Subway to Venus

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"Subway to Venus"
"Subway to Venus" cover
Song by Red Hot Chili Peppers
from the album Mother's Milk
Genre Rock
Length 4:25
Mother's Milk track listing
  1. "Good Time Boys"
  2. "Higher Ground"
  3. "Subway to Venus"
  4. "Magic Johnson"
  5. "Nobody Weird Like Me"
  6. "Knock Me Down"
  7. "Taste the Pain"
  8. "Stone Cold Bush"
  9. "Fire"
  10. "Pretty Little Ditty"
  11. "Punk Rock Classic"
  12. "Sexy Mexican Maid"
  13. "Johnny, Kick a Hole in the Sky"

Subway to Venus is the third track on the Red Hot Chili Peppers fourth album Mother's Milk.

The song is a bright,funky song which goes back to talk about on of the band's favourite subject; themselves. The opening chord pattern is said to resemble that of the theme tune to 80's British comedy show, "The Young Ones". The song has a rather bright horn section which has contributions from Flea

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: The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984) | Freaky Styley (1985) | The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987) | Mother's Milk (1989) | Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) | One Hot Minute (1995) | Californication (1999) | By the Way (2002) | Stadium Arcadium (2006)
EPs, Live albums and compilations: The Abbey Road E.P. (1988) | What Hits!? (1992) | Live Rare Remix Box (1994) | Out in L.A. (1994) | Under the Covers: Essential Red Hot Chili Peppers (1998) | The Best of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (1998) | Greatest Hits (2003) | Live in Hyde Park (2004)
Singles: 1984: True Men Don't Kill Coyotes, Get Up and Jump | 1985: Jungle Man, American Ghost Dance, Catholic School Girls Rule, Hollywood (Africa) | 1987: Fight Like a Brave, Me & My Friends | 1989: Knock Me Down, Higher Ground, Taste the Pain | 1990: Show Me Your Soul | 1991: Give It Away | 1992: Under the Bridge, Suck My Kiss, Behind the Sun, Breaking the Girl | 1993: If You Have to Ask, Soul to Squeeze | 1995: Warped, My Friends | 1996: Aeroplane, Coffee Shop, Shallow Be Thy Game, Love Rollercoaster | 1999: Scar Tissue, Around the World | 2000: Otherside, Californication, Road Trippin', Parallel Universe | 2002: By the Way, The Zephyr Song | 2003: Can't Stop, Dosed, Universally Speaking, Fortune Faded, Save the Population| 2006: Dani California, Tell Me Baby, Snow ((Hey Oh)) | 2007: Desecration Smile, Hump de Bump
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Categories: Red Hot Chili Peppers | Red Hot Chili Peppers Songs
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