Blood Sugar Sex Magik

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this is "Breaking the Girl" vs "Under the Bridge"

that this band got megapopular is one of the worst things about the 90s; to what extent a band is responsible for the shittiness of their audience is debatable I guess, but the mooks were responding to something the band did that they didn't get in, say, Fishbone, so I blame the band.

I voted "Suck My Kiss" btw

the righteous and the wicked for the chorus

the mooks were responding to something the band did that they didn't get in, say, Fishbone

http://www.jannuslive.com/wp-content/uploads/fishbone1.jpeg
http://heartlessmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/red-hot-chili-peppers.jpg

what could that "something" be, I just can't put my finger on it...

more blatant homoeroticism?

btw i voted sir psycho sexy because he has sex with a lady cop

you can vote for RHCP for more blatant homoeroticism if you want, but back in high school I had a giant sized coral and canteloupe-colored poster of Angelo Moore wearing nothing but a saxophone.

this is "Breaking the Girl" vs "Under the Bridge"

smdh

i don't even hate these guys (though i don't like them, really, either) but who votes for rhcp BALLADS?

(answer: hi dere.)

their ballads are their only songs I like

"Give It Away" would have been 3rd place

I think the question is more "who votes for uptempo RHCP post-Uplift Mofo Party Plan?" </iwasthere>

you are all insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJNFT8G_VP0&feature=player_embedded

I mean, I can't actually vote for "Get Up And Jump" or "Catholic School Girls Rule" or "Special Secret Song Inside" in this poll

probably the worst band of all time...what total morons.

When I was rolling in the deep for this record ca. 1991-1998, my song of choice was "Mellowship Slinky in B Major." In the unlikely even anyone on this board has actually heard me play drums, this song was v. integral in my technique and freaky styley.

In my old age, I think I might go with "Breaking The Girl," sorry strongo

I used to say Uplift was their best album but in retrospect it really is Freaky Styley

In the unlikely even anyone on this board has actually heard me play drums, this song was v. integral in my technique and freaky styley.

come on, man. i even bought a damn t-shirt to keep you in road food for another day.

who votes for rhcp BALLADS?

seriously! Like RHCP ballads vs. Guns N Roses ballads that's like having to choose which of two turds stinks less

The track "Yertle the Turtle" incorporates several verses directly from Dr. Seuss' poem also named "Yertle the Turtle." As stated by Kiedis in his autobiography, Scar Tissue, the spoken lyrics at the beginning saying "Look at that turtle go bro." and throughout the song were by George Clinton's drug dealer who demanded debts be paid by Clinton. Unable to repay the dealer, Clinton offered him a part in the album.[14]

huh

XD

"Suck My Kiss."

man this album is exhibit a of CD-era bloat.

Look at that turtle go... bro

btw anthony kiedis's autobiography is pretty entertaining, unfortunately including the schadenfreude-y lolz of the "...and i'll never do heroin again" stuff.

Either "Apache Rose Peacock" or "Sir Psycho Sexy". Although it has probably been 10 years since I've heard this in full.

All those titles are interchangeable. "Sir Apache Rose Kiss Suck."

When my wife and I were in the car the other day, some DJ was talking about the new album and my wife goes, "and how many fucking songs about California this time? We get it already". I was sort of disappointed that not one single song title referred to the state.

man this album is exhibit a of CD-era bloat.

I'm old school enough that I remember this album as an exhibit of cassette bloat!

there was a lot of tape on those spools.

yeah i remember this feeling like one of the longest cassettes i owned at the time

I have no idea what I'll pick for the poll. This will require re-listening. The chorus to this song sort of vaguely emerged to me through the mists of time and so I went and looked up the lyrics to further refresh my memory.

Naked in the rain with a killer whale
I can't taste the salt when I lick his tail

Should send these guys around to Jack White in my opinion.

the lyrics to this whole album are like if you asked sloth from the goonies to write a prince song

Operatic by voice
A fanatic by choice
Aromatic is the flower
She must be moist

btw i voted sir psycho sexy because he has sex with a lady cop

in his auto-mo-beel

omg yes the first three albums are on Spotify

peace out y'all, gonna relive 5th - 7th grade

In the July '92 Details sex issue, Anthony Kieldis contributed an essay in which he insisted, citing those verses ship posted, that he loved women – he was no misogynist, he insisted.

He wants to party on your pussy, iirc.

breaking the girl, easy

oh fuck how did I forget about "Sex Rap"

Freaky Styley owns

this would be a cool band if they had a real drummer

man this album is exhibit a of CD-era bloat.

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yeah i was gonna say this is like the only one of the '91 rock blockbusters (i.e. poll: megaselling rock albums released in 1991) besides Use Your Illusion that was just heinously overlong. my brother owned it but i'm not sure i ever got through the whole thing more than once (although that one time i remember blasting it in the back yard and having a ball).

TamTam otm, about "Breaking The Girl" (prob my fav RHCP song ever) and the drummer

it's a pity neither RHCP nor Pearl Jam or any other huge band kept Jack Irons

I think I remember the VHS of this album more clearly than the album.
Like when they are banging that tree against the floor for the end of Breaking the Girl.

this would be a cool band if they had a real drummer

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, August 31, 2011 3:54 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

TamTam otm, about "Breaking The Girl" (prob my fav RHCP song ever) and the drummer

― lil dawg (some dude), Wednesday, August 31, 2011 3:55 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what a perfect pair of idiots right here ^

it's excessively harsh, he's not bad or anything, but sometimes i feel like he's a little flatfooted for a rhythm section whose other half is flea (and not necessarily in a grounding yin/yang way)

lol I was about to vociferously defend the drumming on the first three albums before it occurred to me to check to see when their original drummer left

I think Smith is a pretty great drummer, but I also don't think he's always as "white boy funky" as Flea is and sort of sounds of place as a result.

i do like blood sugar a lot but, as with everything they released after it, i wouldn't miss about 20 minutes of it.

insane that "soul to squeeze" didn't make it. the guitar work on that song. yeah.

xpost -- "Yeah man, even the groupies. What?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBL5XPu1zyE

I think Chad is a plodding drummer. Just compare him to the Mother's Milk track with Fish playing drums. But Chad has gotten better, at least good enough that Rubin started to tap him as a session dude. There's a funny bit in the Dixie Chicks doc when Chad tells one of the Chicks that the RHCP split everything equally, four ways, and her jaw just drops.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, August 31, 2011 5:48 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark

i was trying to be nice but yeah, plodding's exactly the word for it. also lol at that anecdote

In the B&W documentary they made about the recording of this album in that haunted Rick Rubin mansion up Laurel Canyon (which I loved), they show Flea and Frusciante banging a pipe against a broken toilet (or some disused plumbing), during the BANG BANG BANG part in the breakdown of "Breaking the Girl" - it blew my mind!

I also like the title track of this album.

I saw Kiedis on tv yesterday. he looks like a child molester.

lol i feel like Kiedis's creepy mustache is the best change he's made to his look in ages

in my mind this is a really good album but i also have no memory of about half of these songs

yes

voted If You Have To Ask because IIRC Kiedis did some funny voices that were fun to sing along to while getting dressed for school

In the B&W documentary they made about the recording of this album in that haunted Rick Rubin mansion up Laurel Canyon (which I loved), they show Flea and Frusciante banging a pipe against a broken toilet (or some disused plumbing), during the BANG BANG BANG part in the breakdown of "Breaking the Girl" - it blew my mind!

me too!

the percussion on that record is so sick -- their only radio staple i never turn off

I remember reading Chad Smith said he bit his drum part from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jDkuG3dMS8

ah makes sense -- another song i love!

"breaking the girl" is great, maybe my favorite. then again i could never ever get into their funk shit

this seems as good a place as any to ask if there's a recording out there of the rhcp + oren ambarchi (!!!) collabo. I heard that he came out for a show and played on a 20min version of "give it away" or something like that. weird.

http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/news/oren_ambarchi_plays_with_red_h.html

"Under The Brige". Probably their best ever song.

oren ambarchi came out for a show and played on a 20min version of "give it away"

WOULD LISTEN

I seem to be the only one who likes "The Greeting Song"! Kiedis personally dissed it as a throwaway album filler written at the behest of Rick Rubin. I think it's one of the album's highlights, one of those songs that makes me want to jump around the room whenever it comes on.

"Breaking the Girl" got my vote, but it could have many others. Rarely has a band seemed so cocky and full of swagger one moment, and so vulnerable and dejected in others.

I love the percussion on "Give It Away".

Rick Rubin's greatest production IMO.

Is this album a subtle homage to Led Zeppelin IV?

Breaking The Girl = the mellotron is the same Flutes setting used on Stairway To Heaven
The Righteous and The Wicked = ends with a very similar lick as the opening A minor of Stairway To Heaven
Blood Sugar Sex Magik = Drum intro/tempo sounds not to dissimilar to When The Levee Breaks
Greeting Song (2:02 -2:29 ) = Stairway to Heaven build to crescendo (furthermore the telecaster lead sounds a bit like Achilles Last Stand)
Sir Psycho Sexy (5:37 - end) = The end of Battle of Evermore (a stretch, more like "She's So Heavy")
They're Red Hot = A Robert Johnson cover you say?

I've always heard alot of Zep influence in RHCP, espcially this album, although more Physical Graffiti than IV. Alot of songs here seem cut from the same cloth as "The Rover", "Ten Years Gone" or "In The Light".

both recorded in a house

This record gets me thinking about diabetes too much.

did you intentionally make this poll close on the 20th anniversary of this album's release?

i didn't start it with the 20th anniversary in mind, but when I grabbed the track names from wikipedia I saw that it had come out in September.

there's a ton of shit from 1991 that holds up better than this album imo

Indubitably.

Ha! This dropped on the same day as Nevermind, Trompe le Monde, the debut album from Kyuss, Prong's Prove You Wrong, Screamadelica, and the Low End Theory.

there's a ton of shit from 1991 that holds up better than this album imo

―  (gr8080), Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:42 PM (7 minutes ago)

Toad The Wet Sprocket?

The week before had Use Your Illusion, Pretty on the Inside, Pod, and No More Tears. Then the week after came Diamonds and Pearls and Apocalypse '91... The Enemy Strikes Black. 8th grade fucking ruled.

Toad The Wet Sprocket?

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:50 PM (27 minutes ago)

no but I'd probably skip a track on this before Sailing the Seas Of Cheese.

i linked this upthread already but poll: megaselling rock albums released in 1991

had the making of this album on video, much better than the album itself

this: I love the percussion on "Give It Away" OTM and gets my vote

Finally got to listen to the second half of this. I had remembered the "Sir Psycho Sexy" coda being much more majestic than it was. I was hoping to vote for that song on the basis of the coda alone.

I think my top 5 for this would be something like:

1.)Righteous and the Wicked
2.)Blood Sugar Sex Magik
3.)Power of Equality
4.)Naked in the Rain
5.)Mellowship Slinky in B Major

Anyway, this poll is wrapping up in a couple days, when Blood Sugar Sex Magik will turn as old as Maggot Brain at the time when Blood Sugar Sex Magic was released.

CD (1992)
1. "Under the Bridge" – 4:24
2. "Sikamikanico" (Previously Unreleased) – 3:23
3. "Soul to Squeeze" (Previously Unreleased) – 4:50
4. "Search and Destroy" (Previously Unreleased) – 3:34

add Breaking the Girl and Greeting Song to this, and this would be a killer EP...

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Soul To Squeeze was good, John Frusciante is good. These Peppers are not without merit.

Probably the only one voting on this one, but went with "My Lovely Man"... once it settles down a couple minutes in, it has some killer Frusciante work, maybe his best stuff.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wow!

wow--ilm otm

Also, during the recording of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik, more unusual things occurred. Consequently, drummer Chad Smith chose to not live in the house during the recording. Guitarist John Frusciante considered the ghosts friendly, so he decided to masturbate in front of one.[4]

my groin aches

this cover is burned in to my adolescent memory

http://i.imgur.com/ouALG.jpg

was Frusicante stalinned out of that or had he left before the shoot?

hard to say -- the cover also refers to the l.a. riots, which happened less than a month before frusciante quit

i think that was after he left cos at the VMA's they had that swedish guy with them

shot while still w/ band, had quit right before issue went to press hence stalined out.
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No votes for 'Mellowship Slinky In B Major' or 'The Greeting Song', but three votes for 'The Righteous & The Wicked'!? Okay.

I seem to be the only one who likes "The Greeting Song"!

i think it's great, some of the best guitar work on the record. kiedis only disses it bc rubin told him to write a lyric about cars and girls and for some reason he found that to be alien to his artistic impulses lol

would've voted for "my lovely man." i like it in isolation but i think "apache rose peacock" is the only song that makes the second half drag

really sorry if i start a californication poll in the next week

I'm really surprised that there doesn't seem to be one titled CaliPOLLnication or something like that.