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“Show Me Your Soul” by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Released 1990

“Show Me Your Soul” by Red Hot Chili Peppers appears on 21 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1990 and 2014. It was first released in 1990. Its best result is #40 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1990. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #70 alternative song of 1990 and #1,115 alternative song of all time.

21countdowns
4stations
#40best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1990–2014years charted

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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Show Me Your Soul [Official Music Video]

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"Show Me Your Soul" is Red Hot Chili Peppers at their loosest, a 1989 recording made for the Pretty Woman soundtrack rather than, as plenty of fans assume, during the Mother's Milk sessions. Fishbone's John Norwood Fisher produced it, Ron Saint Germain mixed it, and Billy Preston sits in on keyboards, greasing Flea's bass and Chad Smith's drums with a hot shot of soul while John Frusciante's guitar and Anthony Kiedis's vocal ride on top.

It turned up as the flip side of "Taste the Pain", got a video shot against a bluescreen and directed by Bill Stobaugh, and finally found an album home on the 1992 compilation What Hits!?. Oddly, the band has never played it live; the closest they came was miming it for a TV special in 1990.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1990 68 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1990 107
1990 40 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1990 105

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1990 109 Live 105 Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1990) 299
1991 271 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991) 500
1994 308 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) 500
1996 325 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996) 498
1999 332 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999) 500
1999 791 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 842 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 848 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 848 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2003 846 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 846 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 846 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1287 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1284 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1305 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1345 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1405 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1457 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1515 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

Charting alongside it in 1990

Best songs of 1990 →
  1. 1Nothing Compares 2 USinéad O'Connor
  2. 2The Only One I KnowThe Charlatans
  3. 3Blue Sky MineMidnight Oil
  4. 4Enjoy the SilenceDepeche Mode
  5. 5Here's Where The Story EndsThe Sundays
  6. 6The Emperor's New ClothesSinéad O'Connor

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