Limited double black vinyl LP pressing. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' first Warner Bros. Greatest Hits album spans almost 15 years of rock greatness. Featuring all of the band's best- loved recordings, Greatest Hits includes "Under The Bridge" (#2 pop and gold), the Top 10 "Scar Tissue," six classic Modern Rock #1s, a pair of Modern Rock Top 20s and three other fan favorites plus two brand-new songs. One of the most successful acts in rock history, Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold more than 60 million albums, including five multi-platinum LPs, and won six Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Album for Stadium Arcadium, Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group for "Dani California, Best Rock Song for "Scar Tissue," and Best Hard Rock Performance With Vocal for "Give It Away." The band holds the record for the most #1 singles of all time at alternative radio, a total of 11, and a combined 81 weeks at #1.
Although the Red Hot Chili Peppers have received the hits treatment before (most notably on 1992's WHAT HITS?), this compilation serves to highlight the band's peak years with guitarist John Frusciante, both before his sudden departure in 1992 and after his lauded return for 1999's Californication. (The group's intriguing-yet-mismatched union with Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro yields only one track, "My Friends.")
The Chili Peppers are best known for their energetic punk-funk anthems but their mainstream breakthrough, the gently building ballad "Under the Bridge" opens GREATEST HITS. It's followed in short order, however by the boisterous, slaphappy "Give It Away." Other Peppers high points include the beautifully melancholy "Scar Tissue," the hard-to-find "Soul to Squeeze," the folky "Breaking the Girl," and the only pre-1990s track--the group's wonderfully rocked-out cover of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground." Of course, this HITS collection includes the seemingly requisite (and quite good) two new tracks--the driving "Fortune Faded" and the dreamy "Save the Population." GREATEST HITS effectively chronicles the Peppers' transition from goofy party boys to mature, highly inventive rock band.
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Anthony Kiedis (vocals); John Frusciante (guitar); Flea (bass); Chad Smith (drums).
Compilation producers: Rick Rubin, Michael Beinhorn
- Format: Vinyl (Black)
- Genre: Rock
- Gatefold Jacket
- Double black vinyl
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TRACKS
Under The Bridge 4:33
Give It Away 4:45
Californication 5:30
Scar Tissue 3:36
Soul To Squeeze 4:50
Otherside 4:15
Suck My Kiss 3:36
By The Way 3:36
Parallel Universe 4:29
Breaking The Girl 4:55
My Friends 4:09
Higher Ground 3:22
Universally Speaking 4:17
Road Trippin' 3:25
Fortune Faded 3:21
Save The Population 4:06
