Mother's Milk
by Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Red Hot Chili Peppers bestography
Mother's Milk is ranked 5th best out of 24 albums by Red Hot Chili Peppers on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Red Hot Chili Peppers is Blood Sugar Sex Magik which is ranked number 180 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,023.
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Mother's Milk track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Mother's Milk rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 31/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1989 | 26/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Repo | 1989: Metal | 25/31 | - |
| 2026 | christosbakas | Top 90 Greatest Music Albums | 4/90 | 96 |
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 50 Music Albums of 1989 | 40/50 | 1 |
| 2026 | kinginsomniac12 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 71/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1989 | 23/50 | 3 |
| 2026 |  slatsheit | Top 32 Music Albums of 1989 | 31/32 | 0 |
| 2026 | PapaShiz86 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1989 | 14/50 | 4 |
| 2026 | mrmcrook | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 52/100 | 10 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 226 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 912 | |||
Mother's Milk collection
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Mother's Milk ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/23/2026 20:07 | AlexandreSilva | 139 | 69/100 |
| ! | 10/18/2026 22:04 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,759 | 70/100 |
| ! | 10/16/2026 23:21 | mrmcrook | 1,153 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 72.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
Mother's Milk favourites
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Mother's Milk forum mentions
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Mother's Milk comments
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Any Pepper album with Frusciante is better than an album without. So Mother's Milk lands 5th in their catalogue for me. This is a band still figuring out their identity with the wrong producer that wants their sound heavier than it should be.
This album hits and misses as they search for what they want their band to be but promise is all over this considering what is to come.
Frusciante shreds here more than other albums, a nice change of pace.
But it doesn't hold a candle to their four best records
Higher Ground was the song I most enjoyed here. More of the same by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
One of my favourite Red Hot Chili Peppers albums. Mothers milk, the first LP to feature the 'classic' Chili's line up, is probably the most 'metal' sounding of their LP's. Released at the height of the metal era, it works on that score, but certainly is funky too. Best tracks are, good time boys, knock me down, and, taste the pain. A great party album.
RoundTheBend TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/15/2013 04:15 | #73190 | TOP COMMENT
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The bass work on stone cold bush is absolutely amazing. The beginning of RHCP awesomeness. John and Chad might as well be a restart for this band, something just clicks so much better and is amazing. While some of it might be considered filler, for the Chili Peppers it isn't, it is just having fun.
Brandon8 TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/21/2016 00:13 | #177249 | TOP COMMENT
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This where they became a force in the music world. Their energy and original sound was evident throughout. I love the use of sweet child of mine riff on punk rock classic and how Pretty Little Ditty was sampled later on.
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