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...recent interview with Rolling Stone, Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea had some rather unflattering things to say about Ugly Kid Joe. How did you feel about that...
...surprising is it that the Red Hot Chili Peppers' recently released collection of greatest hits is worse than their last album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik? Certainly a contradiction, but because the tracks from Blood display a highly polished style and a new mix of funk and soul, any greatest hits collection that did not include all but a few of the 17 songs from Blood would have been a disappointment...
...much more of a comedown when What Hits!?, the title of the new collection, contains only "Under the Bridge," the Chili's smash hit of the summer, from the last album. Where's "If You Have to Ask," "Funky Monks," or "Mellowship Slinky in B major," to name just a few? Or, as the Chili Peppers are trying to ride off the success of "Under the Bridge," why did they not include the other slow balladesque song from Blood, "I Could Have Lied...
...precisely the success of "Bridge" that has created these inconsistencies. Imagine the Chili Peppers' predicament: with this uncharacteristically slow song they have created a large group of fans who have no clue where the band has come from or where they are going. At this point the Peppers had two choices: they could have "sold out" and limited their varied style to what the public likes, which they have valiantly avoided, or they could try to expand the public's taste. Thus, What Hits...
...popping up in such mainstream products as Le Menu "Santa Fe style" frozen dinners and McDonald's chicken fajitas. Manufacturers are packaging chile pastas, chile jams and jellies, chile catsup, chile-spiced mustards, peanuts, potato chips and pickles. There is even a sizzling rock band called the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "There are very few bad things about peppers," says David DeWitt, editor of Chile Pepper, a bimonthly magazine with a circulation of 80,000. "They have virtually no calories, no cholesterol, high fiber, high vitamin A and C content." As a result, says DeWitt, who will help...