1001 Albums Summary

What to say about this album? There are some songs that I truly love. We've got the "classics": Californication, Otherside, Scar Tissue etc. They might not necessarily be considered musical masterpieces, but one has got to hand it to them the fact that they're incredibly crazy catchy! I've always fallen straight flat down on my face smash-hard for the poetic, clever lyrics in Californication. Also kinda for the pun in the title itself, find it corny or not. The wild amount of references and sharp stabs on the dirty world that is showbiz in this song... *chef's kiss*! If you don't know what I'm talking about, go explore, you won't be disappointed. There's tons to unpack here. My personal second favorite's gotta be Otherside. The perfect beat that starts pulsing 33 seconds into and then throughout the rest of the song, the sad, bittersweet melodies of the guitar and the singing that somehow clash together into one swirly unit, the waves in Kiedis' voice and the harmonies added one by one as the song goes on. Actually, I changed my mind on these songs not being musical masterpieces. Just play this on my funeral already! Now, the reason I'm not rating this album higher is of course due to some tracks that happen to be either really boring or downright off-putting (they know who they are), and much like the way I skip those songs while listening to the album, I choose to skip them in this review as well. Yup. That's all, folks!