RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

Poor ol’ Peppers. They’ve released single after single in the UK but scored nary a winner. Such has been their lack of success chartwise that when EMI recently stuck out the obligatory ‘Best Of’ in the wake of the band’s defection to Warner Bros, they were forced to truthfully title it ‘What Hits?’ Such a sad, sad story. All together now— ahhhhhh!

Singles

Aug  1985  Hollywood (Africa)/Never Mind 7″ EMI America EA 205

Aug 1985  Hollywood (Africa— remix)/Hollywood (Africa — dub remix)/Never Mind  12″ EMI America 12EA 205

Jan 1988 Fight Like A Brave (album version)/Fire 7″ EMI America EA 241

Jan 1988 Fight Like A Brave (album version)/Fight Like A Brave (Moto mix)/Fight Like A Brave (Knucklehead mix) 12″ EMI America 12EA 241 also on picture disc 12EAP 241

Feb 1988 The Abbey Road EP: Backwoods/Hollywood (Africa)/ True Men Don’t Kill Coyotes 7″ EMI Manhattan MT 41

Feb 1988  The Abbey Road EP: Backwoods/Hollywood (Africa)/ True Men Don’t Kill Coyotes/Catholic School Girls Rule 12″ EMI Manhattan 12MT 41

Aug 1989  Knock Me Down/Punk Rock Classic/Pretty Little Ditty 7″ EMI Manhattan MT 70  also on picture disc MTPD 70

Aug 1989  Knock Me Down/Punk Rock Classic/Special Secret Song Inside/Magic Johnson 12” 7″ EMI Manhattan 12 MT 70

Aug 1989 Knock Me Down/Punk Rock Classic/Magic Johnson/ Jungle Man CD EMI Manhattan CDMT 70

Nov 1989 Higher Ground/Millionaires Against Hunger 7″ EMI Manhattan MT 75

Nov 1989 Higher Ground (Munchkin mix)/Higher Ground (Dub mix)/Politician (Mini rap)/Mommy Where’s Daddy 12″ EMI Manhattan 12MT 75 also with pop-out sleeve on 12MTX 75, same tracks on CD CDMT 75

Jun 1990 Taste The Pain (album version)/Show Me Your Soul 7″ EMI Manhattan MT 85

Jun 1990 Taste The Pain (album version)/Show Me Your Soul/Castles Made Of Sand (live) 12″ EMI Manhattan 12MT 85 same titles on square picture disc 10MT 85

 Jun 1990 Taste The Pain (album version)/Show Me Your Soul/Castles Made Of Sand (live)/Never Mind CD EMI Manhattan CDMT 85

Jun 1990 Taste The Pain/Show Me Your Soul/If You Want Me To Stay/Never Mind — remix in special pop-out sleeve 12″ EMI Manhattan 12MTX85

Aug 1990 Higher Ground/Fight Like A Brave 7″ EMI Manhattan MT88

Aug 1990 Higher Ground (Daddy 0 mix)/Higher Ground (album version)/Fight Like A Brave picture disc 12″ EMI Manhattan 12MTPD 85

Aug 1990 Higher Ground (album version)/Behind The Sun (album version)/Fight Like A Brave (album version)/ Out LA CD EMI Manhattan CDMT 85

Mar 1992 Under The Bridge (album version)/Give It Away (Single mix)  7″ Warner W0084 initial releases came with free badge

Mar 1992 Under The Bridge (album version)/Search And Destroy/Soul To Squeeze/Sikamikanico 12″ Warner W0084T same tracks on CD W0084CD

Jun 1992 If You Had To Ask (Disco Krisco mix)/If You Had To Ask (Album version)/If You Had To Ask (Friday Night Fever Blister mix) … unreleased 12″ Warner W0110T

Jun 1992 If You Had To Ask (Radio edit)/If You Had To Ask (Disco Krisco mix)/If You Had To Ask (Scott and Garth mix)/Fela’s Cock …unreleased CD Warner W0110CD

Aug 1992 Breaking The Girl (edit)/Fela’s Cock 7″ Warner W0126

Aug 1992 Breaking The Girl (album version)/Fela’s Cock/Suck My Kiss (live)/ICould Have Lied (live) 12″ Warner W0126T with free pastor on W0126TW

Aug 1992 Breaking the Girl (edit)/Fela’s Cock/Suck My Kiss (live) CD with sticker Warner CDX 126

Albums

Mar 1988 Uplift Moth Party Plan:   EMI America AML 3125* Fight Like A Brave/Funky Crime/Me And My Friends/ Backwoods/Skinny Sweaty Man/Behind The Sun/ Subterranean Homesick Blues/Special Secret Song Inside/No Chump Love Sucker/Walkin’ On Down The Road/Love Trilogy/Organic Anti-Beat Box Band

Aug 1989 Mother’s Milk:   EMI Manhattan MTL 3125* Good Time Boys/Higher Ground/Subway To Venus/ Magic Johnson/Nobody Weird Like Me/Knock Me Down/Taste The Pain/Stone Cold Bush/Fire/Pretty Little Ditty/Punk Rock Classic/Sexy Mexican Maid/ Johnny Kick A Hole In The Sky

Aug 1990 The Red Hot Chili Peppers: EMI Manhattan MTL1056*  True Men Don’t Kill Coyotes/Baby Appeal/Buckle Down/Get Up And Jump/Why Don’t You Love Me?/Green Heaven/Mommy Where’s Daddy?/Out In LA/Police Helicopter/You Always Sing/Grand Pappy Du Plenty

Aug 1990 Freaky Styley:   EMI Manhattan MTL 1057* Jungle Man/Hollywood (Africa)/American Ghost Dance/If You Want Me To Stay/Never Mind/Freaky Styley/Black-Eyed Blonde/The Brothers Cup/ Battleship/Lovin’ And Touchin’/Catholic School Girls Rule/Sex Rap/Thirty Dirty Birds/Yertle The Turtle

Sep 1991 BloodSugarSexMagick [sic]: Warner Bros 7559-26681-1* The Power Of Equality/If You Have To Ask/Breaking The Girl/Funky Monks/Suck My Kiss/I Could Have Lied/Mellowship Slinky In B Major/The Righteous And The Wicked/Give It Away/BloodSugarSexMagick [sic]/ Under The Bridge/Naked In The Rain/Apache Rose Peacock/The Greeting Song/My Lovely Man/Sir Psycho Sexy/They’re Red Hot

Oct 1992 What Hits?: EMI 794762-1* Higher Ground/Fight Like A Brave/Behind The Sun/Me And My Friends/Backwoods/True Men Don’t Kill Coyotes/Fire/Get Up And Jump/Knock Me Down/ Under The Bridge/Show Me Your Soul/If You Want Me To Stay/Hollywood/Jungle Man/The Brothers Cup/Taste The Pain/Catholic School Girls Rule/ Johnny Kick A Hole In The Sky

*also on CD.

 

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