Californication

Californication is the seventh studio album by American ? alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on June 8, 1999 on Warner Bros. Records ?. Produced by Rick Rubin, Californication marked the return of John Frusciante, who had previously appeared on Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, to replace Dave Navarro as the band's guitarist. The record marked a change in style for the band; Rolling Stone's Greg Tate noted that "while all previous Chili Peppers projects have been highly spirited, Californication dares to be spiritual and epiphanal." The album's radically different sound was credited to Frusciante's return. The album's subject material incorporated various sexual innuendos commonly associated with the band, but introduced themes of lust, death, contemplations of suicide, and drugs.

Californication produced several hits for the band, including "Around the World", "Otherside", "Californication" and the Grammy award winning "Scar Tissue". It peaked at #3 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and is the Chili Peppers' most commercially successful album to date, selling more than fifteen million copies worldwide, a commercial revitalization in comparison to their previous album, One Hot Minute ?.