Californication
| Red Hot Chili PeppersCalifornication
Californication is the seventh studio albumby American rockband Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was released on June 8, 1999,[2] on Warner Bros. Records and was produced by Rick Rubin. Californicationmarked the return of John Frusciante, who had previously appeared on Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, to replace Dave Navarro as the band's guitarist. Frusciante's return was credited with changing the band's sound altogether, producing a notable shift in style from the music recorded with Navarro. The album's subject material incorporated various sexual innuendos commonly associated with the band, but also contained more varied themes than previous outings, -including death, contemplations of suicide, California, drugs, globalization, and travel."-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
As expected, it's considerably better than the bone- stupid One Hot Minute, but not quite as funky- assed as their acclaimed 1991 effort.
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Rolling Stone
they’ve settled down and written a whole album’s worth of tunes that tickle the ear, romance the booty, swell the heart, moisten the tear ducts and dilate the third eye
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Loudwire
Californication helped revive the band's career
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AV Club
Whether the public at large is still thirsting for a good Red Hot Chili Peppers album remains to be seen, but if they are, Californication can't miss.
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Sputnik Music
A band re-ignited, and a passion revived
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Puluche
Californication delivers an epic introduction that symbolizes the new and exceedingly improved ‘Chili Peppers.’
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BBC
The album yielded four hit singles, but even more interesting was the way the band let more than just fun and frolics into the mix.
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NME
This, it seems, is how they ward off the demons. For most people it’s called adolescence. For the Chili Peppers, it’s a lifelong vocation.
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Classic Rock History
Californication is the essential funk rock album, as well as the most matured and commercially successful Red Hot Chili Peppers album.
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All Music
the more pop-oriented material proves to be a pleasant surprise
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Ultimate Classic Rock
They used 'Californication' as an opportunity to broaden their horizons, both lyrically and musically.
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Sound Blab
Ultimately, though, it's their ballads which really demonstrate their strengths, both as songwriters and arrangers--and reveal, albeit briefly, the hearts this crew normally take such pains to conceal
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