This may be controversial - but I think the Chili Peppers' Dave Navarro era is super underrated. He made the One Hot Minute album much heavier but also gave them deeper range, contributing interesting, moody interludes webbed with strains of echoing, ambient guitar. "Aeroplane" is a perfect demonstration.

Even with a rock guitarist in their band, I defy you to find another song in the Chili Peppers repertoire as funky and fun as this. Flea works out the entire song - slapping through the verses, sliding up and down the choruses, and hitting a nice upper register in the moody bridge. They finally just hand him a full bass solo to close it out.

But then what? Halfway through Flea's rad solo, Navarro whines in with a co-solo of his own, and the two freeform perfectly together to the finish line. I think it was a really cool, if brief, partnership in rock music history.

Lyrics in most rock/pop songs are like fixings in a fast-food burrito: you would never enjoy them on their own, but in a mix with other ingredients they are fine. Some lyrics rise above this standard, and I'll point it out when I think they do. For instance, when I actually know and remember lyrics without effort, something is being done right.

The Chili Peppers are not in this class. "Music is my aeroplane" is a cool refrain though. Little else in the lyrics make sense, but what a sweet moment of music love that is.