The Red Hot Chili Peppers “The Red Hot Chili Peppers” released on this date, August 10th, 1984. Funky punky with rap poetry, a bit of jazz for good measure  (“Mommy Where’s Daddy” – with saxophone – and while this clip doesn’t include sax in the live performance, we do get the infamous socks on cocks instead) and psychedelic 70′s ascetic meets 80′s dance production. According to interview quotes, the band preferred the demo versions of most of the album’s tracks to Gang of Four’s Andy Gill, whose production of the Chili Peppers LP made it sound as if it had “gone through a sterilizing Goody Two-shoes machine.“) Still the groove is tight, ass-shakingly so (my favorites “Out in L.A.” ), and Flea’s bass is highlighted to perfection throughout the entire album.