Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (2LP, Limited Edition, Picture Disc, Reissue)

Description

Californication is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on June 8, 1999, on Warner Bros. Records. It was produced by Rick Rubin. Along with Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication is one of the band’s best-selling albums.

Californication marked the return of the guitarist John Frusciante, who had previously appeared on Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and shifted the band's style. The lyrics incorporated the sexual innuendos already associated with the band, but added themes including death, suicide, California, drugs, globalization, and travel.

Californication is the Chili Peppers' most commercially successful studio release internationally, with over fifteen million copies sold worldwide, and more than six million in the United States alone.[3] As of 2002, the album had sold over four million copies in Europe.[4] The record produced several hits for the band, including "Otherside", "Californication" and the Grammy Award-winning "Scar Tissue". Californication peaked at number three on the US Billboard 200.

The record marked a significant change in style for the band: Rolling Stone's Greg Tate noted that "while all previous Chili Peppers projects have been highly spirited, Californication dares to be spiritual and epiphanic".[5] Another critic, Billboard's Paul Verna, mentioned that the album brought out "the group's softer, melodic side", as opposed to their previous six albums.

Release Info

Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Label: Warner Records
Format: LP, Album, Limited Edition, Picture Disc, Reissue
Country: US
Label: Warner Records
Released: 2019-09-20
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Funk Metal

Tracklist

A1 Around The World
A2 Parallel Universe
A3 Scar Tissue
A4 Otherside
B1 Get On Top
B2 Californication
B3 Easily
C1 Porcelain
C2 Emit Remmus
C3 I Like Dirt
C4 This Velvet Glove
D1 Savior
D2 Purple Stain
D3 Right On Time
D4 Road Trippin'