General Article name: Mother's Milk
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: EMI US Number of tracks: 13 Duration: 45:02 Tracklist - 1 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Good Time Boys (Remaster/2003) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground (Remaster/2003) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Subway To Venus (Remaster/2003) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Magic Johnson (Remaster/2003) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Nobody Weird Like Me (Remaster/2003) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Knock Me Down (Remaster 2003) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Taste The Pain (Remaster/2003) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stone Cold Bush (Remaster/2003) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fire (Remaster/2003) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Pretty Little Ditty (Remaster/2003) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Punk Rock Classic (Remaster/2003) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Sexy Mexican Maid (Remaster/2003) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky (Remaster/2003)   Description Album Review (en)

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

Amy Hanson

Contributors Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers Record Label: Capitol Guest Artist: Hillel Slovak Guest Artist: Jack Irons Guest Artist: Julie Ritter Guest Artist: Gretchen Seager Guest Artist: Wag Guest Artist: Phillip "Fish" Fisher