50 Greatest Hits by Red Hot Chilli Peppers of All Time

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50 Greatest Hits by Red Hot Chilli Peppers of All Time

It’s more difficult to choose a favorite Red Hot Chili Peppers song than it is for most other bands because of the numerous eras and aspects of their style. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American rock group with vocalist Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith, and guitarist John Frusciante. The group was founded in Los Angeles in 1983. Hip-hop, punk rock, hard rock, alternative rock, funk, and psychedelic rock are all present in their music. They have influenced various genres, including funk metal, rap metal, rap rock, and nu metal. Red Hot Chili Peppers are among the most commercially successful bands, having sold more than 120 million records worldwide.  They currently hold the records for the most top-ten songs, number-one singles, and total weeks at the top of the Billboard Alternative Songs list. They received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2022, six Grammy Awards, and induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Here are the 50 greatest hits by Red Hot Chilli Peppers of all time.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ greatest hits from the 1900s

1. Behind The Sun (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, 1987)

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Speaking of greatest hits albums, the Chilis have contributed to others before the 2003 edition. The cheekily named What Hits!? the compilation, which included songs from their first five LPs, was released by EMI way back in 1992. Because of its melodic composition and conflict with the band’s thumping funk image at the time, Behind The Sun was initially included as the sixth track on 1987’s The Uplift Mofo Party Plan but was not released as a single. The song peaked at number 7 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks list, number 37 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, and number 7 in New Zealand.

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2. Subway To Venus (Mother’s Milk, 1989)

The third track, Subway To Venus, from the fourth album Mother’s Milk stands out for its high-energy funk attack and foreshadowing of 1991’s world-conquering Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

3. Me and My Friends (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, 1987)

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Since Slovak and Irons were initially more dedicated to their long-forgotten another band, What Is This, the Chili Peppers’ third album, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, from 1987, was improbably the first to feature the band’s original lineup. Kiedis honored the two musicians on the hard-rocking “Me and My Friends” after they realized what that band wasn’t and decided to reunite. Slovak tragically passed away from a heroin overdose less than a year after Mofo was released, and Irons left the band out of mourning for his friend. Mofo would be the only album that the lineup would ever release.

4. Higher Ground (Mother’s Milk, 1989)

The Chili Peppers’ rendition of this Stevie Wonder classic from 1972 served as the group’s first significant MTV hit and served to introduce them to Eighties youth who, in many cases, likely believed the song was an original by the band. And in some ways, it was, with Frusciante’s metal power chords replacing the clavinet on the original and Flea’s precision-strike slapping taking its place of it. This made-in-L.A. hotwiring still respected the song’s magnificence.

5. Knock Me Down (Mother’s Milk, 1989)

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers were in danger of turning into a party band with a “What consequences?” outlook prior to 1989’s Mother’s Milk. But with the 1988 death by drug overdose of guitarist Hillel Slovak and the departure of Irons, the band took a close look at themselves and came up with this sobering narrative of hubris and addiction. Kiedis begged in the chorus, “If you see me growing mighty if you see me going high/Knock me down.”  The peak position for “Knock Me Down” on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks was number six. It is still one of the band’s most self-aware songs, regardless of who is singing.

6. Johnny, Kick a Hole In the Sky (Mother’s Milk, 1989)

By the time The Chilis used those inspirations to their advantage on the closing track “Johnny, Kick a Hole in the Sky,” they had previously declared their appreciation for Stevie Wonder and Jimi Hendrix on Mother’s Milk. The formula for everything they did on their subsequent album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, was laid out by the way they combined Wonder-style soul and Hendrix-like wah-wah guitar with Kiedis’ obsession with hip-hop and Flea’s bass-slapping Bootsy Collins worship.

7. Fight Like a Brave (The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, 1987)

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“Fight Like a Brave,” a groovy proclamation of independence, is Kiedis’ rallying cry for anyone battling addiction. It’s time to start over, so he raps, “Get it through your skull and get it off your chest, or get it out of your arm.” It is the ideal hymn for that iteration of the band because of the strong and rhythmic chorus.

8. Under the Bridge (Blood Sugar Sex Magik, 1991)

It’s no surprise that Anthony Kiedis bared his soul and dropped the swaggering bravado on the song that gave the Chilis their fame. Under The Bridge’s lyrics, which examine heroin addiction from the viewpoint of the user, were initially written as poetry, but super-producer Rick Rubin insisted that the band convert them into a song. There was something for both casual listeners and those concerned in the fight behind the song to hold onto as the pleasant melody and wholesome vibe of the start grows through a more urgent midsection and on out to the stark finale. Both components are so ageless that even three decades later, Under The Bridge is still a steadfast radio-rock fixture.

9. Californication (Californication, 1999)

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The album’s lead single, Californication, is Kiedis’s best song yet, yet it almost didn’t get released. It was one of the first songs he co-wrote with Frusciante after the guitarist returned to the group, but it ended up being the final one they recorded for the album since they couldn’t come up with the perfect arrangement. As the recording sessions came to an end, Kiedis fought the band to record it because he believed there was something special about the first line, “Psychic spies from China,” which he said a woman genuinely told him on the street while he was in Auckland.

10. Scar Tissue (Californication, 1999)

A moving demonstration of what makes John Frusciante’s contributions so totally necessary was the band’s first single with him back after substance abuse troubles had kept him out for the majority of the 1990s. The somewhat surrealistic lyrics, which include “Blood loss in a bathroom stall,” “A southern girl with a scarlet drawl,” and “I wave goodbye to Ma and Pa,” deal with themes of damage and healing, but it was John’s reintroduced six-string guitar’s soulful sound that proved the band could endure years of aimlessness and enter the new millennium back on top of the world.

11. Otherside (Californication, 1999)

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The Chilis’ defining event may have been the heroin overdose death of Hillel Slovak, who had just returned from a European tour with The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. Anthony would experience profound survivor guilt during the years that followed, having battled addiction for years and being troubled by the knowledge that Hillel had been dead and unknown for days. Otherside, which is connected to John Frusciante’s stunning 13-note guitar riff, is his most effective statement of those conflicting emotions: “Centuries are what it meant to me / A cemetery where I married the sea / Stranger things could never change my mind / I gotta take it on the other side.”

12. Give It Away (Blood Sugar Sex Magic, 1991)

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This Blood Sugar Sex Magik’s debut song was a paradigm-shifting track. The classic Chilis song from the early 1990s features Chad’s easy-going drumming, John’s sharp-edged guitar probing, Flea’s free-roaming bass, and Anthony pouring on the sleaze with rapped lyrics that urge listeners to “grab what I got and put it in you.”The song would even contribute to the creation of one of the greatest Simpsons jokes ever in a memorable episode.

13. Suck My Kiss (Blood Sugar Sex Magik, 1991)

On Blood Sugar Sex Magik, some fans might have thought Red Hot Chili Peppers were starting to sell out, but their third single, Suck My Kiss, arrived with all of the undiluted funkiness that helped them make their breakthrough. A song of the most base kind, it relates the tale of a man who is so infatuated with his girlfriend that he is powerless to stop having sex with her.

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14. Aeroplane (One Hot Minute, 1995)

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The third single from 1995’s One Hot Minute is the band’s best work, along with their rendition of Ohio Players’ Love Rollercoaster, according to guitarist Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction. This is a celebration of how music elevates the Chilis, based on the old blues tune Jesus Is My Aeroplane.

15. I Could Have Lied (Blood Sugar Sex Magic, 1991)

The sixth tune from Blood Sugar Sex Magik is said to have been inspired by Anthony’s breakup with Irish singer Sinead O’Connor, though she has since claimed that any such relationship never existed. Anthony tries to rationalize how he might have preserved the relationship through simple lies.

16. Sir Psycho Sexy (Blood Sugar Sex Magik, 1991)

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The 16th track from Blood Sugar Sex Magik, which tells the tale of the fictional knight in its title (who is allegedly an exaggerated version of Anthony Kiedis’ persona), was never released as an official single, but its use of OTT innuendo and an outright sexual invitation has made it an enduring fan favorite. Flea’s rubbery bassline sounds like the ideal foundation for the collection of gritty tales, and producer Brendan O’Brien’s mellotron contributions and trippy six-strings leave a distinctly psychedelic aftertaste.

17. Around The World (Californication, 1999)

The fantastic second single from Californication was a love letter from Anthony to the world (and the people in it) he’d witnessed through the tour bus window. It began with Flea’s chest-rattling 100mph bassline and wound through a maze of hairpin turns and wide, vocal-led stretches. Even now, twenty years later, his imagery still feels so colorful and alive that you almost want to reach out and touch it.

18. Soul To Squeeze (Coneheads OST, 1993)

In the bizarre science fiction comedy Coneheads from 1993, Dan Aykroyd and Bonnie Turner portrayed bullet-headed aliens who strive to adjust to their new life as stranded humans. On the surface, it would seem that the exuberant, irreverent Red Hot Chili Peppers would be the ideal choice to provide an upbeat backdrop to the antics on film. Instead, their OST contribution was one of the more leisurely-paced, richly-emotional songs they had ever recorded.

19. Parallel Universe (Californication, 1999)

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The Spice Girls have a surprising influence on Californication. For Flea’s 10-year-old daughter’s birthday party, the Chilis dressed like the Spice Girls since she was a huge fan. (While Flea was a baby, Anthony was posh.) Kiedis wrote songs like “Parallel Universe” about his odd friendship with Sporty and Scary. Despite never becoming a hit, it quickly became a live crowd favorite when Flea’s bass went full disco.

20. Breaking the Girl (Blood Sugar Sex Magik, 1991)

“Breaking the Girl” is a spiraling acoustic highlight of Blood Sugar Sex Magik, suggesting Led Zeppelin III transplanted to the Venice Beach boardwalk. Brendan O’Brien, who mixed and engineered the album, also provides a John Paul Jones-like mellotron solo. It is part of the song’s appeal as Kiedis speaks about his feelings of remorse and regret over his involvement in a failed relationship rather than the typical love vulnerability you would expect from Zeppelin.

21. Show Me Your Soul (Pretty Woman, 1990)

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In the Chili Peppers songbook at the time, “Show Me Your Soul” stood out as a wonderfully sentimental valentine. Perhaps not the most romantic metaphor in the world, “Into my existence you were injected,” Kiedis wonders. “Now I smile from your love/We have a soul connection!“From the time between Mother’s Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, “Show Me Your Soul” eventually made it onto the Pretty Woman soundtrack. 

22. Easily (Californication, 1999)

Perfect sequencing is one of the features that has made Californication last. The Chilis bring things back to life midway through the album just as the melancholy grandeur of the title tune starts to make you feel a little down. The free-wheeling, wild rock and roll brotherhood heard on “Easily” is the solution.

23. Porcelain (Californication, 1999)

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It’s difficult to imagine the band moving further away from their chest-popping funk-rock with this delicate song, which consists of simply a rippling guitar motif, a reflective bass, and Keidis’ hushed vocals. Kiedis creates a lullaby of solace to fend off difficult times by singing with moving empathy about a homeless woman and her infant kid, portraying their frail situation with one of his most delicate vocals.

24. Road Trippin (Californication, 1999)

One of the greatest road-trip albums in rock history, Californication ends with this soothing folk song that fits the occasion: “We were well stocked with snacks and supplies as we traveled with my two greatest allies.”The classic Chamberlin organ solo that gives this otherwise Zeppelin-like tune a late Beatles edge was performed by a session musician that Rick Rubin hired. Frusciante acknowledged that the keyboard portion was the result of Rick’s work. 

25. Get on Top (Californication, 1999)

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The Chilis have always combined various musical styles but on the 1999 song “Get On Top,” Frusciante took the practice to a new level by merging a Public Enemy-inspired beat with a guitar line that was influenced by Steve Howe’s work on the Yes song “Siberian Khatru” from 1972.

26. Sikamikanico (Wayne’s World: Music from the Motion Picture, 1992)

Blood Sugar Sex Magik probably found “Sikamikanico,” three and a half minutes of pure thrash-funk, to be too hot to handle, so the group initially released it as the B side to “Under the Bridge” before adding it to Wayne’s World soundtrack. However, as a stand-alone song, it rages in a manner that few other Chili Peppers songs do as Frusciante battles funky drumming and scratchy guitar with a chorus that rivals anything Suicidal Tendencies or Dead Kennedys have ever written for exhilaration. It turns into one of the Chili Peppers’ hardest-rocking songs thanks to Kiedis’ mumble-rapping about groovy monks and the occasional dick joke.

27. Purple Stain (Californication, 1999)

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This song is all about Flea’s rubbery, echoing bass as it ricochets, promenades, sidesteps, twerks, and flutters into a euphoric frenzy, despite Kiedis’ word-jumble, pop-culture rap’s first verse featuring one of his ickiest double entendres and another namecheck of Frusciante. The primary funk-rock throwback part eventually gives way to the frantic outro jam with Smith pounding his entire kit into oblivion and Frusciante squalling away carefree.

28. This Velvet Glove (Californication, 1999)

In its purest form, this Californication single conjures the idea of Kiedis and Frusciante unplugged, sitting on stools facing each other, as if making peace. When the rhythm section crashes in on the chorus, it provides a break from the mournful melancholy of the verses. Over a jovial rhythm guitar, Kiedis recognizes his bandmate (“John says to live above hell“) and reflects on the harm caused by addiction in one of his most moving vocal performances.

29. Can’t Stop (By The Way, 2002)

The third single from By The Way is a shining example of the Chilis’ ability to generate unique compositions from their occasionally mismatched sections. It is another slice of gloriously wacky musical interplay between Flea and John Frusciante. Anthony was inspired by the pulsating sound and the sights of life around him as he wrote the illogical vocals (‘White heat is screaming in the jungle / Complete the motion if you stumble / Go ask the dust for any answers / Come back strong with 50 belly dancers’).

30. By The Way (By The Way, 2002)

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The creative conflict between steadfast bassist Flea and guitarist John Frusciante, whose occasional stints with the Chili Peppers have tended to coincide with their greatest hits, has received a lot of attention in some circles. The contrast between Flea’s explosive punk-funk bassline and John’s mellow, melancholy soundscapes was never more audible than on the 2002 album By The Way, with the title-track slingshotting between styles with almost irrational abandon. Fans were able to make sense of the musical confusion thanks to Anthony’s unmatched vocal skill and the Crazy Taxi-inspired music video by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.

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31. Venice Queen (By The Way, 2002)

This top 20 is bursting with already-celebrated single releases, which may be necessary for a rock band that has written as many songs as they have while achieving a phenomenal degree of public success. The closing song from By the Way, one of their less well-known songs, merits special praise for its brilliant distillation of the melancholy aspect of the Chilis sound, making it into something totally unforgettable. 

32. Dark Necessities (The Getaway, 2016)

The first single from Chilis’ 11th album, The Getaway, which is debatably the best song of the Josh Klinghoffer era, returns to the band’s tried-and-true formula of dreamy funk-rock and serves as the vehicle for Anthony’s reflections on a harrowing past experience and those titular, narcotic Dark Necessities. The striking music video, which was directed by Hollywood actress Olivia Wilde and featured renowned female long boarders Carmen Shafer, Amanda Caloia, Amanda Powell, and Noelle Mulligan skating through Los Angeles, added another layer of unquestionable cool.

33. Snow (Hey Oh) (Stadium Arcadium, 2006)

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The third single from Stadium Arcadium first appeared to be almost too light, with Anthony Kiedis’ vocals brimming with the wistful melancholy that had become RHCP’s specialty and John Frusciante’s exquisite guitar riff perfectly conjuring the wonder of fluffy snowfall. While Anthony’s lyrics lament the difficulty of kicking addiction and starting over, in reality, this was a shining example of the band’s ability to smuggle deceptively dark ideas into popular culture. That “snow” was actually a reference to cocaine and China White heroin.

34. Fortune Faded (single, 2003)

They claim that in order to win at chess, you must eliminate the queen. Anthony muses on this stand-alone song from 2003, reflecting on the band’s inexorable rise to the pinnacle of rock glory, where performing for fewer than 50,000 people would have sounded cozy. In a way, the song’s subject matter belies its intention to be an original creation for the same year’s Greatest Hits album, but there is no cynicism on display in this case. Instead, we get a roaring, archetypal demonstration of the bubbly, yet nevertheless moving, sound that made RHCP outperform even their most acclaimed contemporaries. One of the most recognizable music videos from the early 2000s is that one with the light echoes.

35. Dani California (Stadium Arcadium, 2006)

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Don’t the Red Hot Chili Peppers just adore a song about California? They chose this form of homage to their home country as the first single off the expansive 2006 double-album Stadium Arcadium, which featured both the resurgent funk and stadium-filling alt. rock aspects of its parent record. It’s interesting to note that while Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Indiana, Minnesota, and North Dakota are mentioned in the song, the Golden State is not. In addition to being the same Dani described in 2002’s By the Way and the “teenage bride with the baby within” from 1999’s Californication, Anthony Kiedis has said that the eponymous Dani is a catch-all representation for every woman he has encountered in his life. This song continues to appear on party playlists today and won GRAMMYs in 2007 for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

36. The Zephyr Song (By The Way, 2002)

The Chilis’  “The Zephyr Song,” is the closest they’ve ever come to sounding like the Beach Boys. The tune is upbeat yet depressing, a psychedelic journey that induces a cathartic crying session. In fact, the song is so enchanted that Frusciante discovered he was right when the band’s guitar tech Dave Lee noticed that the opening chords strangely resembled those of “Pure Imagination.”

37. Dosed (By The Way, 2002)

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On “Dosed,” a lovely highlight from 2002’s By the Way, Kiedis muses on love and loss. The song demonstrates the band’s talent for crafting tempered psychedelic rapture, somewhere between Brian Wilson at his most introspective and Hendrix at his most forgiving. Four guitars, played by Frusciante and Flea, are used in the song and are heard bouncing off of one another and veering off in odd directions to mimic the dreamlike flow of Kiedis’ lyrics.

38. I Could Die For You (By The Way, 2002)

Although it’s unknown who Kiedis is singing this love song for, it is one of his most forthright and romantically spoken songs. Even as the music alters slightly to a funky shuffle during the bridge of this jangly, midtempo ballad with Flea’s powerful bass grounding everything, Kiedis’ voice is remarkably vulnerable and unaffected. With soft strums, subdued embellishments, and keyboard murmurs, Frusciante creates a softly upbeat atmosphere.

39. Don’t Forget Me (By The Way, 2002)

This By the Way ballad is a homage to addiction and the freedom promised by sobriety. It serves as a showcase for Kiedis’ bluesy belting and dubious artistic pretension, with lines like “I’m an inbred and a pothead/Two legs that you spread inside the tool shed.” The working title for earlier iterations of the song was “The Most Beautiful Chords Ever,” which makes sense when listening to Frusciante’s body of work. He creates moods with powerful trills and drones on the verses using mellotron, wah-wah, and echo, and his solos are like stunningly minimalist paintings of an electrical storm.

40. Throw Away Your Television (By The Way, 2002)

This By the Way deep cut was made restless by Flea’s fretful bass riff. Despite the fact that he and Smith are locked into the tightest of grooves, “Throw Away Your Television” sounds like it is only a few seconds away from disintegrating. That’s a positive thing in this situation because it allowed the band to rediscover their erratic beginnings and resulted in one of their most chaotic studio recordings. The song also killed when performed live, as in this instance from Slane Castle in Ireland in 2003.

41. Slow Cheetah (Stadium Arcadium, 2006)

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Kiedis sings another drug-redemption tale over subdued acoustic fingerpicking before abrupt acoustic strumming heralds the loping, country-rock chorus (with Frusciante on luminous backing vocals). A tall, bending teardrop-shaped note, a quick, buttery blast of blues-rock, and then the delicate backward guitar flurries on the outro are all present. Kiedis quickly came up with the song’s concept after hearing the instrumental: “It’s about that magnificent feeling when life becomes slow motion and all the commotion and confusion melt away for a moment and you can see things very clearly.”

42. Black Summer (Unlimited Love, 2022)

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The 16-year wait paid off when Unlimited Love released “Black Summer,” their first new song with Frusciante. When the errant guitarist returned to the Chili Peppers, he brought the song’s framework with him, and Kiedis, Flea, and Smith leaped on it. The outcome is the band’s most vital and RHCP-sounding song in a long time, driven by Flea’s slinking bassline and Frusciante’s melodic but confrontational chords.

43. Tippa My Tongue (Return of the Dream Canteen, 2022)

The band’s fourth number-one hit on the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, “Tippa My Tongue,” makes them the only group to have two number-one singles on that chart in 2022; the other was “Black Summer.” The song became the group’s 27th top ten single on the Alternative Airplay chart, falling one short of the record held by the Foo Fighters. It peaked at number one on the chart on the fifteenth attempt.

44. Tell Me Baby (Stadium Arcadium, 2006)

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The song didn’t perform as well on the charts as their previous single “Dani California” or their follow-up single “Snow (Hey Oh),” but it did top the Billboard Modern Rock chart and stay there for four weeks, giving the band their second consecutive number one on that chart from Stadium Arcadium and tenth overall.

45. Goodbye Angels (The Getaway, 2016)

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Red Hot Chili Peppers, an American rock band, released their fourth single, “Goodbye Angels,” from their album The Getaway. Josh Klinghoffer, the band’s previous guitarist, left the group in 2018, and John Frusciante joined them again in 2019. This would be the band’s final single to be released with him. The song “Goodbye Angels” was originally performed live in July 2016 during the group’s headline act at Scotland’s T in the Park festival.

46. The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie (I’m With You, 2011)

The first single from their eleventh album, I’m with You, “The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie,” was made available in 2011. It was their first single since “Hump de Bump” in 2007, and their first with new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer. The song lasted four weeks at the top of the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, becoming the group’s record-holding 12th number-one hit overall. It also gave them their final Top 40 hit on the Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at number 38.

47. Go Robot (The Getaway, 2016)

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The second single from Red Hot Chili Peppers’ album The Getaway is titled “Go Robot.” The first single from the album was supposed to be “Go Robot,” but the band’s label ultimately chose “Dark Necessities,” which went on to become another chart-topping hit for them.

48. Desecration Smile (Stadium Arcadium, 2006)

“Desecration Smile” can be found on their double album Stadium Arcadium from 2006. It was the album’s fourth single to be made available. Fans first heard the song when it was performed at the 2004 Bridge School Benefit. The song’s chorus and structure, however, are different from the one found in Stadium Arcadium.

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49. Wet Sand (Stadium Arcadium, 2006)

John Frusciante, the band’s guitarist, originally came up with the title “Wet Sand” for one of his own solo songs, but after hearing Anthony Kiedis rave about it, John recommended Anthony adopt it because it sounded more of a Chili Pepper song. Flea claimed that “Wet Sand” is a fantastic illustration of how Rubin had to coerce people into trying things his way, even if it ultimately served their own interests. 

50. Eddie (Return of the Dream Canteen, 2022)

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The promotional single “Eddie” was included on the chili peppers’ thirteenth studio album, Return of the Dream Canteen, in September 2022. It had some airplay but lacked a music video. The song “Eddie” was composed in tribute to guitarist Eddie Van Halen, who died in 2020. He came up with the song’s concept the day after Flea passed away and the rest of the band afterward added to it. 

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