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RHCP at their best! While the Chili Peppers didn't achieve major success until their '92 album 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik' there's no denying that the music they put out before that was mostly great. Overall this is a great compilation with a good variety in songs and videos to go with them! Details Edit. Country of origin United States. Technical specs Edit. Color Color. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Edit page. See the entire gallery. Remembering the Stars We Lost in Watch the video.

That isn't to say the album isn't great, just that each individual song is less distinct. It's the kind of album you'd do well to pop into your car's stereo for a mellow drive with the windows rolled down.

There are exceptions to By the Way 's chill, melodic nature—"Can't Stop," for example, weaves in some harsher guitar riffs and mild "yelling," as your mom might call it—but for the most part, this is an album for those who prefer the Peppers' softer side. Kiedis convincingly ditches rapping for crooning on the lovely "Dosed" and "Tear," and the Beach Boys-inspired harmonies are a nice touch.

The band gets some extra kudos for using the word zephyr in a song title. Look up "transitional album" in the dictionary and you'll find Mother's Milk. Reeling from the loss of founding guitarist Slovak who died and drummer Irons who jumped ship , the Peppers recruited year-old Frusciante and a long-haired metalhead named Chad Smith and realized their best work was still ahead.

Mother's Milk contains the best of both eras: testosterone-fueled funk from the band's '80s heyday "Subway to Venus," "Johnny, Kick a Hole in the Sky" and compelling hints of more melodic fare "Taste the Pain," "Knock Me Down". The record brought the group its first taste of mainstream success and paved the way for a major-label deal as thousands of scolding parents looked on in horror. Californication marked both the triumphant return of Frusciante after his first departure and the turning point for the band's more subdued, MTV-friendly direction.

The record went on to sell over 15 million copies worldwide, and you'd be hard-pressed to count all the hits on one hand—"Scar Tissue," "Californication," "Around the World," "Otherside. The songs on Californication linger—you'll want to hear some of them over and over. Most rock radio stations won't give you a choice. Their self-titled debut helped the Peppers establish a following, but the band knew they could do better—the recording was not as raw and funky as they felt it could have been.

Enter George Clinton, whom the band convinced to produce the follow-up effort, 's Freaky Styley. With Slovak back on guitar, the Peppers clicked immediately with the Parliament frontman, and the result is a roller-coaster collection of weird, subversive funk, punk and rap that would come to define the band's pre- Blood Sugar Sex Magik identity. Here's where it all clicked: a haunted mansion, tight band chemistry, Frusciante's consistently remarkable playing, strong singles and an indispensable collaborator in Rubin.

If you lived through the '90s, Blood Sugar Sex Magik is the cassette tape you treasured when Mom and Dad weren't looking. It's the closest thing to a masterpiece in the RHCP canon. Plus, it's the only million-selling album ever to contain the lyric "There's a devil in my dick and some demons in my semen. Saturday 31 July Sunday 1 August Monday 2 August Tuesday 3 August Wednesday 4 August Thursday 5 August Friday 6 August Saturday 7 August Sunday 8 August Monday 9 August Tuesday 10 August Wednesday 11 August Thursday 12 August Friday 13 August Saturday 14 August Sunday 15 August Monday 16 August Tuesday 17 August Wednesday 18 August Thursday 19 August Friday 20 August Saturday 21 August Sunday 22 August Monday 23 August Tuesday 24 August Wednesday 25 August Thursday 26 August Friday 27 August Saturday 28 August Sunday 29 August Monday 30 August Tuesday 31 August Wednesday 1 September Thursday 2 September Friday 3 September Saturday 4 September Sunday 5 September Monday 6 September Tuesday 7 September Wednesday 8 September Thursday 9 September Friday 10 September Saturday 11 September Sunday 12 September Monday 13 September Tuesday 14 September Wednesday 15 September Thursday 16 September Friday 17 September Saturday 18 September Sunday 19 September Monday 20 September Tuesday 21 September Wednesday 22 September Thursday 23 September Friday 24 September Saturday 25 September Sunday 26 September Monday 27 September Tuesday 28 September Wednesday 29 September Thursday 30 September Friday 1 October Saturday 2 October Sunday 3 October Monday 4 October Tuesday 5 October Wednesday 6 October Thursday 7 October Friday 8 October Saturday 9 October Sunday 10 October Monday 11 October Tuesday 12 October