Rick Rubin strips the Chili Peppers to a house in Laurel Canyon and finds the band under the gimmick: Blood Sugar Sex Magik runs ninety minutes on Flea's liquid funk and Frusciante's restraint, with "Under the Bridge" — a poem Kiedis never meant to sing — revealing the loneliness funding all that priapic energy. Their defining record.
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