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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue
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The first single off of Californication describes the struggles addicts go through to get sober and how they are viewed different when they return to reality. Scar tissue is a good
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
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This song is mainly about the dark side of Hollywood that lies underneath the glossy surface. The band might love the city of Los Angeles, but they saw firsthand the effects the
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Scar tissue that I wish you saw / Sarcastic mister know-it-all / Close your eyes and I'll kiss you / Cause with the birds I'll share / [Chorus] / With the birds I'll
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside
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A single from the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s 1999 album Californication, the “other side” here is a metaphor for both the struggle to get back to a normal life after addiction and also
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Catholic School Girls Rule
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The song is inspired by the repeated statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl who attended a local Catholic school. Singer Anthony Kiedis encountered her backstage at a concert and
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First to Eleven – Scar Tissue
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[Verse 1] / Scar tissue that I wish you saw / Sarcastic mister know-it-all / Close your eyes and I'll kiss you / 'Cause with the birds I'll share / [Chorus] / With the birds, I'll
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Parallel Universe
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The second song off the Chili Peppers seventh album, Californication. This was guitarist John Frusciante’s first album back with the band after a brief hiatus. Anthony Kiedis noted
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Two Friends – Big Bootie Mix, Volume 15 (Track List)
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1. "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Two Friends Intro Edit) - Queen / W/ "Body" - Loud Luxury ft. Brando / W/ "Latch" (Acappella) - Disclosure ft. Sam Smith / W/ "White Iverson" (Acappella
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Behind the Sun
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This song features an early melodic riff, rarely used in the RHCP’s early material. In his autobiography Scar Tissue Anthony noted that it
inspired the group to create “pretty
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Quixoticelixer
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A Californication B-Side, mentioned in Anthony Kiedis' autobiography “Scar Tissue”. The title combines the words “quixotic”, a word stemming from Miguel De Cervantes' novel “Don
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – I Could Have Lied
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According to his autobiography Scar Tissue, “I Could Have Lied” was written about singer Anthony Kiedis’s relationship suddenly ending with Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor.
Rolling
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Pea
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“Pea” is the sixth song on the album One Hot Minute. “Pea” was written and performed by Flea.
When Flea was younger, he was frequently picked on. This song is partly believed to
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Venice Queen
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The subject matter addressed on By the Way marks a divergence from previous Red Hot Chili Peppers albums, with Anthony Kiedis taking a more candid and reflective approach to his
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Organic Anti-Beat Box Band
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Anthony Kiedis, lead singer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, told the story of when he wrote the lyrics for this song in his autobiography “Scar Tissue”, he wrote:
I went downtown
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Love Trilogy
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Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, summed up the meaning of “Love Trilogy” in his autobiography “Scar Tissue” as:
It’s about loving the things that aren’t
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – No Chump Love Sucker
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[Verse 1] / She's a witch, a brat, a bonafide bore / What's more, she snores, and that is a fact / Cow eyes lie, yes it's time to resist / How did I ever get into this? / How could
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Nevermind (Demo)
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Anthony Kiedis wrote about “NeverMind” in his autobiography “Scar Tissue”; he summed the song up as:
an audacious putdown of a variety of other bands (Gap Band, Duran Duran, Soft
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Savior
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“Savior” was the twelfth track off of Californication. Written by Anthony Kiedis, this song is about the relationship between Kiedis and his father, Blackie Dammett.
Kiedis
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Funky Crime
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According to Anthony’s autobiography Scar Tissue:
“Funky Crime'‘ was basically a lyrical description of a conversation that we’d had with George Clinton, in which he maintained
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Greeting Song
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During the recording process of Blood Sex Sugar Magik, Anthony Kiedis had a conversation with producer Rick Rubin about the lyrical content of “The Power of Equality.” In Kiedis
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge
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The song is about front man Anthony Kiedis and the period in his life when he walked around Los Angeles sad and very alone, finding solace in the streets and hills and the wind
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Road Trippin'
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One of the few songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers that doesn’t feature a drummer. The song is just a mostly acoustic story of band’s road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Hanalei
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Hanalei was inspired by Anthony’s love of Hawaii, as Hanalei is a small town on the North side of Kauai, an island in Hawaii.
http://imgur.com/OryyuXe
Anthony is in sunny Hanalei
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Around the World
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“Around the World” was released on September 14, 1999 as the second single from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' album, Californication.
The song details the love that Anthony Kiedis
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