Suck My Kiss


"Suck My Kiss" is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was released as the third single from their fifth studio album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. "Suck My Kiss" was released in 1992 as an airplay single in the United States and as a physical single in Australia and New Zealand. It reached the top 10 in the two latter countries and peaked at number 15 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. A music video was made for the song using footage from the Funky Monks documentary directed by Gavin Bowden. It also featured shots in shades of red of the American army returning from the Gulf War, revealed by Anthony Kiedis on the audio commentary in the band Greatest Videos compilation. The song was included on the band's Greatest Hits compilation.

Track listings

CD single limited tour edition Australia
  1. "Suck My Kiss"
  2. "Search and Destroy"
  3. "Fela's Cock"
CD promo single/7" inch single
  1. "Suck My Kiss"
  2. "Suck My Kiss"

    Personnel

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Additional musicians

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

In media and popular culture

The song was voted number five in a Rolling Stone readers' poll on Red Hot Chili Peppers songs.
The song appears in episodes of Beavis and Butt-head and Hindsight, as well as the video games and NBA 2K15 "Yakkem Trailer" and the latter's soundtrack album. Along with the rest of the Blood Sugar Sex Magik album, the song was formerly a downloadable track in the Rock Band series. A remixed instrumental based on the song is often used as royalty free production music.
A line was used in the Japanese TV show Tamori Club, in a segment called "Soramimi Hour", in which non-Japanese songs are interpreted into Japanese, according to phonetics. The line "Should have been, could have been, would have been..." from the first verse was interpreted as 白便　黒便　和田勉.
The song was covered by Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine on his 2000 album, Lounge Against the Machine.