“Suck My Kiss” by Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Suck My Kiss" is Blood Sugar Sex Magik at its most swaggering, a 1991 cut from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' fifth album that became its third single, sent to American radio that year and pressed up for shops in Australia and New Zealand the next. All four Peppers share the writing credit, Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante and Chad Smith, and you can hear the whole band leaning into the same groove: Flea's bass thumping like a heavy bag, Smith hitting with a hard, dry snap, Frusciante slashing out stop-start funk-metal riffs, and Kiedis spitting his lines with a leer.

Rick Rubin produced, with Brendan O'Brien engineering, and the sound is left raw and roomy, like four guys wrestling in the same room and loving every minute of it.

The video, released on May 1, 1992, was pieced together from footage from Funky Monks, the documentary directed by Gavin Bowden, with red-tinted shots of the American army coming home from the Gulf War cut in, as Kiedis later explained on a video commentary. The song went top 10 in Australia and New Zealand, and it later earned a spot on the band's Greatest Hits.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.