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This Alternative-Rock Funk-Metal band was formed in Los Angeles, California USA, in 1983 with the original line-up of Hillel Slovack on guitar, Anthony Kiedes also on guitar, Flea real name Michael Balzary on bass and Jack Irons behind the drum kit.

In 1984, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, released their self-titled debut album and followed it up with "Freaky Styley" which came out on EMI Records one year later.

1987's "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan" marked their first charting album cracking The Billboard 200 that same year as a result of the buzz created by their explosive live performances.

After the release of "The Abbey Road EP", Slovack died of a heroin overdose on June 25, 1988; Irons subsequently left the group and the Peppers bolstered its line-up by recruiting John Frusciante on guitar and Chad Smith on drums.
In August of 1989 the band unleashed "Mother's Milk" which peaked at #52 on The Billboard 200 Albums chart and generated two Modern Rock hit singles: "Higher Ground" reached the #11 spot and "Knock Me Down" peaked at #6.

One year later, the group contributed the Modern Rock top 10 hit, "Show Me Your Soul", to the soundtrack of the film "Pretty Woman".

September 1991 saw the release of the Warner Brothers' stunning debut, "Blood Sugar Sex Magik", the record made them international Rock stars; in America, it rose to #3 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart, its single "Give It Away" peaked at #1 on The Modern Rock chart and won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance. The second single, "Under The Bridge", became a transatlantic smash hit, in the U.S. it peaked at #2 on both The Billboard's Hot 100 and Active Rock charts; "Suck My Kiss" reached the #15 position on The Modern Rock Tracks and "Breaking The Girl" crashed into the top 20 on both Mainstream and Modern Rock charts.

After two albums, Frusciante left The Peppers in May of 1992; in September EMI America released a compilation titled "What Hits!?" which collected the best tracks from the group's first four albums plus a previously unreleased song, "Behind The Sun"; the track, released as a single, hit #7 on The Modern Rock chart and pushed the collection to #22 on the U.S. Albums chart as well.

The following year the band recorded the song "Soul To Squeeze" for the movie soundtrack "Coneheads", the single went straight to #1 on The Modern Rock chart and former Jane's Addiction, Dave Navarro, joined as new lead guitarist.

In 1995 "One Hot Minute" peaked at #2 in Britain and at #4 on The Billboard 200 Albums chart but failed to match the commercial success of its predecessor; the main single, "My Friends", climbed to the top on both the Billboard's Rock charts, "Aeroplane" peaked at #8 on The Modern Rock Tracks and "Warped" hit #7 on the same chart.

The band recorded in 1996 "Love Rollercoaster", a song for the soundtrack to the animated TV series "Beavis And Butt", the song hit #14 on The Modern Rock chart.

Two years later Navarro departed for a solo career and Frusciante returned re-energized for 1999's "Californication" which was a massive smash worldwide. The disc rose to #3 on the U.S. Top 200 and to #5 on the U.K. Albums charts spawning a seemingly endless series of singles: "Scar Tissue" smashed into the top 10 of The Billboard Hot 100 and climbed to the #1 slots on both Modern and Mainstream Rock charts, also "Otherside" reached the top spots on the Billboard's Rock charts; the title-track hit #1 on The Modern Rock list and #2 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks and "Around The World" climbed into the top 10 of The Modern Rock chart.
"Scar Tissue" eventually won them a Grammy for Best Rock Song.

RHCP's eighth studio effort, "By The Way", was released in the summer of 2002, going straight to #1 on the Top Canadian Albums and to #2 in the United States, highlighted by two #1s Modern Rock singles: "By The Way" and "Can't Stop"; the title-track also reached the top of the Active Rock chart; "The Zephyr Song" hit #6 on The Modern Rock Tracks and "Dosed" cracked the top 20 on the same chart. "By The Way" album eventually reached #1 in Britain, in all Scandinavian countries, Germany, Italy and Australia.

The next year, the band, assembled the retrospective collection "Greatest Hits" which included two new songs. "Fortune Faded" debuted at #8 on The Modern Rock chart.

In May 2006 the multi-platinum alt-Rock group put out the double album "Stadium Arcadium"; the set, which features 28 new tracks, shot to #1 on The Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for 66 weeks. Internationally it leaded the sales-charts in almost every country it was given out on. The abum spun off three Hot Modern Rock #1 hit singles: "Dani California", "Tell Me Baby" and "Snow (Hey Oh)", all of those singles also charted inside the top 10 of The Hot Mainstream Rock list. The non-American single "Desecration Smile" broke into the top 30 in U.K. and the final single, "Hump De Bump" hit #8 on the U.S. Modern Rock chart.
At the 49th Grammy ceremony Kiedis, Frusciante, Flea and Smith took home three Awards: Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for "Dani California" and Best Rock Album for "Stadium Arcadium".
Following a world tour the group went on a long hiatus. Chad Smith joined Chickenfoot, once again Frusciante left and Josh Klinghoffer became the new lead guitarist for the band.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers returned in August 2011 with their tenth outing, "I'm With You". The disc peaked at #2 in U.S. and Canada, while the first single, "The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie", debuted at #1 on both Billboard's Alternative and Rock Songs charts. It was soon followed by another Alternative Rock radio top 10 hit, "Monarchy Of Roses".

 

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers

(1984)

1. True Men Don't Kill Coyotes
2. Baby Appeal
3. Buckle Down
4. Get Up And Jump
5. Why Don't You Love Me
6. Green Heaven
7. Mommy Where's Daddy
8. Out In L.A.
9. Police Helicopter
10. You Always Sing
11. Grand Pappy Du Plenty

 

Freaky Styley

(1985)

1. Jungle Man
2. Hollywood
3. American Ghost Dance
4. If You Want Me To Stay
5. Nevermind
6. Freaky Styley
7. Blackeyed Blonde
8. The Brothers Cup
9. Battle Ship
10. Lovin' And Touchin'
11. Catholic School Girls Rule
12. Sex Rap
13. Thirty Dirty Birds
14. Yertle The Turtle

 

The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

(1987)

1. Fight Like A Brave
2. Funky Crime
3. Me And My Friends
4. Backwoods
5. Skinny Sweaty Man
6. Behind The Sun
7. Subterranean Homesick Blues
8. Special Secret Song Inside
9. No Chump Love Sucker
10. Walkin' On Down The Road
11. Love Trilogy
12. Organic Anti-Beat Box Band

 

The Abbey Road
[EP]

(1988)

1. Fire
2. Backwoods
3. Catholic School Girls Rule
4. Hollywood (Africa)
5. True Men Don't Kill Coyotes

 

Mother's Milk

(1989)

1. Good Time Boys
2. Higher Ground
3. Subway To Venus
4. Magic Johnson
5. Nobody Weird Like Me
6. Knock Me Down
7. Taste The Pain
8. Stone Cold Bush
9. Fire
10. Pretty Little Ditty
11. Punk Rock Classic
12. Sexy Mexican Maid
13. Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky

 

Pretty Woman
[soundtrack]

(1990)

INCLUDES:

- Show Me Your Soul

 

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

(1991)

1. Power Of Equality
2. If You Have To Ask
3. Breaking The Girl
4. Funky Monks
5. Suck My Kiss
6. I Could Have Lied
7. Mellowship Slinky In B Major
8. The Righteous And The Wicked
9. Give It Away
10. Blood Sugar Sex Magik
11. Under The Bridge
12. Naked In The Rain
13. Apache Rose Peacock
14. The Greeting Song
15. My Lovely Man
16. Sir Psycho Sexy
17. They're Red Hot

 

What Hits!?

(1992)

1. Higher Ground
2. Fight Like A Brave
3. Behind The Sun [NEW TRACK]
4. Me & My Friends
5. Backwoods
6. True Men Don't Kill Coyotes
7. Fire
8. Get Up And Jump
9. Knock Me Down
10. Under The Bridge
11. Show Me Your Soul
12. If You Want Me To Stay
13. Hollywood
14. Jungle Man
15. The Brothers Cup
16. Taste The Pain
17. Catholic School Girls Rule
18. Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky

 

Coneheads
[soundtrack]

(1993)

INCLUDES:

- Soul To Squeeze

 

One Hot Minute

(1995)

1. Warped
2. Aeroplane
3. Deep Kick
4. My Friends
5. Coffee Shop
6. Pea
7. One Big Mob
8. Walkabout
9. Tearjerker
10. One Hot Minute
11. Falling Into Grace
12. Shallow Be Thy Game
13. Transcending

 

Beavis And Butt Head Do America
[soundtrack]

(1996)

INCLUDES:

- Love Rollercoaster

 

Californication

(1999)

1. Around The World
2. Parallel Universe
3. Scar Tissue
4. Otherside
5. Get On Top
6. Californication
7. Easily
8. Porcelain
9. Emit Remmus
10. I Like Dirt
11. This Velvet Glove
12. Savior
13. Purple Stain
14. Right On Time
15. Road Trippin'

 

By The Way

(2002)

1. By The Way
2. Universally Speaking
3. This Is The Place
4. Dosed
5. Don't Forget Me
6. The Zephyr Song
7. Can't Stop
8. I Could Die For You
9. Midnight
10. Throw Away Your Television
11. Cabron
12. Tear
13. On Mercury
14. Minor Thing
15. Warm Tape
16. Venice Queen

 

Greatest Hits

(2003)

1. Under The Bridge
2. Give It Away
3. Californication
4. Scar Tissue
5. Soul To Squeeze
6. Otherside
7. Suck My Kiss
8. By The Way
9. Parallel Universe
10. Breaking The Girl
11. My Friends
12. Higher Ground
13. Universally Speaking
14. Road Trippin'
15. Fortune Faded [NEW TRACK]
16. Save The Population [NEW TRACK]

 

Stadium Arcadium

(2006)

DISC #1:
1. Dani California
2. Snow (Hey Oh)
3. Charlie
4. Stadium Arcadium
5. Hump De Bump
6. She's Only 18
7. Slow Cheetah
8. Torture Me
9. Strip My Mind
10. Especially In Michigan
11. Warlocks
12. C'mon Girl
13. Wet Sand
14. Hey

DISC #2:
1. Desecration Smile
2. Tell Me Baby
3. Hard To Concentrate
4. 21st Century
5. She Looks To Me
6. Readymade
7. If
8. Make You Feel Better
9. Animal Bar
10. So Much I
11. Storm In A Teacup
12. We Believe
13. Turn It Again
14. Death Of A Martian

 

I'm With You

(2011)

1. Monarchy Of Roses
2. Factory Of Faith
3. Brendan's Death Song
4. Ethiopia
5. Annie Wants A Baby
6. Look Around
7. The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie
8. Did I Let You Know
9. Goodbye Hooray
10. Happiness Loves Company
11. Police Station
12. Even You Brutus?
13. Meet Me At The Corner
14. Dance, Dance, Dance

 
   
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