Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits - Music & Performance - CD

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 #1's, a pair of Modern Rock Top 20 and three other fan favorites plus two brand-new songs. The CD+DVD version of Greatest Hits adds a DVD disc of 16 of the band's best-known videos. Red Hot Chili Peppers' Greatest Hits will be en fuego this holiday gift-buying season.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Greatest Hits is a compelling listen, culling tracks from the band's 1989 breakthrough, Mother's Milk, to its melodic 2002 release, By the Way. In some ways, one could view this as the best of the John Frusciante years, charting most of the band's work with the talented guitarist after the death of original member Hillel Slovak. The tracks here are all hits, including such stellar singles as "Give It Away," "Under the Bridge," and Frusciante's first single after his phoenix-like resurrection from heroin addiction, "Scar Tissue." It should be noted, though, that as a Warner-issued hits collection such fan favorites as "Taste the Pain" and the touchstone antidrug anthem "Knock Me Down" -- both from the 1989 EMI release Mother's Milk -- aren't included. (Similarly, nothing from the Chili Peppers' rambunctious early efforts -- including 1984's Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1985's Freaky Styley, and 1987's The Uplift Mofo Party Plan -- appears on this hits collection.) Nonetheless, Greatest Hits still portrays the band as one of the most consistently brilliant groups of its generation. Helping to paint this picture are such solid cuts as the group's searing, albeit overplayed, 1989 cover of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" as well as its rarely available addition to the Coneheads movie soundtrack, "Soul to Squeeze." Not surprisingly, "My Friends" is the sole cut to make it from the band's disappointing one-off effort with Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, One Hot Minute. Throw in two new tracks ("Fortune Faded" and "Save the Population") that easily match the quality of the material collected here, and you've got one of the most consistently listenable Chili Pepper releases since Blood Sugar Sex Magik. For fans who gave up after Frusciante left the band, Greatest Hits is the perfect reintroduction. Warner also released a clean version of Greatest Hits with all the profanity edited. ~ Matt Collar, All Music Guide

Performer	Red Hot Chili Peppers
Music genre	Rock
Music subgenre	POP ROCK
Media format	CD
Original release date	2003-11-18
Edition	Standard Edition
Language	English
Is collectible	Y
Number of tracks	16
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits COMPACT DISCS Clean
Track listing	Under the Bridge, Give It Away, Californication, Scar Tissue, Soul to Squeeze, Otherside, Suck My Kiss, By the Way, Parallel Universe, Breaking the Girl, My Friends, Higher Ground, Universally Speaking, Road Trippin', Fortune Faded, Save the Population
Record label	Warner Records
Target audience	Adult
Composer	Red Hot Chili Peppers
Songwriter	Red Hot Chili Peppers
Music producer	Red Hot Chili Peppers
Number in series	1
Occasion	Holiday
Track name	Under the Bridge
Digital audio file format	Cd
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	Y