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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
Okay, that's absolute rubbish. Even if you hated everything they produced in the last decade, Blood Sex Sugar Magik was a great, great album, and it got them out there. It was in the heyday of grunge and along came RHCP, a band that could actually carry a tune without looking like a bunch of hobos that got waylaid by a city bus.
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I think you need to do a little fact checking on your music history there.
Blood Sugar Sex Magik wasn't released during the heyday of grunge, it was released just a couple months
before grunge popped into the mainstream, during the final moments of the hair band era. Sh
it like Extreme's "More Than Words" was still dominating the rock airwaves and Nirvana's
Nevermind, the album that eventually broke grunge to the world, was released the
exact same day as
Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Also, it's not as if this time period is when the Chili Peppers first made an appearance, they weren't the biggest band in the world or anything but they had already been around for 8 years by 1991 and had a couple of minor hits, videos on MTV, movie appearances, and a fairly large fanbase.
I was a huge RHCP fan before
Blood Sugar Sex Magik. I remember how excited I was in the summer of 1991 when I heard they had a new album coming out. The first time I heard it was at a birthday BBQ at my friend's house and I can clearly remember how disappointed I was by how much it sucked. Gone was the energy and fun and the funk and punk of their previous four albums and in it's place was some lame approximation of classic rock. Such a bummer. And then, to add insult to injury, the album got
huge and on the back of what was easily the worst song they had written up to that point, "Under the Bridge".