Red Hot Chili Peppers

Nowhere Man
Nowhere Man Posts: 345
edited July 2009 in Other Music
Just recently got into the Red Hot Chili Peppers and have about 20 songs or so, most of the basic greatest hits stuff. Can anyone recommend some other songs by the band? Thanks
Post edited by Unknown User on
«134567…86

Comments

  • MFC9289
    MFC9289 Posts: 144
    In my opinion By the Way is their best album...their most mellow but has some of the classic funk from their earlier stuff. 16 songs and each song is awesome.
    Boston II 9/29/04, Bonnaroo 6/14/08, Mansfield II 6/30/08

    "Ransom paid the devil
    He whispers pleasing words
    Triumphant are the angels if they can get there first..."
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    If you like it hard and funky go with the early stuff. If you like the more classic sounding stuff, go with the last 2 albums.

    By The Way is my overall favorite, but I only like a handful of stuff pre BSSM.
  • ledvedderman
    ledvedderman Posts: 7,762
    MFC9289 wrote:
    In my opinion By the Way is their best album...their most mellow but has some of the classic funk from their earlier stuff. 16 songs and each song is awesome.

    Couldn't agree more. I've never been a huge Chili Peppers fan, but I love the "By The Way" album. "Tear" is one hell of a song.
    E8toX.gif

    http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
  • glorified G is here
    glorified G is here Posts: 419
    Bloodsuagrsexmagik is in my top 5 albums. Such a range of styles from song to song, but flows really well. Saw them headline Lolla 92 touring for BSSM and it doesn't get any better!
    7/28/1992 Lollapalooza Cincinnati, 9/22/1996 Toledo, 8/20/2000 Cincinnati, 6/24/2006 Cincinnati, 8/5/2007 Lollapalooza Chicago @ Grant Park, EV solo 8/21/2008 Chicago @ Auditorium Theater
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    ledvedderman wrote:
    MFC9289 wrote:
    In my opinion By the Way is their best album...their most mellow but has some of the classic funk from their earlier stuff. 16 songs and each song is awesome.

    Couldn't agree more. I've never been a huge Chili Peppers fan, but I love the "By The Way" album. "Tear" is one hell of a song.

    That song alone should redeem them in the eyes of the old school fans. The harmonies that Froosh and Flea bust out on the last few albums are just phenomenal, not to mention all the studio tricks JF has added with SA and BTW.
  • rhcpjam1029
    rhcpjam1029 Posts: 1,982
    just go for Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Everything off that album is great. IMO, Stadium Arcadium was great and if it weren't for that album being their big "sell-out" it would have been better. It's a great bunch of songs. You can't go wrong with Californication either. I've got some good RHCP bootlegs too if you're interested. PM me.
    Beavis: All my friends are brown and red? What does that mean?
    Butthead: It means that his friends are like turds and that they like suck.
    Beavis: Heh heh. Oh yeah. Yeah! Get those spoons out of my face before I shove them up your butt!
    Butthead: Huh huh.
  • Stu42
    Stu42 Posts: 178
    blood sex sugar magik is necessary as a whole album, no questions, get it now. among my top albums ever, and like someone said, a huge range of styles that flows perfectly, and in my opinion has frusciante's best guitar work as well as songwriting.
  • mbangel10
    mbangel10 Posts: 548
    Here is the best thing RHCP has ever done...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCliDUJQ90

    /obligatory for any RHCP thread :lol:
    Pitt 98, Pitt 00, Cleveland 03, Pitt 03, State College 03, Toledo 04, Toronto 05, Pitt 05, Cleveland 06, Pitt 06 & Chicago 07, Chicago 1&2 09, Philly 2,3,4 09, Cleveland 10, Columbus 10, Alpine Valley 1& 2 11
  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    My favorite album will always be Blood Sugar Sex Magik. So many awesome songs. Mothers Milk is a lot of fun. I kind of always preferred the older stuff, and while Stadium Arcadium was good I never played it the way I played BSSM and Californication. I do like to catch them once or twice per tour.
    R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
    R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
    R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    good to see the love for By The Way. i am obliged to say BSSM is my fav though, but By The Way is very close second......beautiful tunes. they stray from their usual blueprint and NAIL it. so solid.
    Van '98, Sea I+II '00, Sea '01, Sea II '02, Van '03, Gorge, Van, Cal, Edm '05, Bos I+II, Phi I+II, DC, SF II+III, Port, Gorge I+II '06, DC, NY I+II '08, Sea I+II, Van, Ridge , LA III+IV' 09, Indy '10, Cal, Van '11, Lond, Van, Sea '13, Memphis '14, RRHOF '17, Sea I+II '18, Van I+II, Vegas I+II, Sea I+II '24
  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    I'd get the greatest hits album for all their popular suff.

    For Albums: I back up the following 3:
    (As they have already been mentioned)
    BSSM
    By the way
    Stadium Arcadium (this discs gets alot of hit or miss oppinions here. The problem is that the radio singles for the album Dani california, Tell me baby, songs like that are very poppy sounding and appeal to the masses. They are not bad songs, BUT the classic great songs on Stadium Arcadium (are not played on the radio). ( check out the following: slow cheetah, storm in a tea cup, desicration smile, wet sand (one of their best songs, period!) she looks to me, stadium Arcadium).
    PJ: 10/14/00 06/09/03 10/4/09 11/15/13 11/16/13 10/08/14
    EV Solo: 7/11/11 11/12/12 11/13/12
  • Stephen Flow
    Stephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    Not a huge RHCP but I think my favorite song by them is Soul to Squeeze... too bad it didn't make an album, think it's on the soundtrack to the Coneheads movie though.
  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    soul to squeeze is available on the greatest hits cd.
    PJ: 10/14/00 06/09/03 10/4/09 11/15/13 11/16/13 10/08/14
    EV Solo: 7/11/11 11/12/12 11/13/12
  • dustinpardue
    dustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
    I definitely think By The Way is their best. I was disappointed with Stadium Arcadium, not that it isn't a good record but I think for me it was impossible to live up to By the Way
    "All I Ever Knew" available now in print and digital formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iBooks.
  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 3,000
    their early stuff is pretty amazing. 'Freaky Styley' from 1985 is produced by George Clinton. I'd try that before I checked out any of their adult contemporary, snoozefest as of late (Stadium Arcadium).
    2003 Mansfield III 
    2004 Boston I 
    2006 Boston I 
    2008 Bonnaroo, Hartford, Mansfield I 
    2010 Hartford 
    2013 Worcester I, Worcester II, Hartford 
    2016 Bonnaroo, Fenway I, Fenway II 
    2018 Fenway I, Fenway II 
    2021 Sea.Hear.Now
    2022 Camden
    2024 MSG I, Fenway I, Fenway II
  • Chazz
    Chazz Posts: 1,156
    wot no love for Californication? :D its my fave, just for Road Trippin alone..........also love By The Way too though, can't go wrong with those 2 (IMO)
    2006 - Dublin, Reading; 2007 - London, Copenhagen; 2008 - MSG; 2009 - SBE, Manchester, London; 2010 - Dublin, Belfast, London; 2012 - Manchester, Berlin; 2014 - Amsterdam, Milton Keynes; 2018 - London; 2022 - London; 2024 - Manchester
  • Thierry Henry
    Thierry Henry Posts: 2,657
    Check out Mother's Milk. Fantastic album.

    And of course, Blood Sugar should be compulsary in everyones collection.

    Some great stuff on the older stuff aswell. The albums after Californacation is just ok.
    Not a huge fan of Stadium Arcadium.
    Dublin '96, '00, '06, '10
    Lisbon '06 (x2)
    Katowice '07
    London '07 '09 (x2), '10
    MSG NY '08 (x2)
    Manchester '09 '12
    Belfast '10
    PJ20 Alpine '11 (x2)
    Leeds '14
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Thierry Henry wrote:
    Check out Mother's Milk. Fantastic album.

    And of course, Blood Sugar should be compulsary in everyones collection.

    Some great stuff on the older stuff aswell. The albums after Californacation is just ok.
    Not a huge fan of Stadium Arcadium.

    Hell yeah, finally some appreciation for Mother's Milk.

    That was going to be my recommendation. That and Blood Sugar Sex Magik. I would have to say, at least in my opinion that those two are their strongest efforts.
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • whgarrett
    whgarrett Posts: 574
    I just have to respond to someone earlier stating that Stadium Arcadium was known as the Pepper's "sell out" album. That's complete bullshit. For OLD SCHOOL fans BSSM was a sell out. That being said, I like all the albums except one hot minute with Navarro. ;)
  • Stephen Flow
    Stephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    whgarrett wrote:
    I just have to respond to someone earlier stating that Stadium Arcadium was known as the Pepper's "sell out" album. That's complete bullshit. For OLD SCHOOL fans BSSM was a sell out. That being said, I like all the albums except one hot minute with Navarro. ;)

    I don't like One Hot Minute all too much either, but I gotta admit I do like Aeroplane.

Categories