Otherside
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| "Otherside" | ||
|---|---|---|
| Image:Otherside1.jpg | ||
| Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers | ||
| from the album Californication | ||
| Released | January 11 2000 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | 1999 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 4:15 | |
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | |
| Producer(s) | Rick Rubin | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers singles chronology | ||
| "Around the World" (1999) | "Otherside" (2000) | "Californication" (2000) |
"Otherside" is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Released in 2000, it was the third single from the album Californication, and is a song that confronts the battles ex-junkies have with their demons. The video was created by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris in a black-and-white Gothic style similar to Robert Weine's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, all influenced by German Expressionist art.
A cartoonish story line is juxtaposed upon the song; that of a young man's dream sequence. The band members appear in unusual locations and with surreal instruments: Anthony Kiedis with short, platinum hair is in a castle tower, John Frusciante plays a rope as if a guitar, Flea is hanging on telephone wires and playing them as if they were a bass guitar, and Chad Smith is up on a medieval clock tower that serves as his drum kit.
Jonathan Dayton: "We did look at Caligari, and we looked at a lot of German Expressionist film. But it was also very important to avoid 'Caligari.' It was both inspiration and something to work around, because it has such a strong, specific style, and there have been other videos that have completely ripped it off."
Valerie Faris: "We didn't look at 'Calagari' all that much, really. We did, but then we just left it. We did look at a lot of the works of the futurist artists from the '30s, and the illustrations of the surrealists and from cubism. We were inspired more by paintings than by films…"
ACNielsen's Broadcast Data System (BDS) compiled a list of 40 most-played music videos of 2000, based on monitored data from MTV, VH-1, BET and CMT. The video for "Otherside" came in at #1.
[edit] Track list
CD single (2000)
- "Otherside (Album)" – 4:16
- "How Strong (Unreleased)" – 4:43
- "Road Trippin' (Without Strings)" – 3:25
- "Otherside (Music Video)"
CD version 2 (2000)
- "Otherside (Album)" – 4:16
- "My Lovely Man (Live)" – 5:18
- "Around The World (Music Video)"
CD version 3 (2000)
- "Otherside (Album)"
- "How Strong (Unreleased)"
- "My Lovely Man (Live)"
- "Road Trippin' (Without Strings)"
- "Scar Tissue (Music Video)"
- "Around The World (Music Video)"
CD version 4 (2000)
- "Otherside (Album)"
- "How Strong (Unreleased)"
- "My Lovely Man (Live)"
- "Road Trippin' (Without Strings)"
CD version 3 (2000)
- "Otherside (Album)"
- "How Strong (Unreleased)"
7" single (2000)
- "Otherside (Album)"
- "How Strong (Unreleased)"
[edit] Sample clip
- Otherside (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- Sample of "Otherside" from Californication
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