Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits Album Cover
Germain Aguilera
Greatest Hits is the second greatest hits album and second compilation album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on Nov. 18, 2003, by Warner Bros. Records. Aside from their cover of "Higher Ground", all songs on the album are from the band's tenure on Warner Bros. Records from 1991 to 2002, in addition to two newly recorded songs.
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".
"My Friends" is the only track included from the 1995 album, One Hot Minute. However, the music video for "Aeroplane" is featured on the DVD version of the compilation. "Warped", the lead single from One Hot Minute, is also absent as both a song and music video on the DVD.
Of the band's eight U.S. number-one singles on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart up to that point, only one, "Can't Stop", from their 2002 album By the Way, was excluded, though the music video was featured on the DVD.
Also absent were top-10 hits "Around the World," from their 1999 album Californication and "The Zephyr Song" from By the Way although the DVD contained the music videos for the songs. Conversely, "Breaking the Girl" was not included on the DVD, as well as "Parallel Universe," the latter of which never had a music video released.
In 2011, drummer Chad Smith discussed the recording sessions for Greatest Hits, mentioning that the band had recorded 16 songs and wished to release an entirely new album just for this material after a brief tour; however, guitarist John Frusciante was heavily against this idea at the time, claiming that his playing style had evolved and changed too much, as had his musical influences. Smith said there was an entire Red Hot Chili Peppers album out there that nobody would ever hear.[6]
On February 7, 2014, in an interview with fans on Reddit, Smith claimed that the band hoped to one day release a box set including all unreleased material from the recording sessions for Greatest Hits.[8]
Rocking a fuzzy bucket hat, chunky gold chain and a fur-lined, poofy pink jacket, Missy Elliott sits on a cinder block in front of a brick wall, seated next to an old-school boombox. Like the thematic content of Under Construction, the cover harks back to the golden age of hip-hop while still moving boldly into the future; despite the imagery, Elliott leans forward, eying something in the distance, always looking for the next thing.
The pop polymath and electronic music pioneer broke new ground with his synth- and sequencer-heavy solo album (separate from his work with YMO) and the cover art gives a vaguely surrealist impression of his creative mind; Hosono gazes serenely into the future as his hairline disappears into a pine forest skyline, with a glorious, heavenly collection of clouds hanging overhead.
Leading up to her debut album, the genre-blurring FKA Twigs made a name for herself on stunning visuals: music videos, EP covers, and even magazine shoots. This porcelain-sheen headshot was an exquisite introduction to the wonder of her music.
In 1969, artist Andy Warhol was approached by the Rolling Stones to create the cover art for their upcoming greatest hits album, Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2). Whatever Warhol created for the set was seemingly never used, but his concept of employing a working zipper on an album cover came to fruition on the cover of Sticky Fingers. With photographs by Warhol (focused on the bulging jeans of a still-unidentified male model) and graphic design by Craig Braun, the set would earn a Grammy Award nomination for best album cover.
A nod to the Afrofuturism of artists like Sun Ra, the artwork for Fear of a Black Planet was conceived by Chuck D, who imagined the titular Black planet eclipsing earth. Appropriately, given the interplanetary concept, the group hired NASA illustrator B.E. Johnson to draw the final design.
The innocence of a baby-sized Biggie on the cover of his classic debut Ready to Die contradicted the lyrical content inside. But that was the point: the album traced his life from beginning to a mournful, foreshadowing end, using the innocence of a child to illustrate how a cruel world imprints on unmolded minds.
Eminem's latest album "Revival" isn't anywhere on the chart, but his 2005 singles collection "Curtain Call: The Hits" is, at No. 69. The album has been on the Billboard 200 for an astonishing 402 weeks, or nearly eight years.
Since they arrived in the 1950s -- Johnny Mathis' "Greatest Hits" is largely recognized as the first greatest hits set -- hits compilations have helped listeners contextualize artists by offering an overview of their careers.
Fans driving home from "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" who have "Dancing Queen" stuck in their heads are more likely to gravitate toward the Swedish hitmakers' "Gold" set (No. 86) than they are the band's studio albums "Waterloo," "Arrival" or "Voulez-Vous." "Gold's" got everything you want, except for Colin Firth singing.
The Eagles' "Their Greatest Hits 1971 - 1975" was not only a primer on the band, it became the best-selling album in history, moving north of 29 million copies. Sure, you don't get "Chug All Night," but many listeners only wanted "Desperado" and "Hotel California" anyway. And their inclusion on the set made them even bigger hits over time.
In that way, the role of greatest hits albums has shifted, with less need for them to curate a fan's listening experience. Now fans can just go to an artist's Spotify page -- which is essentially organized like a greatest hits collection -- and call up the most listened-to tracks, or dig into the deep cuts if they want.
With that, fewer young artists are issuing greatest hits sets these days; Drake has charted 186 songs on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and has yet to put out a hits comp, and Paramore has released five studio albums without an official singles collection.
So labels are no longer focusing their efforts on recycling artists' catalogs, the way they used to every holiday season with endless hits repackagings. (Elton John is great and all, but dude's got more hits compilations than most artists have albums.)
But as evidenced by their continued chart presence, greatest hits sets still serve a purpose. When Tom Petty died last year, it wasn't "Wildflowers" or "Full Moon Fever" that rocketed up the charts, but Petty's 1993 "Greatest Hits," which flew all the way up to No. 2, a new chart high for the set.
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Recently, the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, CA launched a 10-year retrospective show ("Looking Back: 10 Years of Photography from ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY") featuring all of the photographers who have been on display during the various shows the gallery has staged since 2007 and, I'm excited to report, some of Hugh's work is included, along with beautiful and impressive works from dozens of other noted shooters (it must be thrilling to have your works featured alongside icons of the photographic arts including Man Ray, Julian Wasser, Dennis Hopper and many others).
This music photography exhibition, auction and live music experience is being staged to benefit the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, an organization that gives help to musicians who need assistance in dealing with many of Life's struggles.
a) When photographer Mike Searle was a young man back in the late 1970s, he had taken some photos of one of his favorite bands - The Jam - when they performed in concert and stuck them in a drawer, where they remained for many years while he finished his schooling and went on to start his career. Recently, he posted some of them on his blog and while he's now a publisher of surfing-related books and magazines such as Carve and The Surf Cafe Cookbook, he's very happy that the nice folks at Universal Music stumbled across his old photos as they then reached out to him to license them for a new Jam album package.
b) I'd like to note the passing of a photographer of impeccable - yes, even Royal - credentials. Anthony Armstrong-Jones AKA Lord Snowdon, former husband of the U.K.'s Princess Margaret and a photographer with a portfolio that includes scores of portraits of A-list celebrities from all over the world, including entertainment celebrities such as Cher, Madonna, Prince, Queen (of course) as well as several album cover images for French pop star Serge Gainsbourg and British singer Shirley Bassey, died earlier this month at the age of 86.
Nathalie Atkinson's article for The Globe and Mail site chronicles the details of a life well-lived - -snowdon-the-photographer-as-famous-as-hissubjects/article33623114/ and, to read something on a more-personal relationship between Snowdon and one of his appreciative subjects - Queen guitarist Brian May - Dave Lifton's article on the Ultimate Classic Rock site - -may-queen-greatest-hits-lord-snowdon/ finds May retelling the story of the making of the album cover for the band's best-selling records - their 1981 Greatest Hits release - which, in the end and because of Snowdon's deft touch, produced a photo of the band "with all of us looking quite decent".
a) The folks at the U.K.'s Flood Gallery have just announced that they're taking pre-orders on a new book that will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles album with what has become one of the most-praised (and copied/recreated/spoofed) cover images of all time - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The 176 page hardback book, titled Sgt. Pepper At Fifty, was authored by Bill DeMain, Gillian Garr and a man responsible for another one of rock music's best-known covers - Mike McInnerney, creator of the gatefold cover for The Who's Tommy - presents Peter Blake and Jann Haworth's mind-bending collage by looking at several aspects of the image's creation and ongoing legacy in the worlds of music and Pop Culture.
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