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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Can't Stop
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Released as a the third single from By The Way, “Can’t Stop” is known for its simple but catchy guitar riff, pulsating bass and thoroughly cryptic lyrics.
Throughout the track
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
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This song is mainly about the dark side of Hollywood that lies underneath the glossy surface. The band might love the city of Los Angeles, but they saw firsthand the effects the
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dani California
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“Dani California” is the first single and the opening track on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' ninth studio album, Stadium Arcadium.
Dani is a made up girl that RHCP reference in many
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge
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The song is about front man Anthony Kiedis and the period in his life when he walked around Los Angeles sad and very alone, finding solace in the streets and hills and the wind
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
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As the title track from the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ eighth studio album, “By the Way” reflects the underlying theme of the record—Anthony Kiedis’ love life, and the emotions
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside
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A single from the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s 1999 album Californication, the “other side” here is a metaphor for both the struggle to get back to a normal life after addiction and also
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dark Necessities
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Anthony Kiedis, who wrote the lyrics to “Dark Necessities” in Hawaii, explained that the song:
speaks to the beauty of our dark sides and how much creativity and growth and light
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Give It Away
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“Give It Away” was the lead single off Blood Sugar Sex Magik, the fifth studio album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and their first with Warner Bros Records and producer Rick Rubin.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Soul to Squeeze
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Originally recorded during the production of their fifth studio album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991). Although it was not featured on the record—and compiled as a b-side to “Give It
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Eddie
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“Eddie” is the second single from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' thirteenth studio album, Return of the Dream Canteen. It was inspired by the October 2020 passing of legendary rock
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue
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The first single off of Californication describes the struggles addicts go through to get sober and how they are viewed different when they return to reality. Scar tissue is a good
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Around the World
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“Around the World” was released on September 14, 1999 as the second single from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' album, Californication.
The song details the love that Anthony Kiedis
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Black Summer
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Red Hot Chili Peppers break an almost six-year long pause with the eco-centered “Black Summer,” the lead single from their twelfth studio album, Unlimited Love.
According to a
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – This Is the Kitt
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“This Is The Kitt https://genius.com/Red-hot-chili-peppers-this-is-the-kitt-lyrics ” can be found at track fourteen on the album and is an upbeat, happy, yet also sad song about a
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute
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[Verse 1] / I was riding, riding on my bike / Me with my friend, we're so alike / [Refrain] / Am I all alone? / [Verse 2] / She said all we have is this / We just had to stop and
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Hollywood (Africa)
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Freaky Styley producer George Clinton considers the song to be one of his favorites on the album. When Clinton would visit early Red Hot Chili Peppers gigs, he would go on stage
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Brothers Cup
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Anthony and Flea had matching leather jackets with cups sewn on the shoulders, thus becoming The Brothers Cup.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Hanalei
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Hanalei was inspired by Anthony’s love of Hawaii, as Hanalei is a small town on the North side of Kauai, an island in Hawaii.
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Anthony is in sunny Hanalei
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Tippa My Tongue
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Lead single from their album Return of the Dream Canteen, and fresh on the heels of their Frusciante comeback album Unlimited Love, “Tippa My Tongue” features a throwback sound
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Pea
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“Pea” is the sixth song on the album One Hot Minute. “Pea” was written and performed by Flea.
When Flea was younger, he was frequently picked on. This song is partly believed to
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Brave from Afar
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[Chorus] / Brave from afar when I hold you for country / Saved by a star, can I hold you to one thing? / [Post-Chorus] / Do you feel safe when they tell you, they sell you? / Pray
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – On Mercury
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[Verse 1] / I've got myself in a masochistic hold / Why don't you let go? / Shake it off just to redirect my flow / Come on, let's go / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Sit up straight, I'm on a
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Snow (Hey Oh)
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This song is from their 2006 album Stadium Arcadium and is one of the songs to sit longest at #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart.
In the words of the lead singer it’s about “
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Turn It Again
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[Verse 1: Anthony Kiedis, John Frusciante] / Some of us get a little, and some a lot / We've got to make do with whatever we got / We get it hot, we cool it down, and then we pass
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Not the One
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers offer a meditation on identity with “Not the One,” the third single from their 2022 album Unlimited Love.
Over a peaceful, blissed-out instrumental, lead
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Subway to Venus
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[Verse 1] / Step right up and listen, please / You're gonna get it with the greatest of ease / Well, well, everybody a-gather 'round / All aboard the underground / You gotta get in
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Torture Me
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A memorable bass riff launches the listener right into the fast-paced action and gives them little to no time to think before the verse starts, as lead singer Anthony Kiedis
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Porcelain
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In the words of Kiedis himself:
I had met a young mother at a meeting. She was living in a YWCA with her baby girl, trying to get sober but failing miserably. The beauty and
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Road Trippin'
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One of the few songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers that doesn’t feature a drummer. The song is just a mostly acoustic story of band’s road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Higher Ground
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Named as the “second greatest cover ever” by Total Guitar magazine, “Higher Ground” was originally written and recorded by Stevie Wonder in in 1973.
Addressing the topic of
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – These Are the Ways
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[Verse 1] / Make me a fist / Purple Mountain road that I can't miss / Have we all had enough? / Have we all had too much? / [Verse 2] / Lost in a dream / Please step down from your
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Drummer
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[Verse 1] / Stay awake / Fall asleep / Take a look at what you think and what you really need to keep / My atoms are indivisible / Shut it up / Run it down / Live a life that's
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Open/Close
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[Verse 1] / So we were down in Brazil and, man, that place is wild / We were in Rio de Janeiro, and uh, we had this, this sort of, uh, security-guard type guy and he was supposed
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – We Turn Red
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Described as a funked-up tour of destinations in America’s East, South, Midwest, and Southwest, “We Turn Red” was the third track to be previewed ahead of the release of the Red
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Nevermind
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This track works as a diss track of many of the RHCP’s mainstream contemporary’s.
Here’s a clip of the Chili Peppers back in 1985 recording in the studio for “Nevermind” with
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