Greatest Hits (Red Hot Chili Peppers album)
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| Greatest hits album by Red Hot Chili Peppers | ||||
| Released | November 18, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 1989–2003 | |||
| Genre | Funk rock, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 66:46 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
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Rick Rubin, Michael Beinhorn (Greatest Hits CD) Bart Lipton, David May (Greatest Videos DVD) |
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| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
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| Released | November 18, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 1989-2003 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, funk rock | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
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Greatest Hits is the second "best-of" compilation album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was released on November 18, 2003 by Warner Bros. Records. Aside from their cover of "Higher Ground", all songs on the compilation are from their tenure on Warner Bros. Records from 1991 to 2002, in addition to two newly recorded songs.
Greatest Hits was released along with a separately sold DVD containing most of their music videos from the same time period.
The album was released with Copy Control protection system in some European markets, but not in the United States.
While their first hits compilation album What Hits!? encompasses material from their 1984 debut to 1989's Mother's Milk, this collection of songs takes off from that point, including material from their 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik up through their 2002 album By the Way. It was during this period of their career that the band became a major commercial force in the music industry. Therefore, this compilation includes the majority of hit singles released since their breakthrough cover of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" (also included on What Hits!?). "Higher Ground" from Mother's Milk, an album released by EMI Records, is included on this compilation through contractual negotiations: when the band switched from EMI to Warner Bros., both record companies agreed that one song from their contract was allowed to be included on the other company's compilation. On What Hits!?, EMI chose to include the song "Under the Bridge" from Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
Two new songs were featured on the album and were the singles "Fortune Faded" and "Save the Population", which was released as a non-radio CD single in Japan and Spain. "Fortune Faded" itself was a rerecording of a By The Way outtake that had been performed at some concerts in 2001. A music video was filmed and released for "Fortune Faded" but was left off the DVD version. In addition, alternate mixes of "Californication", "My Friends" and "Higher Ground" are included on this compilation, with no explanation as to why. However, the version of "My Friends" had previously leaked as an 'unmastered version' of the song (it appears mastered here) and the version of "Californication" had been utilized by some radio stations instead of the original track. "Higher Ground" appears in a different mix, which may have been Warner Bros.' attempt at remastering the track, or it may have been a rejected 12-inch mix.
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