Making a top 15 of the best Red Hot Chili Peppers songs is a difficult but necessary task. The most famous songs of the Red Hot Chili Peppers are many. But… and the best? After it was confirmed in December John Frusciante's return to the RHCP and, above all, after we learned in January that the Californian band prepares a new album, in Postposmo we have become nervous.
Best Red Hot Chili Peppers Songs
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are, along with The Strokes, our favorite rock band. We have a few weeks with the playlists in repeat constant, and this list has come out with the best and best known songs of the RHCP that every fan should know by heart before the release of the new album by Anthony Kiedis and company throughout, hopefully, this 2020.
We have had a very bad time. Fatal. Staying with only 15 songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is almost an act of torture... to which we have decided to submit voluntarily.
For the record, much to our regret, they have had to stay out of jewels and well-known songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers , the road tripping, charlie, The Longest Wave, Around the World, Give it away, Breaking the girl, Universally speaking, or… gulps, Californication.
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15. Dani CaliforniaMore
El single double CD release date Arcadium stage It was a required entry on this list. But if we have decided to give it last place, it is because This song couldn't exist without Tom Petty's original version: Mary Jane's last dance. And, truth be told: it is difficult to look with the same eyes at Dani CaliforniaMore when one listens to this Petty masterpiece released over 20 years earlier. The central melody is already there, the riffs guitar and the storytelling of the troubled girl. All in all, the RHCPs give it a fresh face lift. Especially in the crazy final guitar section of it. Wonderful.
14. My friends
Slow, soft, confessional... My friends is a rarity hardly mentioned in rankings of the most famous songs of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and that deserves a good listen and a place at the altar of the champions.
The fourth cut One Hot Minute is a perfect example of the general spirit of the 1995 RHCP: without leaving aside the classic rock-rap of Anthony Kiedis, the band was beginning to say goodbye to its funk punk-rock sounds to change them for a more melodic pop-rock and to the taste of mothers and fathers. Pure poetry.
ex girlfriend called me up
Alone and desperate
On the prison phone
They want to give her seven years
for being sad
13. soul to squeeze
Es poppy and it's full of syrup. The only one on this entire list that does not belong to a Red Hot Chili Peppers album but to a movie soundtrack: coneheads. He was about to become part of Blood sugar sex magik, something that would have further solidified its status as the best RHCP album. He listens to that sad guitar tune and thinks that this was one of the last recordings (if not the last) of John Frusciante before leaving the group for the first time because of his drug problems.
12. Suck My Kiss
Stark, daring and uncensored. suck my kiss perhaps better than any other song it represents the prevailing spirit of RHCP's 1991 album: Blood sugar sex magik. They are no longer the Red hot of The uplift mofo party, but they still retain a sugarcane spirit that they have now managed to combine with a rocker component that makes them more listenable and accessible to the masses.
11.Tell me baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWyblTqAwp0
It's almost impossible to hear tell me baby and not start dancing automatically. The best thing is the positive spirit that it transmits. a rare bird in this list full of sad stories and melancholic melodies of better times. Tell me, baby, what is your story, where do you come from and where do you want to go tonight.
10. Can't Stop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4jSt0ne1ck
Absolute cane. Craziness. The initial seconds of can't stop they make it very clear what the matter is about And, in case there were any doubts, the video clip confirms it. can't stop it's a strange exercise in which the RHCPs of the new millennium get some of their past madness pills back. But with ultra-sharp backing vocals from the versatile John Frusciante. It's no coincidence that this man is the mainstay of all the Red Hot Chili Peppers' best songs.
9.Other side
It is difficult to say anything useful about otherside, It is possibly the most listened song of the band. And that was not the inaugural single of Californication (1999). With Otherside, the Red Hot Chili Peppers will confirm that the song Californication it was not a stroke of luck. This is the group's most popular album.. The one that catapulted them to global fame. And how catchy is the melody of Otherside He was largely to blame.
7. Venice Queen
It's easy to confuse venice queen with our next entry, dosed, because both deal with deceased women. venice queen is a song in tribute to a former heroin addict who was a friend of Anthony Kiedis and who had been a social affairs counselor in the Venice district of Los Angeles for 22 years, helping hundreds of people to leave drug addiction. venice queen it is divided into two superb parts that have nothing to do with each other. It's a rarity and, in essence, two songs contained in a single cut. Belonging to By the way and was launched in the year 2001.
8. dosed
Again, the sad melody of John Frusciante in combination with the nostalgia that springs from the Kiedis strings make this tune one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded. The lyrics tell us about an old love who died because of drugs, and how Kiedis wishes that person hadn't gotten out of his life. "Inside, deep in the canyon, I can't hide that all I ever wanted was your life [for you to live]."
6. The Zephyr song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1VgjogTUBA
yes we love it By the way. Noticeable? Mystical, magical, psychotropic… The Zephyr song is a rare song belonging to an album that, as happens with Stadium Arcadium, It was not valued in its fair measure. The number of bombshells in By the way it just accentuates this weird poppy pit stop and some benign cheesiness that is The Zephyr song.
5.Scar Tissue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZfC0epjz4
Grammy for best rock song of the year 2000 and, without a doubt, one of the best songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers as well as one of the most remembered. Scar tissue is one of the quieter songs of the Red Hot. john's guitar Frusciante dominates everything. That guitar can talk. Listening to it makes you want to do like Kiedis, John, Chad and Flea do in the video: get in a car and drive down the road for countless miles. Scar tissue deserves to be in fourth place just for the magical atmosphere that he achieves with so few musical elements.
4.Desecration Smile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe95uNKFhQ8
We will never know how to properly assess the number of legendary songs that the band gave us on their only double CD, Stadium Arcadium. Was his last album before Frusciante left for the second time and his subsequent replacement by Klinghoffer, with whom they released two albums quite neither fú nor fa (and from which we have not taken any cuts in this list of the best songs of the Red Hot Chili Peppers). Desecration Smile is the cover letter of the 14 songs that make up the second CD of the album, Jupiter. A very intimate acoustic ballad and in whose video we can see the four members of the band hugging and showing love in a way never seen before.
All alone not by myself
Another girl bad for my health
I've seen it all through someone else
3. Snow Hey (Oh)
Impossible not to feel an instant spell cast by John Frusciante's lead melody on Snow; for its omnipresent bass line and for Kiedis' rhythmic shotgun syllables while Chad does his thing with an undaunted and omnipresent battery. Just when you're already convinced, the chorus enters. Just when you're already in love, the nostalgic organ enters in the background, to finally join everyone (background choirs included) in a bridge that goes in growing until bursting with the final orgasm.
2.Wet Sand
We do not rule out that time will place wet sand at the top of this list. Even though 14 years have passed since the release of Stadium Arcadium, the song that occupies the top of this table continues to have a certain component of eternity from which Wet sand It's not exactly lacking.
But they are different songs.
Wet sand it is a madness of several flowery paths that meet and separate until they all merge into a final stretch that is possibly the most exciting in the entire Red Hot Chili Peppers discography.
wet sand He has anger, he has hope, he has honesty. And again, you have John Frusciante demonstrating why he alone could well be considered the soul bearer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. That guitar recites poems. And best of all, depending on who is listening, it emits different verses.
When Wet sand faces its final stretch, the apotheosis is indescribable:
You don't form in the wet sand
You don't form at all
Oh, you don't form in the wet sand
I do
1. Under the bridge
Let's be honest, it was clear from the beginning who would top this list of the best Red Hot Chili Peppers songs. under the bridge He has the ability to never age. Sometimes the simplest is the most effective.
This love letter from a lonely being to the city he loves, the only one that understands him and kisses him, is a sad and desolate masterpiece that the group itself failed to appreciate in its proper measure. It was legendary producer Rick Rubin who, flipping through some of Anthony's notebooks, came up with a poem that, in the opinion of the RHCP vocalist, was "too sad«.
And it is. But it is also the number 1 of the best songs of the Red Hot Chili Peppers in our humble point of view. The atmosphere is indescribable.
At Rick Rubin's insistence, Anthony recited it, Frusciante and Flea grabbed instruments to improvise their tune. However, it was another (give it away) song chosen for single initial of the disk to which it belongs, Blood Sugar Sex Magix. The Red Hot decided that under the bridge it would be the second promotional single after, during a concert, Kiedis made a mistake in the entrance of the song… only to discover that the entire audience knew it by heart.
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