Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Tolles Werk mit zwei markanten Songs „Give It away“ und „Under the Bridge“. Leider wirkten einige Songs des Albums aber auch wie Füllwerk.

3.0/5.0: Good

fantastic instrumentation dragged down by tedious vocals and juvenile lyrics. flea and chad smith were locked in and laid down a funky rhythm section. john frusciante came in and overlaid some absurd guitar parts; then here comes anthony kiedis to ruin it all. the vocal delivery ranges from tuneless talk singing to half hearted crooning. the discrepancy between the amount of talent possessed and effort put in by ak vs the rest of the band is absolutely mind boggling and i can't for the life of me understand why they've put up with him as the frontman for so long. without ak this would be 5 easily, with him its hard to justify more than a 3. the fact that its 74 minutes of him pulls it down to a 2 for me

The last one had ding dong ding dang, this has Doobley doo. I thought this would never end. Ding dong diddly shite.

As a card carrying RHCP hater, I have been dreading this one since I started. I did enjoy it more than I expected, by which I mean I made it through the whole album, but I still never want to hear it again.

Honestly, it's just the rap singing and lyrical content/songwriting that sinks it for me. The bass, guitar, and drumming are all are pretty great, I was just sick of listening to Kiedis by the time Suck my Kiss came on and was ready to turn it off by the time Give it Away came on.

Wow, I thought Give it Away was bad, but Sir Psycho Sexy is making me physically cringe. Why is this album so long?

Not my sort of music generally so feel I wouldn't do a review on this album justice.

Meh

tão divertido quanto furar o tímpano com um prego enferrujado!
eu odeio red hot demais. foda-se esses mano.

The Good: 4-words make up the band name, and the album name!
The Bad: Trying to decipher the meaning of the album title without reading the wiki page…
The Ugly: Finding out that the album title is but a rouse…

Back in the days when I was a younger me, and when one actually had a “record” collection, actually heading out and buying an album was a normal thing. RHCP did not fit in my record collection in the ‘80s, though I was made aware of them by a friend of mine, and it wasn’t till this “album” “dropped” in the early ‘90s that I, along with thousands of others, started paying attention to RHCP.

I was in college, and another buddy of mine had bought the CD, and we would play this album start to finish daily, multiple times on the weekend, it was the soundtrack for 1992 I guess you could say.
And 1992 was a good year for me…

Then, as life moves on, one stops listening to one album, and one startsm listening to other albums, and maybe other genres, and one forgets about certain albums.
About a year or two ago, prior to me starting this little 1001 experiment, I bumped into “Under The Bridge” on a auto generated playlist, and decided to give the album a whirl… and truth be told, I can’t recall the experience being special…

Yesterday, when this iconic album cover greeted me in the morning, I wasn’t sure what to think… and then I played the album, and I found myself sitting in my buddies car, while driving around time, talking about stupid shit that youthful people talk about, and a massive smile crossed my face.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik isn’t the greatest album in the world, however, it marked the early ‘90s, it put RHCP on the map, for better or for worse, and I have played it 3 times already today!

5* (upgraded from 4 1/2*)

My review got deleted again >:(

Crucial (er... well... sorta) points:
-This is the first parental advisory I noticed on an album cover on this site. They are rarer nowadays even though they were everywhere in my youth. Turns out that's because they only started in 1990 and are (apparently) optional!
-"If you have to ask, you'll never know" was actually in a Rugrats episode *before* this album came out, but you'd never know that if you google "where did this phrase come from".
-I do like the Chilis, but this is not my favorite album of theirs. It's kinda samey, and too much with the funk-rap for me. Also, and maybe this is just because I'm desperately behind, it felt kinda long. I'm between a 3 and 4.

Highlights: `The Righteous & the Wicked', 'Under the Bridge', 'Apache Rose Peacock' (I feel like if someone wrote a parody of a RHCP song it would be exactly this), 'They're Red Hot'

"Under The Bridge" is standing out here. The rest is more of the same songs.

Goddamnit, I do NOT want to deal with more tedious white boy ego tripping bullshit. Red Hot Chili Peppers would be a lot more enjoyable if it was just instrumental - Kiedis is awful. AWFUL.

If I found this in my household CD collection, I would give it away.

Answer: They are a bunch of White Guys with a tone deaf lead singer who fail at merging funk, rock and white boy rap.

Question: Who are the Red Hot Chili Peppers?

Good album but not as good as I remember it being. Under The Bridge is an all time classic song.

Somewhere between a 3 and 4. Has the same problem that I felt Californication had where it has a handful of really excellent songs and a couple of really poor fillers.

Bumping it up to four based on under the bridge

Way funkier than Californication, and also less consistent.

If you asked me when I was a teenager, I probably would have said I was an RHCP fan. Hell, I owned one of their shirts! That said, I never felt super passionate about them, despite wearing the fuck out of Californication, and have not listened to them with any regularity for at least 15 years now.

There seem to be two very strong camps concerning the Chili Peppers ("this is one of the worst bands to ever exist" and "y'all are dramatic af, their best stuff is awesome"), and I can honestly fall into either one of them depending on the song. As it pertains to Blood Sugar Sex Magik, I think "Breaking the Girl", "I Could Have Lied", and "Under the Bridge" are pretty fucking great. Everything else? Well...not all of it falls into "worst band ever" territory. I can't say I love "Give It Away" ("Bedrock Anthem" is lightyears better), but I don't hate it, and there are at least a few other tracks I feel relatively indifferent about. But holy shit, any interest that I might have once had in their stilted "funk" numbers has almost completely dissipated, as has my patience for Kiedis' rapping. I acknowledge and respect his distinctness, and I do think it works in moderation, but on this album in particular, he wears out his welcome with me pretty quickly. The terrible lyricism doesn't help; I love and appreciate a good nonsensical lyric when it's done right, and hell, I think there are songs on both this album and Californication where he gets away with it pretty well. For the lack of a better word, though, quite a few of these songs just sound stupid, and not in a very fun or interesting way for me.

2.5/5

Give it away now! A few good songs and a lot of filler. 3/5

This album is truly a variety pack of multiple different genres and I didn't enjoy quite a few of the songs like Give It Away and Suck My Kiss

"Now, boys... the network has a problem with some of your lyrics. Would you mind changing 'em for the show?"
"Forget you, clown."
"Hey, our lyrics are like our children, man. No way."
"Well, okay. But here, where you say, 'What I got, you gotta get and put it in you,' how about just, "What I'd like is I'd like to hug and kiss you'?"
"Wow! That's much better. Everyone can enjoy that."