- Subway to Venus...great rhythm...and horns! Again with the reminders of Oingo Boingo
- "Nobody Weird Like Me"...flaming bass
- The last EMI album and the first with John Frusciante and Chad Smith.
- Liking the bonus tracks on the 2003 remastered album
- Much better on headphones than my crappy laptop speakers....
- "Salute to Kareem"...great bass line
Fifth, their 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik:
- "Funky Monks"...really liking the funk : o )
- "The Righteous & the Wicked"...nice
- Watched the SNL 1992 version of Under the Bridge a few times and can see the tension...John had checked out in more ways than one at that performance....
- Magik from the Houdini mansion?
- Frusciante looked way different with short hair and then the mohawk during the Houdini mansion recordings of the album...the beard growth in a few videos shows what he would end up looking like later
- My high school administration allowed the student council to play "Under the Bridge" over the loudspeakers the last hour of the last day of class of my junior year, I think
- "Naked in the Rain" ... great bass solo
- "Apache Rose Peacock"...love the funk
- "Sir Psycho Sexy"...too fun...would be a great karaoke song
- "Little Miss Lover" great bass kick
- Learned something new: Soul to Squeeze appeared as a b-side and not on the album
- "Sikamikanico"...yes! : o )
- "Fela's Cock"...Intentional typo's and great rhythm
- Frusciante quit in April of 1992...
Sixth, their 1995 album One Hot Minute:
- Enter Dave Navarro
- "My Friends" : had no idea the song talked about Flea's life...assumed it referred to Anthony's
- "Coffee Shop"...darker driving mood : o )
- "One Big Mob"...back to the funk! : o ) Then chills out for a while, then back....
- "Walkabout" has lots to like: a nice funk and guitar riff throughout ...very nice--they used a cuĂca to get that squeaky sound : o )
- "Tearjerker" -- lots of vulnerabilities in the lyrics...a bit of a bluesy guitar for a few seconds
- "Shallow Be Thy Game": picks up the pace again...slap bass
- "Transcending": smoothness, a triangle, then distortion
- "Bob" sort of reminds me of a Jimi Hendrix guitar riff...apparently Navarro lists Hendrix as an influence, which makes sense
- Exit Dave Navarro
Seventh, their 1999 album Californication:
- John Frusciante returns
- "All Around the World": hard to top that opening. Epic.
- "Get on Top" : great bass groove
- "I Like Dirt" : funky
- "The Velvet Glove" : great opening riffs and melody
- "Purple Stain" has a really catchy bass hook
- "Right On Time" shows a bit of a preview of where Anthony goes "Can't Stop"
- "Gong Li" : wow, an mbira! : o )
- "Over Funk": hurray for more funk
- "How Strong" sounds like country-western funk in the beginning
- "Instrumental #1"...great bass line...melancholy
- "Instrumental #2" ...liking these instrumental jams
- "Teatro Jam" distortion fun
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