Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Love them or hate them as people, they made a lot of cool music, a soundtrack to a lot of 90s lives.

One of my all-time favorite albums, probably a 4 but in my heart a 5

3 musical geniuses chained to a no-talent slab of beef. Every time I listen to this band I imagine Flea and Frusciante are Good Will Hunting and Kedis is the professor: "A little appreciation? Do you know how easy this is for me? Do you have any fucking idea how easy this is? This is a fucking joke! And I'm sorry you can't do this, I really am because I wouldn't have to fucking sit here and watch you fumble around and fuck it up."

I enjoyed it more than Californication, but I'm putting it in the same ballpark. I think the RHCP approach to songmaking is just not entirely my thing? Under The Bridge was, of course, excellent, and I really enjoyed Breaking the Girl, too. I've never liked Give it Away Now and I don't think I ever will. It's just not my thing!!

Yeah--it was fine. Between the last RHCP album I reviewed and this one, I found out my stepmom was really obsessed with this band when she was in high school--so thank you, 1001 Albums Generator Dot Com, for giving me the illusion of being cultured in 90s-2000s alt rock!

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

Didn't expect to enjoy it. But great album!

fave tracks: I Could Have Lied

There's a half way decent 35 minute album hiding in here somewhere, but this didn't need to be nearly an hour and a half long.

Excellent playing, although it doesnt quite get away from the idea that P-Funk did it first, but some of the songs are pretty ordinary and whoever told Keidis that he could write lyrics needs to reconsider their life choices. Most of them are at the level of "Baa Baa Motherfuckin' Black Sheep."

I'm thinking the Greatest Hits compilation might fill my Chili Pepper needs

This is not a top RHCP album for me, that is Californication. Some good stuff and variety in styles, which is nice. Kinda long tbh. 4*
Highlights: give it away, under the bridge

Three talented musicians... and Anthony Kiedis.

Suffering till Under The Bridge and then suffering again

In all my years of having this on my iPod, I don't remember listening to it the whole way through very often. That's probably because it's about 30 mins too long, and has many mediocre-to-terrible songs.

There are some great ones on here, don't get me wrong! Breaking the Girl, I Could Have Lied, Give It Away, Under the Bridge. Everything else is pretty solid musically, because the band are great. But the singing, rapping and lyrics, are largely terrible. Anthony Kiedis is also an unapologetic child rapist, which I find hard to set aside.

Favorite track(s): The Power of Equality, Breaking the Girl, Funky Monks, Suck My Kiss, Give it Away, Under the Bridge, Sir Psycho Sexy

Heard before
Previous rating: 7/10

was background for room tidying

The good news is that this is the last album from RHCP I'll ever be forced to listen to, since I got Californication fucking yesterday.

The bad news is that this is mostly shit.

Music made by edgelord wannabes who really wanted to tell the world the very topical message that the KKK's philosophy is bad. In 1991. How daring. This shit is so white the melanin of my tanned skin left me.

At LEAST the album has energy, which Californication lacked, but I wish that energy was used on doing something more intelligent and bearable.

Really enjoyed it.

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

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.

Siempre me habia pensado que los red hot eran un poco los imagine dragons de los tios que creen que la musica murió con kurt cobain, pero que va, hay aquí un disco bastante chulito de rock y canciones guapas, me ha gustado mucho más de lo que esperaba.

oh god

1.7

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