My Friends (song)

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"My Friends"
"My Friends" cover
Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers
from the album One Hot Minute
Released 1995
Format CD
Recorded 1995
Genre Rock
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer(s) Rick Rubin
Red Hot Chili Peppers singles chronology
"Warped"
(1995)
"My Friends"
(1995)
"Aeroplane"
(1996)

"My Friends" is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 1995 album One Hot Minute. It is a melodic ballad and was released as the second single from the album. It is one of the few songs by the band during John Frusciante's absence which many current fans of the band actually like, perhaps due to it being the only song from One Hot Minute to be included on their Greatest Hits compilation, although for an unknown reason the music video for "Aeroplane", another song off One Hot Minute, appears on the DVD that accompanies the compilation CD. Lyrically, "My Friends" is one of the more moodier and introspective songs on the album, exploring the loneliness and emptiness people feel. Singer Anthony Kiedis then stresses that those people "hurt by the cold" are not alone and are loved.

The surreal music video depicts the band in many incarnations on a small boat, stranded in a large stretch of treacherous water. This video was directed by Anton Corbijn. Anthony Kiedis admits that he thought this video wasn't very good, as it wasn't realistic. They had a second video recorded for the song, directed by Gavin Bowden, where they were in a studio. The latter can be seen on their Greatest Hits DVD, although many fans still prefer the original version.

The chorus was used as part of a polka medley in "Weird Al" Yankovic's "The Alternative Polka" on his Bad Hair Day album.

[edit] Track list

CD single (1995)

  1. "My Friends (Album)"
  2. "Coffee Shop (Album)"
  3. "Let's Make Evil (Previously Unreleased)"
  4. "Stretch (Previously Unreleased)"

CD version 2 (1995)

  1. "My Friends (Album)"
  2. "Coffee Shop (Album)"
  3. "Let's Make Evil (Previously Unreleased)"

12" Single (1995)

  1. "My Friends (Album)"
  2. "Coffee Shop (Album)"
  3. "Let's Make Evil (Previously Unreleased)"
  4. "Stretch (Previously Unreleased)"


Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anthony Kiedis | John Frusciante | Flea | Chad Smith
Hillel Slovak | Dave Navarro | Cliff Martinez | Jack Sherman | Arik Marshall | Jesse Tobias | D.H. Peligro| Jack Irons
Discography
Studio albums: Red Hot Chili Peppers | Freaky Styley | The Uplift Mofo Party Plan | Mother's Milk | Blood Sugar Sex Magik | One Hot Minute | Californication | By the Way | Stadium Arcadium
Lives and compilations: The Abbey Road E.P. | What Hits!? | Live Rare Remix Box | Out in L.A. | Under the Covers: Essential Red Hot Chili Peppers | Greatest Hits | Live in Hyde Park
Singles: True Men Don't Kill Coyotes | Get Up and Jump | Jungle Man | American Ghost Dance | Catholic School Girls Rule | Hollywood (Africa) | Fight Like a Brave | Me & My Friends | Knock Me Down | Higher Ground | Taste the Pain | Show Me Your Soul | Give It Away | Under the Bridge | Suck My Kiss | Breaking the Girl | Behind The Sun | If You Have to Ask | Soul to Squeeze | Warped | My Friends | Aeroplane | Coffee Shop | Shallow Be Thy Game | Love Rollercoaster | Scar Tissue | Around the World | Otherside | Californication | Road Trippin' | Parallel Universe | By the Way | The Zephyr Song | Can't Stop | Dosed | Universally Speaking | Fortune Faded | Dani California | Tell Me Baby | Snow ((Hey Oh)) | Hump de Bump | Desecration Smile
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