Do you like the sound of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers?

Here's a little about Californication -

"The song is mainly about the dark side of Hollywood. The song opens to the "Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation." Kiedis says in his book Scar Tissue that he got the inspiration for the lyric from when he was in New Zealand and he heard a woman on the street ranting about there being psychic spies in China. The track also makes references to the decline in Western society ("it's the - edge of the world and all of Western civilization"), and other topics such as pornography ("little girls from Sweden dream of silver-screen quotations") and plastic surgery ("pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging") and even some pop culture references including Star Wars ("and Alderaan's not far away, it's Californication"), and Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain as well as David Bowie ("Cobain, can you hear the spheres singing songs off Station to Station?"). Guitarist John Frusciante exclusively recorded this song and "Otherside" with a vintage Gretsch White Falcon hollow body electric guitar, he also played these songs live with the White Falcon until 2007 when he retired it for one of his vintage Fender Stratocasters."

In Kiedis's book Scar Tissue he reveals that the band had enormous difficulty in putting the song together. Kiedis had written the lyrics, which he felt were some of the best he had ever written, but the band could not decide how the song should sound musically. As they struggled with the song it seemed like they would not be able to finish it in time to include it on the album, until one day Frusciante walked into the studio and exclaimed that he had "figured it out". He played the song as he visualised it, and it went from being a song that could have been an afterthought, to becoming one of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' greatest hits, similar to the way "Under the Bridge" was conceived.

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I agree with you. I think they sound good, especially with songs like Road Tripping, My Friends, Under the Bridge, Californication, stuff like that. Their hard(er) rock songs like By the way or hump de bump suck. alot.

I like a lot of their music but I have not seen them perform live. Some vocalists just cannot do a good live performance and that had to be disappointing. I do have a DVD of a live performance of them from Slane Castle which sounds pretty good but maybe they've done some alterations on it.

I always thought the song was meant to expose the disappointment that many people experience when they go to California chasing their dreams. I thought it was just taking away the sugar-coating of what people might think it would be like, and describing what the reality was for many when they actually got there.

Purple scorching Chili Peppers (nine/10) Freaky Styley (nine/10) The Uplift Mofo celebration Plan (NA) mother's Milk (10/10) Blood Sugar sex Magik (eight/10) One sizzling Minute (NA) Californication (nine.five/10) by the way (7/10) Stadium Arcadium (8/10) BQ: Knock Me Down BQ3: Flea

hell yea the band rockss..!!

as u know,most of the songs out there dont mean a thing. they are just to please your ears for a few minutes

so no need of judging a song so deeply..

and according to me the song californication is about california and how it is all about hollywood,the film industry and the glamour world with all the hot shot models and celebrities living around there..

you must be knowing how their lives differ from those of the ordinary people..

Chili Peppers rocked their socks off...and put some clothes on. Unfortunately that meant they had to make bad music.

Well ive never been to a concert but i do love the music. but visit this website.

No I don't.

And their singer is a prissy baby. They went to play a show one time and there were only like three people in the audience and he stormed off in a huff.

Nope, don't like them.

BALLER status