Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blood Sugar Sex Magik

THE REVIEW

Uh-oh! We're informed that this review also appears (in whole or in part) in "The 500 Essential Rock Albums" by Mucchio Extra.

Let me start by saying that I liked the Red Hot Chili Peppers in middle school and now, at 19, I've understood a bit more about my life... I still wanted to review the album with which I started to get to know them...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers took a while to craft their masterpiece: seven years of official activity and a good five albums, disproving the rule that bands offer their best at the start of their careers. Their debut with Warner Bros marks the achieved maturity of the Californian quartet’s sound: an incandescent mixture of suitably "punked-up" rock'n'roll and funk with hip-hop accents flavored with sixties(teen :P) psychedelic openings, featuring seventeen episodes focused on fun, more or less explicit sexual innuendos, energy marked by Flea's volcanic bass and Chad Smith's imaginative drumming, Jack Frusciante's virtuosity, and Anthony Kiedis's chameleon-like voice. All supervised by Rick Rubin, adept at unleashing the Red Hot’s explosive power that was not fully expressed until then.

Despite not being entirely easygoing, the album opened up the path to great commercial fortunes for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, especially thanks to the alluring ballad "Under The Bridge" and the much more vigorous single "Give It Away". But the entire tracklist, from "The Power Of Equality" to other classics like "Suck My Kiss", "Naked In The Rain", showcases the creativity and intelligence of a mutant rock that would be the foundation for the developments of metal-rap. The Red Hot Chili Peppers would continue to change and gather acclaim, but it is on the solid frameworks of "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" that their legend was built.

Ded: the fond memories of middle school... and to all those who shared those moments with me... long live the '90s... long live the sexy teen