(This song in particular is a favorite of mine to send into the rhythm bot chats on discord when my buds are jamming to their chill video game jams)

Kiedis also began writing songs depicting his agony and depressive state due to his addiction to cocaine and heroin. The song "Under the Bridge" was actually a poem written by Kiedis describing the moment he believes was the lowest moment in his life under a bridge in downtown Los Angeles. A month after the open was written, it was discovered by their producer and it became a song. Another song that was very obviously a song about anguish was I Could Have Lied, which was written after Kiedis' relationship with his girlfriend went sour almost over night.

“I was shattered. It had gone overnight from ‘Can’t wait to see you again’ to ‘Don’t call and don’t come by.’"

The song was then written in a night with Frusciante, all the while Jimmy Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower played on loop for lyrical inspiration.

The third song on the album and the more harmonious of the album Breaking the Girl (which also serves as my phones ringtone) is about Kiedis constantly changing relationships and his fear that he was becoming his womanizer father (Blackie Dammet, who played small parts in various movies and tvshows). Kiedis elaborated on this and his want to establish a long term relationship.

"As exciting and temporarily fulfilling as this constant influx of interesting and beautiful girls can be, at the end of the day, that shit is lonely and you're left with nothing."

The track also included a bridge which in contained an extensive percussion solo on objects salvaged from a garbage dump.

The album was released on the very same day as Nirvana's famous and influential Nevermind album (which I will also be reviewing soon...) and went certified platinum in 1992. Since then it has gone seven times platinum. The album also peaked at number 3 on the billboard charts. It is also considered the band's greatest venture in the band's entire careerx which started in 1984.

REVIEW TIME, BABY!

Sorry for the long description there everybody. I'll make the rest short and sweet.

I think its fair to say that I love this album. But I will be honest, it took me a bit to get used to. This is very much a funk rock album, which is a genre I wasn't used to when i first listened to this. But it, and the band itself, slowly grew on me. All four musicians are very talented and I feel like this album is their greatest, with 2006's Stadium Arcadium at second (or first, depending on my mood). One thing that took a bit to get used to was the aforementioned sexuality of the entire album. This is on the list of albums that I can never listen to on a speaker when my parents, or any of my family, are around. But once I got past it, I enjoyed the album for what it is, a high energy sexual funky album.

As per the previous Foo Fighters debut album review, I cant find a bad song on this album. Well... maybe one. An issue of mine is the final song on the album, They're Red Hot. I find the song to be an incredibly jarring edition and a poor way to exit out the album. Its very short, about a minute and a half long. I find it doesnt fit the album well and I think the second to last song Sir Psycho Sexy to be a much better song they could have ended with, being that it's an eight minute long musical epic full of funk and sexual explosions. Other than that, this album is one of my favorites.

Favorite songs:
Give it Away, I Could Have Lied, Power Of Equality, Sir Psycho Sexy, Suck My Kiss

Least favorite song:
They're Red Hot

Overall rating: 8.75/10

Sorry that this took so long I got distracted

CORRECTION: I made a typo when I was talking about Under the Bridge. I meant to say poem not open.

Yes please do some Eagles next

Also I like the thprough details here, dates time, reason for making songs.

Neat, good job.