Editing Freaky Styley (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]] 
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusicrev">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/freaky-styley-mw0000652669|title=Freaky Styley – Review|last=Birchmeier|first=Jason|work=[[AllMusic]]|publisher=Rovi Corporation|access-date=June 17, 2012|archive-date=June 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622033950/http://www.allmusic.com/album/freaky-styley-mw0000652669|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|title=[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|edition=5th|year=2011|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|isbn=978-0-85712-595-8|chapter=Red Hot Chili Peppers}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev3score = 3/5<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=Gary|editor-last=Graff|editor-link=Gary Graff|title=[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide]]|publisher=[[Visible Ink Press]]|year=1996|isbn=0-7876-1037-2|chapter=Red Hot Chili Peppers}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="RSguide">{{cite book|last=Kot|first=Greg|author-link=Greg Kot|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/681 681]|chapter=Red Hot Chili Peppers|year=2004|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]]|isbn=0-7432-0169-8}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]''
| rev5Score = {{rating|4|5|full=U+25A0.svg|empty=U+25A1.svg|rating=medal}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Perry |first=Andrew |date=September 1990 |title=Instant Korma |magazine=[[Select (magazine)|Select]] |issue=3 |page=105}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
| rev6score = 7/10<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor1-first=Eric|editor2-last=Marks|editor2-first=Craig|year=1995|title=[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]|publisher=[[Vintage Books]]|location=New York|isbn=0-679-75574-8|chapter=Red Hot Chili Peppers}}</ref>
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''Freaky Styley'' did not garner mainstream success and failed to enter the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]].<ref name="Bcharthist">{{cite magazine |url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=red hot chili peppers|chart=all}} |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]  |title=Freaky Styley – Red Hot Chili Peppers |access-date=July 7, 2012}}</ref> In the liner notes to the 2003 remastered edition of the album, bassist [[Flea (musician)|Flea]] states:<ref>Liner notes to Freaky Styley remaster (2003)</ref> {{cquote|I know the music on this record was just way too obscure to ever be popular in a mainstream kind of way, but to me it really holds its own as a definitive and substantial musical statement. More than any other record we ever made it falls into the category of "too funky for white radio, too punk rockin' for black." Of course, the songs were very far away from any pop format; I realise it is/was not just the racial segregation at radio that precluded it from being a popular record.}}

However, the album was more positively received by critics than the band's debut album. Jason Birchmeier of [[AllMusic]] felt that Clinton's production helped to make ''Freaky Styley'' an improvement over ''The Red Hot Chili Peppers'', and enjoyed Slovak's return, noting that the guitarist "makes a major contribution to practically every song".<ref name="Allmusicrev"/> He further wrote that "the Peppers have a good clutch of songs to work with in addition to excellent production. And too, they seem relaxed and at ease here, playing quirky songs without any self-consciousness, a quality lacking on their debut."<ref name="Allmusicrev"/> Ira Robbins of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' called the album "wilder, rougher, funnier and funkier" than ''The Red Hot Chili Peppers'', and opined that "the Chili Peppers are taking advantage of the current crossover free-for-all to universalize funk by expanding its limits and incorporating new ingredients without diluting the basic bump. Fed up with the empty calories of effete high-tech dance records? Freaky Styley is stick-to-the-ribs rock that puts meat back in the motion."<ref name="RS Review"/> [[Greg Kot]] was more critical in ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'' (2004), believing that like the group's debut album, ''Freaky Styley'' had "not a single memorable song" while the band's "funk-monkey shtick camouflaged serious musical deficiencies".<ref name="RSguide"/>