General Article name: Mother's Milk
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: EMI US Number of tracks: 13 Duration: 45:02 Tracklist LP - 1 1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Good Time Boys 2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground 3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Subway to Venus 4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Magic Johnson 5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Nobody Weird Like Me 6. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Knock Me Down 7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Taste the Pain 8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stone Cold Bush 9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fire 10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Pretty Little Ditty 11. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Punk Rock Classic 12. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Sexy Mexican Maid 13. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Johnny, Kick a Hole In the Sky   Description Description

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 Bros., and let both frontman Anthony Kiedis and the ubiquitous Flea get back into a good groove following the death of co-founding member Hillel Slovak. With a new lineup coalescing around the remaining duo plus 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 of the opener, "Good Time Boys," it took only a few bars of band's 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: Virgin EMI 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