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Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mother's Milk
Release Date: 1989 08 zz
Running Time: 45:02
Label: EMI Music Distribution
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A pivotal album for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1989's Mother's Milk turned the tide and transformed the band from underground funk-rocking rappers to mainstream bad boys with seemingly very little effort. Mother's Milk brought them to MTV, scored them a deal with Warner Brothers, and let both frontman Anthony Kiedis and the ubiquitous Flea get back out into a good groove following the death of co-founding member Hillel Slovak. With a new lineup coalescing around the remaining duo with new drummer Chad Smith and guitarist John Frusciante, and with producer Michael Beinhorn again behind the boards, the band took everything that The Uplift Mofo Party Plan hinted at, and brought it fully to bear for this new venture. If anyone doubted the pulsating power that leapt from the blistering opener, "Good Time Boys," it took only a few bars of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' outrageous, and brilliant, interpretation of the Stevie Wonder classic "Higher Ground" to prove that this new lineup was onto something special. Wrapping up with the aptly titled and truly punked-out "Punk Rock Classic" and the band's own punched-up tribute to "Magic Johnson," Mother's Milk was everything the band had hoped for, and a little more besides. Effortlessly going gold as "Knock Me Down" and "Taste the Pain" careened into the charts, the album not only set the stage for the band's Blood Sugar Sex Magic domination, it also proved that funk never died; it had just swapped skins. Amy Hanson, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1Good Time BoysRed Hot Chili Peppers5:02
2Higher GroundWonder3:23
3Subway to VenusRed Hot Chili Peppers4:25
4Magic JohnsonRed Hot Chili Peppers2:57
5Nobody Weird Like MeSmith, Frusciante, Kiedis, Flea [Bass]3:50
6Knock Me DownRed Hot Chili Peppers3:45
7Taste the PainFrusciante, Kiedis, Flea [Bass], Smith4:32
8Stone Cold BushRed Hot Chili Peppers, Peligro3:06
9FireHendrix2:03
10Pretty Little DittyRed Hot Chili Peppers1:37
11Punk Rock ClassicRed Hot Chili Peppers1:47
12Sexy Mexican MaidPeligro, Red Hot Chili Peppers3:23
13Johnny, Kick a Hole in the SkySmith, Kiedis, Frusciante, Flea [Bass]5:12

Other Releases:
Mother's Milk [Limited Edition] [Bonus Tracks]
Release Date: 1989
Label: Caroline Distribution

Mother's Milk [Clean]
Release Date: 1989
Label: EMI Music Distribution

Mother's Milk [Bonus Tracks]
Release Date: 1989
Label: Capitol Records








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