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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 2419
Released: September 24, 1991 |
| Our Price: $6.97 |
| Used Price: $1.73 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Blood Sugar Sex Magik Track Listing:
1. Power of Equality
2. If You Have To Ask
3. Breaking The Girl
4. Funky Monks
5. Suck My Kiss
6. I Could Have Lied
7. Mellowship Slinky In B Major
8. Righteous and the Wicked, The
9. Give It Away
10. Blood Sugar Sex Magik
11. Under The Bridge
12. Naked In The Rain
13. Apache Rose Peacock
14. Greeting Song
15. My Lovely Man
16. Sir Psycho Sexy
17. They're Red Hot
Editorial Review:
Limited edition Japanese pressing of the 1991 album comes packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Featuring some of the band's best known moments ('Under The Bridge', 'Give It Away', 'Breaking The Girl' and 'Suck My Kiss', this was the band's breakthrough album that turned them into worldwide arena superstars. WP. 2006.
Description of Blood Sugar Sex Magik:
With valuable assistance from producer Rick Rubin, the Peppers find just the right blend of punk, funk, and hip-hop. Even with a running time of 74 minutes, this 1991 breakthrough has continuity and cohesion both within and across the 17 cuts. Riding Flea's surging bass, Anthony Kiedis delivers his explicit lyrics with a rapper's flair, extolling the virtues (and outlining the dangers) of sex and drugs. Plaintive ballads such as "Breaking the Girl," "I Could Have Lied," and the hit "Under the Bridge" give the album depth and provide contrast to the raw energy of "Mellowship Slinky in B Major," "Funky Monks," and "Give It Away." Rubin masterfully fuses John Frusciante's raunchy guitar with the irresistible grooves. --Marc Greilsamer
Blood Sugar Sex Magik Reviews:
In their elements 
2009-09-26 - Unlike later efforts, Rubin actually did streamline all the Chili Pepper's flavorful funk-rock divisions into a most cohesive effort to date, even with light latter-half repetition.
RED HOT CHILI-PEPPERS BEST 
2009-09-17 - This is one of the best pop albums produced in the 90's. "Give It Away", "Under the Bridge", and "Breaking the Girl" are all enormously popular radio anthems by now, but every single song on this CD is great. This album has an energetic yet layered sound which draws you in . If you want some hard-hitting songs, try "The Greeting Song" or "Give It Away". If you want some songs you can just sit back and listen to, try "Breaking The Girl" or "I Could Have Lied". This album is definately RED HOT CHILI-PEPPERS best.
The album that defined the band.
2009-07-08 - This album is pure joy, moment by moment, from start to finish. I don't think there's a lacklustre second on the whole album. When I first heard this I was about 13 or 14, and just getting into guitar. I can honestly say that if I hadn't heard this album my life would have been very different.
The energy that the musicians manage to get onto this album is astounding.
Of all the music that the Chili Peppers have done over the years, I think this album is the one that defined the band. Up to this point they were musos that were really into funk and being silly, without depth to their songs. After this point they seem confused and addled by their own success, and have tried to carry the flame that burned so bright on this album for another (nearly) two decades after it was a natural statement. On this album, there is a convergence of forces that is truly rare and extremely special. Things like this don't happen very often.
Phenominal
2009-05-11 - Overall, RHCP is probably one of the single most influential bands in the history of music. I've read some reviews stating that the band, (this album in particular) is just another has-been alternative rock band. However, RHCP are way much more than just another alternative rock band. Firstly, John Frusciante was ranked at number 16 on the Rolling Stone's top 100 guitarists of all time. People are really only ragging on this album in particular because it was the first album to REALLY achieve mainstream success. For some reason, people have it in their heads that as soon as a band achieves big success, they stop being good. These people are idiots. The music is undeniably great. It has an edgy tone to it yet certain songs like "Under the Bridge" and "I Could Have Lied" show the versatility of the band. Point and case, don't believe the "this band sucks" hype. They are phenomenal and hopefully will forever be recognized for the great artists they are.
Surfie funk metal hits the bright lights
2009-03-27 - Really delivering a smash hit for the band this album captured that California funk rock persona so perfectly it's hit singles are probably forever etched into the memory banks of everyone who was 13-25 years old at the time. Playing it again after all these years is a fun but slightly confusing experience. After all the non single like Mellowship Slinky in B Major, Naked in the Rain, My Lovely Man, The Greeting Song....who on earth was listening to this stuff. Well nobody I know that's for sure. Silly, juvenile, drug addled and overly self conscious (look ma, no brains!).Who was listening to the singles like Suck My Kiss, Under the Bridge, Give It Away etc? Well darn near everybody!! Some of these songs have become radio staples and have entered into popular culture in a multi generational manner.
Ultimately this album was so successful it's hard to review objectively and besides just how many uninitiated people are out there who haven't already heard it? However my two cents worth can be somewhat summed up by a quote from my girlfriend of the time who after hearing Give It Away said `Wow, it sounds like RHCP have finally written an almost normal song.' To expand, what the band had achieved here was to bridge the gap between their more nonsensical slacker/drug loser persona and the mainstream culture that demanded musical signatures that could be used as something to hold onto.
The band achieved this with whimsical lyrics married to a rollicking rhythm section that after a few earlier albums had really hit it's communicative stride. This new found synergy and discipline allowed rockers such as Suck My Kiss to really cut through with identifiable riffs and melodies. It also allowed the more alternative/weird chorus section of Breaking the Girl to be centred in a coherent setting and therefore be even more striking. Not to mention the beautiful Under the Bridge which many probably consider to be the bands best 4:24 even after all these years.
A band that had the surfies fired up, the teenage girls squealing and even the heavy rocker fans on board. What's not to love? Oh year, all those non single songs....well I guess it all still equates to a score of four stars.
