John Frusciante - Smile From the Streets You Hold (1994)

1. Enter a Uh
2. The Other
3. Life’s a Bath
4. A Fall Through the Ground
5. Poppy Man
6. I’m Always
7. Femininity
8. Breathe
9. Usually Just a T-Shirt
10. Height Down
11. Well I’ve Been
12. Smile From the Streets You Hold

This is John Frusciante’s second solo album which he released in 1997, although most of the tracks were recorded around the same time as his first one. My plan was to take out the tracks that were recorded after the first album came out and replace them with tracks I liked from Usually Just a T-Shirt, but only three of the tracks were recorded in between the two albums and most of the tracks on Usually were instrumental, so I took those out but also took out three more tracks and put in one track from Usually which was the bonus track on the cassette. 

Both albums were taken off the market when Frusciante rejoined the Peppers in 1998, only for the first one to get reissued in 1999. There was talk of this one getting reissued too but it never happened. Two of the songs feature Rivers Phoenix before his passing and were intended to be released on the first album but got dropped till the second album.

John Frusciante - Niandra LeDes (1994)

 

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. Ants
8. Mascara
9. Outside Space
10. Been Insane
11. Skin Blues
12. Your Pussy's Glued to a Building on Fire
13. Blood on My Neck from Success
14. Ten to Butter Blood Voodoo

This was John Frusciante's debut solo album after leaving the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1992. It was recorded in two parts called Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt under the influence of heroin, but the cassette release included the bonus track Ants and the Estrus EP from 1997 included the song Outside Space that was left off the original release. Also both parts were 40 minutes long, about as long as an album, but were released as one cassette. The second part was described as “weird and experimental” so I just included the first part but cut out the outros to Running Away Into You and Mascara.