Good Time Boys slays so hard [2]

That chorus is so good. Hard to believe this beauty is 30 years old.

Album Rating: 4.0

Knock Me Down is so good!

honestly probably the only RHCP album I enjoy

Do like a bit of Nobody Weird Like Me

Album Rating: 3.5

Last good RHCP album



Knucklehead suckers better duck

When the buck comes through like a truck

Album Rating: 3.0

the next one is good cmon man

Yeah the NEXT album is the last consistently good RHCP

Album Rating: 4.0

Album rules so hard.

Album Rating: 4.5

BSSM is still my favorite RHCP album, but this one's a damn close second. Gotta love how raw and unhinged the guitar work is here

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, the guitars on this one. Next one is OK of course but I've always liked early RHCP the most, UMPP still my favourite, such a funky album.

Album Rating: 3.0

i read somewhere that john hates the guitars on this cuz the producer forced him to use a more glam oriented tone

UMPP supremacy but yeah this one has some fun moments, prob on par with BSSM

Album Rating: 4.5

"i read somewhere that john hates the guitars on this cuz the producer forced him to use a more glam oriented tone"



Not a glam tone as much as a straight-up metal one, which probably explains songs like Nobody Weird Like Me and the outro to Higher Ground. I actually enjoy the more metallic aspect of the album though, much like on One Hot Minute

Glam was the predominant form of metal circa '89 though so I'm sure that's exactly Michael Beinhorn was aiming for, even though the dude would go on to knock it out of the park with alternative bands in the '90s.

The outro of Higher Ground always struck me as a straight up hardcore freakout and a nod to RHCP's punk roots but yeah I miss the more metallic elements in their sound too.

My pet theory is that Beinhorn was specifically trying to make the peppers sound more like living colour- the label was gunning for a commercial breakthrough, "Cult of Personality" was popping OFF right around when they went into the studio, and LC clearly took influence from RHCP's early stuff, so it was a pretty natural fit, and some of the stuff here would fit seamlessly alongside Vivid.

Guess that was not really the direction froosh was trying to take tho, even discounting his public dissatisfaction with the guitar sound here their 90s/2000s stuff clearly leans more into the peppers' mellow psych-y arpeggioland side for better or for worse

Album Rating: 4.5

"some of the stuff here would fit seamlessly alongside Vivid."



Not sure why I thought you wrote "Voivod" for a sec, lol. That would be one hell of a stylistic shift!



But yeah, that makes sense. It was also the same year that bands like Faith No More and Primus were popping off, so there was a pretty lucrative market for funk metal at the time

Hah 90s peps might've been able to do a solid "Astronomy Domine" thoooo

much to consider

"there was a pretty lucrative market for funk metal at the time"

Hell yeah. I get why a lot of people don't like that era, but that was right about the time I started discovering music and honestly that's probably my favourite era of music. RHCP, Living Color, FNM, Jane's Addiction, Primus, RATM, 24-7 Spyz, King's X, Urban Dance Squad, Extreme, and even AiC...all dabbling in funk and mixing it up with metal, punk, reggae, hip hop, prog and whatever else. Someone on Youtube called it "Bill and Ted" rock and I'll be damned if that isn't the best descriptor for it.

Sounds like the Trainwreckords episode on Van Halen III! Great video, highly recommended to anyone who hasn't seen it

Album Rating: 4.0

Higher Ground will always be up there when it comes to GOAT covers.