Californication is the seventh studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on June 8, 1999, on Warner Bros. Records. It was produced by Rick Rubin. Along with Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication is one of the band’s best selling albums.
Californication marked the return of the guitarist John Frusciante, who had previously appeared on Mother’s Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and shifted the band’s style. The lyrics incorporated the sexual innuendos already associated with the band, but added themes including death, suicide, California, drugs, globalization and travel.
Californication is the Chili Peppers‘ most commercially successful studio release internationally, with over fifteen million copies sold worldwide, and more than six million in the United States alone. As of 2002, the album had sold over four million copies in Europe.
The record produced several hits for the band, including Otherside, Californication and the Grammy Award-winning Scar Tissue. Californication peaked at number three on the US Billboard 200.
Tracklist:
- Around the World
- Parallel Universe
- Scar Tissue
- Otherside
- Get on Top
- Californication
- Easily
- Porcelain
- Emit Remmus
- I Like Dirt
- This Velvet Glove
- Savior
- Purple Stain
- Right on Time
- Road Trippin’
2006 iTunes bonus tracks - Fat Dance
- Over Funk
- Quixoticelixer
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anthony Kiedis: lead vocals, overdubbed backing vocals
John Frusciante: electric guitar, acoustic guitar on “This Velvet Glove” and “Road Trippin'”, backing vocals, keyboards
Flea: bass guitar, acoustic bass guitar on “Road Trippin'”, backing vocals
Chad Smith: drums, percussion
Additional musicians
Greg Kurstin: keyboards
Patrick Warren: Chamberlin organ on “Road Trippin'”
Design
Lawrence Azerrad: art direction
Sonya Koskoff: photography
Red Hot Chili Peppers: art direction
Tony Wooliscroft: photography
Production
Lindsay Chase: production coordinator
Greg Collins and Mike Nicholson: additional engineering
Greg Fidelman: additional engineering
Jennifer Hilliard: assistant engineer
Chris Holmes: mix engineer
Ok Hee Kim: assistant engineer
Vlado Meller: mastering
Rick Rubin: production
David Schiffman: additional engineering
Jim Scott: engineer, mixing
John Sorenson: additional engineering
