***** Mother’s Milk by the Red Hot Chili Peppers – Arguably Their Underground Breakthrough

About the time that Mother’s Milk came out, folks where starting to notice the Chili Peppers, if for no other reason than their album covers, and their legendary antics.  This album predates me a bit, as I was not a fan of them going back this far.  I hadn’t even heard of the Red Hot Chili Peppers when Mother’s Milk was released.  However, I felt the call to purchase it after soon after I was completely blown away by Blood Sugar Sex Magik all the way back in 1991.

Had it not been for the antics of the Chili Peppers antics, I still regard it unlikely that they would have made it big without it.  Just as it was the naked baby on the cover of the Nirvana’s Nevermind album that was a strong reason Nirvana was catapulted to stardom, so to was just having the word, “Sex,” in the Blood Sugar Sex Magik album title, the nudity on The Abbey Road EP, and the picture on the cover of Mother’s Milk album the reason for this album’s catching on.

So enough talk, what about the music?  Let me tell you this, if Mother’s Milk doesn’t deliver to you some of the best rock music you have ever heard, I think you need to get your hearing checked, or maybe even your soul, because Mother’s Milk is full of funky soul music.

If you don’t have the money for this one, then I would strongly recommend “What Hits? (1992)” or “The Best of the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s (2005).  However, I wouldn’t think of either of these albums as a substitute for getting the early Chili Peppers stuff that predates 1991.  Early in their career the Chili Peppers could do no wrong in my opinion.  Thus, while the greatest hits packages are good, they are no substitute for the early Red Hot Chili Peppers albums.