I saw a video from Classic Album Review the other day about the worst rock songs of all time and this RHCP song was on the list. He claims that Under The Bridge was "whiney and soupy dreck". Under The Bridge may be one of the RHCP most well known songs but for a good reason. It showed the band were more than a bunch of funk metalheads that occasionally wear nothing but socks.
This ballad was the second single off RHCP's breakthrough album "Blood Sugar Sex Magik". It dealt with Anthony Kiedis' with the depression that came with surviving drug addiction and the survivor's guilt he lives with after his friend, founding guitarist, Hillel Slovak, died from a drug overdose in 1988. From John Fruscante's somber guitar intro to Anthony's self reflective lyrics, it was a mature recording for the California band.
If their was one complaint I have is the Choir that appears during the climax of the song. It sounds way too high, incomprehensible and comes across as cartoonish, almost like the Muppets are singing along.. It nearly derails the seriousness of the song when the band this jamming hard while Kiedis is giving it his all.
If Classic Album Review had a problem it should have been that part and not everything else.
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