Sleeve: Mysterious image involving red lips.
Sleevenotes: Impassioned notes on life, music and everything from bassist Flea and guitarist John Frusciante, men who've been there.
Content: Sixteen non-chronological tracks that continue the story from when the Peppers started to be big news, (earlier compilation What Hits? rounded up the first part of their career) from 1989 album Mother's Milk onwards - drawing heavily on breakthrough album Blood Sugar Sex Magic.
High point: Give It Away.
Low point: Under The Bridge. Am I alone in never having liked it much?
Anything new?: Two new songs and one which only appeared on a film soundtrack.
Any glaring omissions?: No.
Justified or feeble excuse for release?: Twenty years of a band who despite brushes with death, madness and drug addiction have ended up as unlikely elder statesmen of rock.
Where might this end up at Christmas? Under The Tree.
Updated: 16:09 Wednesday, December 17, 2003
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