RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS — Mother's Milk

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Album · 1989

Tracklist

1. Good Time Boys (5:02)
2. Higher Ground (3:23)
3. Subway to Venus (4:25)
4. Magic Johnson (2:57)
5. Nobody Weird Like Me (3:50)
6. Knock Me Down (3:45)
7. Taste the Pain (4:32)
8. Stone Cold Bush (3:06)
9. Fire (Jimi Hendrix Cover) (2:03)
10. Pretty Little Ditty (3:07)
11. Punk Rock Classic (1:47)
12. Sexy Mexican Maid (3:23)
13. Johnny, Kick a Hole in the Sky (5:12)

Line-up/Musicians

- Anthony Kiedis / lead vocals
- Hillel Slovak/John Frusciante / guitar
- Flea / bass
- Jack Irons/Chad Smith / drums

About this release

Released on EMI Records on August 16, 1989.

Recorded in November 1988 - March 1989 at the Ocean Way Studios and Image Studios in Hollywood, California.

Produced by Michael Beinhorn.

-2003 Remastered Bonus Tracks-
14. Song That Made Us What We Are Today (demo) (12:56)
15. Knock Me Down (long version) (4:44)
16. Sexy Mexican Maid (long version) (3:59)
17. Salute to Kareem (demo) (3:24)
18. Castles Made of Sand (live Jimi Hendrix Cover) (3:19)
19. Crosstown Traffic (live Jimi Hendrix Cover) (2:53)

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Unitron
You can't go wrong with any of the Chili Peppers' first five albums, but I've always been of the opinion that Mother's Milk is the best of them. It just sounds like a band at their peak, in several ways. It's relentlessly energetic, there's a consistent focus on funky jams, and it's the ultimate party metal album.

Everyone talks about the fantastic cover of Stevie Wonder's classic Higher Ground, but that causes it to overshadow the rest of the album. Opener Good Time Boys is probably my favorite, a funky hair metal classic. Subway to Venus takes the old school P-funk vibe of their Freaky Styley album and combines it with the big sound of this album. Nobody Weird Like Me and Punk Rock Classic straight up thrash, and the former perfectly contrasts the explosive and galloping riffs and drums with some touching vocal melodies. The swaggering Sexy Mexican Maid is a particular fantastic song as well.

Just like it opens with a bang, it closes with the massive funk stomp of Johnny, Kick a Hole in the Sky. After a bassline that sounds right out of Among the Living, it's all slapping hooks and catchy Funkadelic-esque chant choruses.

Mother's Milk is one of funk metal's finest, especially on the glam metal influenced side of it, nothing beats this, Extreme, and Mindfunk's debut for total funky party metal.

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