Californication is the when the Chili Peepers became a more sensible and "beatlesque" kind of band. I hear songs like Scar Tissue or parallel Universe and I'm instantly Transported back to that summer. Californiacation and By The Way( the follow up to Californiacation could have easily been a double album.

I'll bite and write a few words in regards to this album. Of course it's great. I think most would agree. So is it their first classic album. If so then it took time for the Stones to catch heat. It marked the beginning of a pretty much flawless 3 album order. Between the Button and Flowers being the other 2. This may be favorite incarnation of the Stones. Bryan Jones has more influence than it sometimes sounds. I Her Majesty's Satanic Request so the stones in my opinion were riding a wave a top the world for quite some time

Not my bag