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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 – 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 – 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 – Cabron
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“Cabron” is one of the lesser known tracks from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers eighth album By the Way, which peaked at No. 2 on Billboard 200.
This song is a description of the
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Tear
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The 12th track off 2002’s By the Way. Anthony Kiedis expresses about the wonders and incredible beauty of life, as well as finding his purpose in it. He sings about appreciating
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Savior
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“Savior” was the twelfth track off of Californication. Written by Anthony Kiedis, this song is about the relationship between Kiedis and his father, Blackie Dammett.
Kiedis
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Easily
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“Easily” is the seventh track of Californication, the seventh album by RHCP, published in 1999.
It was never released as a single, and no music video was produced for it. The
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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 – Fire
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“Fire” is a cover of a song, of the same name, recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in early 1967. The version released by the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1989 featured Anthony
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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.
A
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Fortune Faded
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In 2003, “Fortune Faded” was promoted as a single to coincide with the release of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Greatest Hits album. The lyrics appear to reference the Red Hot Chili
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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 – Hey
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In late 2005, while the band were still working on Stadium Arcadium, lead singer Anthony Kiedis had a temporarily split with his then girlfriend, Heather Christie. The lyrics might
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Universally Speaking
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Discography speaking, “Universally Speaking”, was the fifth and last single off the Red Hot Chili Peppers eighth album, By The Way.
The song captures traditional RHCP themes
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Charlie
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“Charlie” is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 2006 double album, Stadium Arcadium. To be precise, it is the third track in Jupiter, the first of the two discs.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Midnight
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“Midnight” is the ninth track off of Red Hot Chili Peppers' 2002 album By The Way. It is one of the abundant love tracks off of the album, inspired by Anthony Kiedis' girlfriend of
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Warm Tape
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The lyrical themes and musical style of By the Way mark a significant digression from the signature funk-driven sound of previous Red Hot Chili Peppers albums. Continuing this
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Roy Woods (Ft. Majid Jordan) – Chilli Peppers
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“Chilli Peppers” is the 3rd song off of Roy Woods' latest EP effort, Nocturnal. Majid Al-Maskati, also known as ½ of the R&B OVO duo Majid Jordan provides additional vocals to the
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