I've had been meaning to hear this album for a long time. This is supposed to be the RHCP album to own.
As for the later stuff, I still think By the Way has it's strong points, and Stadium Arcadium isn't terrible, but not great either. It's too long and gets rather boring through a good portion of it. I agree with jackhammer that the Rick Rubin produced stuff can be pretty bland.
The older, pre-BSSM stuff sounds interesting, but I've never really gave it a real listen though. It seemed like they did have more of a sense of humor back then. That could be very good or very bad, depending. I'll probably give BSSM my own fair shake eventually. I did enjoy the review though.
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