three or four songs I like are apparently RHCP songs, I guess. Despite how much music is on this damn thing, I don't really have a lot to say about it. It's surprisingly decent but nothing I'd really go out of my way to listen to.

It's fine ig

écouté jusqu'à i could have lied, très sympa Pas fini

I've always kind of liked Red Hot Chili Peppers. When Under the Bridge came out, I was 2 or 3 and I loved that song and especially the music video. I watched a lot of MTV as a little kid. This was a long album though. I liked parts of it and didn't like other parts. Some of the songs sounded similar. I, of course, know Under the Bridge and Give It Away. I also recognized Breaking the Girl, which I liked, and Suck My Kiss.

Good stuff here, not a RHCP fan and the album started sounding like one long runon song after a while. 3/5

I don't know what this sound is called. White boy funk rock?? It hasn't aged particularly well.

Baustelle, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Ganz okay.

If RHCP put out a career greatest hits it would be three LPs. One would just be One Hot Minute, and any fans who disagree can get bent. One side each would represent the best stuff from Mother's Milk and earlier and Californication and after. And the third LP would be mostly BSSM and also Soul to Squeeze. Even this would be more RHCP than anyone NEEDS, it wouldn't be ALL good, but no one would ever need MORE than that. You could easily do that without losing a single essential track. While I will absolutely die on the hill that Dave Navarro is the only person who managed to harness Anthony Kiedis's weird dubbed-kung-fu style rapping and flapjawed singing into a consistent product, one cannot deny that BSSM has the hits. Even as tiring as those hits are. Even as bloated as the album is. It has a pretty distinct aura to it… from the jump you have the same sonic palette as Give It Away and Suck My Kiss. You also have probably the least cool song to ever say “death to the ku klux klan”. That should be a slam dunk on making your song cool. You can't actually follow along lyrically with an RHCP song. It's a terrible idea if you're trying to approach them as unbiased as possible, because there are few worse lyricists in the entire world than Kiedis. It makes a song like Breaking the Girl all the more astonishing, not that it is exactly poetry, but it's a coherent, actually kinda lovely song couched between two unselfconsciously silly songs. “There are no monks in my band”. OK, Shakespeare. And there really is the feeling that this could have been at least a solid album if anyone else was fronting these songs except for Sir Psycho Sexy over here (sincerely one of the least sexy songs exclusively about fucking, but I guess that's not surprising from a dude who called sex “done did do” earlier in the album). It could have even been equally relentlessly horny if the vocalist or at least lyricist wasn't the sort of guy to pursue barely legal women while in his 60s. Hell, even lots of other old predator types would do better. The best of those tracks is Suck My Kiss, but that's in spite of itself. This album is an excellent reminder of how bad heroin can mess you up, but Under the Bridge is definitely not the best evidence of that. So yeah, there's the four hits. That's one half of that full platter. Let's say we put that as Suck My Kiss, then slip in Naked in the Rain, and continue with Breaking the Girl, Give it Away, and Under the Bridge. Side B? Soul to Squeeze (where it belongs, what band doesn't include this song if they wrote it for this album?) Righteous and the Wicked. I Could Have Lied. My Lovely Man. Let's toss “they're red hot” at the end as a coda. Maybe I'd throw Mellowship Slinky on the bonus deluxe platter as an instrumental demo. That single LP is a good 4*. The album as it stands? I can't really give it a 2… it's weirdly more than the sum of its parts… but I can barely go much higher than a light 3*. And again, this is basically the second best album these cats put out

Pretty solid

feels very so cal so i didn't hate actually

Quite like the RHCP but this is undoubtedly too long. Cut a couple of tracks and it's a much better album.

ta bien

wahoooooo (although not near my favourite chili peppers album)

its just so generic, commercial music slop. also can't forget about the 14 year old

Some classic songs, arguably a classic record, hut a bit too long. Frusciante gets a lot of praise, but I never understood the hype. He does lay down some good tracks here though

The instrumentation is great, stuffed to the brim with groove and funk. There is so much talent on display. But jfc do Kiedis' lyrics and vocal stylings get on my nerves. Unfortunately Flea, Frusciante, and Smith's mastery can't quite save this one from 74 minutes of Kiedis rapping about all the sex he has. At least this one doesn't feature a song about a 14 year old girl. 2.5/5. Favorite tracks: The Power of Equality, If You Have to Ask, Sir Psycho Sexy (for going full sludge mode)

There’s some stuff here that’s your standard scatty batty bing a ding dong dong Chili Peppers but then there’s Breaking the Girl and Under the Bridge and a couple of other pretty good ones.

I enjoyed this more than I thought. I was going to give it a 4. Then, I was thinking. Flea and Chad Smith seem like OK guys. What about the rest of the band? -1

I'm not a fan of RTHP, so I might be biased. Kiedis's voice is so grating that having to hear him for 70 minutes makes listening to "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" worse. Also, there are many better alt-rock bands out there. However, "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" isn't a total disaster. It's actually a tolerable album. 3 stars for "Blood Sugar Sex Magik".

Frekar bla

Góðir toppar þarna, en hitt er smá leiðinlegt?

Yeah, idk. It was pretty fun to listen to while playing some racing games, but it's just soo background music. It's too long, and the best part of it is probably Rick Rubin. Or flea.

Under the Bridge and 110 minutes of cringe.

Play that funky music whiteboyyyy

Man, I loved RHCP in the 90's, and this album in particular. I follwed them up to Californication (I hope it's not on this list) and then dropped them like it's hot.....red hot. There are some killer tracks on this album (Breaking the Girl, Under the Bridge, I Could Have Lied, etc), but so much filler. There is no version of reality where this album needed to be an hour and fifteen minutes. Also, Anthony Kiedis drives me fucking crazy. Wham bam, funky frying pan, get with me girl, I are your man. Shamala pooey, get on my big kablooey, make my baloney ooey gooey (so many dick references). Dude just needs to stop. RHCP are also singlehandedly responsible for spawning a million douchey funk bands full of bro dudes pumping out endless mediocrity, and this I can not abide. Thankfully the 90's thrived and grew in spite of this. This album did not age well but it get's three stars for a tight rhythm section, nostalgia, and the last solid Frusciante effort (with RHCP). I am glad I moved on and will probably never spin this alum in it's entirety again.

trhcp is okie. very servicable but not remarkable

As much as I have ended up not liking this band, there are aspects of this album which are worthy. A handful of excellent catchy songs and very strong musicianship by the musicians in the band. Anthony Keidis spouts lyrical shite as usual though. Trying to enjoy this album is a bit like eating a bag of revels where some are caramel, some are raisins but you also frequently come across ones contaminated with sand.

2.6/5 A few good songs but nothing I'm eager to get back too other than Under the Bridge.

Not the biggest RHCP fan, judging by their singles, but this was better than expected. Shame Kiedis is such a bad singer. I am struggling between 3 and 4 stars, but his voice unfortunatly for them makes me go to the lower score.

Highly bad. 2-3 great songs Drug abuse is not a W

very nice shiza chan

I looked at this score before listening, and I had a thought - I remember this album as a child when growing up and I loved Sir Psycho Sexy, Give It Away and Suck My Kiss among others, so I was surprised, how dare they give it such a low score. Listened again and you're all right, sorry. This album has certified great tracks on here, they're all on top of their game, but this album dragssssssss, they really could've done with an editor, or someone to tell them that they can easily reduce this by half an hour.

1 Punkt Abzug für Überlänge. Ansonsten schon das stilprägende RHCP Album - was m.E. aber mit der poppigen Entwickling Richtung Californication und Stadium Arcadium noch zugänglicher wurde, auch wenn Lyrics und Gesang sind nicht weiterentwickelt haben. Ach ja - allein für die Bass-Lines n absolut hörenswertes Ding. Muss das mal wieder mit richtig guten Kopfhörern hören.

The album is too long but it won me over as it progressed--the downtempo and more acoustic songs like Breaking the Girl and I Could Have Lied are easy winners, and Under the Bridge is a great song by any metric. The faster and heavier stuff skewed a little too closely to rap metal at times for my tastes but there is something very infectious about the way these guys come at these songs. Came in expecting a 2 after the first couple songs and it rose to a 3/3.5.

This is probably the best and most consistent funk, hard rock, rap (sigh) mashup by RHCP. The instrumentals are on point, but it too often is less than the sum of its parts. And it's definitely too long. (3.5)

I thought this was a pretty groovey album but it did take me a few attempts to get through it all. I think the more I listened to it the more I could put up with it. I hate to give this a 3 because fuck the singer. But as an album it’s decent.

I hate that I like the Chilli Peppers, and this album vindicated that hate. My standard defense is as follows: "Flea is as good here as he ever is, and he's the highlight of the album" and "the other instruments are also excellent" My bugbear with the Chilli Peppers is here, as it always is, that their vocalist needs put down (and not just because he's a pedophile). Tracks like "Breaking the Girl" are so crooning, and it's so aggravating. Their best stuff all suffers from it, and that leaves weaker tracks feeling so drowned in it "Under the Bridge" is a standout here, but I'm not winning any awards for that observation It really doesn't help that this album is such a slog, you could easily have cut the last third of the album and this would've lost nothing and been nearly a half hour punchier Putting a score on this is harder than basically anything so far. I'm left asking myself why I like something that I hate so much of, and I guess I just have to gesture at the good bits and say the same tired thing I always do It's probably a 2, I'm going to give it a 3, and with some serious adjustments it might even be a 4

Its a fine album not the best from the peppers. Its just a lot of the same and it gets boring fats except for under the bridge of course that song carries the whole album.

If you have to aaaaaask

This was to samey sounding for my tastes. But that's really just RHCP.

This was a huge album in the 90s and the breakout hit of the RHCP. But, it really didn't do much for me. I like about 1-2 songs per album with the RHCP. But I'm glad we had them all the same.

When to listen: Hardcore studying in Burling Library... at least that's what this reminds me of. Obviously talented musicians but the sound wore on me after the first few songs.

throwback!

John Frusciante coming into his own is really what elevates this material, and both Flea and Chad Smith are incredible musicians. But I don't connect with the the Kiedis scat-rap antics, songwriting and early funk dna like I did growing up. That made the majority of this album more grating and skippable than I was expecting upon revisit, so can't give this a great score. But it's not a 3 of mediocrity, it's a 3 of high highs and low lows.

I went into this thinking I’d prefer it to their overplayed later stuff but, although I still enjoyed it, I found a lot of it irritating. Especially the vocals. They did have an original sound at the time though.

It’s good but it feels like the same song over and over

spicy

This album did not make it into my huge collection of cds and cassettes back in 91 because I thought it was annoying as fuck. Flash forward to 2026 and I start listening to this album for this project, and I already know every single song on it. Somewhere in 91, I must have heard this in its entirety. Maybe a party. Maybe a bar. Whatever, I knew every single song and I realize this album must have been EVERYWHERE at the time. This skewed my rating up to a 3 because I know it was really popular, so there must be some good in it that I'm missing, right? So I continued my listen and it's kinda fun. In my opinion, I've heard enough about Anthony Keidis' hard weiner to last a lifetime, but musically, it is kinda funky and I like that part of it. So, I guess what I'm saying is, Kiedis is annoying with his wang talk and chicka chicka dee bow wow wow, but I like the funky fun part of it.

Good

Ik leerde de RHCP pas kennen met Californication en later by the way. Om terug te gaan in de tijd was voor mij toen onlogisch waardoor ik nu eigelijk pas echt het hele album luister. Het is een stuk minder toegankelijk dan die latere twee maar daarom ook wel interessant om in te duiken. Het pakt je maar tegelijk ook helemaal niet. Het is ook de lengte en de wisselvalligheid waardoor je er niet helemaal bij blijft. De bas is veel meer uitgesproken en frusciante wat minder minimalistisch wat het wel leuk maar ook wat veel maakt. Het albums is ook te lang als het was terug gebracht naar 12 was het denk ik beter. Kiedis blijft een rare vent, en is mijn minst favoriete element van de RHCP. Give it away is de beste samenvatting van dit album.

RHCP hebben in mijn ogen maar 2 leuke albums gemaakt. (dit is er niet een van) Je komt na al die jaren er eigenlijk achter dat Anthony Kiedis helemaal niet zo'n bijzondere zanger is, zijn stemgeluid is wel herkenbaar maar toch is toch ook erg beperkt (en irritant). Desondanks zou dat niet betekenen dat de band beter zou klinken met een andere zanger, Kiedis rapt eigenlijk en voegt ritme toe aan de sound. Verder houdt het tekstueel niet veel over maar t klinkt wel geinig. Wat ik wel leuk vind om te horen is John Frusciante, dit was vroeger mijn gitaarheld waarbij ik al zijn licks en solo's bestudeerde. Ik vind hem vandaag de dag nog steeds een waanzinnig goeie gitarist en muzikant. Helaas hoor je op dit album nog weinig van zijn iconische tweede stemmen. Het is een wel overwogen 3 sterren voor mij.

Fav song: Under the Bridge

1 hour 15! Why! If I was going to pick one Red Hot chili peppers album to try to listen to it would have been this one. But given how much I hated californication when that came up a couple of months ago I didn’t have high hopes. I was pleased surprised though. Chad, flea and John get to shine on this one and even Anthony is at his least unbearable (still unbearable though). I think there’s probably a 40 minute album in here that would get 4 stars from me. But as it is it’s a generous 3 stars.

Loads of energy and some great tracks, but not really for me

Solid effort from the Chilis

Not a fan.

Magik in parts

Dumb but fun

A lot of this isn't every good, a couple of classics salvage a low 3

Okay

I love Under the Bridge. It alone almost made this a 4 star album, but it was just too long. With too much that was just alright.

I go back and forth on Anthony Kiedis but I've always liked the RHCP's sound. This is a solid album with a few radio hits sprinkled in.

This should absolutely be replaced with stadium arcadium

Pas mon préféré

Great

Holy shit that bass is so plucky and fat and sexy I’m in love I can tell that this is gonna be a controversial album amongst this group but I’m having a great time with it (my brother loves this band) This album definitely reeks of that 90's angst and unredeemable parts of that era: the raunchy lyrics, abrasive vocals, bloated tracklist, etc. But it's all pretty good actually, I had a great time listening to it. Maybe I deserve to be back in 1992 with bleached tips and baggy jeans and an affinity for saying slurs that we can't quite say anymore in this day and age. The instrumentation was all very good, Chad Smith is a demon on those drums and adds a lot of character to the rhythm, and goddamn that bass just stuck its fingers up my ass and dug around until it hit that golden button. I've never been one to focus on bass in songs, but this album changed that for me. It was a highlight throughout the entire album. Fav Tracks: Under the Bridge I Could Have Lied

Phenomenal sound, sophomoric lyrics (mostly).

I guess I didn’t know what Red Hot Chili Peppers really sounded like? I’m not quite sure how that happened.

Some good songs on here but a lot of weird choices and terrible songs

Some excellent tracks, alot of filler

I want to like this album a lot more than I do. The musicianship on the instruments is great, and truly amazing at times. But the vocals are a mixture of half rap and half singing, with neither one being good at all. And the lyrics are truly insipid. Would probably do 3.5, but rounding down in this case.