Blood Sugar Sex Magik

DesVegas

it was the outro to Sir Psycho Sexy that got me into wanting to learn the guitar

stickyfiddle

BSSM's highs are extremely high but I don't love it overall. It's a bit long. Almost every record they've made is a bit long. 

By The Way is too long. SA is WAY too long. Everything since is diminishing returns. Everything pre-BSSM is meh 

Californication is perfection. 

Deadman

BSSM was the reason I picked up the guitar. Age 21. That’s all I need to say.

english_bob

stickyfiddle said:

Everything pre-BSSM is meh 

Agreed. Get "What Hits!?" and rest easy knowing you're not missing anything.

Deadman

You guys don’t rate Mother's Milk? It’s a great album, I don’t think there’s a weak track on there, it’s listenable all the way through. Knock me down is on there for Gawds sake. 

 I do actually dig most of the earlier stuff too, just not every track on every album, admittedly. There’s some absolute gems though. Police helicopter, Skinny sweaty man, Me and my friends, Hollywood, Funky crime, Behind the sun, Fight like a brave, If you want me to stay, Blackeyed blonde, Yertle the turtle, Get up and jump…and I even love Catholic schoolgirls rule. 

I must be in the minority. These songs all kick some serious arse.

BSSM will always be their best for me but I listen to the earlier stuff a damn sight more than I do post 1991.

edit: and I almost forgot Thirty dirty birds! Some of their live renditions of that were legendary. Funky as fuck. 

stickyfiddle

Nah, I don’t think anyone really rates MM anywhere the obvious top 3 unless they were 14-19 when it came out. 

theatreanchor

stickyfiddle said:

Nah, I don’t think anyone really rates MM unless they were 14-19 when it came out. 

That would be me. 

gusman2x

What’s the documentary, “Funky Monks”?

theatreanchor

gusman2x said:

What’s the documentary, “Funky Monks”?

Ja. 

gusman2x

theatreanchor said:

gusman2x said:

What’s the documentary, “Funky Monks”?

Ja. 

Sweet, will check it out. 

dindude

Was playing in school six-form bands at the time it came out and all my friends were heavily into it. Kinda of appreciated it but couldn’t get over the dumbness of the lyrics and testosterone sound then and still can’t. I spent my time trying to convince them to listen to REM and Living Colour. 

Aidanspaghetti

Great album but I also love One hot minute. 

PotentialDonkey

There's some good songs. But the good songs are the ones that are on the Greatest Hits album. The rest I can pass. I grew up in the Californication/By the Way/Stadium Arcadium eras.

IMHO, RHCP have not released anything good since Stadium Arcadium. Bringing back John Frusciante didn't fix anything!

Deadman

stickyfiddle said:

Nah, I don’t think anyone really rates MM anywhere the obvious top 3 unless they were 14-19 when it came out. 

They were once my number one band, I lived and breathed them as a 21 year old and had to have all their stuff. I was 19 when MM was released but didn’t discover them until Under the bridge hit the charts, like a lot of people at the time.

Barely listen to them nowadays, mind but BSSM still gets my juices flowing.

GoFish

Love Angel Music Baby.

That shows the cultural import of BSSM. It's big, dumb, and fun but in a completly different way to the 80s and hair era. Kind of alternative but also mainstream adjacent. I'm not the world's biggest RHCP fan but t me it's the album they'll forever be remembered for.

Cols

Mother’s Milk, BSSM and One Hot Minute were, for me, the high water mark of the Chili’s output.  For the third one, Dave Navarro brought a different hard rock sound and a higher level of technical proficiency married to Flea’s outstandingly funky bass.

After that, they kind of went soft - more melodic at the expense of their funk roots.  The latest two albums are a real return to form though.

mburekenge

I'm still a huge Peppers fan. Given Rick Rubin's reputation for trimming things down, Stadium Arcadium could (should) have been trimmed to an awesome single disk, and the last two doubles could be condensed into one really good single sided album.

chris78

BSSM is a great album, but frankly whether it’s BSSM, Californication, By The Way, Stadium Arcadium or the more recent stuff, they seem to release everything they’ve written, rather than consider whether it’s any good.
Even on californication, which is probably the album that’s the most complete, they could have made an even better 8 track album. The last 2 albums are the same- there’s one great album in there of 8-10 tracks

stickyfiddle

chris78 said:

BSSM is a great album, but frankly whether it’s BSSM, Californication, By The Way, Stadium Arcadium or the more recent stuff, they seem to release everything they’ve written, rather than consider whether it’s any good.
Even on californication, which is probably the album that’s the most complete, they could have made an even better 8 track album. The last 2 albums are the same- there’s one great album in there of 8-10 tracks

Completely agree. A firmer producer who forces them to edit themselves would help. Taylor Swift is the same - Midnights and TTPD are both WAY too long. 

Same for Ryan Adams too, tho in his case it’s that he just spunks out sensibly-lengthed albums but puts out like 3 a year rather than picking the best 3 songs off each and put out one really amazing record every other year. 

Kurtis

I have a soft spot for by the way as it holds good memories.

They do tend to have one or two songs per album that I'm not that keen on. 
Just trying to be different I suppose.