With a title like Blood Sugar Sex Magik, you might expect the music to be graphic, loud and a little weird – and you wouldn’t be wrong. The Chili Peppers 1991 effort with producer Rick Rubin is stuffed with lots of big ideas, sounds and personalities. Join for a discussion on the landmark record as we rejoin our regularly scheduled Summer of Don, already in progress.

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Madeleine Peyroux – Let’s Walk

Soft Play – Heavy Jelly

Akhlys – House of the Black Geminus

Cigarettes After Sex – X’s

Beachwood Sparks – Across the River of Stars

The Incredible String Band – The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion (1967)

Mac Leaphart – Rock & Roll, Hey (single)

Incubus – Morning View XXIII

Eddie Rabbit – Horizon (1980)

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