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“Amber” by 311
From the album From Chaos (2001)
“Amber” by 311 appears on 49 radio countdowns from 29 stations between 2002 and 2026. It was first released in 2001 on the album From Chaos. Its best result is #2 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #12 alternative song of 2002, #605 alternative song of all time and #144 of the '00s.
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"Amber" drifts in from From Chaos, 311's 2001 album, and it's the band at its most laid-back: a sun-warmed reggae rock groove that barely breaks a sweat. Nick Hexum wrote it on his own, inspired by his relationship with the singer Nicole Scherzinger, and he sings it with S.A. Martinez over guitars from Hexum and Tim Mahoney, P-Nut's rubbery bass and Chad Sexton's easy, rolling percussion. The band produced it with Saint and Brian Smith, Alex Rivera engineered, and Saint mixed it.
Scherzinger turns up briefly in the video, splashing around in the ocean with Hexum. It only reached number 13 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, but it just kept on selling until the RIAA certified it triple platinum, and the band gave its intro a remix for Greatest Hits '93–'03.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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