10 Most Underrated Red Hot Chili Peppers Songs

10. Stone Cold Bush - Mother's Milk

Over the years it's been pretty difficult to really put the Red Hot Chili Peppers into one specific music genre. Although you can hear the veins of rock and funk in their delivery, there's a lot more that they have to offer than just being our warm up for rap rock in the early '90s. Hell, for the tail end of Mother's Milk it looks like they were showing us their punk chops.

And I do mean punk too. From the opening guitar riffs of Stone Cold Bush, this is a far more intense groove than something that would come off Californication later down the line. Though Anthony's rhyme scheme doesn't go outside of the usual lustful lyrics, the appeal is all in his delivery, which sounds like a mix between his usual funk schtick and something that you'd hear out of a more self-aware Johnny Rotten.

Considering this is the first album with John Frusciante, he's also playing like he's got everything to prove, going for broke to do justice to Hillel's legacy that he has to hold up. Also, any RHCP song that features a bass break like this deserves some form of kudos. Even if the Chilis were going for a different sound now, that didn't mean they had forgotten their hardcore stripes at all.