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...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...
...second, third, and fourth albums, Freaky Styley, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, and Mother's Milk. These, plus the first album The Red Hot Chili Peppers (which is represented by only two of the 18 songs on Hits), represent the thrash element of their music, which became overidden by funk on Blood. Hits begins with "Higher Ground," a Stevie Wonder song made heavy (and worse), then moves into four songs from Party Plan...
...twelfth through fifteenth songs sample the best of Freaky Styley, an album produced by funk wizard and leader of the groups Parliament and Funkadelic, George Clinton. Accordingly, these songs show tighter, more restrained guitar parts, such as those James Brown's bands developed, and an exciting use of horns. These four songs certainly rank among the band's greatest hits, and one only regrets that "Yertle the Turtle" from *Freaky is missing...
Also missing are two from Mother's Milk: "Subway to Venus," with superb bass lines and a great horns section, and "Sexy Mexican Maid," an excellent example of the Peppers' ability to mix funk and thrash. Their absence especially hurts as one can only wonder why the group included the 17th song, the horrific and banal "Catholic School Girls Rule," and the last song "Johny Kick a Hole in the Sky," which is little more than mediocre...
Probably the best track on the album is "Who Makes the Loot?" featuring Grand Puba Maxwell. Grand Puba, formerly of Brand Nubian, just might be the best rapper out today. Also notable are "Bonafied Funk," featuring the now defunct Main Source and "It's Gettin Hectic," featuring Gang Starr...