The Red Hot Chili Peppers is easily one of the bastions of rock. Formed in 1983, Anthony Kiedis and company have maintained their touring ways and continued churning out singles and albums well into the late 2010s, proving the lasting power of their brand of music. On the occasion of the band’s 25th year, let’s rank three of RHCP’s most critically acclaimed and celebrated albums.
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Mother's Milk
This is the first gathering of the band’s most enduring lineup of Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, and Chad Smith. The band’s fourth album doesn’t have as many hits as the rest on this list, but it’s where we can find the band’s infectious take on Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground,” which aided in the album reaching the top 20 of Billboard’s Modern Rock Chart. It is also RCHP’s first album under the Capitol label.
Californication
This 1999 album is easily the most popular for the sheer number of hits alone, from “Otherside” and “Scar Tissue” to “Around the World” and the title track. The band managed to reimagine their sound for the new millennium, with more haunting guitars riffs and steady backbeats without compromising the band’s funk roots.
By the Way
Just three years after the wild, unprecedented success of Californication, RHCP proved that they were not falling the way of complacency, releasing this super melodic yet gritty offering that can easily be labeled the go-to album of modern rock. The funk aspects are still there, but the experimentations with sound design and vocal harmonies are all over the place. This “new sound” is epitomized by “The Zephyr Song” and the album’s title track.
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Hi, I’m Steven Scansaroli and I’m a sophomore engineering student at the College of New Jersey. I’m a huge fan of rock music, and my favorite is the Red Hot Chili Peppers. More of my writingshere.
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