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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Party on Your Pussy (aka Special Secret Song Inside)
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This song was originally titled “Party on your Pussy,” but the band was compelled to change the title (choosing the snarky “Special Secret Song Inside”) because of their record
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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 – If You Have to Ask
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“If You Have to Ask” is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 1991 studio album Blood Sugar Sex Magik. It was released as the album’s fifth and final single in 1993.
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Poster Child
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The second song released off the Red Hot Chili Peppers' twelfth album, Unlimited Love, “Poster Child” is a funk-influenced tribute to many of the biggest cult figures of the 20th
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – This Is the Place
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“This is the Place” is one of the many songs on By the Way which describe the negative effects of hard drugs and the hardships of getting clean.
With reference to early RHCP
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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 – 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 – Magic Johnson
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The titles give it away: this track is about The Los Angeles Lakers in the 80’s, the era of the franchise dubbed as “The Showtime Lakers,” This was due to their elegant play styles
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – I Could Die for You
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“I Could Die for You” is about Anthony and you – the listener. Just the two of you.
She smiles when I do my time
Bands do ‘sets’, not time, as a comic does. But when it is only
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Purple Stain
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“Purple Stain” is the thirteenth track off of Red Hot Chili Peppers' 1999 album Californication. It’s literally about dealing with a girl on her period.
Purple stain refers to a
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Breaking the Girl
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Released as the fourth single from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 1991 album, Blood Sugar Sex Magic, “Breaking the Girl” is about a relationship that frontman Anthony Kiedis had with
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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 – Parallel Universe
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The second song off the Chili Peppers seventh album, Californication. This was guitarist John Frusciante’s first album back with the band after a brief hiatus. Anthony Kiedis noted
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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 – Slow Cheetah
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“Slow Cheetah” is a song from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 2006 album Stadium Arcadium. The song is characteristic of the band’s stylistic shift from rap and funk towards a mellower
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