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“Warped” by Red Hot Chili Peppers
From the album One Hot Minute (1995)
“Warped” by Red Hot Chili Peppers appears on 13 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 1995 and 2005. It was first released in 1995 on the album One Hot Minute. Its best result is #8 on the WBCN Top 104 Songs of 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #54 alternative song of 1995, #4,908 alternative song of all time and #365 of the '90s.
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"Warped" leads off One Hot Minute, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' sixth album, and Warner Bros. sent it out as the record's first single in 1995. It creeps in on an oddly hushed intro, then slams into a heavy, crunching riff and drifts out on a mellow, melodic coda, with Anthony Kiedis' voice distorted and echoing all the way through; rather than rapping the way he did on their earlier records, he stretches short phrases across whole bars.
The words wrestle with Kiedis' tangled feelings about drugs. He wrote it with Flea, Dave Navarro and Chad Smith, Rick Rubin produced, and David Sardy recorded and mixed. For a lead single it ended up an orphan: neither the song nor its video made the band's Greatest Hits. The B-side, "Melancholy Mechanics," landed on the soundtrack to the 1996 film Twister.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 43 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1995 | 107 |
| 1995 | 65 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1995 | 91 |
| 1995 | 24 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1995 | 101 |
| 1995 | 49 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1995 | 100 |
| 1995 | 93 | 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL | The Buzz Top 103 Alternative Songs of '95 | 103 |
| 1995 | 75 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1995 | 100 |
| 1995 | 68 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 95 Songs of 1995 | 95 |
| 1995 | 47 | WDRE Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA | WDRE Top 103.9 Songs of 1995 | 104 |
| 1996 | 92 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1996 | 107 |
| 1996 | 8 | WBCN Boston, MA | WBCN Top 104 Songs of 1996 | 104 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 837 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 2002 | 887 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2005 | 915 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
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