Freaky Styley...

As I mentioned in my previous post, I've decided to start blogging about games and music as well.
I already covered the gaming part so that leaves us with music.
For this new category I'm going to start with my all time favorite band, the red hot chili peppers (RHCP or 'The Peppers').
A rock band that was founded in 1983 by Anthony Kiedis, Hillel Slovak, Michael Balzary (Flea) and Jack Irons.

At first, the peppers struggled a lot along the road to succes.
Their first two albums "Freaky Styley" and "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan" were a total washup and during the making of the second album founding member Hillel Slovak died of a heroïn overdose.
This was a big game changer for the band. Both Flea And Kiedis were also drug addicts but after the loss of their friend they both decided to get clean.
Then the peppers finally got a hit with their next album "Mother's Milk"
But they didn't really hit it big until the album after that called "Blood Suger Sex Magik".
The song under the bridge, which was a tribute to Slovak, was a great success and is still the peppers biggest hit to this day.
After that they never went down again. With hit after hit the peppers became one of the most well known rock bands in the world and now after 29 years they're still going at it with the same attitude and success.
The thing that I personally like the most about the peppers is their lyrics.
When you listen to any which given song that the peppers wrote, the lyrics simply seems like a random string of words put together because they sound good together. But after a couple of times listening to the song you starts understanding those random string of words and it makes perfect sense and the result is an entire story that get's to you both emotionally and musically.
For example here is a verse from the #1 hit 'californication'.

"Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Celebrity skin is this your chin
Or is that war your waging...
Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement
Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderon's not far away
It's Californication"

So basicly what the song is describing is the way life in good ol' sunny California and more specifically Hollywood and how it changes and impacts people mostly in a negative way with the drugs, sex and rock 'n roll attitude.

Otherside:

The verdict: The thing about the peppers is that even tough musically they really suck when they play live, their songs still get to you, both the live and the recorded versions.

I'm yet to hear a the red hot chili peppers song that I absolutely don't like and I've heard 'em all so that being said...definitely a 9,4/10!!