The Red Hot Chili Peppers, whose twenty-year career has encompassed some
of the most influential and innovative music of the modern rock era, have
announced the release of their long-awaited GREATEST HITS collection.
Set for release November 18th, the GREATEST HITS album will feature fourteen
of the best-known hits, primarily from their Warner Bros. Records tenure.
[b]It will also include two new tracks "Fortune Faded," and "History,"[/b]
which were recently recorded during the By The Way tour.
Additionally, the collection will be available in a special CD/DVD edition
featuring fifteen videos, including two not previously released in the US
(Road Trippin\' and Universally Speaking). The CD/DVD will also include
exclusive commentary from band members and video directors; special Making
Of documentaries and behind the scene footage of the group\'s acclaimed 2000
Californication tour.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers GREATEST HITS album highlights "Higher Ground"
from their 1989 album Mother\'s Milk, along with "Give It Away," "Under The
Bridge," "Breaking The Girl" and "Suck My Kiss" from their 1991 Warner Bros.
Records debut, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. From 1995\'s One Hot Minute comes "My
Friends," while Californication selections include the title track, "Scar
Tissue," "Otherside," "Parallel Universe" and "Road Trippin\'." Included from
last year\'s By The Way are the title track and "Universally Speaking." Also,
"Soul To Squeeze," originally heard on the 1993 soundtrack to Coneheads has
been made available for the very first time on a Red Hot Chili Peppers album.
The CD/DVD features videos of "Higher Ground," "Give It Away," "Under The
Bridge," "Suck My Kiss," "Soul To Squeeze," "My Friends," "Scar Tissue,"
"Otherside," and "By The Way" as well as "Aeroplane" from One Hot Minute.
Other videos on the CD/DVD include "Around The World," and the title track
from Californication along with "The Zephyr Song" and "Can\'t Stop" from By
The Way. The special edition will also include videos of "Road Trippin\',"
and the track "Universally Speaking," previously unavailable in the US.
The band has also announced the simultaneous release of RED HOT CHILI
PEPPERS: LIVE AT SLANE, a DVD capturing the band\'s legendary stage show,
shot in Ireland last August before a crowd of more than 80,000.
The LIVE AT SLANE DVD is comprised of the following in concert selections:
"By The Way," "Scar Tissue," "Around The World," "Universally Speaking,"
"Parallel Universe," "Zephyr Song," "Throw Away Your Television," "Havana
Affair," "Otherside," "Purple Stain," "Don\'t Forget Me." "Right On Time,"
"Can\'t Stop," "Venice Queen," "Give It Away," "Californication," "Under The
Bridge" and "Power of Equality.".
:thumbsup::thumbsup:
