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Music 1991–1992

Red Hot Chili Peppers — Blood Sugar Sex Magik

The 1991 album that turned the Red Hot Chili Peppers from a cult funk-rock band into superstars, Blood Sugar Sex Magik was produced by Rick Rubin. It paired raucous funk-punk tracks like "Give It Away" and "Suck My Kiss" with the tender ballad "Under the Bridge," a massive crossover hit that became the album's emotional anchor.

Celebrities 1992–1997 peak

Radiohead

Five schoolmates from Abingdon who went from one self-loathing hit to the album that redefined what a rock band could be. Radiohead's 90s arc — Creep, The Bends, OK Computer — is rock's great escape from one-hit-wonder purgatory.

Music 1992–1993

Creep

The self-loathing anthem that made Radiohead famous — and that Radiohead spent years refusing to play. Three crunching guitar stabs before the chorus, a whispered "I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo," and every alienated kid of the 90s had a theme song.

Celebrities 1991–2006 peak

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Four high-school friends from Los Angeles turned nude socks into a rock-and-roll statement, then became one of the biggest bands of the 1990s and 2000s. The Chili Peppers' sinewy funk-rock and theatrical chaos defined an era.

Music 1994

Counting Crows — "Round Here"

The haunting album opener and second single, with the unforgettable first line — "step out the front door like a ghost" — and a chorus of hollow childhood mantras. A slow folk-rock rethinking of a song from Duritz's earlier band The Himalayans, it became the live centerpiece that never played the same way twice.

Music 1992

Under the Bridge

A poem about loneliness and addiction that Anthony Kiedis never intended to sing became the Red Hot Chili Peppers' No. 2 smash — the ballad that turned funk-rock's shirtless wild men into MTV's most unlikely heartbreakers.