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Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Retail Price (not our price): $18.98
Release Date: 1999-06-08
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1

Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...

Disc 1

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
Reunited with producer Rick Rubin and guitarist John Frusciante (both of whom were on board for the 1991's breakthrough Blood Sugar Sex Magik), the Chili Peppers waste no time in burying their last effort, the so-so One Hot Minute. Californication's kickoff cut, "Around the World," swaggers around the room, reacquainting itself with old fans and welcoming new ones. Fuzzy Hendrix vibes and popcorn bass lines still rule the roost, along with a heaping helping of disco magic and some unexpected twists. Ten years ago, Anthony Kiedis and company wouldn't have been comfortable doing revamped new wave ("Parallel Universe") or unpretentious ballads (the acoustic "Road Trippin'"), but such material fits Californication's extra-wide canvas. Except for a few meandering numbers that could have been excised, the Red Hot Chili Peppers succeed and regain their footing on the mountain of adrenalized funk. --Jason Josephes

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) A nice return from the uneven One Hot Minute!   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Californication was an album I had received for Christmas and was pleasently surprised how good it was. This is a rather melodic affair, basically the template for the latter day Peppers. This is a rather consistent disc much like BSSM, but without any excellent songs. Instead the songs on Californication are relatively solid. Their melodic songs take the cake on cuts such as the Velvet Glove, Savior, Easily, and most of their biggest hits. Around the World is the perfect opener for it's usual flea bass plucking and funky guitars which turn into a spacey chorus. Parallel Universe is one of the best cuts with its speedy retro riffing by John Frusciante only to result with a jackhammer chorus. If only they wrote more songs like that one, imagine the posibilities. As usual there's filler and some crappy songs. Get on Top and Purple Stain stay stagnant in its old school funk and rapping. Also the downright boring Porcelain doesn't need to even to appear on this album. The track after Porcelain is even worse and I like dirt is serviceable but not essential. Surprisingly Californication closes with the break neck funk of Right on time only to end with the peaceful Road Trippin. The sequence of the songs are better than the songs themselves at times which is fine. This will be the last album woth owning from the Chili Peppers. Californication showed the hints at a different direction. I prayed they would not follow through with it, but you know what happened there.

2) Red Hot Chili Peppers put out another awesome album   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Californication is a good album and certainly worth whatever you pay for it (assuming it's under twenty bucks). If you like the Chili Peppers at all this is a must-own along with One Hot Minute.

3) be honest with me   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
I can't listen to the song "Around the World" anymore because the guitar riff that opens the song is ripped off directly from an old 70's song called "Breadfan" by a rock band named Budgie. This is a fact. Did the Red Hot Chili Peppers give them credit by mentioning them? No one can convince me the guitarist from the Red Hot Chili Peppers created that guitar riff on his own. I won't buy it. I don't normally mind rip-offs, but this is a rare exception where a musical idea is obviously stolen from an old rock band, and in this case, the bands name is Budgie. It makes me really concerned that maybe other ideas from other songs were taken directly from other artists. Maybe the band thought they could trick some fans out there by assuming these fans don't listen to older rock bands and therefore, would have never known about the old Budgie song. Wrong mister!Despite that, the band has plenty of pretty good songs to fill up the rest of the album. These guys are certainly better songwriters than many people give them credit for.

4) Rebuy   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I bought this albun in 99, day after release. Now, 8 years after CD is broke..since playing that much in Car, at home etc. Rebought it today. I get nerveous when CD is not available in my CD collection....1 of best albums ever.

5) Their best album   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This album is great. This is probably the essential Chili Peppers. Besides "Emit Remmus", which has a guitar part that sounds like a cat dying, it's an extremely good album. The best songs on here are "Californication" (duh), "Scar Tissue", "Around the World", "Parallel Universe", "Otherside", "Road Trippin'" and "Get on Top". "Californication"... I mean, who doesn't like that song? All of it is just perfect: the lyrics, the guitar solo, and the opening. "Scar Tissue" has amazing guitar. "Around the World" has great lyrics and a bunch of obscenities, "Parallel Universe" has a great opening, and is an amazing song. "Otherside" is a good song: soft, then turns loud. "Road Trippin'" is a good orchestrated song. And "Get on Top" is funky, and it's got rock in it. The perfect combination. Funk-rock! Like Prince! Who doesn't like Prince? That's all.