Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away

ORIGINATION Blood Sugar Sex Magik
LAST LISTENED TO last month
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT not high
RATING

This is the last Chilis album that i bothered about. It was their funky prime and i've not heard any evidence that they've managed anything like it since. Give It Away is one of the funkiest tunes from what is a very funky album. Such lovely bass. and guitar! The backwards solo á la The Beatles! And those lovely rolled 'r's. Who'da thunk something so funky could've been made in the '90s.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - If You Have To Ask

ORIGINATION Blood Sugar Sex Magik CD
LAST LISTENED TO day before yesterday
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT pretty good
RATING

If You Have To Ask is pretty funky. It's from Blood Sugar Sex Magik which is for me the high point in the Chili Peppers career, probably because it's their funkiest point. This track is not be my favourite song on the album, however, for some reason it has lyrics that seem to glue themselves to my head particularly well. It's probably due to the chorus:

If you have to ask
you'll never know
funky motherf•••••s
will not be told to go

No need to guess which part of that sticks. I don't really know what they're on about here and i don't really care. After all, when was funk music for thinking?

The verses are pretty good too and probably more funky than the chorus, mostly due to the choppy rhythm guitar. There are a few of them spread about, with a guitar solo to end things off. I should probably also mention that there is some fine drumming and bassing, but given the group and the many mentions of the funk, you'll have figured that out for yourself i'm sure.