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This is the definite John Frusciante discography from 1989 up to 2011. Click on each release's name to find out more about it.
Solo Career
John Frusciante's solo albums, EPs and download-only releases. Also see a list of non-album tracks and unreleased songs.
The Empyrean
Released: January 27, 2009
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Label: Record Collection Music
Curtains
Released: February 1, 2005
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Inside Of Emptiness
Released: October 26, 2004
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DC EP
Released: September 14, 2004
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The Will To Death
Released: June 21, 2004
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The Brown Bunny Soundtrack
Released: March 8, 2004
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Shadows Collide With People
Released: February 23, 2004
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From The Sounds Inside
Released: August 1, 2001
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Going Inside EP
Released: March 5, 2001
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To Record Only Water For Ten Days
Released: February 13, 2001
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Smile From The Streets You Hold
Released: August 26, 1997
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Estrus EP
Released: August 1, 1997
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Niandra LaDes And Usually Just A T-Shirt
Released: March 8, 1994
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Also see a list of non-album tracks, songs that were not released and the like.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
RHCP albums, compilations, live albums, EPs and download-only albums where John Frusciante appeared.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Live in Hyde Park
Red Hots’ only live album to date, never repressed as of late 2011. The LP version is extremely rare as it was withdrawn for an error. The recording is a combination of what was played on their three June 2004 concerts in London’s Hyde Park.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits
There are controversies regarding what was meant to be done with the other tracks. According to a recent interview with Chad Smith for the Modern Drummer magazine, there’
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Live at Slane Castle
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Off The Map
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
The one that launched the Red Hot Chili Peppers into international stardom and defined them as the kings of funk-metal. Recorded in a house rather than a classic studio, it had a special vibe and an unique creation process. In the middle of the world tour in support of this album, John quit the band for the next six years.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Positive Mental Octopus
Release date was added deliberately, as we have no information on it and seems like nobody else does, either.
1 Taste The Pain
Composed By – A Kiedis*, C Smith*, J Pusciante*, M Balzary*
2 Higher Ground
Composed By – Stevie Wonder
3 Knock Me Down
Composed By – A Kiedis*, C Smith*, J Pusciante*, M Balzary*
4 Fight Like A Brave
Composed By – A Kiedis*, [...]
Also see a note on singles.
Collaborations
The list of all the songs John Frusciante did with other musicians.
Catherine Ringer – Prends-moi
Catherine Ringer, of Les Rita Mitsuoko fame, released a solo album titled Ring ‘n Roll. John’s on the track titled Prends-Moi.
Warpaint – Exquisite Corpse EP
John mixed Warpaint’s eponymous debut EP and played mellotron on the track Billie Holiday.
N.A.S.A – Way Down
John, RZA and Barbie Hatch appear on N.A.S.A. track built over a sample of Ton & Sergio’s Vou Sair Do Cativero. The song is a story of a girl who fell in love with the devil and visited the underworld.
George Clinton – Let The Good Times Roll
On his album George Clinton and the Gangsters of Love, the funk legend covered the Shirley and Lee classic. Three out of four RHCP members accompanied him, along with Kim Manning. John is supposedly one of the four vocalists on the song.
RZA – Up Again
One of supposedly many things done by John and RZA of the Wu-Tang clan has seen the light of the day on the second Bobby Digital album. JF plays guitar on this haunting song.
Dave Gahan – Saw Something
Depeche Mode singer’s leading single from the second solo album, Hourglass was peppered by John’s guitar solo. He does not appear in the music video, though.
Wu-Tang Clan – The Heart Gently Weeps
The first single of Wu-Tang Clan’s 8 Diagrams album. John and Dhani Harrison take the guitars, Erykah Badu joins on vocals. As its name suggests, the song contains an interpolation of The Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”.
Perry Farrell’s Satellite Party – Hard Life Easy
Perry Farrell and his wife Etty, joined by Nuno Bettencourt, formerly of Extreme, record a whole ode to love, featuring just about everyone, including the late Jim Morrison. John, Flea and Chad Smith are on one of the tracks.
Bob Forrest – The Dying Song
Bob Forrest covers John’s haunting ballad and has the maestro sing the backing vocals as well. Weird, but wonderful.
Glenn Hughes – This Is How I Feel
Glenn Hughes releases Music for the Divine, recorded at Chad Smith’s home. John guests on two tracks – This Is How I Feel and previously soundtrack-released cover of Nights In White Satin.
Nights In The White Satin
A cover of Moody Blues’ signature hit gets a Glenn Hughes treatment. Chad Smith drums, John plays guitar and sings the gentle, yet dramatic backing vocals.
Johnny Cash – Heart of Gold
The third collaboration with Johnny Cash sees the light of the day as a part of the Unhearthed box set. It’s a cover of Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold”.
David Bowie featuring Maynard James Keenan & John Frusciante – Bring Me The Disco King [Lohner mix]
Danny Lohner does a special remix of the David Bowie song “Bring Me The Disco King” (the original version of the song appearedon his most recent album Reality). Maynard James Keenan of Tool joins in as the vocalist, while John plays guitar.
Ziggy Marley – Rainbow In The Sky
A whole ensemble of musicians joins Ziggy Marley on this album. John plays guitar on Rainbow In The Sky.
Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World
A bunch of popular rock artists pay tribute to the Ramones. John’s track is hidden on the CD and it’s a surprisingly slow version of Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World from their debut self-titled album. Electric guitars are replaced with backing vocals, the acoustic guitar is subtle and quiet, making the song almost a-capella.
Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus and We’ll Meet Again
Johnny Cash’s series of cover songs done for Rick Rubin’s American Records label goes on. John records two songs’ guitar parts, but never actually meets Cash in studio. The songs are Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus and Vera Lynn’s We’ll Meet Again
New Order feat. Moby, Billy Corgan, John Frusciante – New Dawn Fades (Live)
For the film on Manchester of the 80s and the Acid House, a lot of musicians of that period were featured. New Order recorded a special live version of Joy Division’s New Dawn Fades, featuring Moby, Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins and JF.
Macy Gray – Sweet Baby
Macy Gray releases her second major label album. On the lead single Sweet Baby, Erykah Badu joins on backing vocals and John plays subtle guitar.
Tricky – #1 Da Woman and Girls
Tricky does what was in fashion in early 2000s – invites everyone to perform on his album. RHCP are on two tracks and John also takes lead vocals on #1 Da Woman, which is a rework of the Wonder Woman TV show theme.
Messy – A System For Shutting Everything Out
Bauhaus’ Doug DeAngelis teams up with John, Flea and Josh Klinghoffer in an effort to create a track with the early-80s British alternative scene vibe for Alison Anders’ film Things Behind The Sun. The result, with John on vocals and guitar, is splendid; but the soundtrack, unfortunately, never saw the light of the day.
Fishbone – Shakey Ground
Fishbone get a lot of their friends to play on the cover of The Temptations’ Shakey Ground. Apparently, they had to play in the nude as well.
Perry Farrell – Rev
Perry Farrell releases a compilation album of Jane’s Addiction and Porno For Pyros’ songs, the first song being new material. John is credited for additional guitars on it, later he claimed that he played a single note, which he was probably supposed to play the way he did. Weird, but true.
The Bicycle Thief – Cereal Song
Bob Forrest’s one-off project, featuring Josh Klinghoffer, released their album in 1999. John plays guitar on “Cereal Song”, often mislabeled as “Heroin” and mistook as his solo track, for whatever reason.
Banyan – Grease The System and La Sirena
On the second out of their three albums, Stephen Perkins’ self-proclaimed “alt-rock graveyard” delivers a magnificent bunch of songs. John guests on two back-to-back tracks: Grease The System and La Sirena.
Peace Choir – Give Peace A Chance
At the peak of Gulf War, Lenny Kravitz gathered a lot of musicians to record a cover of John Lennon’s Give Peace A Chance. The idea was supported by Yoko Ono and Sean Ono Lennon who also took part. John and Flea are in it, too.
Nina Hagen – Divine Love, Sex And Romance
Around the time she inspired the lead single off BloodSugarSexMagik by having allowed Anthony Kiedis to take her jacket; Nina Hagen also had the Peppers in studio for her album, Nina Hagen Street. John is credited – albeit as John “Fraciante”, for composing, producing and playing guitar on the song Divine Love, Sex and Romance.
Kristen Vigard – Slave To My Emotions
Kristen Vigard, an angel-voiced petite lady toured with RHCP and Fishbone as one of the background singers and appeared on the Mother’s Milk album. John composed Slave To My Emotions and played guitar on it. This would be his first collaboration out of many more to come.
These are the ten most recent releases.