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 and "Knock Me Down" peaked at #6.
A 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. peaked at #2 on both The Billboard's Hot 100 and Active Rock charts; "Suck My Kiss" followed reaching the #15 spot on The Modern Rock list and "Breaking The Girl" crashed into the top 20 on both Mainstream and Modern Rock Tracks 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 Modern Rock chart and ex-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 list and "Warped" hit #7 in the same chart.
The band recorded in 1996 "Love Rollercoaster", a song for the soundtrack to the animated TV series "Beavis And Butt", the track hit #14 on Modern Rock chart.
By that point Navarro departed for a solo career and Frusciante returned re-energized for 1999's "Californication" which was a massive smash worldwide; the record rose to #3 slot 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 Tracks charts, also "Otherside" reached the top spots of the Billboard's Rock charts, the title-track hit #1 and #2 respectively on Modern and Mainstream Rock charts and "Around The World" climbed into the top 10 of The Modern Rock list.
The band'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 Modern Rock Tracks list and "Dosed" cracked the top 20 in the same chart; "By The Way" album eventually reached the #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 in the top 10 of The Modern Rock chart.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, are back with the new double album, "Stadium Arcadium", the set features 28 new tracks including two Hot Modern Rock #1 hit singles "Dani California" and "Tell Me Baby".
Album List :
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
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Greatest Hits
(2003)
1. Under The Bridge2. 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]
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By The Way
(2002)
1. By The Way2. 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
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