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“Behind The Sun” by Red Hot Chili Peppers

From the album The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987)

“Behind The Sun” by Red Hot Chili Peppers appears on 22 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1992 and 2024. It was first released in 1987 on the album The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. Its best result is #38 on the WMMR Top 50 Songs of Summer (2012). In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #219 alternative song of 1992 and #910 alternative song of all time.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Behind The Sun [Official Music Video]

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"Behind the Sun" sat on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 1987 album The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, and the band wanted it out as a single right away. The label said no, reckoning it was too melodic and too far from the band's sound. Michael Beinhorn produced it and shares the writing credit with Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons, and it floats on a raga-rock shimmer that shows how pretty that lineup could get.

It finally became a single in 1992, when EMI used it to sell What Hits!?, a compilation cashing in on the success of Blood Sugar Sex Magik and "Under the Bridge". That made it the only song from the Slovak era to chart, though he had died by then, and his brother James later took the title for Hillel's biography.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

#7,893 of all time

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1992	89	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1992	107
1992	89	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1992	101

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1999	507	Q101	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	1017
1999	1000	CD101	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	2000
2000	745	CD101	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)	2001
2001	745	CD101	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)	2002
2002	745	CD101	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)	2003
2002	985	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)	2002
2003	745	CD101	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)	2004
2004	745	CD101	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)	2005
2005	745	CD101	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)	1994
2005	551	99X	99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)	1000
2007	438	KROQ	KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007)	500
2007	678	CD101	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)	2008
2008	679	CD101	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)	2009
2009	700	CD101	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)	2010
2010	719	CD101	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)	2011
2011	738	CD101	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)	2011
2012	38	93.3 WMMR	WMMR Top 50 Songs of Summer (2012)	49
2013	775	CD101	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)	2012
2014	792	CD101	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)	2013
2024	964	WYEP	WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years	1049

Also listed as: Behind the Sun.

Charting alongside it in 1992

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