Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood, Sugar, Sex, magik
Red Hot Chili PeppersBLOOD SUGAR
SEX MAGIK.
Blood Sugar Sex Magik moved the Red Hot Chili Peppers away from a conventional studio and into a mansion, where Rick Rubin helped turn the band's live chemistry into its commercial breakthrough.
Album artwork shown for commentary and historical reference. Cover image source: Cover Art Archive or the linked archival source.
SEVEN THINGS
WORTH KNOWING.
Recording stories, personnel, physical details and numbers worth keeping with the record.
Blood Sugar Sex Magik was released on September 24, 1991 and contains 17 tracks.
Rick Rubin produced the album.
The band recorded much of the record at the mansion later associated with Rubin's Laurel Canyon sessions.
The lineup was Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante and Chad Smith.
The album includes "Give It Away," "Under the Bridge," "Suck My Kiss" and "Breaking the Girl."
"Under the Bridge" exposed a much more melodic side of the band than many listeners associated with its earlier records.
Blood Sugar Sex Magik became the album that pushed the Red Hot Chili Peppers from alternative success into mainstream rock stardom.
WHY THIS
ALBUM MATTERS.
The album matters because it makes the band's extremes coexist: dry funk, heavy guitar, vulnerable ballads and loose live interplay all feel like parts of the same record.
THE
NUMBERS.
TRACKS
The album stretches across seventeen songs.
CORE MEMBERS
Kiedis, Flea, Frusciante and Smith made the record together.
RELEASE
The album arrived in September 1991.
THE
PHYSICAL OBJECT.
The black-and-white tattoo-like artwork is dense with intertwined imagery, giving the package the same mixture of sensuality and abrasion found in the music.
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DIGGING.
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