The Red Hot Chili Peppers
by Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Red Hot Chili Peppers bestography
The Red Hot Chili Peppers is ranked 14th 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 182 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,949.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 71 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Red Hot Chili Peppers 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 |  ExTeaSea | Top 72 Music Albums of 1984 | 67/72 | 0 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 22 Music Albums of 1984 | 16/22 | 2 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1984 | 51/71 | - |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 66 Music Albums of 1984 | 43/66 | 2 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 26 Music Albums of 1984 | 15/26 | 2 |
| 2026 | kinginsomniac12 | Top 9 Music Albums of 1984 | 8/9 | 1 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 14 Music Albums of 1984 | 11/14 | 1 |
| 2026 | vruslov | Top 78 Music Albums of 1984 | 62/78 | 1 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 89/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | kinginsomniac12 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 74/100 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 59 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 112 | |||
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/30/2026 14:02 | Siromynian | 1,789 | 74/100 |
| ! | 06/16/2026 14:20 |  Brandon8 | 1,055 | 88/100 |
| ! | 03/15/2026 04:45 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,341 | 70/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 61.4/100, a mean average of 60.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 60.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.6.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers forum mentions
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RoundTheBend 08/29/2017 05:10 in WORST ALBUM BY YOUR FAVORITE ARTISTThe Red Hot Chili Peppers comments
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junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/30/2017 18:42 | #195196
Even big fans of RHCP would have trouble ranking this near the top of their catelogue. Sounds like a bunch of young guys with goofy ideas getting together and rocking out. This sound needed 5 years of experience before it got good. As an additional blow, the production here is awful. Sounds tinny. (Edited)
This is somehow worse than Freaky Styley. In terms of bands that have really made and are well known, this is probably the worst album I have heard by that level of a band
Its astonishing what they would be come from this drunken crazy party mess of an album.
Skip and Burn. Head straight to Mother's Milk and hit every album from there as they are all worth hearing at that point
Brandon8 TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/21/2016 00:06 | #177248
The first album is raw and has lots of energy. They were finding themselves here and the second album before creating their unique and original sound.
If you’re a hardcore Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, listen to this — it really shows the early days of a young band that would later become huge. If you’re one of those people who only liked their big hits, don’t bother — this album goes in all directions and desperately lacks a strong single. (Edited)
SomethingSpecial 07/05/2025 11:53 | #309911
The only real weak spot in their entire discography, containing a polished, radio-friendly sound that didn't quite gel with their punk aesthetic. The only times the production works is on the opener True Men Don't Kill Coyotes, that serves as a great introduction to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the song Green Heaven, which remains one of their finest moments of the 1980s.
Nevertheless, it's fascinating to look at this record not as a great piece of work but as a relic of its time, with the Chili Peppers being clear pioneers of the rap rock and funk metal sound that would take over the mainstream in the late 80s and early 90s with bands like Faith No More and Rage Against the Machine, and later bands like Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park. (Edited)
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