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Greatest Hits

by: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Release Date November 18, 2003
I love this cd because it has all the songs I like in one cd saving me the time to look for them one by one.

CD-Charts Position 2
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Stadium Arcadium

by: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Release Date May 09, 2006
Alright, so you've probably heard a lot about this album and this band but I think this album and the band deserve so much credit. If you haven't really listened to anything off this album yet, I'm going to convince you to. Read on.

This amazing album has two disks: Jupiter and Mars; both fantastic. Its sound is way different than previous RHCP albums but still keeps they're original style and flair. With crazy bass lines from bassist Flea and funky guitar rifts from guitarist John Frusciante, this album is packed with creativity and has something for everyone. Drums are always great too when you got Chad Smith on them; one of the few guys in rock music these days that keeps a smile on his face.

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CD-Charts Position 3
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Blood Sugar Sex Magik

by: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Release Date September 24, 1991
Memo to 3,000 FM rock stations............1991
Please play a band called the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Their songs, "Under the Bridge" and "Give it Away" should be continually played till you have brainwashed the unwashed masses into believing this is a cool new band. Do not refer to any of their earlier LP's or that they came from alternative music scene. The band have been around a number of years and it is to your benefit to avoid mentioning their history as we had no intention of supporting them during their early years.
Refer to the band in a familiar way, i.e "The Chili Peppers," and become sponsors of any up coming tours.
Their music is a little rock, a little funk some rap and they do ballads as well. Their stuff is as bland ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 4
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Californication

by: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Release Date June 08, 1999
This a review of the mastering, It is BAD. Perhaps the most infamous victim of the loudness war, but I hear so little of it from fans. The music is OK, I guess, but the sound is AWFUL. Consumer, educate yourself. END THE LOUDNESS WARS. Go get Blod Sugar Sex Magic, (original issue) it is the same, only it sounds good.

CD-Charts Position 5
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By the Way

by: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Release Date July 09, 2002
How can this not get five stars from someone? It takes many, many listens and all the songs grow on you at their own rates. My favorites are the title track, Universally Speaking, Dosed, The Zephyr Song, Cabron, On Mercury, Minor thing, and Venice Queeen, which are all essential. This group has taken it upon themselves to get our generation out of the shadows of the Beatles the Doors, and Hendrix. Fortunately, they are succeeding. Stadium Arcadium is also very good.

CD-Charts Position 6
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One Hot Minute

by: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Release Date September 12, 1995
I really don't care much for the people behind the music, but the music itself.

Looking at it that way, this is probably the best of the Chili Peppers catalog. It's a wonderful, fluid, albeit slightly chaotic mix of funk, metal, jazz, progressive, psychedelia, gothic, and punk, filled with thick grooves from Flea, textured guitar from Navarro, powerful drumming from Smith, and suave to aggressive vocals from Kiedis.

A true, bold experimental record, and the epicenter of a mixed reaction amongst the Chili Peppers fan base, it is still a good album to listen to and worth the listen. It's nice detour from the typical, predictable songwriting pattern that they follow with Frusciante, and this album shows how creative the instrumentalist can be ... Read More:

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Mother's Milk

by: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Release Date March 11, 2003
Before the Red Hot Chili Peppers were synonymous with Californication (1999), By the Way (2002), and Stadium Arcadium (2006), they were best known for "The Rockin' Freakapotamus" sound of their fourth album, Mother's Milk (1989), which is a in-your-face fusion of guitar-driven rock, funk, metal, punk, rap, and southern California testosterone. Mother's Milk was the first RHCP album featuring John Frusciante (who rocks out with almost overpowering guitars) and drummer Chad Smith, and includes covers of Hendrix's "Fire," "Castles Made of Sand," and "Crosstown Traffic," and a cover of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground." The remastered edition of Mother's Milk has never sounded better. Complete album setlist includes:

1. Good Time Boys (2003 Digital Remaster) 5:01
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CD-Charts Position 8
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What Hits!?

by: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Release Date September 29, 1992
Ah, early Red Hot Chili Peppers: Flea's throbbing bass line; punchy drumming that's right on cue from Chad Smith; angular guitar work by Hillel Balzary; and the fluent, speedy rap style of Anthony Kiedis. For a band that's been through so much self-imposed heartache throughout its career, the Red Hot Chili Peppers sure wrote lots of fun, optimistic tunes early on. Songs like Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground," "Me and My Friends" and "Fight Like a Brave" are positively life affirming and full of an unbridled energy that can't be feigned. Even today when it's played live, for instance, "Me and My Friends" is a raucous riot that practically blows the crowd back two feet with each perfectly enunciated word during the chorus. Displaying their diversity, however, the RHCP boys were as equally ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 9
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Freaky Styley

by: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Release Date March 11, 2003
Freak Styley was RHCP's second album, and I feel it was the weakest of the original trilogy. A lot of the tracks here were throwaways that didn't make the cut for the first album (albeit freshly re-recorded for this record). It's like the saying goes-- "If they weren't good enough the first time, what makes them good enough now?" Luckily these "throwaways" aren't AWFUL or anything, they are just kind of mediocre & forgettable. At least most are only 1 minute long or thereabouts.

All that said, there is still some great stuff on Freaky Styley. The first four songs are without a doubt the highlight of the record and stand to this day along with some of the band's best work, most notably the incredible "American Ghost Dance" which forshadowed a sound the band would employ years ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 10
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Uplift Mofo Party Plan

by: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Release Date March 11, 2003
No question the Red Hot Chili Pepper's best work. It's a pity it had to be the last with original founding guitarist Hillel Slovak.

Party Plan's greatness hits you from the first glance at the cover right through to the last track. You know it's going to be great before you even peel off the shrinkwrap. It's one powerful, driving song after another. If this album doesn't get you pumped up, you're a lost cause. I'm not going to do a song-by-song breakdown because they are all killer. This was the band's creative peak IMO, and the music reflects that. The cover is a perfect depiction of the soundscape the tracks convey to your eardrums. My only beef with Party Plan is that it's too short.

I highly recommend Party Plan for any RHCP fans who like their later album BloodSugarSexMagik. ... Read More: