Old Skool

For today's post, I was feeling a bit nostalgic, that is to say... old. Back in the 1990s (so long ago!) these guys were just rising to prominence out of the LA club scene. Their previous album, "Mother's Milk" sold modestly, but the band was suffering after the death of original guitarist Hillel Slovak. Arguably one of the Chili Peppers best efforts, and for sure their first album that sold very well in the US, today's song comes from the 1991 album "Blood Sugar Sex Magik." While I could've picked "Under the Bridge," this song to me is the essence of what the Chili Peppers were about toward the end of the 80s and the early 90s. Hard and funky, their sound grew more mature as the band grew older, but even today you can still hear the funk and punk influences in their sound, even if their new sound is seemingly quite different from what it once was.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Mellowship Slinky In B Major"