Under The Bridge (track)
by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Year: 1991
From the album Blood Sugar Sex Magik (track #11)
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Under The Bridge appears on the following album(s) by Red Hot Chili Peppers:
- Blood Sugar Sex Magik (track #11) (this album) (1991)
- Greatest Hits (track #1) (compilation) (2003)
- What Hits!? (track #10) (compilation) (1992)
- Live In Hyde Park (track #23) (2004)
- Live At Slane Castle (track #19) (2003)
- Cardiff, Wales 06.23.04 (track #20) (2015)
- The Studio Album Collection 1991-2011 (track #11) (compilation) (2014)
- 2011/11/19 Birmingham, UK (track #12) (2011)
- I'm With You - 12/07/11 Stadthalle, Vienna, AUT (track #13) (2011)
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| ! | 08/26/2026 21:43 | Spartakist | 2,655 | 81/100 |
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An incredible song. John Frusciante produces some of the most incredible, Hendrix eske, chord progressions that I have ever heard. A constant shift between major and minor, remarkably simple, but with the most incredible embellishments. A perfectly constructed funky chorus, leading to that big surging ending, the yells of ‘under the bridge downtown’ perfectly encapsulating the sentimentality placed on the seemingly insignificant due to the burden of drug addiction. Flea and Chad are both fairly quiet on this song, Smith simply taps along, doing just the right amount, not trying to grab the spotlight with unnecessary rolls and taps, just allowing the other members to do their thing. Finally, we come to the work of Anthony Kiedis. Anyone who says he can’t sing can listen to this and then suck a dick frankly, his mellow humming through this song takes you on a journey of admittance, where through a combination of metaphor and literalism, he tells all of his constant doubts and loneliness, his own uncertainty only combatted by his use of drugs. There are many reasons why this song has over three hundred plays on my iTunes, and you just read a few of them then. (Edited)
So beautiful. The last verses have to be one of the best parts in music, ever
the pinnacle of RHCP career (Edited)
AAL2014 TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/25/2016 05:14 | #169752
No matter how many times I hear it, I still feel it, especially the lyrics "Under the Bridge downtown, forgot about my love, under the bridge downtown, I gave my life away." Wow.
Mother Nature's Son TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/05/2014 13:43 | #105481
Don't know if it's because of being overplayed or what, but this song has just evolved into one of the blandest pieces of music for me. Still a nice song, but sing-along RHCP just don't do it for me, I'm afraid!
