Californication (Remastered)Red Hot Chili Peppers · 1999

rollingstone

8.0

“Let’s keep it real: white boys do not have to be funky; they only have to rock, and that the Red Hot Chili Peppers do quite wickedly, thank you. Historically, though, RHCP albums have been long on sock-it-to-me passion but short on the songcraft that made their hero George Clinton’s most acid-addled experiments lyrically haunting […]”

pitchfork

6.8

“I actually frightened friends of mine when I declared that I was looking forward to the new Red Hot Chili Peppers record. Dan simply replied sardonically, "Dooooode." *BloodSugarSexMagik* was the first CD I ever purchased. Listening to a CD on headphones after a decade of cassettes was revelatory. Faint, echoing harmonies, popping bass, and crisp, finger- lickin' guitar swirled in my ears. (In ret”

KoKo

7.8

“This one’s delicious A really enjoyable listen late at night, and my favourite RHCP album (second of course to by the way). I do however find it to be kinda inconsistent, I sometimes feel like im getting tempo whiplash listening to this. But thats not always a bad thing in my opinion Top 3: Otherside Scar tissue Saviour Bottom 2: Fat dance Emit remmus”

“- dieses lange uuuuuh auf dem gitarrenriff von around the world episch - gibt wenig animalischeres (& echteres) als den schrei - scar tissue der beste song der welt - die snare vor dem drop auf easily kommt hart - der melancholische riff auf easily *__* - fat dance underrated banger - bisschen lang zum ende hin und die meisten hymnen b2b am anfang”