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Greatest Hits and Videos | 
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| Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
Buy New: $24.98
New (37) Used (22) Collectible (1) from $6.24
Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 72505
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics, Special Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 48596
UPC: 093624859628
EAN: 0093624859628
ASIN: B0000DZEA0
Release Date: November 18, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Under The Bridge | | • | Give It Away | | • | Californication | | • | Scar Tissue | | • | Soul to Squeeze | | • | Otherside | | • | Suck My Kiss | | • | By The Way | | • | Parallel Universe | | • | Breaking the Girl | | • | My Friends | | • | Higher Ground | | • | Universally Speaking | | • | Road Trippin' | | • | Fortune Faded | | • | Save the Population |
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Album Description
DVD HIGHLIGHTS : Also heard via their music videos are four more Top 10 Modern Rock hits: "Around The World," "The Zephyr Song," "Can't Stop" (#1) and "Aeroplane." The directors represented on the DVD are among the most acclaimed in music video history.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 36 more reviews...
 Buy it for the DVD, if anything May 14, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I won't doubt the Red Hot Chili Peppers as one of the greatest bands of the last 20 years, but this compilation seems to refute this claim. I'm not going to complain that the band's early material is not covered (What Hits?! does that) nor am I going to complain that the album is too superficial. The purpose of this compilation is to represent the band's work in the '90s and the By The Way album, but those expecting a trip back to the heyday of alternative rock will be sorely disappointed.
The CD fails to document some of their well-known hits, such as "Aeroplane" and "Can't Stop," yet includes lesser-known singles like "Suck My Kiss" and "Parallel Universe." It also seems to dismiss the fact that the Chili Peppers were ever a rock band, dropping some of the heavier numbers like "Around The World" in favor of more mellow songs like "Road Trippin'." They likely did this to appeal to newer fans who are familiar with the more recent, "poppy" material (e.g. "Universally Speaking," though strangely enough "The Zephyr Song" is not here), but again this is folly, as it barely represents the diversity of the Chili Peppers' sound. Also worthy of note is the fact that only one song from the One Hot Minute era ("My Friends") appears on the disc. The band has basically disowned that album but many fans believe it to be one of their strongest, and expect it to be documented alongside their other work as deserved. Another low point is the CD's awkward running order. "Under The Bridge" is hardly an album-opener and "Higher Ground" does not fit between "My Friends" and "Universally Speaking." The final two songs, "Fortune Faded" and "Save The Population," are okay songs but dilute the impact of the true hits. If I had compiled this album, I would've kicked "Suck My Kiss," "Parallel Universe," "Higher Ground," "Universally Speaking," "Road Trippin'," and "Save The Population" and would've included "Warped," "Aeroplane," "Love Rollercoaster," "Around The World," "Can't Stop," and "The Zephyr Song," and all tracks would've been arranged in chronological order, the natural choice for charting a band's musical evolution.
The DVD is better. I've actually had no problem with the "play all" feature on my DVD. The Greatest Videos disc misses little. It includes videos for many songs that were not included on the CD: "Aeroplane," "Around The World," "The Zephyr Song," and "Can't Stop," not to mention it's in chronological order. It still misses the videos for "Breaking The Girl," "Warped," "Coffee Shop," "Love Rollercoaster," and an alternate (and perhaps better) video for "My Friends." I also see no reason why the "Fortune Faded" video is absent. If making a video compilation, why not include everything? There's enough extra footage on the DVD to make you scream, though one might find it a bit extraneous at times--footage of the band taking a cab around Japan is not necessary for the record. Commentary on the songs would have been a better choice; they could've even done that for the liner notes.
All in all, this package is lackluster and could've had better documentation and could've included more than just a look-back on the old with the perspective of the new, which seemed to be the theme of this compilation. The parts missing from the CD basically render it useless. If you're a new fan and thoroughly enjoy the band's more recent material, then, by all means, buy this set. If you're an old fan, though, and find the Blood Sugar Sex Magik, One Hot Minute, and Californication tracks the most listenable, don't waste your money--keep your '90s albums and buy the DVD alone.
 Love the Red Hot's! January 6, 2007
I am head over heels in love with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and I love this Cd and DVD. I think almost all the songs on the Cd are their greatest hits, but some of them I don't like. The DVD is awesome, and it gives you a chance to see what the members of the group are really like. I love the part when they are in Tokyo, and Anthony Kiedis is referring to a couple of Japanese girls as "Panda's" and is trying to figure out the "call" of the Panda's. I can't believe how much John Frusciante's voice has changed, it's so scratchy. I wish he never fell into using heroin so heavily because his arms are so scarred, and I love him so much! He is my favorite RHCP member. So, yes I definitely recommend this CD/DVD to any RHCP lover.
Great CD & DVD For The Money December 21, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Although I respect anyone's opinion, I don't see how the previous review gave it a middle of the road or low rating. This is a great CD and an even better DVD. Also what he said about the videos not playing continuosly one after the other is not true. The version that I have has several options on the main menu. One of those options is "play all". If you choose play all, the DVD will play the videos from start to finish.
Does its job admirably. September 30, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Reviewing a compilation is a difficult thing for a fan-- really you have to look at it from a different perspective than you normally would-- does this serve the purpose it's trying to serve? And as a first entry point for a casual listener, is it going to provide a good introduction to the act? It seems that compilations have a habit, regardless of their original intent, of being the first thing people look for. And finally, you have to get past personal preferences on track selection-- everyone has their favorites, but does what is on here serve the purpose it needs to?
So the Red Hot Chili Peppers released an album titled "Greatest Hits", and long and short that's about what this is. It restricts itself to the John Frusciante-era (most likely because any earlier Chili Peppers material, including the piece off of "Mother's Milk" included here, would have had to have been licensed, but also because none of the early stuff saw any real commercial success), and yeah, it provides a good overview of that time in the band's career, it covers pretty much all the hits, so it does what's trying, and it'd serve as a good entry point for a casual listener.
The record leans heavily on "Blood Sugar Sex Magick" and "Californication", with all of the singles from both albums-- "Suck My Kiss", "Give It Away", "Breaking the Girl", and "Under the Bridge" from "Blood Sugar..." as well as recorded-around-the-same-time soundtrack hit (and as a sidenote seemingly endlessly played on radio when I was a junior in high school) "Soul To Squeeze" and "Scar Tissue", "Parallel Universe", "Otherside", "Californication" and "Road Trippin'" from "Californication". This is further augmented by one track from "Mother's Milk" (Stevie Wonder cover "Higher Ground"), one from "One Hot Minute" with Dave Navarro on guitar ("My Friends"), two from "By the Way" (the title track and "Universally Speaking", which did quite well in Europe as I understand it) as well as two new songs.
This is a pretty fair represenation of the band-- it covers pretty much the breadth of the sound they've explored over the past few years-- from the deeply funky ("Higher Ground") to balladry ("Under the Bridge") and quite a bit in between. Just about all the hits are on here-- curiously left off were "The Zephyr Song" and "Can't Stop" from "By the Way" and "Warped" and "Aeroplane" from "One Hot Minute". All of these received substantial airplay, and with the compilation only stretching to 66 minutes, there's certainly room to put them on. Again, I'm not one to argue my favorite album cuts, but it seems odd that these were left off (although oddly enough the companion video disc includes the videos for all of these but "Warped").
The two new tracks are both pretty good-- "Fortune Faded" has a funky beat like we really didn't see on "By the Way" (not necessarily a bad thing) and a suitably esoteric lyric. "Save the Population" is a bit moodier, and actually of the two the one I prefer, with an odd, sort of mid-tempo muddling (but a superb beat from Chad Smith) and all in all just a kind of wacky piece.
One other point to be made-- the album sounds fantastic-- particularly the "Blood Sugar Sex Magick" material, which really could benefit from a remastering. The liner notes include brief essays (well, some not so brief) from each of the four band members and a number of photos.
The DVD features (I think) all the videos the band has done. I'm not really big on videos, but the commentary from the band members is pretty amusing.
All in all, it's a great compilation, and no doubt a good entry point for a newcomer. I'd usually recommend seeking the albums out rather than going after a compilation, in that case I'd recommend "By the Way", which wasn't overflowing with hits, but in my assessment was the best record the band did, but this is certainly as good a place to start.
wicked cd May 4, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This cd is awesome i love red hot chili peppers one of the best bands in the world!!!!
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