The 111 Best Songs By The Red Hot Chili Peppers

There is a divide between RHCP fans when it comes to their music.  Fans from the 80s are RHCP purists who believe the Chili Peppers were at their best from their debut up through Blood Sugar Sex Magic.  Fans who discovered the Chili Peppers because of Blood Sugar Sex Magic think the Chili Peppers were at their best after Blood Sugar Sex Magic.  There is no dispute that there is a noticable difference in the style of music before and after BSSM.  While both sets of fans claim to be Chili Pepper purists, what neither of realize is that the Chili Peppers have survived the chaotic waters of the music industry because they changed...they evovled.  Can't we all just get along and enjoy both?
It's Independence Day Weekend...enjoy the playlist with some true American Rock 'n' roll.
The 111 Best Songs By The Red Hot Chili Peppers:

1. Suck My Kiss (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
2. Under The Bridge (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
3. Parellel Universe (Californication)
4. Give It Away (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
5. Knock Me Down (Mother's Milk)
6. Higher Ground (Mother's Milk)
7. Taste The Pain (Mother's Milk)
8. Fight Like A Brave (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan)
9. Soul To Squeeze (Give It Away)
10. Californication (Californication)
11. If You Want Me To Stay (Freaky Styley)
12. Love Rollercoaster (Beavis and Butthead Do America)
13. I Could Have Lied (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
14. Stone Cold Bush (Mother's Milk)
15. Behind The Sun (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan)
16. Power Of Equality (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
17. Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
18. Dosed (By The Way)
19. Breaking The Girl (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
20. Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky (Mother's Milk)
21. Throw Away Your Television (By The Way)
22. Naked In The Rain (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
23. Around The World (Californication)
24. Shallow Be Thy Game (One Hot Minute)
25. Funky Monks (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
26. Coffee Shop (One Hot Minute)
27. By The Way (By The Way)
28. Otherside (Californication)
29. The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie (I'm With You)
30. Catholic School Girls Rule (Freaky Styley)
31. Monarchy of Roses (I'm With You)
32. On Mercury (By The Way)
33. Tell Me Baby (Stadium Arcadium)
34. Scar Tissue (Californication)
35. Look Around (I'm With You)
36. Show Me Your Soul (Taste The Pain)
37. This Velvet Glove (Californication)
38. Special Secret Song Inside (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan)
39. Hard To Concentrate (Stadium Arcadium)
40. Dani California (Stadium Arcadium)
41. If You Have To Ask (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
42. 21st Century (Stadium Arcadium)
43. Factory of Faith (I'm With You)
44. True Men Don't Kill Coyotes (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
45. Road Trippin' (Californication)
46. Aeroplane (One Hot Minute)
47. Can't Stop (By The Way)
48. This Is The Place (By The Way)
49. Magic Johnson (Mother's Milk)
50. Subway To Venus (Mother's Milk)
51. Long Progression (I'm Besides You)
52. Snow (Stadium Arcadium)
53. Catch My Death (I'm Besides You)
54. Warlocks (Stadium Arcadium)
55. Out In LA (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
56. Hometown Gypsy (I'm Besides You)
57. Mellowship Slink in B Major (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
58. Search And Destroy (Give It Away)
59. Fortune Faded (Greatest Hits)
60. Good Time Boys (Mother's Milk)
61. Storm in A Teacup (Stadium Arcadium)
62. We Believe (Stadium Arcadium)
63. The Zephyr Song (By The Way)
64. Backwoods (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan)
65. One Big Mob (One Hot Minute)
66. Brendan's Death Song (I'm With You)
67. Subterranean Homesick Blues (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan)
68. Me & My Friends (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan)
69. Hump De Bump (Stadium Arcadium)
70. Stadium Arcadium (Stadium Arcadium)
71. Millionaires Against Hunger (Freaky Styley Remastered)
72. Nobody Weird Like Me (Mother's Milk)
73. How It Ends (I'm Besides You)
74. Make You Feel Better (Stadium Arcadium)
75. Quixoticelixer (Californication Itunes Bonus Track)
76. Sir Psycho Sexy (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
77. Joe (Desecration Smile)
78. Walkabout (One Hot Minute)
79. Yertle The Turtle (Freaky Styley)
80. Apache Rose Peacock (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
81. Cabron (By The Way)
82. C'Mon Girl (Stadium Arcadium)
83. Torture Me (Stadium Arcadium)
84. Ethiopia (I'm With You)
85. This Is The Kitt (I'm Besides You)
86. Minor Thing (By The Way)
87. Hanalei (I'm Besides You)
88. The Righteous & The Wicked (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
89. Venice Queen (By The Way)
90. Pink As Floyd (I'm Besides You)
91. Purple Stain (Californication)
92. No Chump Love Sucker (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan)
93. Love Trilogy (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan)
94. Annie Wants A Baby (I'm With You)
95. So Much I (Stadium Arcadium)
96. Nevermind (Freaky Styley)
97. Desecration Smile (Stadium Arcadium)
98. Castles Made Of Sand (Blood Sugar Sex Magik Reissue)
99. Turn It Again (Stadium Arcadium)
100. Tear (By The Way)
101. The Greeting Song (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
102. Especially In Michigan (Stadium Arcadium)
103. Get On Top (Californication)
104. Get Up And Jump (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
105. Charlie (Stadium Arcadium)
106. Slow Cheetah (Stadium Arcadium)
107. I'll Be Your Domino (Snow)
108. Funky Crime (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan)
109. Funny Face (Snow)
110. Warped (One Hot Minute)
111. Open/Close (I'm Besides You)

The 55 Best Albums of 2011 (45-55)

For the week I will count down my favorite albums of 2011.  Like a holiday advent calendar I will only give you a little taste of the good stuff one day at a time.  There's no denying that this year dubstep broke through to the mainstream like a ADD little boy hopped up on food coloring.  For those of us listening to Burial years ago, this was an overwhelming "duh" moment.  But for the rest of the world, it was like a 100-yard dash to the marketing finish line.  Within a matter of weeks of Skrillex's creative video (and it was a great video) every marketing campaign chucked their pop songs hoping they could be the first to latch onto this hip young trend.  There was a dubstep version of the White Stripes in the new Battleship trailer.  Verzion has a little kid tweaking out to dubstep on his cellphone with his grandma.  What's next?...will Tim Tebow pray to a dubstep beat?  I wouldn't doubt it.

Now...I WANT YOUR HELP.  Send me your lists of your favorite albums of 2011.  Top twenty.  I will compile all your votes into one master list.  So send it via email...or just post it in the comment box.  Will post on Dec. 31st the final result.

Here are the 44-55 Best Albums of 2011:

45.       Cage The Elephant - Thank You Happy Birthday

46.       R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now

47.       Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

48.       Skrillex - More Monsters and Sprites EP

49.       Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams

50.       Drake - Take Care

51.       Duran Duran - All You Need Is Now

52.       David Lowery - The Palace Guards

53.       Rival Sons - Pressure & Time 

54.     Jane's Addiction - The Great Escape Artist (End To the Lies)

55.     Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm With You

Buy these albums and more...now!!!  (all albums under $5 for a limited time)

The 11 Best Red Hot Chili Peppers Songs of the 00s

What interesting about the Chili Peppers that no other band can claim is that they they can replace the guitarist and not effect the overall chemistry of the band.  For all intensive purposes, the Chili Peppers are Flea, Anthony and Chad Smith.  No band has ever had the same amount of rotating lead guitarists as the Chili Peppers and remained a popular/relevant band.  Maybe Fleetwood Mac...  But even if that's the only other band that might compare to the revolving door of musicians...that's some damn good company to be in.  When I think of the Chili Peppers, for some reason, I always wonder if they will make it into the Rock N Roll hall of fame.  It never occurs to me that they've not only been around long enough to already be eligible to be in the HOF...they've actually already been admitted!  Even though the band has lost a bit of its street cred along the way...they've still managed to stay hip.  That's something...not even Fleetwood Mac could do.

The 11 Best Red Hot Chili Peppers Songs of the 00s:

1.  Throw Away Your Television (By The Way)
2.  On Mercury (By The Way)
3.  Make You Feel Better (Stadium Arcadium Mars)
4.  Warlocks (Stadium Arcadium Jupiter)
5.  Storm In A Teacup (Stadium Arcadium Mars)
6.  Tell Me Baby (Stadium Arcadium Mars)
7.  By The Way (By The Way)
8.  Hard To Concentrate (Stadium Arcadium Mars)
9.  21st Centruy (Stadium Arcadium Mars)
10.  Rivers of Avalon (Zephyr Song)
11.  Minor Thing (By The Way)

Buy The Red Hot Chili Peppers new album, I'm With You...now!

The Unknown: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Venus (Stadium Disc 3)

It's been a week now that I've had a chance to digest the new RHCP album.  I was a huge fan in the 80s and Blood Sugar Sex Magik years had everyone dancing.  But when Navarro joined the band they never recovered.  I always gave them a fair listen but nothing ever stuck...except Scar Tissue, which I had no choice but to absorb since it was played about 10 million times the year it came out.  Though Californication, By The Way, and Stadium had moments, none of them recaptured the electricity that BSSM bestowed upon us.  That is until now.  The new Chili Peppers album, I'm With You, is the best album since Blood Sugar.  Now, just know this...this is not the same band that made Blood Sugar.  This is the band that made the past three albums, only this time, it feels like they're finally comfortable in their radio rock skin.  Of course, maybe it's not them.  Maybe it's me.  Maybe I've finally just accepted the sound.  Either way, it's nice not to be disappointed.

Here is the Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium: Venus (Disc 3):

1.  An Opening
2.  Million Miles of Water
3.  Whatever We Want
4.  Lately
5.  A Certain Someone
6.  Mercy Mercy
7.  Funny Face
8.  I'll Be Your Domino
9.  Save This Lady
10.  Joe
11.  Lyon 66.6.06
12.  Permutation

Buy the Chili Peppers new album, I'm with You.