This node already has some great biographies but there doesn't seem to be a discography. So I put one together, including all albums John Frusciante has a major role on but not including singles or albums where he's just a collaborator. Enjoy.
Mother's Milk (with the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Released August 1989 on EMI
At the tender age of 18 Johnny was shoved into the glare of spotlights and the life of a rock and roll star and while he dug it at first, over the next
four years it would really heavily affect this quiet boy and, cause or not, he would eventually get into heroin and hole himself inside a little apartment
(for a tour dig Johnny Depp's short film 'Stuff') and paint and write music (largely impromptu) and take a lot of junk.
Currently, tho, he's still very new to the world of rock and roll stardom and very innocent and green.
This album is like the watershed for the first period in the life of the band- now they have Johnny, and eventually their sound will depend more on John
Frusciante's guitar than Flea's bass, as it once did. The album kicks ass like a lot of the better music from that period. They are slightly more mature
than their days of punk-funk as heard on their first two albums, and Johnny, tho the green suit he had to fill was monstrous, remarkably, he
managed to keep the Chilis going for a little while longer.
Tracklist:
1 Good Time Boys
2 Higher Ground
3 Subway To Venus
4 Magic Johnson
5 Nobody Weird Like Me
6 Knock Me Down
7 Taste The Pain
8 Stone Cold Bush
9 Fire
10 Pretty Little Ditty
11 Punk Rock Classic
12 Sexy Mexican Maid
13 Johnny Kick A Hole In The Sky
14 Song That Made Us What We Are Today (demo)*
15 Knock Me Down (original long version)*
16 Sexy Mexican Maid (original long version)*
17 Salute to Kareem (demo)*
18 Castles Made Of Sand (live)*
19 Crosstown Traffic (live)*
Credits:
Vocals- Anthony Kiedis
Bass- Flea (Michael Balzary)
Guitar- John Frusciante
Drums- Chad Smith
*Bonus tracks on the 2003 remastered re-release
Blood Sugar Sex Magik (With the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Released September 1991 on Warner Bros. Records
Widely regarded as the band's breakthrough album, this album saw the band soften their sound somewhat and become more melodic. Johnny contributed a lot
to their new sound, with his sweet clean-tone guitar lines as on Under The Bridge.
Tracklist:
1 The Power Of Equality
2 If You Have To Ask
3 Breaking The Girl
4 Funky Monks
5 Suck My Kiss
6 I Could Have Lied
7 Mellowship Slinky In B Major
8 The Righteous And The Wicked
9 Give It Away
10 Blood Sugar Sex Magik
11 Under The Bridge
12 Naked In The Rain
13 Apache Rose Peacock
14 The Greeting Song
15 My Lovely Man
16 Sir Psycho Sexy
17 They're Red Hot
Credits:
Vocals- Anthony Kiedis
Bass- Flea (Michael Balzary)
Guitar- John Frusciante
Drums- Chad Smith
Niandra LaDes and Usually Just A T-shirt
Released March 1994 on American Recordings
In 1992, while in Japan for the BSSM tour, Johnny suddenly decided that the glamorous life of a rockstar was too much for him and upped and quit. He
agreed to play the show but he definetely wasn't the same. The Kurt Cobain effect had taken hold and sent him weird.
Shortly after leaving the band, Johnny became addicted to heroin. His first solo album (really a double album) was written and recorded while in the depths
of his junk sickness. While the songwriting is excellent (Johnny is a musician at the top of his game, the only guitarists I can name who rival him in
skill are Jimi Hendrix and Rory Gallagher) but the songs themselves are difficult to listen to as you can hear the sickness in his voice. He really
doesn't sound well at all.
The first half of the album, Niandra LaDes, is bearable, and has some very good songs. As Can Be is quite nice. But the Usually Just A T-Shirt side, where
none of the songs have names, is not pleasant to listen to at all. Except for #3, which is quite nice.
Tracklist:
1 As Can Be
2 My Smile Is A Rifle
3 Head (Beach Arab)
4 Big Takeover (Bad Brains cover)
5 Curtains
6 Running Away Into You
7 Mascara
8 Been Insane
9 Skin Blues
10 Your Pussy's Glued To A Building On Fire
11 Blood On My Neck From Success
12 Ten To Butter Blood Voodoo
13 Untitled #1
14 Untitled #2
15 Untitled #3
16 Untitled #4
17 Untitled #5
18 Untitled #6
19 Untitled #7
20 Untitled #8
21 Untitled #9
22 Untitled #10
23 Untitled #11
24 Untitled #12
25 Untitled #13
Credits:
Vocals and guitar- John Frusciante
Smile From The Streets You Hold
Released August 1997 on Birdman initially, then taken off the market at Johnny's insistence in 1999
Later re-released in 2007
After Johnny kicked and rejoined the Chilis, he asked his record label to take this album off the market. I guess he wasn't comfortable with the
reminder of his former life. He has recently re-released the album however.
This album is not a fun listen. The songs are creepy and Johnny has admitted that he only recorded the album so he would have money for heroin. Well that's
implied anyway, but the album is very difficult to listen to. There is actually a video to the song Life's A Bath which is up on Youtube where Johnny is
seen shooting heroin.
Johnny's friend River Phoenix (who tragically died at the club Johnny was playing at one night) appears on Height Down.
Tracklist:
1 Enter A Uh
2 The Other
3 Life's A Bath
4 A Fall Thru The Ground
5 Poppy Man
6 I May Again Know John
7 I'm Always
8 Nigger Song
9 Femininity
10 Breathe
11 More
12 For Air
13 Height Down
14 Well, I've Been
15 Smile From The Streets You Hold
16 I Can't See Until I See Your Eyes
17 Estress
Credits:
Vocals and guitar: John Frusciante
Californication (With the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Released June 1999 on Warner Bros. Records
The sound of this album is wildly different from any of Johnny's solo stuff and it is difficult to associate the guitarist on this album with the
guitarist on Smile From The Streets You Hold. We've all heard and fell in love with Scar Tissue, the sweet, mellow summertime song. We've all rocked out to
Around The World. On the whole, it's a kick-ass album, very similar to Blood Sugar Sex Magik and you can really hear the improvement in Johnny's state of
mind after rehab.
Tracklist:
1 Around The World
2 Parallel Universe
3 Scar Tissue
4 Otherside
5 Get On Top
6 Californication
7 Easily
8 Porcelain
9 Emit Remmus
10 I Like Dirt
11 This Velvet Glove
12 Savior
13 Purple Stain
14 Right On Time
15 Road Trippin'
Credits:
Vocals- Anthony Kiedis
Bass- Flea (Michael Balzary)
Guitar- John Frusciante
Drums- Chad Smith
To Record Only Water For Ten Days
Released February 2001 on Warner Bros. Records
This is Johnny's first solo release on Warner's and after becoming clean his sound is now a lot cleaner and some of the most beautiful music ever written
and recorded by Johnny and perhaps by anybody, ever, can be found on this album (for example, 'Murderers'). You can feel the phoenix-from-the-ashes vibe of
the album. He sounds like a man who has has been to hell and back and now appreciates all things beautiful so much more.
There is a video for every song on this album, all directed by Vincent Gallo, and all very simple and low-budget. The video for Fallout has Johnny repeatedly running into a mattress propped against a wall. They will probably be on Youtube.
Tracklist:
1 Going Inside
2 Someone's
3 The First Season
4 Wind Up Space
5 Away And Anywhere
6 Remain
7 Fallout
8 Ramparts
9 With No One
10 Murderers
11 Invisible Movement
12 Representing
13 In Rime
14 Saturation
15 Moments Have You
Credits:
vocals, guitar, synth: John Frusciante
Going Inside EP
Released March 2001 on Warner Bros. Records
Tracks 2 and 4 are B-sides from TROWFTD. The other two songs can also be found on an album Johnny released to be downloaded only, From The Sounds
Inside, a collection of unreleased songs, b-sides, demos &c.
Tracklist:
1 Going Inside
2 Time Is Nothing
3 So Would've I
4 Last Hymn
5 Beginning Again
By The Way (With the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Released July 2002 on Warner Bros. Records
There's something slightly unsettling about this album, I always think. Johnny seems to have pushed everybody to the background, and, altho there is
amazing guitar work on here (Venice Queen, Cabron), it doesn't sound like a band. It's like another solo Johnny album.
Tracklist:
1 By The Way
2 Universally Speaking
3 This Is The Place
4 Dosed
5 Don't Forget Me
6 The Zephyr Song
7 Can't Stop
8 I Could Die For You
9 Midnight
10 Throw Away Your Television
11 Cabron
12 Tear
13 On Mercury
14 Minor Thing
15 Warm Tape
16 Venice Queen
Credits:
Vocals- Anthony Kiedis
Bass- Flea (Michael Balzary)
Guitar- John Frusciante
Drums- Chad Smith
Shadows Collide With People
Released February 2004 on Warner Bros. Records
Johnny collaborated with Josh Klinghoffer for the first time on this album. He also moved away from simple guitar music into more complicated and dense
compositions using a mixture of electronic and organic instruments. A few of these songs are pure instrumentals with no words.
There is actually an acoustic version of this album which can be downloaded from www.johnfrusciante.com
Tracklist:
1 Carvel
2 Omission
3 Regret
4 Ricky
5 Second Walk
6 Every Person
7 -00Ghost27
8 Wednesday's Song
9 This Cold
10 Failure33 Object
11 Song To Sing When I'm Lonely
12 Time Goes Back
13 In Relief
14 Water
15 Cut-Out
16 Chances
17 23 Go In To End
18 The Slaughter
Credits:
Vocals, guitar, bass, synth, keyboards- John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer
Drums and percussion: Chad Smith
Flea plays upright bass on 'The Slaughter'
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez plays slide guitar on 'Chances' and '23 Go In To End'.
Greg Kurstin plays Wuritzer piano on 'Of Before'
The Will To Death
Released June 2004 on Warner Bros. Records
In 2004 and part of 2005 Johnny went wild with creativity, releasing 6 albums in as many months. He said that he would produce the albums himself and
record them in a simple, bare-bones way. This is the first of those 6 albums.
Tracklist:
1 A Doubt
2 An Excersise
3 Time Runs Out
4 Loss
5 Unchanging
6 The Mirror
7 A Loop
8 Wishing
9 Far Away
10 The Days Have Turned
11 Helical
12 The Will To Death
Credits:
John Frusciante: vocals, guitar, piano, synth and bass guitar on 'Far Away', 'Unchanging' and 'The Will To Death'
Josh Klinghoffer: drums, bass, keyboards and guitar on 'Helical' and 'The Will To Death'.
Automatic Writing (with Ataxia)
Released August 2004 on Record Collection
This album is the second of the sixth and was recorded with Johnny's other band, Ataxia, who existed for a brief period in 2004 to record 10 songs (half
released in 2004, the rest in 2007) and to play two live shows.
Tracklist:
1 Dust
2 Another
3 The Sides
4 Addition
5 Montreal
Credits:
Vocals, guitar, synth: John Frusciante
Bass: Joe Lally
Drums, synth: Josh Klinghoffer
DC EP
Released September 2004 on Record Collection
Tracklist:
1 Dissolve
2 Goals
3 A Corner
4 Repeating
Credits:
Vocals, guitar, bass: John Frusciante
Drums: Jerry Busher
Inside Of Emptiness
Released October 2004 on Record Collection
This is the fourth album in the Six. Here Johnny and his friends Josh Klinghoffer and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (of The Mars Volta) go back to regular, old-
fashioned rock and use very little electronics. There are some very hard songs on this album, for example, 666, where Omar Rodriguez plays lead guitar,
and the album ends beautifully with Scratches.
Tracklist:
1 What I Saw
2 The World's Edge
3 Inside A Break
4 A Firm Kick
5 Look On
6 Emptiness
7 I'm Around
8 666
9 Interior Two
10 Scratches
Credits:
John Frusciante- vocals, guitar, synth, keyboards, bass (on 'The World's Edge' and '666')
Josh Klinghoffer- drums, bass, keyboard, backing vocals, guitar on 'I'm Around', guitar solos on 'Inside A Break' and 'Emptiness'.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez- Lead guitar on 666
A Sphere In The Heart Of Silence
Released November 2004 on Record Collection
This album is mostly electronic-based, as opposed from its predecessor, the rock-based album. It is the fifth in the series of 6 and Johnny's only
collaborator is Josh Klinghoffer, who sings on a half of the songs. There are also rumours about a sequel, to be released sometime in the near future.
Tracklist:
1 Sphere
2 The Afterglow
3 Walls
4 Communique
5 At Your Enemies
6 Surrogate People
7 My Life
Credits:
John Frusciante- vocals on tracks 2, 3 and 7, guitar, synth, programming, bass, piano
Josh Klinghoffer- vocals on tracks 4, 5 and 6, guitar, bass, synth, drums, piano.
Curtains
Released February 2004 on Record Collection
The last in the 6, Johnny both musically branches out and strips his sound down. Johnny uses acoustic guitars on this album and as a result this album sounds much mellower than its predecessor. This album is also a lot more experimental than anything he has previously recorded- for example, on 'Control', he plays with volume knobs to create an interesting loud/quiet dynamic. There is also a greater variety of instruments on this album.
Tracklist:
1 The Past Recedes
2 Lever Pulled
3 Anne
4 The Real
5 A Name
6 Control
7 Your Warning
8 Hope
9 Ascension
10 Time Tonight
11 Leap Your Bar
Credits:
Vocals, guitars, bass, melodica, piano, strings, mellotron, synth- John Frusciante
Lead guitar on tracks 2 and 3- Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Drums- Carla Azar
Upright bass-Ken Wild
Stadium Arcadium (With the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Released May 2006 on Warner Bros. Records
For a detailed look at this album dig the Stadium Arcadium node.
Tracklist:
Disc one-
1 Dani California
2 Snow ((Hey Oh))
3 Charlie
4 Stadium Arcadium
5 Hump de Bump
6 She's Only 18
7 Slow Cheetah
8 Torture Me
9 Strip My Mind
10 Especially in Michigan
11 Warlocks
12 C'mon Girl
13 Wet Sand
14 Hey
Disc two-
1 Desecration Smile
2 Tell Me Baby
3 Hard to Concentrate
4 21st Century
5 She Looks to Me
6 Readymade
7 If
8 Make You Feel Better
9 Animal Bar
10 So Much I
11 Storm in a Teacup
12 We Believe
13 Turn It Again
14 Death of a Martian
Credits:
Vocals- Anthony Kiedis
Bass- Michael Balzary (Flea)
Guitar- John Frusciante
Drums- Chad Smith
AWII (with Ataxia)
Released May 2007 on Record Collection
This is almost a sequel but not quite- the songs had been recorded at the same time as the rest of them, but the album was split into 2 halves to be
released seperately. This is the rest of those sessions.
Tracklist:
1 Attention
2 Union
3 Hands
4 The Soldier
5 The Empty's Response
Credits:
Vocals, guitar, synth- John Frusciante
Bass- Joe Lally
Drums, synth, vocals on track 5- Josh Klinghoffer
There are also stories about a 10th album (dubbed 'album X' for now), and a sequel to A Sphere In The Heart Of Silence- watch this space.
Sources: www.johnfrusciante.com, my itunes, my memory, and wikipedia.