The Best of Red Hot Chili Peppers [Capitol]

Performer: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Red Hot Chili Peppers: Anthony Kiedis (vocals); Hillel Slovak, John Frusciante, Arik Marshall (guitar); Flea (bass guitar); Jack Irons, Chad Smith (drums). A ten-song budget-line compilation released several times over the years with different titles and packaging, The Best of Red Hot Chili Peppers includes highlights from the band's Capitol catalog, which spans Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984) to Mother's Milk (1989). Though brief and far from comprehensive, the ten songs are a good sampler of the band's early years, before the Peppers struck gold with Blood Sugar Sex Magik in 1991. Those early albums aren't as singles-driven as the latter-day ones, so chances are that you'll like the albums proper if you like what you hear here. With the exception of the band's self-titled, formative debut, all of them are good if not great. ~ Jason Birchmeier

Inspiring legions of imitators (especially among the rap-metal crowd), the Red Hot Chili Peppers combined biting rock guitar with funk rhythms and rap-influenced vocals for a thunderous, party-hearty sound. While the California band was popular on the alt-rock circuit in the late-'80s, they broke through to the mainstream and became superstars in the early '90s with a more mature sound that incorporated melodic ballads. Nevertheless, the band's stageshow continued to be just as unpredictable and outrageous as their music.

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