Song · Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Fortune Faded” by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Released 2003
“Fortune Faded” by Red Hot Chili Peppers appears on 25 radio countdowns from 20 stations between 2003 and 2005. It was first released in 2003. Its best result is #12 on the WEQX Top 102.7 of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #67 alternative song of 2003 and #307 of the '00s.
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"Fortune Faded" was the fresh bait on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 2003 Greatest Hits, released as a single alongside the collection, but its roots run back to the By the Way sessions. The band tried it then, even played it onstage a handful of times in 2001 with another chorus, but weren't happy with how the studio take sounded, so they cut it again for the hits package with Rick Rubin producing at The Mansion.
The rebuilt version is a taut, twitchy rocker credited to all four of them, Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante and Chad Smith, with Richard Dodd handling the mix. A video came with it, and the B-sides dug into the vaults: "Bunker Hill" from the Californication era and "Eskimo", written during By the Way.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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