Red Hot Chili Peppers: Next Steps

Editors' Notes On their journey from funk-punks to alt-rock legends, RHCP left behind a wealth of stylistic twists. On '80s nuggets “Jungle Man” and “Buckle Down,” Flea's manic slap bass collides with acid-splattered hip-hop beats. By the time they released 2002's By the Way, they'd fallen under the spell of guitarist John Frusciante and his gift for melodic art rock, as on the glistening “Universally Speaking.”