The Red Hot Chili Peppers

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This album is their first, and one of their finest. This is a very different Red Hot Chili Peppers than their present day music, but every bit as good. Twenty years after its release, it holds up powerfully.

If you have never heard "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes," you are missing one of the finest Hollywood/Southern California anthems ever written. Pop? Rap? Rock? I honestly think there is no way to properly classify this song, it's the perfect tune to announce the rival of the Chili Peppers, and pretty much personifies their offbeat charge into the music world.

You can find the abovementioned song on one of their "Best Of" albums, but the rest of the songs on this CD are too good to pass off. The mightiest tracks are 1 through 6, with "Buckle Down" and the overdrive-paced "Get Up and Jump" stealing the show. The diversity of the songs on these first six tracks is impressive.

The Chili Peppers were such a rush of fresh air when they hit the scene in 1984. I remember a plethora of heavy metal and new wave all over the airwaves & record stores; some good, lots bad. No new group, however, crashed the music scene that year quite like The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Pick up this CD and compare it to the playlists of the mid 1980s, and I bet the sheer contrast will show you what a cutting edge band The Red Hot Chili Peppers were when they hit the scene.

Give this album a chance, and I think you will find that the Red Hot Chili Peppers didn't get better with time: they started out great, and since then have tinkered with their musical style, all the while keeping their unmistakable Funky spirits in full force. Yes, The Red Hots still have "Baby Appeal!"

Honestly this is really a good album. I think it just gets fewer stars when compared to their other albums. Truth be known I like their 80's material alot more than their 90's stuff, but of the first four albums, this is the weakest. Despite that, still some typical and killer tracks. "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes" is classic. "Get Up And Jump" is also aggressive and fun, as is "Green Heaven". The slower, maybe groovier moments come with "Why Don't You Love Me" and "Mommy Where's Daddy", both easy to like. The demos are decent, but the remastering is the bigger plus. Overall it's no "Uplift Mofo Party Plan", but it's a start.