Tell Me Baby

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"Tell Me Baby"
"Tell Me Baby" cover
Single by Red Hot Chili Peppers
from the album Stadium Arcadium
B-side(s) "A Certain Someone"
"Mercy Mercy"
Released July 18, 2006
Format CD single
Digital Download
Recorded March - December 2005 at The Mansion in Los Angeles
Genre Rock
Length 4:07
Label Warner Bros. Records
Writer(s) Flea/Kiedis/Frusciante/Smith
Producer(s) Rick Rubin
Chart positions
Red Hot Chili Peppers singles chronology
"Dani California"
(2006)
"Tell Me Baby"
(2006)
"Snow ((Hey Oh))"
(2006)
"Tell Me Baby"
"Tell Me Baby" cover
Song by Red Hot Chili Peppers
from the album Stadium Arcadium
Genre Rock
Length 4:07
Stadium Arcadium track listing
Mars (Disc two)
  1. "Desecration Smile"
  2. "Tell Me Baby"
  3. "Hard to Concentrate"
  4. "21st Century"
  5. "She Looks to Me"
  6. "Readymade"
  7. "If"
  8. "Make You Feel Better"
  9. "Animal Bar"
  10. "So Much I"
  11. "Storm in a Teacup"
  12. "We Believe"
  13. "Turn It Again"
  14. "Death of a Martian"

"Tell Me Baby" is a song from the Red Hot Chili Peppers 2006 double album, Stadium Arcadium. The song was released as the follow-up to the hit single "Dani California" on July 17, 2006. It wasn't quite as successful as "Dani California" as far as chart success, but the song did reach number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart and stayed their for 5 weeks.

The song incorporates both the old funk sound from their Blood Sugar Sex Magik days in the verses of the song, and the chorus focuses on the more melodic sound found on the more recent Chili Peppers albums.

The music video for "Tell Me Baby" was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, a directing duo that has worked on many other Chili Peppers videos. Flea has stated "It is the best [video] we ever did."[1] For the video, Dayton and Faris interviewed and auditioned people who originally came to California to achieve some sort of fame and people who play music just for the sake of playing music. During the callback for the auditioned people, their second audition was filmed and the members of the Chili Peppers surprisingly entered the room during auditions to join in playing along.

[edit] Formats and track listings

CD version 1
  1. Tell Me Baby - 4:07
  2. A Certain Someone - 2:25
CD version 2
  1. Tell Me Baby - 4:07
  2. Mercy Mercy - 4:01
  3. End of Show Lyon (Live) - 03:53
7" Picture Disc
  1. Tell Me Baby - 4:07
  2. Mercy Mercy - 4:01

[edit] Chart performance

Chart (2006) Peak
position
ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart 20
Canadian BDS Airplay Chart 17
Dutch Top 40 18
Peru Top 100[2] 33
UK Top 75 Singles 16
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Chart 50
U.S. Modern Rock Tracks 1 (4wks)
World Tracks Top 40 18
Preceded by
"Animal I Have Become" by Three Days Grace
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single
September 23, 2006- October 14, 2006
Succeeded by
"When You Were Young" by The Killers

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.redhotchilipeppers.com/news/journal.php?uid=241
  2. ^ [1]
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 | 2006: Dani California, Tell Me Baby, Snow ((Hey Oh)) | 2007: Desecration Smile, Hump de Bump
Other pages: Videography | Songs | B-sides Compilation
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