After the Red Hot Chili Peppers left EMI for Warner Bros. and hit the big time with "Under the Bridge," their former label gathered most of the best tracks from the group's first four albums for the compilation What Hits!? Since Blood Sugar Sex Magik, the Peppers' most popular album, was recorded for Warner, none of its songs are present -- with the exception of "Under the Bridge," which was somehow licensed for use. What Hits!? does a pretty good job of sifting through the Peppers' uneven discography and picking out the best moments, making it a very useful sampler; it also contains "Show Me Your Soul," the band's contribution to the Pretty Woman soundtrack.
Those funky punks used to bowl me over with some of their tracks like ??Higher Ground??, ??Hollywood??, ??If You Want Me To Stay?? until I got a little older and learned a little more about music, I found out that they were covers. I don't know why I felt a little hurt that those covers weren't originals, but I idolized Anthony Keidis somewhat, and perhaps it is one of those first examples of ...
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Some songs are never going to mean the same thing to me. I don't know what this song meant before to me, but after pgss, it's going to always mean: "remember how awesome pgss was?"and of course:TAJOEROBERTS!
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Those funky punks used to bowl me over with some of their tracks like ??Higher Ground??, ??Hollywood??, ??If You Want Me To Stay?? until I got a little older and learned a little more about music, I found out that they were covers. I don't know why I felt a little hurt that those covers weren't originals, but I idolized Anthony Keidis somewhat, and perhaps it is one of those first examples of ...
More >
Some songs are never going to mean the same thing to me. I don't know what this song meant before to me, but after pgss, it's going to always mean: "remember how awesome pgss was?"and of course:TAJOEROBERTS!
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