Rock Band Weekly: Chili Pepper's Blood Sugar Sex Magik album

by James Ransom-Wiley { Sep 26th 2008 at 4:00PM }

The Red Hot Chili Pepper's acclaimed Blood Sugar Sex Magik album, featuring at least one thinly veiled junkie ballad you memorized during adolescence, will arrive in the Rock Band Store next week. Let's hope it shows a bit more professionalism than the last full album to crash the living room stage!

Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1600

/ $20)* or by individual track (160

/ $2):

"The Power of Equality"
"If You Have to Ask"
"Breaking the Girl"
"Funky Monks"
"Suck My Kiss"
"I Could Have Lied"
"Mellowship Slinky in B Major"
"The Righteous & The Wicked"
"Blood Sugar Sex Magik"
"Under the Bridge"
"Naked in the Rain"
"Apache Rose Peacock"
"The Greeting Song My"
"Lovely Man Sir"
"Psycho Sexy"
"They're Red Hot"

*Album excludes "Give It Away" (available on Rock Band 2 disc).

A karaoke-style video for each song can be found after the break (so go practice!). The tracks will be available for purchase on Tuesday, September 30th on Xbox 360, and Thursday, October 2nd on PlayStation 3.

"The Power of Equality"

"If You Have to Ask"

"Breaking the Girl"

"Funky Monks"

"Suck My Kiss"

"I Could Have Lied"

"Mellowship Slinky in B Major"

"The Righteous & The Wicked"

"Blood Sugar Sex Magik"

"Under the Bridge"

"Naked in the Rain"

"Apache Rose Peacock"

"The Greeting Song"

"My Lovely Man"

"Sir Psycho Sexy"

"They're Red Hot"

Tags: blood-sugar-sex-magik, ea, harmonix, mtv-games, psn, red-hot-chili-peppers, rock-band, rock-band-2, rock-band-dlc, rock-band-weekly, xbox-live

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Farseer (GDI) @ Sep 26th 2008 4:06PM

Sweet. This will bring back some memories. Memories of before the Chili Peppers went to shit.

Shagittarius @ Sep 26th 2008 4:07PM

I really feel that "Soul to Squeeze" is boundary for the peppers between Goodland and Mediocrityville.

Farseer (GDI) @ Sep 26th 2008 4:56PM

Dude, you read my mind. I've been wanting Soul to Squeeze for RB since last November.

J.Goodwin @ Sep 26th 2008 4:07PM

Well, there's an album I won't be buying. Farseer: there was a time before the Chili Peppers were shit?

vidGuy @ Sep 26th 2008 4:11PM

The Chili Peppers were the most talented heroin and coke addicts ever.

Farseer (GDI) @ Sep 26th 2008 4:14PM

lol, seriously, though.

Mother's Milk wasn't half bad. This album piled on the funk, and was really fun IMO. I also liked how they brought Navarro in for One Hot Minute - that album had some of their most creative stuff.

It was with Californication that it went downhill...

vidGuy @ Sep 26th 2008 4:10PM

Oh shit! Fantastic Peppers album. Naked in the Rain FTW

Neuromancer @ Sep 26th 2008 4:10PM

I like them, definately picking up "Under the Bridge". The other ones, not so much.

Raikage (Mr. ESC? Mr. ESC? MR. ESSSSSSCCCCCC!) @ Sep 26th 2008 5:21PM

I'd have to say that's their best song, and probably one of the best songs of the 90's.

Levi @ Sep 26th 2008 4:11PM

I don't own Rock Band. Can somebody in the know tell me if Apache Rose Peacock is altered or not? If not, then that is ultimate win right there.

I love this album so much. I always played it on repeat when I played Dragon Warrior back in the day. Now that is a customizable soundtrack!

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw @ Sep 26th 2008 4:21PM

If you don't own Rock Band, then why do you care if it's an alternate version or not?

Vcize @ Sep 26th 2008 5:42PM

Maybe because they still sell Rock Band in stores, and he could go buy it were he so enticed?

Levi @ Sep 26th 2008 5:56PM

Beacuse I will sleep better at night knowing that somewhere in out there in America there is a group of teenagers playing plastic insturments in their parent's house singing lyrics like this:

"Voodoo gurus casting their spells
Cockatoo drag queens shakin' their bells
Silver sound escapes the trumpet
Watch your leg someone might hump it

Chicken strut your butt let's rock
Gettin' it on under your frock
Flowing like a flame all through the night
My girl's insane but it's all right"

But what I meant to say in my previous post was if Sir Psycho Sexy was altered. I can see it now: "Hey grandma! You sing vocals for this song!"

Lone Starr @ Sep 26th 2008 4:15PM

What's with all the Chili Pepper's hate? I've always liked their stuff. Stadium Arcadium is much closer to BSSM in style than even the albums between.

Get on the love roller coaster, haters.

vidGuy @ Sep 26th 2008 4:17PM

Good question. I think RHCP have only improved - but then again, I'm biased since I own all of their albums and have seen them in concert six times.

Roto13 @ Sep 26th 2008 4:33PM

I agree that they're still great. I loves me some Californication, By The Way, and Stadium Arcadium.

343 Guilty Fart @ Sep 26th 2008 5:18PM

I just find their music all the same nowadays. He just sings the same song everytime by stringing random phrases together. It was fun in '95 and all but now I'm just not into them, sorry.

Going to Minnesota/down to south dakota/it was snowy and a little cold-a/then i drank a soda

343 Guilty Fart @ Sep 26th 2008 5:19PM

Sorry, actually THIS album is worth buying, I was speaking more about Californication.

Muddyhelmit @ Sep 26th 2008 4:15PM

This is an instant buy for me personally. If it's grunge/alternative/rock in the 90's, chances are, I'm going to buy it.

Eric @ Sep 26th 2008 4:15PM

Sweet! Fucking A!

Alex @ Sep 26th 2008 4:17PM

Awesome! Now just give us some REO Speedwagon and They Might Be Giants!

Actually, does anyone know what the 20 free songs will be? The ones that we got a coupon with the game for? If they are 20 songs that I already downloaded, I will be a sad panda. I'm thinking it will be 20 new songs or there will be riots (in my apartment, at least).

Ibere @ Sep 26th 2008 4:17PM

I bet J. Goodwin is a hip hop fan. :-P
Anyway, this album is one of the best of all times. It's sad to listen to it and remember what a shitty band RHCP is since Californication.

J.Goodwin @ Sep 26th 2008 4:29PM

I'm pretty picky about my hip-hop. I'm more generally a rock fan. I've liked all the albums they've put up so far.

I do like Esoteric and pretty much everything that the guys from Hieroglyphics turn out as solo stuff. Dan the Automator producing is also typically a sign that I'll at least give it a listen.

J.Goodwin @ Sep 26th 2008 4:33PM

If there was one rock album that you wish they would put up, what would it be?

For me it would either be Rush's Counterparts (unlikely now that Moving Pictures is up), Mission of Burma's Vs, or Dream Theater's A Change of Seasons (tell me that you don't want to play a twenty-three minute prog rock epic and two ten plus minute medleys in the same set).

jsn @ Sep 26th 2008 4:35PM

ozzy - blizzard of oz.

Vcize @ Sep 26th 2008 5:46PM

I don't want to play a twenty-three minute prog rock epic and two ten plus minute medleys in the same set.

kingrock @ Sep 26th 2008 4:20PM

Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but are all the full album releases on Rock Band priced at $20? That's higher than the actual album. wtf? Have other full album releases come out priced as such?

Plus, they don't include "Give it Away"?? (I understand it's in rock band 2, but so what?). They could've made up for this omission by including "Soul to Squeeze" which was intended for this record, but ultimately left out for a future Greatest Hits.

Plus, the name of the songs are "Lovely Man" and (the greatest RHCP song of all IMHO) "Sir Psycho Sexy".

Twenty Bucks? Seems like a pretty significant rip off. Of course, I still bitch about paying $60 for new releases, so what do I know?

Hafk @ Sep 26th 2008 4:22PM

Thats $1.25 a song there. Not a ripoff.

kingrock @ Sep 26th 2008 4:33PM

I think it's debatable. The same album can be purchased for $9.99 on itunes, or .99 per song, and you get the entire album in a medium that is portable and reusable enough to allow you to play your music whereever you want.
Should we feel justified to spend more for the music b/c it incorporates the game function, or should we be paying less b/c it is strictly confined to that platform and therefore just an expansion to a piece of software?
I think it's got Horse Armor written all over it.

jsn @ Sep 26th 2008 4:38PM

It's not debatable. If you want to just listen to the music, then go buy it off itunes. If you want to pretend to play it in Rock Band you're going to pay the people who put in the work to make that possible.

Kaemon @ Sep 26th 2008 5:04PM

Now thats just stupid.

Not only do they have to pay the artist for the song, but the label, and then the time and money gone into producing the note charts, and making everything work, is worth more then a $1 song on itunes thats 16 years old.

Horse armor? No, thats a ripoff, it isn't anything new, and its already in the game. This is NEW stuff, that hasn't been made before.

"I think it's debatable. The same album can be purchased for $9.99 on itunes, or .99 per song, and you get the entire album in a medium that is portable and reusable enough to allow you to play your music whereever you want."

Let me explain something here. You are NEVER buying a song, you are NEVER buying software, you are NEVER buying anything that is data. You are buying the right, the licence, to use the data in a medium of their choice. Because it costs less to produce and have that data in that medium, its cheaper. Duh. What does it cost Itunes to sell a Mp3? Almost nothing. They're a distributor.

Whats it cost HMX to make a single song to sell? Alot more then Apple has to pay.

"Should we feel justified to spend more for the music b/c it incorporates the game function, or should we be paying less b/c it is strictly confined to that platform and therefore just an expansion to a piece of software?"

Yes. you should feel justified. BECAUSE it incorporates the game function. As I've mentioned, you are buying the right to use something. So to all the people who have to 'buy the same thing twice' Nope, wrong, you're buying something new, something thats never existed before. The right to play a song in Rock band.

The argument you make is just stupid. If you actually think of what the goal of anything is, its to make money. And it costs money to make money, which is why the songs cost more then on Itunes. And frankly, I'd rather pay for a RB song then give money to Itunes.

zuburi @ Sep 26th 2008 5:27PM

kingrock: I may be the only one that agrees with you!

I am also amazed that there's no backlash over the censorship of the songs. That's pretty lame.

J.Goodwin @ Sep 26th 2008 5:38PM

The albums are priced based on the number of tracks, not a flat twenty bucks. There's a lot of tracks here, so it's twenty bucks. Moving Pictures had far less tracks and was eleven. Seems reasonable.

Kizzle @ Sep 26th 2008 4:24PM

Zzzzz. Points saved.

Glad to see they are relasing albums on a fairly constant basis now, though. Keep 'em coming.

Dirty @ Sep 26th 2008 4:25PM

I know most of their songs... I just keep saying California over and over again and it comes out close enough.

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw @ Sep 26th 2008 4:28PM

Sadly that is so true haha.

xx Beta Max xx @ Sep 26th 2008 4:39PM

FAVORITE ALBUM EVER!!!!! CAN'T WAIT. I did a pointillism mural of the cover in high school. I can sing EVERY WORD. FUNKY MONKS FOR LIFE!!!!

Von Dozier @ Sep 26th 2008 4:41PM

I'd prefer Uplift Mofo Party Plan. RHCP's best album.

xx Beta Max xx @ Sep 26th 2008 4:54PM

Yeah, i agree but that album is pure funk and no mainstreamers would get it. Magic Johnson was always my favorite song. I always hope they will play it live and they NEVER do.

Jarred @ Sep 26th 2008 4:52PM

HELL YES!

This is without a doubt the Peppers' best album! I can't wait to pay BSSM, Under the Bridge, Power of Equality, Suck my Kiss, Breaking the girl- etc.

I'm pumped.

edgore @ Sep 26th 2008 5:19PM

eh. The only RHCP related songs I can drag up interest for are either their song "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes" or Lush's "Ladykillers"

TrojanGuy @ Sep 26th 2008 5:31PM

So freakin' cool.

Vcize @ Sep 26th 2008 5:48PM

Beavers.

TrojanGuy @ Sep 26th 2008 5:49PM

Boobs.

Vcize @ Sep 26th 2008 5:59PM

Ah, well played.

Coldbrand @ Sep 26th 2008 6:45PM

Under the Bridge! Oh God yes!

brad77 @ Sep 26th 2008 7:13PM

Oh damn. I'll definitely be picking this up. I wore this tape down so much in my Walkman that it was all bass.

Ah...memories.

Youthinized @ Sep 26th 2008 7:59PM

So is this the time to rock out to Rock Band with DLC? Is this confirming they are dropping all albums in a row? They got Nothing's Shocking, The Shape and the Colour, SRV's album and No Doubt's greatest hits.

Something tells me that the 20 free songs will be after the end or something. Thats four weeks. When's GHIV come out?

GHIV comes out on a monday and HMX always releases on tuesdays.

This is a knock out punch. They're gonna release the 20 free songs.