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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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Q&A: "Dark Necessities"
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Hey all! To kick off the new Q&A initiative, I went crazy on Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Dark Necessities.” There were no questions on the song before I started, so I added a ton of questions and answered them myself! Did you know that astronauts never actually had Astronaut Ice Cream?
https://genius.com/Red-hot-chili-peppers-dark-necessities-lyrics
I tried to get some staple questions out there and then focus in on some more specific ones that can connect to annotations—this is a great opportunity for directing people to annotations who wouldn’t otherwise click on them.
Can anyone make some music connections to answer this question: “What other songs does ‘Dark Necessities’ sound like?”
Did I slack on any questions? What other questions should be added? Which of these questions are the most important, and which ones suck? Share your thoughts below, and add your own questions!
@genius-editorial-board
Tagging top contributors on “Dark Necessities” and top RHCP scholars: @niiicola @ross
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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 – Aeroplane
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[Intro] / (Yeah) Aw yeah / [Chorus] / I like pleasure spiked with pain / And music is my aeroplane / It's my aeroplane / Songbird sweet and sour Jane / And music is my aeroplane
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Hot Chelle Rae – Tonight Tonight
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[Intro] / Uno, dos, tres / [Verse 1] / It's been a really, really messed up week / Seven days of torture, seven days of bitter / And my girlfriend went and cheated on me / She's a
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Can't Stop (Live in Cardiff, Wales)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Can't stop, addicted to the shindig / Chop Top, he says I'm gonna win big / Choose not a life of imitation / Distant cousin to the reservation
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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 – Can’t Stop (Live in Hyde Park)
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[Verse 1] / Can't stop, addicted to the shindig / Chop Top, he says I'm gonna win big / Choose not a life of imitation / Distant cousin to the reservation / Defunct, the pistol
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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 – Can't Stop Samples
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See all of “Can't Stop” by Red Hot Chili Peppers’s samples
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Police Station
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“Police Station” is a slow, emotional piece of music that tells a story of Anthony running into various old friends throughout L.A, all of whose lives had become tragic.
Kiedis
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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, but just to redirect my flow / Come on, let's go / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Sit up straight, I'm
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Don't Forget Me
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This songs speaks about addiction to drugs and the process of overcoming it and growing as a result.
Anthony Kiedis stated in an interview in 2002:
“This song is my ideal of what
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
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This song describes the falling in love of a fictional man, who apparently goes through a long-distance relationship as seen on the verses “smoke surrounds your perfect face” as a
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Zephyr Song
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Released as the second single from By the Way, “The Zephyr Song” highlights the human connection and healing power of nature.
The song forms a long comparison between 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Strip My Mind
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“Strip My Mind” seems to deal with the idea of reminiscing about one’s past, and wishing to go back despite the pain and suffering that was felt at the time. Stylistically, it is 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 – Baby Appeal
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[Verse 1] / On the city streets, I got the tunes in my box / I'll play the Chili Peppers so the public can rock / Excuse me mister, won't you hear my thought? / I play in a band
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