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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 – 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 – 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 – The Heavy Wing
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[Verse 1: Anthony Kiedis] / Golden light / Streamin' from your eyes / Give me a piece of the real thing / And I live with you this life / Stripped and clean / A restless wolverine
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Brandy
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There's a port on a western bay / And it serves a hundred ships a day / Lonely sailors pass the time away / And talk about their homes / And there's a girl in this harbor town
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Get on Top
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“Get On Top” was created after a jam session that was conducted shortly after guitarist John Frusciante had listened to Public Enemy.
I was listening to Public Enemy one morning
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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 – 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 – Dosed
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“Dosed” is a slower-paced song in which Anthony Kiedis recounts a close relationship that was overshadowed by drug use and addiction. The song is most commonly speculated to be
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Transcending
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“Transcending” is the thirteenth and final track on the sixth RHCP album, One Hot Minute. Lyricist Anthony Kiedis wrote this song about actor River Phoenix, who died of a drug
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – My Friends
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This song is about Kiedis' bandmates (at the time Flea, Chad Smith and Dave Navarro). Flea was going through a painful divorce, Navarro was addicted to heroin and Chad was down
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Right on Time
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[Verse 1: Anthony Kiedis] / One shot, all I need / I've got rhythm when I bleed / 'Til death do us part / Break my heart so I can start / [Pre-Chorus 1: Anthony Kiedis
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – This Velvet Glove
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The lyrics are cryptic as usual, but the overall meaning seems to revolve around wanting to get clean but needing someone’s help to do it. Anthony could either be talking about how
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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 – The Getaway
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“The Getaway” is the cryptically-written title track and opener from Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ 2016 album, that some have hypothesized to be about two people with a large age
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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 – Kaly
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[Verse 1] / I'm a lunatic, and a hypocrite / A lone star gone lost in vain / I'm a Kerouac, and a gunnysack / A fringe mad lad pre-ordained / [Pre-Chorus 1] / You don't have to
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Sick Love
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[Verse 1] / Say goodbye to Oz and everything you own / California dreamin' is a Pettibon / LA's screaming you're my home / Vanity is blasted but it's rarely fair / I could smell
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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 – 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 – Bella
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[Verse 1] / She wants to live in LA / Come put your ash in my tray / Once upon a funky crime / We were standing in the line / And now we're walkin' Melrose down to Vine / Well, I
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Tangelo
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[Verse 1] / When I'm with you, I feel like myself / No stranger, the shadow of somebody else / When I feel you holdin' my hand / I get touched, ain't this life grand? / [Chorus
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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 – The Power of Equality
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The first song off RHCP’s 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik, this song showcases the band’s unique mashup of funk and metal music. It also shows their accepting, anti-racism
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